City centre strategy "Collective system change"

Stefan Postert from Stadt + Handel presented the city centre strategy

The consulting firm Stadt + Handel from Hamburg has been supporting city marketing and the city of Bocholt in updating existing concepts for Bocholt's city centre since the beginning of 2023. The newly developed city centre strategy entitled "Collective System Change" aims to implement the necessary transformation processes due to external framework conditions through innovative strategies and concrete...

Citizen participation in the inner city enters the evaluation phase

Various citizen participation formats offer Bochol residents the chance to share their ideas and thoughts about Bocholt City.

Bochol residents were able to share their ideas/thoughts on the Bocholt city centre via various citizen participation formats. The nationwide study "Vitale Innenstädte 2022" by the Cologne Institute for Retail Research (IFH) gives Bocholt's city centre an overall rating of 2.5. Since 2018, the overall rating of Bocholt's city centre from a school grade point of view has been in the range between 2 - 3 and...

Vibrant city centres 2022: results for Bocholt

For the fifth time, the survey was carried out in Bocholt on behalf of Stadtmarketing Bocholt.

For the fifth time, the survey was carried out in Bocholt on behalf of Stadtmarketing Bocholt - grade 2 achieved for the attractiveness of the city centre, just like all participating cities on average What is the state of German city centres? What motivates visitors to visit city centres - especially after the impact of the Corona pandemic that lasted almost three years? These questions are the basis of the...

Another digital stele installed at the tourist information office

As a supplement to the pedestrian guidance system in Bocholt's city centre, another touch screen with tourist information has now been installed at the tourist information office in Nordstraße. This virtually extends the opening hours of the tourist information office and visitors and tourists can obtain information on leisure activities, current events, weather or cycle tours around Bocholt even after the actual...

Dutch ladies' fashion new in Bocholt

On Friday 10 February, the Dutch women's fashion shop Divaz opened in Neustraße.

New inner city concept being developed

In order to make strategic progress for Bocholt's inner city, to plan targeted actions and to work in a future-oriented way, a new inner city concept is being developed.

The city centre subsidy of € 217,000 per year paid by the city to Stadtmarketing from 2017 to 2022 for space management, evaluation, events, digitalisation and city centre marketing will no longer exist from 2023. There have been several discussions on this with the administrative board and politicians. However, there will be no lump-sum payment in the short term. In order to make strategic progress for...

Immediate programme city centre occupies vacant shop premises

"Sofa4you", "Cartoon Zero", "MyKraut", "Second Trend", "Alma-Küchen" and other businesses in the Bocholt city centre have one thing in common: the business operators have received support from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia so that they do not have to pay too high running (rental) costs in the initial phase of setting up and opening a business, but can first test and assess the market on site by means of a...