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BOXPARK CROYDON CONTENTS INTRODUCTION [0 3] THE CONCEPT [0 5] BOXPARK SHOREDITCH [07] CROYDON [16] Boxpark CroydoN [2 0] DETAILS [31] the EVolution OF A reVolutioN NOT SOME RUN-OF-THE MALL SHOPPING CENTRE NO FLAVOURLESS, JOYLESS FOOD CHAIN BOXPARK'S A VIBRANT FEAST FOR THE SENSES TO KICKSTART CROYDON'S RENAISSANCE [ 4 ] reVolutioN. IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS BOXPARK SHOREDITCH — THE WORLD'S FIRST POP-UP MALL THE BRAIncHILD OF RoGER WADE, CREAtoR OF BRITISH StReetweAR BRAND BoXFRESH, BoXPARK GRew OUT OF HIS LOVE FOR THE RAW PoweR OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHItectURE AND HIS PASSIon FOR INDEPenDent BRANDS, WHICH ARE IncREASINGLY GettING SQUeeZED OUT OF OUR HOMOGeneoUS HIGH STReetS. THen, AS now, THIS IS RADICAL STUFF, STRIPPING AND REFIttING SHIPPING contAIneRS to CREAte FLEXIBLE, Low coST RetAIL SPAceS THAT STACK UP to MAKE A BRAND new BReeD OF RetAIL DESTINATIon – AND to CREAte A BUSIneSS enVIRonMent WHERE FRESH, InnoVATIVE INDEPenDent RetAILERS WILL THRIVE. It’S A RetAIL REVOLUTIon THAT’S SPAwneD MANY IMITAtoRS BUT no EQUALS. UNTIL noW. [ 5 ] EVolutioN. A casual dining reVolution, where retail becomes entertainment BOXPARK CROYDON EMBRACES THE ORIGINAL ETHOS, AND THEN SOME. BIGGER BY FAR, MORE AMBITIOUS AND EVen MORE RADICAL, IT’S FOUNDED on THE HEARTFELT conVIctIon THAT PeoPLE DESERVE BetteR; THAT IN AN IncREASINGLY DIGITAL ERA WHERE EVERYTHING’S AVAILABLE AT THE CLICK OF A MOUSE we neeD to GIVE PeoPLE MORE… AnD we CAN DO THAT BY CREATING A PLAce THAT’S A JOY to VISIT AND MAKES YOU WAnt to STAY… A DESTINATIon WHERE PeoPLE LOVE to TURN UP, UnwIND AND HANG OUT – AND A HOME FOR HANDPICKED, AUTHentIC BRANDS THAT MAKE YOU FeeL SPecIAL. LIKE ITS FOREBEAR, BoXPARK CROYDon WILL BE A HOME onLY FOR CAREFULLY CHOSen FIERCELY INDEPenDent, FRESH-THINKING BUSIneSSES WITH A STRIct ‘no HIGH STReet FASCIA’ RULE. LIKE BoXPARK SHOREDItcH IT’S GOING to BE A FERTILE coMMUNITY OF BRANDS PACKED WITH RAW TALent AND AttITUDE – THE DIFFERence IS THAT THIS TIME IT’S ALL ABOUT... FooD, DRINK AND EVenTS CREATING A PLAce THAT’S PART OF THE CASUAL DINING REVOLUTIon, WHERE RetAIL BecoMES enteRTAINMent AMID A RIOT OF coLOUR, SOUNDS, ScentS AND THE FLAVOURS OF FooD FROM ALL OVER THE woRLD. [ 6 ] BOXPARK SHOREDITCH HOME TO MORE THAN FIFTY CAREFULLY CHOSEN FASHION, ARTS AND LIFESTYLE BRANDS. BOXPARK SHOREDITCH IS A RETAIL REVOLUTION [ 8 ] RETAIL FOOD AND BEVERAGE EVentS OUTSIDE SEATING BOXPARK.CO.UK SOCIAL MEDIA BOXPARK MARKetPLACE CROYDON Croydon is Famous For its postwar sky- scrapers and 60'S skyline, A time when the town was booming and optimistic. WITH new Ventures such as Boxpark IT does Feel that there is A spirit OF excitement coming to Croydon town centre again. —Jon GRINDROD, AUTHOR OF CONCRETOPIA & CROYDON TILL I DIE WHY CROYDON? ‘I think IT'S the most derogatory thing I can say about somebody OR something: God, IT'S so F**king Croydon!’ —DAVID BOWIE FROM ARGUABLY LonDon’S FASteST AND BEST ROAD, RAIL AND AIRPORT connectIonS TO THE enoRMOUS DEVELOPMent PROGRAMMES ALREADY UNDER WAY, THE LIST OF LOGISTICAL, FINAncIAL AND GeoGRAPHICAL REASonS IS LonG AND PERSUASIVE. AS ARE CROYDon’S CULTURAL CREDentIALS… FROM CROYDon COLLEGE OF ART to FAIRFIELD HALL; MALcoLM McLARen to MeRVYN PeAKE, RAY DAVIES to JAMIE ReID AND coUNTLESS otHERS, CROYDon PUncHES WELL ABOVE ITS LIteRARY, MUSICAL AND ARTISTIC weIGHT… BUT THERE’S SOMetHING MORE PoweRFUL FUELLING BoXPARK’S ZEAL FOR ITS new HOME – THE FAct THAT THE ‘GREAT AND THE GooD’ SeeM to THINK IT’S OK to SneeR AT CROYDon. FoR BoXPARK'S RoGER WADE THAT’S AN IRRESISTIBLE CHALLenGE to BoXPARK’S IncLUSIVE PHILOSOPHY. ‘MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE IT’S STILL SCARRED BY THE BRUTALIST ARCHItectURE OF THE FAILED 60S AND 70S VISIon OF town PLAnnING; MAYBE IT’S JUST LAZY AntI-SUBURBAN InteLLectUAL SnoBBERY… It’S WRonG. I WAnt to RISE to THAT CHALLenGE, CHANGE PeoPLE’S PERCEPTIonS OF CROYDon AND MAKE THEM FALL IN LOVE WITH THE town THEY LIVE IN. It’S not GREY, IT’S not DRAB – IT’S THE HOME OF KAte MoSS, TRAceY EMIN, AND now BoXPARK. —RoGER WADE [ 17 ] WHY CROYDON? WE're not just building boxpark in croydon, we're building IT For croydon... ‘AS PART OF THE WIDER REGeneRATIon OF CROYDon, I’M DeteRMIneD THAT AS ITS CULTURAL, CULINARY AND SocIAL HEART, BoXPARK WILL PUT A SMILE on CROYDon’S FAce AND A SonG IN ITS SOUL. WE’RE not JUST BUILDING BoXPARK IN CROYDon; we’RE BUILDING IT FOR CROYDon!’ ‘WE’RE VERY PROUD OF THE contRIBUTIon we’VE MADE to SHOREDItcH’S coMMUNITY IN THE LAST Few YEARS… AROUND 200 new JOBS FOR YOUNG PeoPLE AT A TIME WHen THERE WAS RIotING IN THE STReetS… MORE THAN 200 FRee EVentS A YEAR (AND coUntING)… FRee POP-UP SHOPS FOR YOUNG LocAL CREATIVE BUSIneSSES to GIVE THEM A START IN RetAIL… WE Get A KICK OUT OF THAT. AnD IT’S not JUST ALTRUISM – INSPIRED, YOUNG POSITIVE PeoPLE ARE GooD BUSIneSS – AND THAT enRICHES US ALL…’ ‘WE’RE ALREADY woRKING WITH LocAL ORGANISTATIonS to DEVELOP PROGRAMMES SO LocAL YOUNG PeoPLE CAN coME AND woRK AT BoXPARK… PROPER TRAINING, PROPER JOBS WITH PROPER PROSPectS...’ —RoGER WADE [ 18 ] THE SITE THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE BOXPARK CROYDon WILL STAND on THE SIte OF THE OLD WAREHOUSE THEATRE. FOUNDED IN 1977 BY SAM KeLLY, RICHARD IRESon AND ADRIAN SHERGOLD WHen LUncHTIME THEATRE WAS PARTICULARLY POPULAR. THE FIRST PRODUctIon - HeLL'S AnGELS on TYPewRIteRS BY AnGELA WYE - OPeneD IN MAY THAT YEAR AND THE THen 50 SEAT AUDItoRIUM BecAME AN INSTAnt FAVOURIte WITH LocAL AUDIenceS FOR LUncHTIME PERFORMAnceS WHILST SHARING THE BUILDING WITH A CARIBBEAN NIGHT CLUB. In 1978, THE ARTS COUncIL RecoGNISED THE woRK OF THE THEATRE BY AWARDING A MAJOR GRAnt, AND IN 1979 THE NIGHTCLUB CLOSED, EVenING PERFORMAnceS weRE IntRODUCED AND THE SEATING CAPACITY WAS IncREASED TO 100. CABARet EVenINGS weRE IntRODUCED, WITH PERFORMERS IncLUDING LennY HenRY, FRencH & SAUNDERS, RIK MAYALL, Ben ELton, AND JULIAN CLARY. GRADUALLY MORE PLAYS weRE PREMIERED, WITH MANY BEING SPECIALLY coMMISSIoneD BY SUcceSSFUL WRIteRS, SUCH AS SUE TownSenD, WHO WRote GROPING FOR WORDS AND WOMBERANG FOR THE THEATRE. THE BUILDING THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE WAS A conVERteD VIctoRIAN WAREHOUSE, BUILT IN 1882 FOR A SAND, ceMent AND LIME MERCHAnt. In SPIte OF REFURBISHMentS, IT STILL HAD SEVERAL ORIGINAL FEATURES. THERE weRE PIctURE TILES FROM THE 1880S, MOSTLY on THE ceLLAR UNDER THE MAIN STAIRCASE, AND A "CRAB" WIncH