The News asked our readers which one store they could bring back to the city if they had the chance. Here are the suggestions they came up with.
1. Woolworths
The Woolworths store on Commercial Road was a popular suggestion. The shop shut in 2009 as the company entered administration Photo: Paul Jacobs
2. U-Need-Us
This shop in Arundel Street closed its doors at the end of March after 95 years of trading. But plenty of our readers are eager to see it resurrected Photo: Chris Moorhouse
3. BHS
BHS closed its store in the Cascades shopping centre in Portsmouth in 2016 after the company collapsed into administration and vanished from the high street Photo: JPIMedia
4. Bon Marche
This shop in Highland Road was open fro 82 years but closed down in 2009. However you want to see it return from the dead! Photo: Michael Scaddan