Not quite sure how 'cultural vibrancy', the Elephant & Castle shopping centre and the Heygate estate fit in the same article. It was one of the most soulless, deprived parts of London for decades, certainly in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’
New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been broken