Boards featuring images of Durham will be put up later this month ahead of the site's redevelopment.
Measures to tidy a prominent city centre building in line for redevelopment as an entertainment venue have been welcomed, following concerns it had become a "blight".
Durham County Council has vowed to clean up the existing shopfront after receiving complaints about its condition. Councillor Susan Walker, chair of the City of Durham Parish Council, said: "While the unit has rightly been secured for public safety for some time, the condition of the frontage in the interim has been a blight on the historic street scene of Silver Street.
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