The Warehouse’s signature Christchurch store will close.

The central city store in South City Mall will close next week.

In a statement, first released to Chris Lynch Media in May, the company said “the lease at The Warehouse South City comes to an end and we’ve been considering our next steps.

We have 5 other The Warehouse stores in greater Christchurch we will work with the South City team on redeployment options across our TWG store network.”

Terrence Stirling (owner of South City) said they were in negotiations with a number of potential new tenants for the centre, but it was too early to give details.

“We’ve got lots of plans. In the last couple of months, probably four or five options have turned up, mostly with larger retailers.

“We’ve got a lot of confidence in the location and potential of the centre going forward.   We look forward to providing more details around our exciting new retailers very soon.”