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UK's biggest "slack space" project - Brixton Village indoor market
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What would you do with a space in a 1930s market arcade in Brixton? If you have a good idea, you could be part of the largest empty shops project in the UK.
Space Makers Agency is joining forces with London & Associated Properties PLC and Lambeth Council to fill the empty shop units in Brixton Village indoor market with exciting temporary and permanent projects. Right now, 20 units in the market are being made ready for occupation. LAP are offering people the opportunity to take on a unit, rent free, for up to three months.
Space Makers is looking for your ideas for creative, community-oriented and enterprising projects to make use of a space. Projects could include new and existing businesses, as well as community groups, arts and theatre projects and other imaginative uses of space.
On Tuesday 10th November, the empty shops will be open for viewing from 4.30pm and anyone interested in taking on a space is invited to come to a meeting at 6.30pm. This will be a chance to hear from the owners and from Lambeth Council, as well as existing market traders, and find out what’s involved in taking on a shop – on a temporary or permanent basis.
There will also be a presentation from Dan Thompson, founder of the national Empty Shops Network, about the range of exciting projects that have taken over spaces around the country – from pop-up cinemas to a skill-swap department store and a theatre in a fish and chip shop.
By the end of the night, the aim is to have a vision for a wave of new businesses and projects to complement the diverse range of existing tenants in the market. Participants will then be encouraged to go away and develop proposals for empty units in which they are interested. Space Makers will curate these projects, match up potential collaborators and provide business support – with the aim of building the market into a destination full of surprising and unique shops that will draw visitors from around London and support the long-term future of the local economy in Brixton.
This project will be led by Space Makers associate Julia Shalet, who has been instrumental in developing the business case for empty shops projects. It will also be supported by Lloyd Davis, Sara Haq and Sofia Bustamante, who will help facilitate the 10th November event - and by Gaia Marcus, whose work as coordinator of the Space Makers Network has been central to bringing us all together.
I'm hugely excited to be working with such fantastic people - and on a project which I believe can be a real landmark in the development of the empty shops movement in this country.
For a glimpse of the space inside Brixton Village, check out Sara's photo on our new Space Makers Agency homepage.
What would you do with a space in a 1930s market arcade in Brixton? If you have a good idea, you could be part of the largest empty shops project in the UK.
Space Makers Agency is joining forces with London & Associated Properties PLC and Lambeth Council to fill the empty shop units in Brixton Village indoor market with exciting temporary and permanent projects. Right now, 20 units in the market are being made ready for occupation. LAP are offering people the opportunity to take on a unit, rent free, for up to three months.
Space Makers is looking for your ideas for creative, community-oriented and enterprising projects to make use of a space. Projects could include new and existing businesses, as well as community groups, arts and theatre projects and other imaginative uses of space.
On Tuesday 10th November, the empty shops will be open for viewing from 4.30pm and anyone interested in taking on a space is invited to come to a meeting at 6.30pm. This will be a chance to hear from the owners and from Lambeth Council, as well as existing market traders, and find out what’s involved in taking on a shop – on a temporary or permanent basis.
There will also be a presentation from Dan Thompson, founder of the national Empty Shops Network, about the range of exciting projects that have taken over spaces around the country – from pop-up cinemas to a skill-swap department store and a theatre in a fish and chip shop.
By the end of the night, the aim is to have a vision for a wave of new businesses and projects to complement the diverse range of existing tenants in the market. Participants will then be encouraged to go away and develop proposals for empty units in which they are interested. Space Makers will curate these projects, match up potential collaborators and provide business support – with the aim of building the market into a destination full of surprising and unique shops that will draw visitors from around London and support the long-term future of the local economy in Brixton.
This project will be led by Space Makers associate Julia Shalet, who has been instrumental in developing the business case for empty shops projects. It will also be supported by Lloyd Davis, Sara Haq and Sofia Bustamante, who will help facilitate the 10th November event - and by Gaia Marcus, whose work as coordinator of the Space Makers Network has been central to bringing us all together.
I'm hugely excited to be working with such fantastic people - and on a project which I believe can be a real landmark in the development of the empty shops movement in this country.
For a glimpse of the space inside Brixton Village, check out Sara's photo on our new Space Makers Agency homepage.
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