CastleCourt Shopping Centre in Belfast is set to welcome Northern Ireland's first standalone Vanilla fashion store in the Spring of 2025. This announcement follows a successful year for the centre, with a 12% year-on-year increase in footfall during December 2024, surpassing pre-covid figures.
CastleCourt Shopping Centre is set to welcome a new clothing store later this year. The popular Belfast shopping centre has announced that it will become home to Northern Ireland's first stand-alone Vanilla fashion store . Set to open in the Spring, Centre Manager Leona Barr said that there will be a lot to look forward to in 2025 after a transformative year for CastleCourt in 2024.
Leona said: “Our first new opening for 2025 will be Northern Ireland’s first ever standalone Vanilla store, a popular fashion range currently only available at New Look, which will open in the spring. We look forward to revealing more big names in the near future.” The news comes after CastleCourt revealed a 12% year-on-year rise in footfall during December 2024, with some stores reporting a boost in sales of +30%. Peak days of the increased footfall included Friday 20, Saturday 21 and Monday 23 December, with footfall averaging + 20% on the same days in 2023, surpassing pre-covid figures. The figures released by the Centre show a positive performance for the end of the so-called ‘Golden Quarter’, in light of recent reports of a 7.2% decline of shopper footfall in Belfast in December 2024. Leona added that the whole team worked hard to continue to make CastleCourt a top destination for city centre shopping last year. She continued: 'Those final shopping days before Christmas are crucial for our stores and leisure outlets, and after December 2023’s transport strikes we were hopeful for higher footfall and sales throughout the centre. 'However, the month brought widely reported traffic congestion throughout Belfast city centre to contend with, so we are delighted to still have such positive results to share. 'On the whole, 2024 was a fantastic year, which saw our shopping centre become even more of an attractio
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