A store that suffered £100,000 of damage as a result of the Primark fire in Belfast is to cease trading after 40 years.
The Spinning Wheel curtain and fabric store closed its doors after going into administration on Wednesday evening. The Fountain Street shop, which was originally located on Donegall Street until 2016, employs 10 staff.
Following the fire in August that destroyed the Bank Building which housed Primark, store owner Harold Curran announced that £100,000 worth of stock was damaged, and told The Irish News last month he had “never been so concerned and worried” about the future of the Belfast retail fixture.
The Primark blaze forced the store to shut for two days.
Mr Curran said the cordon erected in the wake of the fire around the Bank Building also hampered sales as footfall in the area dropped by 75 per cent.
The closure comes as it was announced that the nearby Queen’s Arcade, which joins Fountain Street and Donegall Place, is to get a £2 million refurbishment. The arcade, which dates to 1880, will see restoration work that includes a new floor and the removal of work carried out in the 1970s and 1980s
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