One man's abandoned site, another man's soulful start-up space

摘要

Last month, developer Allied London revealed plans for a pop-up shopping village at Manchester's Spinningfieldsto drive footfall to its 400,000 sq ft "the Avenue" retail scheme. But it is not the first to build shops from shipping containers to make temporary use of surplus space. Entrepreneur Roger Wade (below, left) pioneered the concept in 2011 with his Boxpark shopping mall in Shoreditch (pictured). Wade, Boxpark's founder and director, told the 1 Big Day event how he transformed a slice of empty land awaiting development into a lively and lucrative enclave of one of London's coolest districts.