Smart ￡150m Makeover Planned For Cardiff Eyesore

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Welsh developer jr smart has outlined plans for a ￡150m redevelopment of one of Cardiff's largest regeneration sites: the Tyndall street industrial estate.JR Smart, which bought the 7.3 acre site at the edge of the city centre last year for between ￡11m and ￡15m, has submitted a planning application for a ￡150m scheme to be called Capital Quarter.The site is one of the last big redevelopment sites in the Welsh capital that is next to the city's retail area. It runs parallel to the Cardiff-to-London railway line.It has long been seen as aneyesore and anomaly for a secondary industrial estate to be within five minutes' walk of the city centre.John Smart, chairman of JR Smart, said: 'This is the last piece of the jigsaw when it comes to redeveloping Cardiff around the core retail area.