A huge old rope factory in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada is being repurposed into a diverse center of food and retail shops.
This old industrial neighborhood in the heart of the city started with a quarter-mile-long factory making rope and twine for the fishing industry.
Today there’s no rope — but there is something that ties the neighborhood together.
After a period of decline, businesses are moving back to Ropewalk Lane — a surge of people from different backgrounds bringing their cultures, and their businesses, with them — and the street is now a retail hub for the area.
Restaurants, groceries, hockey pucks … even haircuts