St. David's Centre
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| Location | Cardiff, Wales |
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| Opening date | 24 March 1982(phase 1) 22 October 2009 (phase 2) |
| Developer | St David's Partnership (Intu Properties (50%) and Land Securities Group (50%)) |
| Owner | St David's Partnership |
| Architect |
Benoy (phase 2) Building Design Partnership (library) Glenn Howells (Hayes Apartments) |
| No. of stores and services | 203 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 (Boots, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer, Primark and John Lewis) |
| Total retail floor area | 129,561 m2 (1,394,580 sq ft) |
| No. of floors | 9 (2 shopping levels, 1 restaurant seating level and 6 car park levels) |
| Parking | 2,550 |
| Website | www |
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St David's (previously known as St David's Shopping Centre.) or more formally St David's Dewi Sant, 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. Owing to the extension of St David's 2 in 2009, St David's is now the ninth largest 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 original the 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.
In 2008–9, the annual footfall of the centre was 27 million, and it is expected to rise to 33 million in 2009–10. 20 million people visited the centre during the first six months after the opening of St David's 2.
St David's was crowned the international shopping centre of the year in 2010 by Global Retail Leisure International, beating contenders in Portugal and Singapore.
St David's is patrolled by three paramedics on bicycles between every Friday and Sunday in order to respond rapidly to medical emergencies.
St David's Shopping Centre was open to the public in January 1981, although it did not officially open until 24 March 1982. The centre has 4 entrances located on Queen Street, Cathedral Walk, Working Street and Hills Street. The entrance on Hills Street connects to the northern entrance of the second phase of the shopping centre, open at street level and via an enclosed bridge on the first floor. It is also joined internally with Queens Arcade. There are 3 thoroughfares within the centre: Town Wall, Cathedral Walk and St David's Way.
The centre attracted an average footfall of 39,000,000 per annum and has a core catchment of 2.4 million people. The 12 million tourists that visit the city annually help generate over £7.5 billion in retail spending. There are seventy-five individual shops and stores in the first centre that cater for a broad demographic. The centre is anchored by Boots, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer and Primark.St David's Hall was built on top of the shopping centre.
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