Retailer Marks & Spencer has announced it is relocating its central Birmingham store to the city's Bullring shopping centre.
The shop is currently based in High Street but the company has agreed a deal to take the huge unit previously occupied by Bullring anchor tenant Debenhams prior to it closing down earlier this year.
The move is expected to complete in late 2022 or early 2023 with all 150 staff relocating to the new shop which will sell clothes and homewares and have a food hall, across the lower two of the unit's four floors.
The High Street store will remain trading as per usual in the meantime and close once the relocation has completed.
Marks & Spencer's regional manager Katherine Ottewell said: "We're really excited to announce our plans to open a brand new M&S store in the Bullring.
"It will offer the very best of M&S in a prime location in Birmingham city centre.
"This investment in the city is part of the wider reshaping of our store estate to make sure it's fit for the future, meeting the needs of customers today and those of tomorrow. We will keep the community updated as the works progress."
Last year, fashion chain Next announced it had struck a deal with Debenhams to open beauty outlets in five of the units it was vacating at that time - including in the Bullring.
The sites are expected to house 'The Beauty Hall from Next' which it described as a "premium beauty retail format".
Debenhams fell into administration in April 2020 and set about a closure programme of its UK portfolio of stores.
