A HISTORIC city center store will welcome a new tenant as a popular national retailer prepares to take over the site.
Grade II-listed 1 Kings Square is set to open its doors to a new business for the first time since Boots vacated the site in August 2023.
Lifestyle and clothing retailer Oliver Bonas has revealed plans to move into the store after lodging documents on the City of York Council’s planning portal regarding planned changes to the building.
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Although the date of the move has not yet been confirmed, it is expected to take place “later this year”, with Oliver Bonas leaving his current store in Stonegate.
In its application, the brand revealed its plans to take over the ground floor, first floor and first floor of the store where it will reposition partitions to create a new layout of the building, install a new door and change lighting.
The exterior of the store will be painted in Oliver Bonas’ signature pastel green color and the brand intends to retain an existing stained glass window that is currently in the building.
The current interior of the store (Image: Alice Kavanagh) The upper floors of the Kings Square store will also undergo a transformation as they are transformed into “new city center residential accommodation” by owners The Helmsley Group – the group which is also behind the Coney Street regeneration project.
Max Reeves, director of the Helmsley Group, said: “We are delighted to welcome Oliver Bonas to a new, larger store on King’s Square and are looking forward to developing the upper floors of the building to create a new central living space. city.
“There are disused upper floors like those at 1 King’s Square across the city and our ambition is to use York’s historic buildings to their full potential by bringing these floors back into use as much-needed housing in the city centre. “