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Downtown Phoenix’s newest marketplace, The Churchill, opened on September 1 and will introduce shoppers to ten local businesses. The project is the latest in the neighborhood to be constructed entirely from decommissioned shipping containers—the third in three years delivered by Phoenix-based design-build firm Local Studio.
“We saw The Churchill as an opportunity for placemaking in our own neighborhood,” said Local Studio founder Brian Stark, whose office is three blocks away from the project. “It’s an unexpected place that will bring people together to meet, eat, shop and share experiences—and we wanted the structure itself to reflect that sense of community.”
The Churchill began as a passion project for local entrepreneurs Kell Duncan and Hartley Rodie. They envisioned a creative community gathering space that would bring together food, drinks, retail, art and entertainment in the heart of the fast-growing downtown area. The co-founders handpicked the Arizona-based businesses that will call The Churchill home, giving many of them their first physical location.
