Cardiff Bay Retail Park

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Cardiff Bay Retail Park (Welsh : Parc Manwerthu Bae Caerdydd) is a retail park in Grangetown, Cardiff. Built in 1997 on the former Ferry Road landfill site. It is currently home to businesses including; Pets at Home, Boots and Sports Direct. [1]

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Development

The retail park is built on the edge of a former Ferry Road refuse site, which closed in 1994 after being filled with 4 million cubic metres of commercial and domestic rubbish. The ownership of the land passed to Cardiff Bay Development Corporation who created the retail park on an area of industrial units to the east of the site. [2] Grangemoor Park was created opposite the retail park on the 20 metre hill landscaped on the old refuse site.

Units

Phase One

Asda superstore in August 2020 Cardiff Bay Retail Park - Asda.jpg
Asda superstore in August 2020
Unit(s)Current businessCurrent statusPrevious businessYear closed
0 Asda Open
A1 Wilko Closed Brantano 2016
A2 i JD Sports OpenMaples2000
A2 ii Blacks OpenBANK2015
B Sports Direct Open JJB Sports 2009
C Pets at Home Open
D Boots Open
E Argos 2023 [3]
F
G The Food Warehouse Open British Home Stores 2016
H Home Bargains Open
I (Ex2) McDonald's Open
Pod Costa Coffee Open

Maples was a homeware store that closed in around 2000. Over the years, the unit has been split into 3 smaller units.

Furnitureland and Powerhouse both closed their units in 2007. BHS then refurbished both to create one large unit until they ceased trading in 2016.

JJB closed their unit here once they moved to the Capital Retail Park in Leckwith, which also included a gym.

Phase Two

Phase 2 units, Poundstretcher in the foreground Cardiff Bay Retail Park, Phase 2.jpg
Phase 2 units, Poundstretcher in the foreground
Unit(s)Current businessCurrent statusPrevious businessYear closed
J Lidl Open Poundstretcher 2021
K TUI Holiday Hypermarket Open Staples 2011
L Pure Gym Open Bensons for Beds 2019
M B&M Home StoreOpenKingsway Furniture2004
NTiles R Us2004
O Popeyes Open (2023) [4] Pizza Hut 2022

Phase Three (Dunleavy Drive)

Dunleavy Drive in July 2023 Dunleavy Drive Retail Park.jpg
Dunleavy Drive in July 2023

The Dunleavy Drive section of the Cardiff Bay Retail Park was built in 2008.

Unit(s)Current businessCurrent status
1 Burger King Open [5]
2Green Giraffe Organic Day NurseryOpen
3 Majestic Wine Warehouse Open
Papa John's Closed
4 fit4less Closed
5 Starbucks Coffee Open
Drive-thru
H HarvesterThe Cardiff BayOpen

Other nearby outlets

Other stores in the surrounding area include Aldi and the Cedar Tree Carvery immediately to the south (part of the Cardiff International Sports Village) and IKEA to the north.

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References

  1. "Cardiff Bay Retail Park, Cardiff". Completely Retail.
  2. Phillips, A.; Cherrill, H. E. (1997), "The reactivation and remediation of the landfill site at Ferry Road, Cardiff", Geoenvironmental Engineering - Contaminated Ground: Fate of Pollutants and Remediation, Thomas Telford Publishing: 538–539, ISBN   0-7277-2606-4
  3. "Argos to close Cardiff store at Cardiff Bay Retail park this summer". Penarth Times. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  4. "I tried Popeyes' first Welsh drive-thru in Cardiff Bay and it's better than any McDonald's or KFC I've been to". Wales Online. 24 August 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  5. Nisbet, Megan (28 April 2021). "Burger King announces new Cardiff restaurant weeks after closing city branch". WalesOnline. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

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