The Churchill

The Churchill, opened September 2018 in downtown Phoenix, introducing shoppers to ten local businesses.  The project, with its distinct, industrial look draws spectators curious to see up close how a cluster of 40-foot decommissioned shipping containers come together like building blocks to form an urban shopping center.

The Churchill began as a passion project for local entrepreneurs Kell Duncan and Hartley Rodie.  They envisioned a creative community gathering space that would bring together food, drinks, retail, art and entertainment in the heart of the fast-growing downtown area. The co-founders handpicked the Arizona-based businesses that call The Churchill home, giving many of them their first physical location.

The center courtyard is covered and cooled with evaporative coolers and giant fans. Handcrafted tables and seats maintain the theme and were constructed with refurbished wood shipping pallets. Sure to become an icon of the entire project is a 20-foot steel container propped up vertically 30 feet on the southwest corner of the complex that prominent Phoenix artist Pete Deise, cut, twisted and flipped into a sculpture.

BUSINESSES AT THE CHURCHILL

• State Forty Eight | homegrown, local apparel brand
• Pobrecito | new cocktail concept
• The Brill Line | featuring local craft beers
• Provecho | new restaurant concept featuring flavors from Central Mexico
• Sauvage | wine shop
• Freak Brothers Pizza | Neapolitan-style pizza food truck’s first stand-alone restaurant
• Foxy Fruit | smoothie and acai-bowl concept
• Gather | lifestyle retail concept
• Cosas | artisan boutique
• Breadwinner | new restaurant concept by Culinary Mafia Group

BUILDING FEATURES

• Decommissioned Shipping Containers
  19 Steel Containers
  Each 40-Foot in Length
• Separate Tenant Improvements for each Retail Tenant/Container
• 20-Foot Container Sculpture, 30-Feet High at Southwest Corner
• Walking Deck Above Container Walls on North Side of Project
• Canopy Above Walking Deck on North Side of Project

SITE FEATURES

• Courtyard
• Sculpture

STRUCTURAL SERVICES

• Structural designs and details
• Value engineering
• Construction administration
• Special structural inspections

STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS

• Gravity System: Steel
• Lateral System: Steel