On any other day, White Post Lane in London’s Hackney Wick neighborhood crawls with people searching for artisan coffee and taking selfies against the graffiti-covered walls. Outside a newly renovated railway station, craft breweries and cafes stand across from new industrial-style apartment buildings. Hundreds of homes are planned for this area, several advertised at construction sites in 10-feet-tall posters showing a sparkling future. Carl Edlund. Photographer: Freya Najade for Bloomberg Green That vision of Hackney Wick would have been unrecognizable on July 25 last year, when heavy rains sent flash floods through the grounds marked out with flags by property developers. Carl Edlund, who manages HWK, a coffee shop and event space, describes water coming out of nowhere and quickly seeping into the premises just as dozens of people gathered on what was the first weekend in months that social distancing rules had been lifted. The crowd was trapped […]