FarGo Village is a creative quarter on Far Gosford Street, Coventry, England. Costing £5 million[1] and opened on 27 September 2014,[2] it is a mixture of mobile catering units, small boutique style units housed in repurposed shipping containers,[3] and larger stores surrounding a marketplace area.

Units include cafes, restaurants, vegan businesses, a craft beer brewery, vintage clothing shops, and a comic book shop run by artist and writer Al Davidson. It also has the world's only museum dedicated to TV actor Phil Silvers.[4] It also features The Box - a 500 person capacity music and drama venue.[5] In 2021, it opened The Factory, a collection of street food businesses connected to indoor and outdoor dining areas.[6]

As well as housing retail units The Village holds regular events such as classic car shows, open air cinema evenings, food festivals and dog shows.[7] It is expected that a stop on the Coventry Very Light Rail tram system will be located there, linking it with the city railway station, Pool Meadow Bus Station and University Hospital Coventry.

References

  1. ↑ "Firms signing up for Coventry's FarGo creative village". Birmingham Post. 7 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Thousands turn up for opening of Coventry's FarGo Village". Coventry Telegraph. 29 September 2014.
  3. ↑ Waddington, Jenny (13 August 2014). "Shipping containers to be used as shops and offices at Coventry's FarGo Village". CoventryLive. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "One man's obsession with Sergeant Bilko". BBC News. November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Work at new 500-seat arts centre at FarGo Village reaches half-way stage". Coventry Telegraph. 5 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Bridge, Bobby (5 June 2021). "Our verdict on Factory at FarGo Village's opening day". CoventryLive. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "What's on at Fargo". Fargo Village. Retrieved 2 July 2021.

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