bringing experience-led venues to underestimated towns across the uk.
Big thinking. National flavour. Local Impact.
Urban Collective brings empty or underused buildings back to life, creating lively, flexible venues that generate income, drive footfall and deliver visible social value. From permanent anchors to meanwhile activations, we transform spaces into places people return to.
Every town deserves a place to gather, eat and connect. We make that happen.
We’re a new company with deep roots. Founded by the award-winning team behind Next Phase consultancy, we bring decades of experience shaping, launching and operating market halls, food halls and independent-led destinations across the UK.
experience-led venues
Food Halls | Markets | Hospitality | Co-Working
We don’t do copy-and-paste models. We work with landlords, developers and councils to create venues shaped by their towns: food halls, markets, co-working spaces and hybrid hospitality destinations.
What unites them is a commitment to independent businesses, commercial resilience and meaningful community impact.
Urban Collective fills the gap between overstretched national operators and under-resourced independents. We bring the professionalism and delivery standards of the big players, combined with the agility and authenticity needed to succeed in towns and smaller cities.
Our founding team are operators first. We’ve lived the day-to-day reality of running complex, multi-tenanted venues, so we know what works in practice, not just on paper.
Through Next Phase consultancy, we also bring insight from projects nationwide, many already funded. We understand local authority regeneration, commercial viability and the wider outcomes that matter: footfall, dwell time, job creation, community confidence and resilient local supply chains.
Every venue we deliver is built to perform commercially for landlords, tenants and ourselves, while maximising social and economic value for the towns we serve.
We partner with organisations who share our ambition:
transforming vacant or underused buildings into vibrant, independent-led destinations.
Whether developing a scheme from the ground up or stepping into a capital project already underway, we bring the experience and expertise to make it succeed.
With the insight of Next Phase and the operational track record of our team, we understand what it takes to plan, fund, launch and run complex schemes for long-term impact.