About New Windows on Willesden Green
In 2012 the project’s focus is the reactivation of empty premises along the High Road and so from January through to March we are looking to place new tenants in vacant properties secured by the project along the High Road. We invited start up businesses, projects and individuals to submit their expressions of interest in occupying vacant units in a former textiles building in Queens Parade, Walm that became available to the project at the beginning of the year. We had a fantastic response and subsequently invited the most suitable proposals to pitch their ideas to us. We will be announcing the new tenants of Queens Parade shortly. Please visit our Vacant Shops page to find out more.
For the project’s first phase, which ran from October to December 2011, a curated series of window animations was installed along Walm Lane and the High Road marking the 25 days leading up to Christmas. Local shopowners were paired with emerging designers to produce an advent calendar of window displays with a new Willesden window opening each day. A series of events attracting new visitors to Willesden was held on 17-18 December 2011 and the project’s pilot shop – its first ‘meanwhile’ activated space – opened to the public, communicating future opportunities about the project.
About Willesden Green
For more historical information on Willesden Green please visit:http://www.brent.gov.uk/museumarchive.nsf/Pages/LBB-29
