Derelict Fortitude Valley department stores slated for $40 million Torrens University campus

A complex of "unloved" 1890s-era department store buildings in the heart of Fortitude Valley is set to be transformed into a Torrens University campus and a separate student accommodation tower. Key points: There are plans to transform a major part of Brisbane's department store heritage into a university campus The $40 million project by Torrens University would create a campus and student accommodation in Fortitude Valley The site has been almost entirely unused since the 1980s The proposal would transform the corner of Brunswick and Wickham streets where the former Waltons, Overells, Lincoln Mills and Braggs buildings sit. Torrens University's director of property and facilities Courtney Lund said the project had been "a long time coming" and would revitalise a major part of Fortitude Valley's heritage. She said the university's existing campus, further south in Fortitude Valley near the Storey Bridge, was not planned for closure, but the university would "watch the space".