Storrs, Connecticut new town center

The Mansfield Downtown Partnership in November selected Storrs Center Alliance LLC as master developer for the planned commercial town center near the south end of the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs, Connecticut. The Storrs Center Alliance is a joint venture comprised of Leyland Alliance LLC, based in Tuxedo, New York, and Marquette Property Investments, based in Chicago. Looney Ricks Kiss is the master planning consultant. The team also includes planners and architects Herbert S. Newman and Partners, the engineering firm of BL Companies, the law firm of Robinson & Cole, and Robert Gibbs, a planner and retail consultant based in Birmingham, Michigan.