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Boxpark pop-up retail outlet set to come to East Croydon
Croydon looks set to get its own Boxpark retail marketplace, right next to East Croydon Station. Croydon Visitor Centre and the computer gadget shop next door on the concourse area of East Croydon...
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Police arrest Croydon man over burglary from Visitor Centre
Croydon police have made an arrest in the investigation of the tens of thousands of pounds that went missing from the Croydon Visitor Centre in the days (or, more specifically, one afternoon) after its...
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Boxpark loan deal turns councillors into a bunch of bankers
£3 million. So now we know how much tax-payers’ money it takes to bring a decent-sized business to the town centre. The Croydon Guardian reports that Croydon Council has gone into the banking business,...
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The “continuity council” that rarely meets and barely debates
WALTER CRONXITE welcomes a rare opportunity for Croydon’s councillors to meet at the Town Hall tonight Croydon’s well-rewarded cabinet, the nine Labour councillors hand-picked for his top team by...
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Boxpark’s food court plan poses threats to existing firms
Fans of Boxpark, the retailing centre to be built from discarded shipping containers next to East Croydon Station, yesterday evening gathered for a glitzy launch (by Croydon standards, anyway; beer and...
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Boxpark announced food plan after getting £3m council loan
Croydon Council’s £3 million loan of public cash to persuade Boxpark to set up a pop-up shopping mall alongside East Croydon Station was made in the expectation that the retail outlet would be a mixed...
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Metro Bank pulls out of move to £50m Ruskin Square offices
A multi-million-pound deal for Metro Bank to bring their global head offices and hundreds of staff to Croydon has collapsed. It was only a few weeks ago that developers Stanhope and their financial...
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Read all about it: from UKIP to refugees, Boxpark to crocuses
These are the stories which most-grabbed the attention of Inside Croydon‘s loyal reader in September 2015… 1, UKIP supporters to face demands for legal costs from council After staging a takeover of...
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Council official who brought Boxpark to Croydon has now got a top job with…...
A council official who was involved at a high level in key redevelopment schemes, which in the past six months have also included making a £3 million public finance loan to tempt Boxpark to set up next...
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Tiger Tiger faces extinction as town centre closes down
Tiger Tiger, burning not so bright. The Sadvertiser is reporting that one of Croydon town centre’s principal night clubs is to close this weekend, something which will be regretted only by those under...
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Boxpark’s £3m loan under threat if summer opening is delayed
It’s not just the trains which are running late at East Croydon. So is the planned opening date for Boxpark. Croydon was chosen to be the second location of the retail mall made from shipping...
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Council starts chucking cash about to disguise its blunders
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Suddenly, Croydon is being showered in money from the local council. STEVEN DOWNES suggests that it is the Town Hall leadership paying for their mistakes, usually with your money...
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After £3m loan, now council lays on festival for Boxpark
Croydon Council today went some way to confirming – inadvertently, of course – that Boxpark, the publicly subsidised retail outlet alongside East Croydon Station, won’t be ready to open as planned this...
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Part-time culture director to get £39,000 for six months’ work
BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, discovers that splitting the time of a Brighton council executive is raising questions at both ends of the A23 The council’s new executive in charge of culture,...
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Boxpark delays could see Ambition Festival staged in October
Our arts correspondent BELLA BARTOCK reports on how a council-backed arts fest can’t fix a date in the diary It’s just a few weeks since Croydon Council made the announcement that it would use £160,000...
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Cash-strapped council finds thousands for real estate beano
Cash-strapped Croydon is spending up to £26,000 so that senior council officials can rub shoulders with developers and estate agents at an event next week called the London Real Estate Forum. Despite...
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Boxpark operators still don’t have confirmed opening date
We are halfway through August, with the schools going back for their autumn term in a fortnight. Yet Boxpark Croydon, due to open in “Summer 2016” still has not got a confirmed opening date. The retail...
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Open House weekend: see where your money’s spent
Croydon’s somewhat curmudgeonly attitude towards Open House London, the annual opportunity to sneak a peek behind normally firmly closed doors, appears to have been shaken off, finally. But not as far...
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Boxpark opening airbrushes all mention of Ambition Festival
Boxpark Croydon has finally announced its opening dates. Boozepark, which was lured to the site alongside East Croydon Station with a £3 million loan from the Labour-run council, is to stage a two-day...
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Newman breaks manifesto promise over Boxpark festival
Tony Newman’s Labour council has broken one of its 2014 manifesto commitments, after diverting £160,000 of public money from its intended free annual music festival to pay towards private business...
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