PRIMARK have announced their newly renovated Bank Buildings store will open at the start of November in the heart of Belfast city centre, after being closed for four years due to a devastating fire which destroyed the block in 2018.
 
The new store will also include a Disney department and café on the second floor. Also new in store will be a nail and beauty studio as well as a home department on the fifth floor which will stock homeware, accessories, bedding and some items of furniture.
 
After the renovation, which has taken four years of work, the new building will be 76 per cent bigger, incorporating the original store and the adjacent building which used to house Tesco.
 
In advance of the reopening, the smaller Primark store at Fountain House on Donegall Place will close, with all employees transferring back to the new Bank Buildings store.

Jacqui Byers, Primark Northern Ireland Area Manager, said: “We are now in the final weeks of preparation to reopen our Bank Buildings store. Restoring this much-loved historic building has been an important and passionate project for our business. Our teams have approached it with such care and consideration, of course with the wider city of Belfast in mind.
 
"We would like to thank our colleagues, customers, the business community, and wider city of Belfast once again for their continued support following the fire, as without them we would not be in this position to reopen the Bank Buildings. We look forward to welcoming everyone to our beautiful new Primark store in the heart of Belfast next month to celebrate this significant moment with us.”