The former Debenhams on St Catherine’s Walk in Carmarthen city centre, which shut in May 2021, is to be refitted for council use. It will house council customer services, a careers and employment advice service, a preventative health clinic, a tourist information office, a gym and some of the county’s museum artefacts.
Carmarthen Hwb/Hub is a collaboration between Carmarthenshire County Council, Hywel Dda University Health Board and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD).
More than £15m of the £19m project cost is coming from the UK government’s Levelling Up fund. The county council is putting up the balance.
A notice of commencement was issued on 13th March 2023.
Preferred contractor Bouygues UK has already been working with local subcontractors on a project at Pentre Awel in Llanelli.
Bouygues UK regional managing director John Boughton said that refurbishment of the 8,000 sq m building was “a unique development that brings together health, education and public services under one roof”.
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