New Cardiff Bay Arena
Atlantic Wharf Arena | |
Rendering of the proposed arena | |
| Location | Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff Bay |
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| Owner | Cardiff Council |
| Operator | Live Nation UK Oak View Group |
| Capacity | 15,358 (seated) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 2025 |
| Opened | 2027 (projected) |
| Construction cost | £250 million (projected) |
| Architect | Populous, HOK |
| Builder | McLaren Construction Group (TBC) |
| General contractor | WSP Global, Turner & Townsend |
| Main contractors | Robertson Group |
| Website | |
| Project website | |
New Cardiff Bay Arena, also referred to as Atlantic Wharf Arena, is a planned indoor arena to be located in Atlantic Wharf, a southern area of the city of Cardiff, Wales.
The multi-purpose 15,000-capacity arena will be built on a site near to Cardiff Bay's Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) and is expected to open in 2027. It forms part of a wider masterplan to regenerate the city's wharf area with a large mixed-use development.
Following a number of delays, work is projected to start in 2025 and is expected to be undertaken in four phases over multiple years: the first being the construction of the new arena, WMC's digital and "immersive" arts theatre, a replacement hotel and multi-storey car park followed by the relocation of the Red Dragon Centre's tenants into a new complex. The third phase of the masterplan would include a new office space delivered along with an additional hotel and finally new homes and apartments, with potential for more commercial space; the latter neighbourhood phase is dependent on proposed plans being approved to replace Cardiff Council's ageing County Hall with a new smaller purpose-built building.