It is the most highly anticipated building project underway in Swansea and now you can see what the shops and cafe in Copr Bay will look like.
The new 3,500-capacity digital arena in Oystermouth Road is set to open its doors later this year and will welcome some of the world's top music and comedy acts plus theatre productions to Swansea.
The project has been picking up steam in recent months, with the huge metal structure growing and the striking golden landmark bridge linking the arena to the rest of the city centre having been lifted into place.
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As well as providing a world-class music and entertainment venue to the people of Swansea, the site comes complete with a coastal park, shops, and a cafe pavilion - the designs of which have been revealed in full for the first time.
The bridge over Oystermouth Road will eventually provide access to the retail units, which will sit next to the brightly-coloured block of flats and multi-storey car park, which caused a bit of a stir lately.
St David's Church hall within the Llys Dewi Sant building is set to be demolished as part of the Swansea Central Phase 1 development and will be r eplaced with a new hall complete with a commercial unit.
According to planning documents: "The shopfront for this unit is a mix of glazed bifolding doors and copper/bronze colourprofiled aluminium cladding," in keeping with the copper "wave" design on the side of the new multi-storey car park.
The designs were "developed with careful consideration of its relationship to the Grade II listed St David’s Church," next door, according to Swansea Council plans.
The oval shaped Coastal Park Pavilion cafe/restaurant will sit in parkland above the car park at the digital arena site on the opposite side of Oystermouth Road.
"The shopfront for the Pavilion is a mix of glazed curtain wall and stone cladding," plans state.
Six new retail units with shopfronts "composed of a glazed curtain wall system with vertical mullions in copper brown colour" will face onto the route linking Swansea Arena to the city centre.
