St. David's Centre

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Facts and statistics
St. David's Centre
Western entrance to St. Davids Centre on Working Street

Location	Cardiff, Wales
Opening date	24 March 1982^[1]
Owner	St David's Partnership (Capital Shopping Centres (50%) and Land Securities Group (50%))^[2]
No. of stores and services	75^[2]
No. of anchor tenants	4 (Boots, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer & Bhs)^[2]
Total retail floor area	427,000 sq ft (39,670 sq m)
No. of floors	1
Website	http://www.stdavids-shopping.co.uk/

Facts and statistics
St. David's 2
Construction of the John Lewis store

Location	Cardiff, Wales
Developer	St David's Partnership ^[3]
Owner	St David's Partnership
Architect	Benoy
No. of stores and services	128^[3]
No. of anchor tenants	1 John Lewis^[3]
Total retail floor area	967,500 sq ft (89,891 sq m)
Parking	3,000^[3]
No. of floors	2^[3]
Website	http://www.stdavids2.com/
Footnotes
A major extension to St. Davids Centre

This article refers to the shopping centre in Cardiff. For the shopping centre of the same name in Swansea, see St. David's Shopping Centre, Swansea

The St. David's Centre (also known as St. David's Shopping Centre^[4]) is one of the principal shopping centres in Cardiff, capital of Wales.

1 St. David's Centre
2 St. David's 2
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] St. David's Centre

St. David's Centre was open to the public in January 1981, although it did not officially open until 24 March 1982. The centre has entrances on Queen Street and Working Street. It previously also had an entrance on Hill's Street, this will eventually become an entrance to the new St Davids 2 shopping centre (below), when completed. It is also joined internally with Queens Arcade.

The centre attracts an average footfall of 39,000,000 per annum^[2] and has a core catchment of 2.4 million people and the 15million tourists that visit the city who help generate over £7.5 billion in retail spending. There are seventy five individual shops and stores that cater for a broad demographic. The centre is anchored by Boots, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer and Bhs^[2]. It is strategically situated close to central car parking and benefits from being close to public transport services. The centre is also adjacent to St. David's Hall. When the new area of the shopping centre is finished it is expected to be one of the buisest shopping centres in the European Union exceeding Birminghams Bull Ring.

[edit] St. David's 2

This section on St. David's 2 contains information about a building currently under construction.
It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically and frequently as construction progresses and new information becomes available.

St. David's Centre, and the whole of the southern end of Cardiff's shopping area will be regenerated as part of the St David's 2 development.

St Davids 2 is a massive £675m extension of the centre and will see a large part of Cardiff's south city centre, much of it relatively underused thanks to it consisting of 1960s and 1970s newbuild, completely redeveloped. It will add an extra 967,500 square ft of retail space^[3] to the city centre, including a 260,000 sq. ft John Lewis department store,^[3] 9 other large stores and a further 90 smaller shops in a two tiered 'grand arcade' shopping mall.^[3] It will also create 3,000 car parking spaces, new bars and restaurants, a new 55,000sq ft civic library, new public spaces and 4,500 permanent jobs.^[5] All enabling works, demolition and construction of the temporary library and Marriott multistory car park have been completed. Construction of the new library is at an advanced stage, while construction is well underway on the rest of the main development. The whole development is scheduled to open in autumn 2009, although most of the development will be completed by summer 2008. It is anticipated that the grand opening of the John Lewis department store will be autumn 2009.^[6]