The Boxpark in Shoreditch has been saved from closure after it announced the venue would close at the end of last summer. The initial announcement of the closure was a devastating blow after the messy Euros 2024 viewing events where beer was flung across the room as freely as football chants were shouted.
This week, however, it has been revealed that Boxpark Shoreditch has secured a new short-term lease and will keep its doors open for now, TimeOut reported. There is also scope to extend the lease further, and ‘negotiations are positive’, Restaurant Online said.
The site launched at Bishopsgate Goodsyard near Shoreditch Highstreet in 2011 as London’s first ever Boxpark. It opened under a ‘meanwhile use’ scheme, meaning it was always a temporary arrangement.
The closure announcement was made after the site landlord decided to trigger the break clause in their lease in July last year with plans to develop the site into homes, retail space, offices and a park, TimeOut said.
The chain has grown to have venues across London like at Croydon and Wembley. Last year it opened another in Camden’s Buck Street Market. It is now looking to expand further outside of London too with a new site in Liverpool in 2024 and plans to break into Birmingham and Bristol.
London will see another pop-up in the Square Mile near Liverpool Street, too.
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