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.

The proposal would transform the corner of Brunswick and Wickham streets where the former Waltons, Overells, Lincoln Mills and Braggs buildings sit.

The once separate department store buildings were gradually amalgamated in the 1950s to create a massive block of Waltons' floorspace.

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