St David's 2 Shopping Centre - CARDIFF

St Davids 2 is a massive £535m development and will see a large part of Cardiff's south city centre transformed. It will add an extra 967,000 square ft of retail space to the city centre, including a 260,000 sq. ft John Lewis department store, 9 other large stores and a further 90 smaller shops in a two tiered 'grand arcade' shopping mall. It will also create 3000 car parking spaces, new bars and restaurants, a new 55,000sq ft civic library, new public spaces and 4500 permanent jobs. It will lift Cardiff, currently placed 8th in the UK retail hierarchy, into the top 5. The whole development is scheduled to open in autumn 2009, although most of the development will be completed by summer 2008.