Cavemoon is an all-new fully licensed continental café bar experience on the seafront, east of the Pier and the White Rock Theatre, funded by Hastings Regeneration Partnership Town Centre Improvement Programme. Since opening in January, many people have found their way to this peaceful, happy haven. It has good coffee, healthy food, magazines and board games, a sunny courtyard and an underground water garden. The business is a café bar with a twist, since it is also a shop with jewellery and funny functional gadgets for sale in the display cabinets which hug the walls.
After 3 years of conservation work, structural repairs and visionary alterations, a ‘pool’ of stylish, contemporary fun has been created from a derelict 180 year-old building. The transformation has been directed by the main owner, Pauline Moon, who has successfully run ‘Moons’ the jewellers in Robertson Street for over 15 years and is now joined by her son, Michael Moon, who part owns and runs the café side of the business. Michael’s catering experience around the globe has proven invaluable and means that exotic dishes are ready to try.
Pauline Moon said to the Hastings Regeneration Partnership, ‘Thank you very much for the financial contributions you have given to the business. We’ve spent £100,000 on this venture and your contribution has helped us achieve our vision. The investment also had an immediate impact locally. As soon as we started work on the restoration and refurbishment, many of our neighbours on the seafront took up their paint brushes and tool boxes. The area around the White Rock now looks just what it is, a thriving community.
Cavemoon used local architects and workmen to transform the premises and has created 5 new permanent jobs for the area, with this number set to expand during the busy seasons.
The Town Centre Manager, Monica Adams-Acton, handles and administers funding queries for improvements to businesses in St Leonards and Hastings. Contact her for information about grants available on 781871 or email madams-acton@hastings.gov.uk
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