Tag Archives: Roger Wade

Boxpark founder Wade to step down as business boss

Posted on April 29, 2022 by insidecroydon

Roger Wade, the founder of Boxpark, has announced he is to step down as chief executive of the business at the end of next month. The decision to step back from the business he founded 10 years ago, with Boozepark … Continue reading →

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Boxpark’s £3m+ in council loans and grants under Newman

Posted on January 24, 2022 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: While benefits to the borough’s most vulnerable are being cut, pools are being shut down and public services axed, the council has continued to hand out a juicy annual grant to a multi-million-pound business. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN … Continue reading →

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Boxpark boss wants to take on Whitgift Centre redevelopment

Posted on September 10, 2021 by insidecroydon

Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest opportunistic comments from a business owner who claims a ‘track record’ of handling the local council The entrepreneur behind Boxpark claims that he is ready to step in and take over the … Continue reading →

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End of an era as Cronx Brewery opts to close its Boxpark bar

Posted on September 9, 2021 by insidecroydon

The Cronx Brewery is quitting Boozepark. The New Addington-based brewers have rented a double unit at the council-subsidised food and drinks shed next to East Croydon Station since it opened five years ago. Getting a young business so closely associated … Continue reading →

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Armageddon! Boxpark predicts 50% businesses won’t survive

Posted on June 19, 2020 by insidecroydon

KEN LEE reports on how one heavily subsidised private landlord in the town centre is now lobbying for yet more public funding Half of Croydon’s retail and hospitality businesses won’t survive the coronavirus lockdown, according to Roger Wade, the owner … Continue reading →

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Interest hike squeezes Brick by Brick’s speculative schemes

Posted on October 15, 2019 by insidecroydon

The Tory government’s obstinate fixation to drive the country off a Brexit cliff-edge at the end of October is driving down the value of the pound and causing massive problems for industry. Especially in construction – which could mean very … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Gavin Barwell, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Unhappy tenants say they’re ready to quit loss-making Boxpark

Posted on June 22, 2019 by insidecroydon

It’s not been a great week for Boozepark. Then again, nor has it been great for Croydon Council, either, as it was they who provided a £3million loan and more than £400,000 in hand-outs of public money to help get … Continue reading →

Posted in Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Jo Negrini, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, Ruskin Square, Tony Newman | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

‘Successful investment’ Boxpark reports a £500,000 loss

Posted on January 29, 2018 by insidecroydon

Boxpark Croydon made a loss of nearly £500,000 last year, according to accounts filed to Companies House. The operation, renting space to independent outlets selling street food and staging music and other events in a collection of disused shipping containers … Continue reading →

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Owner ‘rises to the challenge’ as businesses quit Boxpark

Posted on December 8, 2017 by insidecroydon

“Stop sort of complaining about your lot and get on with rising to the challenge, that’s my message to people,” businessman Roger Wade said recently. “You can’t have the council going out trying to protect local businesses.” Wade is the … Continue reading →

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Boozepark applies to extend bar opening times until 1am

Posted on September 11, 2017 by insidecroydon

KEN LEE, our Town Hall correspondent, has found some interesting documents on the council’s planning site Within nine months of opening, and Boxpark has been applying to Croydon Council to drop some of the conditions linked to its planning permission … Continue reading →

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Boxpark switches job ad to get round Living Wage rules

Posted on January 17, 2017 by insidecroydon

Boxpark, the council-subsidised food and booze venue, has dropped its low-pay internship advertisement, after Inside Croydon highlighted how it was offering to pay a miserly £6.50 per hour, well below the London Living Wage. Now, Boozepark has re-jigged the ad, … Continue reading →

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Boxpark posters draw complaints to council’s clean-up team

Posted on November 18, 2016 by insidecroydon

Well. This will be embarrassing for Croydon Council leader Tony Newman just as he packs his bucket and spade for a weekend jolly by the seaside on a Labour group “awayday” to Eastbourne. Boxpark, which has been in receipt of … Continue reading →

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Boxpark opening airbrushes all mention of Ambition Festival

Posted on September 1, 2016 by insidecroydon

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 “Opening Festival” on October 29 and 30 … Continue reading →

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Boxpark delays could see Ambition Festival staged in October

Posted on May 20, 2016 by insidecroydon

BELLA BARTOCK, arts correspondent, 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 of Council Tax-payers’ money to stage … Continue reading →

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Boxpark’s £3m loan under threat if summer opening is delayed

Posted on February 14, 2016 by insidecroydon

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 containers, following the original Boxpark … Continue reading →

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Council official who brought Boxpark to Croydon has now got a top job with… Boxpark

Posted on December 23, 2015 by insidecroydon

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 to East Croydon … Continue reading →

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