After completion of the interior concourse with its new entry at mid-block on 9th Avenue, it became apparent that shoppers had difficulty finding this location. The ownership also wanted to reflect the great interior changes on the exterior. To herald this major change, the entire existing facade was refurbished and repointed and unified with the introduction of patina’d brass ribbons covering the brick spandrels, which appear to weave behind and in front of the building pilasters.

A new folded stainless steel and green glass canopy was developed to reinforce the building’s presence in the Market district. It rises above the Market’s entrance with its granite medallion and is joined on the south end by a matching folded steel and acrylic vertical sign which is indirectly illuminated. At street level all brick piers are covered with large slabs of eau sable granite, sculpted by Mark Menin, continuing the granite found throughout the Market’s interior.

Central ‘industrial’ fountain made with large raw slabs of AuSable granite and discarded drill bits by sculptor Mark Menin.

The brick arch in the concourse running through the building. A connecting passage through the old block house that controlled the former factory’s train shed was created by cutting two self supporting catenary arches through its solid brick walls.