The huge former home of Debenhams in Cardiff city centre remains empty 18-months after the department store closed its doors for the final time. The three-storey building which housed Wales' flagship branch of the over 200-year-old chain is still gathering dust in St David's Centre with no plans put forward for its future.
The Cardiff branch of the company shut up shop in May 2021 – four months after the company announced all stores would shut. In January 2021 online retailer Boohoo acquired the 244-year-old department store chain in a £55m deal that resulted in the closure of all stores and resulted in the department store disappearing from the high street with the loss of up to 12,000 jobs.
While Debenhams fans can still access some stock online, the Debenhams brand which was a fixture on high streets up and down the country for centuries is long gone. You can read more Cardiff stories here.