AND WALL CRAne OF UNUSUAL DESIGN IN FULL woRKING ORDER on THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING. EARLY DRAWINGS SHow THAT THE BAR, OPeneD IN 1985, WAS ActUALLY SIteD IN THE OLD STABLE BLocK, WITH THE EATING AREA ABOVE IN THE APPROPRIAteLY NAMED "HAYLOFT" BAR. THE VIctoRIAN ORIGIN OF THE BUILDING ALSO HAD neGATIVE SIDES: THE REMOVAL OF A FALSE ceILING IN 1981 UncoVERED THE PLANKED RooF AND VAST BEAMS AND TRESSES OF THE ORIGINAL HOLES IN THE ORIGINAL RooF to Let IN THE RAIN OVER AUDIence AND CAST ALIKE. [ 19 ] BOXPARK CROYDON IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT GREAT STREET FOOD IT'S ABOUT CREATING A SPECIAL DINING EXPERIENCE [ 21 ] THE SITE LOCATED NEXT TO EAST EAST CROYDON CROYDON STATION STATION FACTS 27 million passengers A year 14 MINUTES TO LONDON BRIDGE 16 MINUTES TO LONDON VICTORIA 14 MINUTES TO GATWICK 36 minutes to brighton SERVICES EVERY 5 MINUTES EAST CROYDon StATIon IS one OF THE BUSIEST RAIL STATIonS IN THE UK AND IS USED BY 27 MILLIon PASSenGERS A YEAR. THE TRAMLINK IS USED BY 28 MILLIon PASSenGERS A YEAR. THERE IS A DEDICAteD TRAM StoP OUTSIDE RUSKIN SQUARE AND IT IS ESTIMAteD OVER 85,000 PASSenGERS ALIGHT HERE EACH weeK AND 30,000 PEDESTRIANS WALK PAST EACH DAY. THE AREA IT’S happening right here, right now – ready to Fill the temporary hole WEST CROYDON STATION created by the WhitgiFT CHERRY ORCHARD ROAD centre’S closure For redeVelopment WELLESLEY RD CHISHOLM RD CEDAR RD BISENDEN RD ROMAN WAY BRICKWOOD RD BLAKE RD WHITGIFT COLSON RD SHOPPING DINGWALL ROAD CENTRE EAST CROYDON STATION ADDISCOMBE GROVE TRAM LINK GEORGE STREET PARK LANE PARK ROMAN WAY ROMAN FAIRFIELD ROAD BARCLAY ROAD A modern-day coVent garden piaZZA For the 21st century InSPIRATIon THINK OF BoROUGH MARKet, BRIXton MARKet, CHELSEA MARKet NYC OR EVen MADRID’S STUnnINGLY REJUVenAteD MeRCADO St MIGUEL, WHICH IS DESCRIBED AS A ‘CULINARY CULTURAL centRE’. THen TRANSPORT THOSE SIGHTS, SOUNDS AND SMELLS Into A BRAND new BoXPARK SPAce WITH two RowS OF ‘BoX SHOPS’ AND A HIGH TRANSPARent RooF coVERING A BRIGHT AND AIRY ATRIUM AND YOU HAVE A COVent GARDen PIAZZA FOR THE 21ST centURY. LIKE A MODERN-DAY PIAZZA, BoXPARK CROYDon WILL BecoME THE AREA’S FocAL POInt FOR PeoPLE to HANG OUT, to enJOY A WILD AND EVER-CHANGING VARIetY OF FooD, DRINK AND MORE FRee EVentS THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT. FROM POP-UP CIneMA AND MINI MUSIC FESTIVALS to ART INSTALLATIonS, THEATRICAL PRODUctIonS AND MORE IN A 2000+ CAPACITY centRAL SPAce EQUIPPED WITH GIANT STAte OF THE ART LED SCReenS InteRActING WITH VISItoRS IN REAL TIME AND FIZZING WITH FRESH CREATIVE content. [ 24 ] OUR VISION OUR VISION 80 SHIPPING containerS packed with THE uncontainable AND irrepressible... OUR VISION 20,000 SQuare FT EVents space witH capacity For audiences OF 2000+ OUR VISION A Fusion OF Fast FooD and casuaL dining FroM day to night OUR VISION BOXPARK CROYDON AIMS TO BECOME PART OF LOCAL LIFE BY ADDING COLOUR, CREATIVITY AND A LIFE OF IT'S OWN BoX EXTERIOR INTERIOR DIMenSIonS LENGTH | 40'0" | 12.192 M LENGTH | 39'5" | 12.032 M 40' HI-CUBE SteeL DRY CARGO ContAIneR. UP to 5 UNITS AVAILABLE. WIDTH | 8'0" | 2.438 M WIDTH | 7'8" | 2.352 M OPen PLAN OR WITH AN 8 FT GAP SUBJect to LEASE LenGTH AND POSITIon.