A prominent shop that has been empty for months is about to start a new chapter.
Numbers 1-5 Davygate was originally created for Borders bookshop, and laterally home to Superdry.
It shut last June, after the parent company got into financial difficulties.
Soon though it will become the new home of JD Sports.
The current JD Sports is in a building on Coney Street owned by the Helmsley Group. It will have to close as part of the redevelopment of that road.
Work on the Davygate building has been going on for months. It’s been an open secret in the retailing community as to who was moving in, but confirmation only came today with the reveal on the window vinyls.
The building was sold in December 2022 for £7,850,567 to The Learmonth Property Investment Company based in both Edinburgh and Scarborough.
Staff from the Coney Street shop will transfer across.
But because it is a far larger store, more workers are required. Several jobs for the store, including for supervisors and sales assistants, are now being advertised on the company jobs page.
Parent company JD Outdoors now has a large presence in York, including its huge Go Outdoors store at Vangarde, the new Go Outdoors Express soon to replace Millets on Market Street, and a JD Sports branch at Monks Cross.
And it will mean that Davygate unit is fully occupied again, after Slater Menswear moved into the old Sports Direct unit.