With the lifting of the latest COVID-19 lockdowns, plans for the Memorial Market Place in downtown Belleville are moving ahead.
Taskforce Engineering had put a temporary pause on leasing efforts for the project that will revamp the former Memorial Area. Director of Business Development, Hilary Murphy, tells Quinte News the company is looking to ramp up its leasing effort and hopefully be in a position to move forward with construction later this year.
“…things start back up that we’ll also see a renewed interest in this project and filling the project with type of tenants that we’re hoping for.”
Murphy adds, “It’s been challenging with COVID. You’re sort of underway and then everybody’s on a lockdown … We’ve definitely done some design iterations internally. Not so much physical work within the building.”
“There’s been some environmental things that we’ve been working through with the city. And then just our own internal
design iterations. Trying to refine the design so that we have something that works for the tenants we hope to have in there.”
Taskforce, which bought the former arena in 2020, plans to develop it as a two-storey centre with cafes and stores on the ground floor and business offices on the second.
Memorial Market Place, (former Memorial Arena) September 24, 2020 (Photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News)
