{"id":172386,"date":"2025-10-01T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172386\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:37:08","slug":"empty-shops-in-leicester-become-artwork-telling-street-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172386\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty shops in Leicester become artwork telling street stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New public artwork has been painted across the windows of eight empty shops in Leicester. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Street Stories project, led by BID Leicester, Leicester City Council and Arch Creative, aims to stop vandalism at vacant lots, make empty shops more desirable to new tenants and gives artists an opportunity to showcase their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors can scan a QR code on the artwork, which brings the installation to life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project was first launched in 2019 to improve the high street and seven out of eight units were subsequently let.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New public artwork has been painted across the windows of eight empty shops in Leicester. The Street Stories&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-172386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}