Franchising, retail, business
02/06/2016
Andrea Rasca has secured a deal with housing association Peabody to invest £1.2 million and open a market at a three-storey, 45,000 sq ft building at Newington Causeway near Elephant & Castle station.
Peabody has leased the site to Mercato for an initial one year contract. Its design will be based on Rasca’s Mercato Metropolitano which opened in Milan last year and serves 600,000 meals a month.
Mercato Metropolitano London will open at the end of this month and include a bakery, fishmonger, pasta maker and butcher as well as a barber shop on an upper floor. Businesses will initially be able to lease space for up to a year.
Rasca, who has degrees in business and international relations, said: “We need good and tasty food to share with our friends and family. That is what Mercato Metropolitano offers.”
He is in talks to open further venues in the capital over the next two years.