A £1.5m luxury shopping district now lies abandoned with empty buildings, smashed windows and graffiti as locals claim that the plan was always going to fail.
Hackney Walk was paid for by City Hall in the wake of riots in 2011 which caused severe damage to neighbourhoods throughout London.
High-end brands such as Gieves and Hawkes, Zadig and Voltaire, Matches, Present, Nicole Farhi, and Nike all moved in but after opening in 2016, within the next couple of years most of these brands had left.
