St David's, Cardiff

This article is about the shopping centre in Cardiff city centre. For other uses, see St David's, Cardiff (disambiguation).
St David's
Dewi Sant

St. David's second phase on The Hayes.
The Hayes Apartments on the upper levels
Map
LocationCardiff, Wales
Opening date24 March 1982; 42 years ago (1982-03-24)[1] (phase 1)
22 October 2009; 15 years ago (2009-10-22) (phase 2)
DeveloperSt David's Partnership and Land Securities Group (50%))[2]
OwnerLandsec[3]
Cardiff Council (Freeholder)[4]
Linc-Cymru Housing Association (Barrack Lane)[5]
ArchitectBenoy (phase 2)[6]
Building Design Partnership (library)[6]
Glenn Howells (Hayes Apartments)[6]
No. of stores and services203[2][4]
No. of anchor tenants4 (Boots, Marks & Spencer, Primark[2] and John Lewis[4])
Total retail floor area129,561 m2 (1,394,580 sq ft)[7]
No. of floors9 (2 shopping levels, 1 restaurant seating level and 6 car park levels)
Parking2,550[8]
Websitewww.stdavidscardiff.com

St David's (Welsh: Dewi Sant), previously known as St David's Shopping Centre, is one of the principal shopping centres in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. It is in The Hayes area of the southern city centre. Following the extension of St David's 2 in 2009, St David's is the third busiest shopping centre in the United Kingdom.

The construction of the extension cost a total of £675m and brought Cardiff within the top five shopping destinations in the United Kingdom. The centre consists of the original first phase - St David's Centre - adjoining St David's Hall and the second phase, given the development name of St David's 2. The second phase of the shopping centre opened on 22 October 2009, when the first 58 of its 88 stores opened for business.[9]

  1. ^ Cardiff Timeline Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference StD1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Landsec buys full ownership of Cardiff shopping centre". CRE Herald. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference StD2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Barrack was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference landsecurities was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Liberty International, 2008, and CSC. St. David's Centre Archived 2 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine has an area of 39,670 sq m; the St. David's 2 Archived 14 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine extension, has an area of 89,891 sq m. The figure here represents the combined area.
  8. ^ [1] Archived 26 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Abby Bolter. "Mammoth £675m shopping centre opens". Wales Online. Retrieved 18 March 2018.