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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. Located in The Hayes area of the southern city centre. Owing to the extension of St Davids 2 in 2009, St David's is now the ninth largest shopping centre in the UK.

The construction of the extension cost a total of £675m & brought Cardiff within the top five shopping destinations in the UK. The centre consists of original first phase, St David's Centre, adjoining St. David's Hall & 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, & 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.