Castlepoint celebrated the end of its 20th anniversary year with a 46 per cent rise in December visitor numbers.<\/p>\n
The footfall figures build on growth of 22 per cent in visitor numbers in November compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n
The shopping centre’s first Christmas village, Festive Point, proved particularly successful.<\/p>\n
The new feature is estimated to have attracted more than 16,000 people over the 18 days it was open.<\/p>\n
Castlepoint provided more than \u00a315,000 of support – both financial and in-kind – to community and charity causes during 2023 as part of its Project Positivity initiative.<\/p>\n
They ranged from giving away weekly food shops and providing free IT support to building racking for food banks and litter picking and beach cleans.<\/p>\n
Its aim was to deliver 20 acts of kindness in acknowledgement of Castlepoint\u2019s 20 years.<\/p>\n
The centre also underwent a full rebrand and welcomed a trio of new brands – Holland & Barrett, Hotel Chocolat and Nike.<\/p>\n
Castlepoint Centre Manager, David Pickett, said: \u201cWell what a year to look back on and it certainly has been a merry Christmas here at Castlepoint.<\/p>\n
“Our team has worked tirelessly to provide a special festive experience for our shoppers and we are so glad to have been rewarded with extraordinary uplifts in visitor numbers as families come in their thousands. <\/u><\/u><\/p>\n
\u201cWe are proud to be part of this wonderful community and look forward to making more improvements and enhancements in 2024, and hopefully launch some new stores too.<\/p>\n
“With the sales period now in full swing, there are some amazing discounts available at our 40+ brands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Castlepoint celebrated the end of its 20th anniversary year with a 46 per cent rise in December visitor numbers.<\/p>\n
The shopping centre’s first Christmas village, Festive Point, proved especially successful.<\/p>\n
The new feature is estimated to have attracted more than 16,000 people over the 18 days it was open.<\/p>\n
Castlepoint provided more than \u00a315,000 of support – both financial and in-kind – to community and charity causes during 2023 as part of its Project Positivity initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":71586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71588,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71585\/revisions\/71588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}