Hackney Walk (London UK): a failure of publicly funded retail led regeneration

or how a tweet (and a blog post) kicked off a local media pile-on (copy-paste lazy journalism about retail)

Now Nike's gone, every single outlet at Hackney Walk (the doomed fashion hub paid for with £1.5m of public money) is now empty. pic.twitter.com/3uv5n1P7Ij

— diamond geezer (@diamondgeezer) February 19, 2023

The blog

The pile on