Tribeca Square (Oakmayne Plaza)

jamesup wrote:

As a bonus, in researching that reply I found this lovely photo of Tesco in the lead up to Decimal Day in 1977.
http://www.gettyimages.es/detail/3260598/Hulton-Archive

Thanks for this - fantastic pics. Somehow it looks more tidy and orderly back then. Also, Does this mean Tesco have had a shop in there ever since the shopping centre opened?

I believe it also had an upstairs non-food section which currently sits empty. I've read somewhere that WHSmith had an upper floor too.

Tescos still uses the upstairs part of their store for training and such like. I remember when it was the household dept and all. Same for WH Smiths, going upstairs but that closed years ago. Now it must be the 99p store.

This development will now be called Tribeca Square
http://www.tribecasquare.co.uk/

(Notice they call the location 'New London') rather than E&C...

The 99p store upstairs has gone by the way. TRIBECA SQUARE eh? Well, well...

James Hatts wrote:

This development will now be called Tribeca Square
http://www.tribecasquare.co.uk/

(Notice they call the location 'New London') rather than E&C...

Oakmayne have always been a bunch of arrogant jokers from the get go. Do you remember when they put a load of money on a advertising hoarding in Walworth Rd and unveiled it for local people to jump up and grab whatever cash they could. A totally crass symbol of their idea of investment in a local area. The advert read "If you want to make real money, invest in The Elephant'.

Picture here

Oakmayne has always been absolutely powerful in always getting it's way with little consultation with anyone locally. Just look at how they secured the Elephant Rd park for it's Plaza construction compound taking away the popular football space for the local Latino population. Did anyone get asked about this? Er no!! And now this!

What's up with Tribeca Sq? What a rubbish name!

Doesn't seem like they thought this one through. Tribeca in Lower Manhatten is one of the most expensive, exclusive and gentrified areas of New York boasting a population that is 83% white. It's a huge area of older warehouses that were converted to loft-living, first by artists and then when they were priced out by affluent types buying them up.

How does this fit into the idea of a regenerated Elephant that's socially mixed? A triumph of marketing over the reality of the area. But we know that a lot of those flats will be business rentals, buy-to-lets and off-plan investments advertised in overseas property markets like Hong Kong and America just like other recent developments in the Elephant area.

Worth pointing out then that there are zero socially rented affordable units being built in this mega-development.

Bah! Had enough!

Does this mean that it's the triangle below the causeway? Can't see how else they'd justify it (TriBeCa in New York is the triangle below Canal St and is actually TriBeCa not Tribeca.)

Stupid name, but I'm going to be calling it 'sainsburys and the cinema' so I don't really mind. Strata is a dumb(o) name too though, I much prefer Number 8, Walworth Road but there are lots of reasons why that's hard to market.

Presumably the three blocks will get their own crindgeworthly lower Manhattan names too? Brooklin, Battery and Staten? Ewww.

TRIangle BEhind the CAstle presumably?

What a horrible name. The area has plenty of history of its own without needing a copycat New York name.

Haha, but is a rectangle , RecBeCa Square?