Box Park has announced this week that the opening weekend will be 29th and 30th October.

While much has happened in Croydon in the past few years this is the most significant outward sign with the aim of the Box Park owners to draw people to take the 15 minute journey from town to what will be an extensive food and event location.

Box Park is to open with a music festival over the first weekend to announce the launch and tickets can be obtained from Skiddle.com or NME.com/tickets

The park will comprise 42 food outlets and a central event space and has an initial tenure of 5 years.

Retailers include The Craft Beer Co offering individual brewery beers and lagers, The award winning Breakfeast Club , MEATliquor and Chilango the Mexican restaurant as well as Dumpling specialist Mama Lan the specialist Italian deli Bread Tree and the Mayfair Lebanese restaurant LazeezTapas

The area will undoubtedly attract much attention and huge numbers of people. There will be food of all types from all over the world and the park will be open until 11pm at night.