Edinburgh department store Jenners is set to be "returned to its former glory" as it reopens as a luxury hotel featuring a rooftop bar.
Edinburgh City Council gave the plans permission, with city centre ward councillor Jo Mowat said the "sensitively done" redevelopment will give the building a "new lease of life".
Jenners has occupied a space at the east end of Princes Street for 184 years.
Previous occupiers Frasers Group shut up shop last year, leaving its future in doubt, but AAA United A/S - Anders Holch Povlsen's holding company - then revealed plans to turn it into a mixed use building.
The Danish billionaire bought the site for £53m in 2017 and has promised to retain the building's early Renaissance style façade.
Key aspects of the original Jenners store will be kept in place, such as the central atrium and outside signage, which the council ordered to be reinstated last year after it had been removed by Frasers Group.
However, the building will undergo significant alterations to make way for a 96-bedroom hotel on the upper floors, with a new seventh floor being added to the 1905 extension on the corner of South St David Street and Rose Street, which will make space for a gym, plant enclosure and roof terrace bar.
In the lower sections, Jenners will remain in traditional use as a shopping destination, with retail spaces and food and drink outlets from the basement to the first floor.
In a statement submitted with planning documents, AAA United A/S director Anders Krogh said: "We understand the scale of the challenge and are fully dedicated to honouring this building and its place within the future of Edinburgh.
"We knew that one day the Jenners building would be standing vacant, and we would have the moral obligation of bringing it back to its former glory.
"The original Jenners building will always stay and is the very DNA of our plans, with the redevelopment of a vibrant, sustainable and accessible department store being the heart of the project."
Plans went to Edinburgh City Council's Development Management Sub-Committee for final approval on Wednesday and councillors unanimously granted permission for the works, as well as change of use and listed building consent.
Conservative councillor Mowat said: "I have a deep affection for the Jenners building and I'm also in the position that I have seen the plan of all these buildings, because I have been lucky enough to go up the Dundas monument previously and look down on that, so actually improving that is really important for the city.
"It is great to see a conservation-led project and the care and attention to open up the space and bring the light back.
"To have a building taken back to the use of natural light I think makes such an improved space and will allow that to shine, so I really welcome this project - I think it looks very sensitively done."
SNP councillor Neil Gardiner added: "I think the design sets an exemplar of how to reuse buildings like this, it's sorts out the guddle it is at the moment of moving through the building.
"I'm also pleased to see this level of investment in Edinburgh city centre, obviously there's been a retail downturn across the world and it's good to see people are wanting to invest in retail in Edinburgh."
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