{"id":349553,"date":"2025-08-16T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349553\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:22:15","slug":"bristols-apple-store-closes-to-make-way-for-redevelopment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349553\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol\u2019s Apple Store closes to make way for redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Ariella Greenfield<\/strong>, News Reporter<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Philadelphia Street store\u2019s final day was 9th August, making the Cribbs Causeway branch now the nearest location for Bristol residents, or alternatively Apple SouthGate in Bath.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This comes after planning permission was granted by Bristol City Council in May for a redevelopment project in Quakers Friars, which will involve the closure of the area where the Apple Store was located. This was the provided reasoning for the store to be shut down, with a spokesperson claiming that they have \u2018loved serving the Bristol community\u2019 and confirming that employees would continue their roles elsewhere in the company. The store has no immediate planned replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Hammerson, the managing company of Cabot Circus, are therefore moving forward with plans for revamping the Quakers Friars area as they aim to support local businesses and create more public spaces in the city centre. They are focusing on producing a flexible and creative hub for various community events, and retail units in the area are set to be transformed into accessible spaces for healthcare and work. The chair of the City Council&#8217;s Economy and Skills Committee, Councillor Andrew Brown, stated that this revamp will support their vision \u2018to provide a vibrant mix of culture and leisure facilities for citizens and visitors\u2019 in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image: Apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ariella Greenfield, News Reporter The Philadelphia Street store\u2019s final day was 9th August, making the Cribbs Causeway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-349553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115039367525380158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}