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Artisanal Foods Marketplace Planned for Pine Street

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The owner of a half-acre Pine Street lot on which a dry cleaning business stood for more than 50 years is razing the original structure and creating a new retail marketplace there that will offer gourmet, specialty food items.

Peter Lane of NCLC said 75 Pine St., formerly site of New Canaan Cleaners, by this fall will feature a new building in which more than one artisan has space to create and sell freshly made edibles under a “Grand Central marketplace”-style concessioner model. “We are going bring in food purveyors and create a little marketplace out of it, so we’re excited about it,” said Peter Lane of NCLC. “We would love to get a butcher, a baker and a cheese maker—a marketplace of artisans creating specialty foods. It [the space] is kind of unique because each entity will have its own kitchen, cook its own food and then have counter space out front and share some common space. There will be a little seating and a little fireplace inside, so it’s going to be a kind of event space too.”

An application to demolish the 2,352-square-foot, 57-year-old cleaners building was filed Jan.