Did you have the final word about what shops would go into the set?

No, it just sort of came together. Sometimes we would need a particular façade that we would make specifically for that show and just plop in. I was really more geared towards trying to get a full 360 degree area that we could shoot.

Since then we have taken facades and altered them slightly to make them one thing or another, like the Magic Box exterior. That did used to be a little magic shop before it became the Magic Box - which Giles took over in season five. Then we changed the façade, created the interior on stage and now a fully-fledged exterior out here as well.