Maboneng Precinct
Post-industrial arts and culture district of converted warehouses, murals, markets and creative studios in a former no-go inner-city zone.
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This guide to the Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg traces the inner-city district's transformation from a razor-wire, no-go zone in 2008, when developer Jonathan Liebmann bought a derelict Fox Street warehouse and took the fencing down. You'll hear how a former indoor whippet-racing track became studios and galleries, and how his company Propertuity grew to control dozens of buildings across the neighborhood he named Maboneng, place of light. A tip for walking it: look up at the murals along the open streets he insisted on building without gates.
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