GUNWHARF Quays is proving to be a major south coast shopping attraction, recording almost 5.9 million visitors in its second year of trading.
Since it opened at Easter 2001, the Berkeley Group and Land Securities' £200m development on the waterfront at Portsmouth Harbour, has had more than 11 million visitors and footfall is now running at around 110,000 per week, with combined gross turnover of the designer outlet stores in the year to April 2003 up 29 per cent.
Gunwharf bosses reckon that one in two visitors spend more than £50 a visit.
Gunwharf marketing director Deborah Owen-Ellis Clark said: "The majority of our retailers are trading well and some are doing amazingly good business. We have a number of outlets recording trade up 25-30 per cent on last year and one that is more than 50 per cent up.
"Also, as trade was good in our first year, too, these are starting from a high base. As a result, there is plenty of demand for space here at Gunwharf Quays."
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