A man secretly lived in a make shift apartment inside a shopping mall for over four years with his friends. Michael Townsend had previously been forced out of his old apartment by developers and desperately needed to find a place to stay.
A radio advertisement sparked his memory of a newly built shopping centre in Rhode Island he had spotted on a daily jog in 1999.
The inspiring commercial spoke about how great it would be if people could live in a shopping centre which reminded him of some unused spaces beneath the shops in Providence Place Mall he had seen four years prior to his house dilemma. Michael, an artist, had looked into the hidden space inside and noticed a room that looked like it's only purpose was to keep the formation of the purposely designed areas surrounding it, the Daily Star reports.