Activate – an experienced team of placemaking professionals, delivering services for retail, leisure and commercial schemes. We enliven spaces and engage communities, through a combination of placemaking consultancy and destination marketing services.
Placemaking
Placemaking
We develop and deliver commercially viable placemaking solutions that regenerate, repurpose and enliven assets, putting customer experience and social value at the centre of the each schemes placemaking strategy.
By using customer and stakeholder feedback to generate a common vision, we create places which enable innovation, enterprise and that support local economies and the wider community.
Destination Marketing
Destination Marketing
Our Destination Marketing team specialise in delivering integrated marketing programmes aimed at driving footfall, increasing spend and dwell time, supporting occupiers and connecting the destination to the local community.
The service works across all asset types delivering; strategy, creative, social media management, digital marketing, events management and community engagement.
Projects
St Christopher’s Place, London
Croxley Park, Watford
Quadrangle, Cheltenham
Insight
Social
It’s great to be at the Insider Property Awards, North West tonight hosted by @InsiderMedia with @workmanuk
A fantastic evening celebrating people, projects, and partnerships driving positive change across the region.
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A new vision for Buxton.
Amy, Senior Account Manager and Leonie, Account Manager attended the first public consultation event hosted by social impact developer @capitalcentric to view their plans for revitalising Buxton.
This was an opportunity for occupiers of The Springs Shopping Centre and local residents to come along and see the proposed new plans, with time given for them to voice their own views. The event featured the proposed plans, a survey to give feedback and interactive elements to vote on key fundamentals of the plan.
A new vision for the town centre includes:
⭐ A vibrant residential-led, mixed use neighbourhood
⭐ Revitalised new shops, bars and cafes
⭐ Green areas and public spaces
It was great to meet with Capital & Centric, local residents and key stakeholders to learn more about the exciting plans for Buxton town centre.
Beth Hudson and Andrew Sparrow recently visited one of our clients’ sites Gateway 14, to see the latest progress on development on-site. They walked around the green spaces on site, which is one of the sites amenity spaces for tenants, with a community focused event for tenants of Gateway 14, local residents and key stakeholders being planned for the summer.
As part of the visit, they explored some of the fantastic community and cultural spaces in Stowmarket, including The Mix, The Peel Centre and the Food Museum. They were kindly shown around the 84-acre site including the school dinners exhibition and discussed their vision for upcoming projects. It was inspiring to see how they combine food, farming and sustainability in such a fun and engaging way.
We’re looking forward to working together with local businesses to connect Gateway 14 tenants with the Stowmarket community and look to increase footfall, dwell time and local spend to support the town’s local economy.
#activate #destinationmarketing #placemaking
Activate led in hosting a two day, family centred event at The Springs Shopping Centre which featured two workshops centred around our newly launched Honesty Library. We had bookmark making and front cover creations taking place across both days.
These events work well to bring the local community together and offer enlivenment over key periods to encourage visitors to the centre.
Take a look at our video from the day!
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