{"id":10913,"date":"2013-02-04T14:42:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=10913"},"modified":"2013-02-04T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:42:40","slug":"last-remaining-brixton-prime-shop-unit-awaits-its-new-owners-but-will-it-be-another-phone-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/last-remaining-brixton-prime-shop-unit-awaits-its-new-owners-but-will-it-be-another-phone-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Last remaining Brixton Prime Shop unit awaits its new owners &#8211; but will it be another phone shop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Last remaining Brixton Prime Shop unit awaits its new owners - but will it be another phone shop?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/brixton-road-shop.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been tragic seeing Brixton&#8217;s main shopping drag turn into a long, dull strip of bland corporate retail units, and I&#8217;m not holding out a lot of hope for what will be arriving at this\u00a0last remaining unit in the old Footlocker store.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"brixton-road-shop-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/brixton-road-shop-1.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wedged between a depressing strip of mobile phone shops (02, Three, Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse) with T-Mobile and Phones4U mere metres away, it&#8217;s clear that Brixton has become a\u00a0Mecca\u00a0for mobile stores.<\/p>\n<p>That said,\u00a0I&#8217;m not even sure that there&#8217;s any more big mobile companies left to move into Brixton &#8211; surely we&#8217;ve already got the lot?<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll have to wait to see who will be moving into the &#8216;last remaining Prime Shop,&#8217; but I&#8217;m pretty sure it won&#8217;t be a local independent trader.<\/p>\n<p>Still, at least for now\u00a0we can amuse\u00a0ourselves\u00a0with the cheeky alteration that&#8217;s been made to the sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been tragic seeing Brixton&#8217;s main shopping drag turn into a long, dull strip of bland corporate retail units, and I&#8217;m not holding out a lot of hope for what &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,194,17,193],"tags":[1191,10,405],"class_list":["post-10913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-london","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/brixton-road-shop.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2Q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10916,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions\/10916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}