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Parc Tawe is a retail park and leisure area in Swansea
Swansea

Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom and subdivisions of Wales in Wales. Swansea is in the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands....
, Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
. It is located in the eastern area of the city centre
Swansea city centre

Swansea city centre in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, contains the main shopping, leisure and nightlife district in Swansea. The city centre covers much of the Castle, Swansea ward including the area around Oxford Street, Castle Square, and the Quadrant Shopping Centre; Alexandra Road, High Street, Wind Street and the Castle; Parc Tawe; and...
 on the west bank of the River Tawe
River Tawe

The River Tawe is a river in South Wales. It flows in a principally south-westerly direction for some 48 km from its source below Moel Feity in the Old Red Sandstone hills of the western Brecon Beacons to the Bristol Channel at Swansea....
 in the Lower Swansea valley
Lower Swansea valley

The Lower Swansea valley is the lower half of the valley of the River Tawe in south Wales. It runs from approximately the level of Clydach, Swansea down to Swansea docks, where it opens into Swansea Bay and the Bristol Channel....
.

The area includes "out-of-town" style stores with car parks located outside the shopping area. A highly visible building in the area is the Plantasia
Plantasia

The Plantasia is a large public greenhouse located in the Parc Tawe retail park, Swansea, Wales....
 - a large triangular tropical plant house. Entertainment in the area include a 10 screen Odeon
Odéon

The Od?on is one of France's six "national Theater ", located in the VIe arrondissement , on the Left Bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden in Paris....
 cinema
Movie theater

A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing film ....
 and a ten pin bowling alley.

The area occupied by Parc Tawe was once the North Dock.






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Parc Tawe is a retail park and leisure area in Swansea
Swansea

Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom and subdivisions of Wales in Wales. Swansea is in the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands....
, Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
. It is located in the eastern area of the city centre
Swansea city centre

Swansea city centre in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, contains the main shopping, leisure and nightlife district in Swansea. The city centre covers much of the Castle, Swansea ward including the area around Oxford Street, Castle Square, and the Quadrant Shopping Centre; Alexandra Road, High Street, Wind Street and the Castle; Parc Tawe; and...
 on the west bank of the River Tawe
River Tawe

The River Tawe is a river in South Wales. It flows in a principally south-westerly direction for some 48 km from its source below Moel Feity in the Old Red Sandstone hills of the western Brecon Beacons to the Bristol Channel at Swansea....
 in the Lower Swansea valley
Lower Swansea valley

The Lower Swansea valley is the lower half of the valley of the River Tawe in south Wales. It runs from approximately the level of Clydach, Swansea down to Swansea docks, where it opens into Swansea Bay and the Bristol Channel....
.

The area includes "out-of-town" style stores with car parks located outside the shopping area. A highly visible building in the area is the Plantasia
Plantasia

The Plantasia is a large public greenhouse located in the Parc Tawe retail park, Swansea, Wales....
 - a large triangular tropical plant house. Entertainment in the area include a 10 screen Odeon
Odéon

The Od?on is one of France's six "national Theater ", located in the VIe arrondissement , on the Left Bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden in Paris....
 cinema
Movie theater

A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing film ....
 and a ten pin bowling alley.

The area occupied by Parc Tawe was once the North Dock. The North dock was opened in 1852 becoming the first dock in the Swansea docks
Swansea docks

Swansea Docks is the collective name for several docks in Swansea, Wales. The Swansea docks are located immediately south east of Swansea city centre....
 complex. During the 1930s changes in methods of working, reduced trade and the increasing size of ships led to the North Dock being closed and subsequently filled in. For decades the North dock area was an industrial wasteland, until re-development as a shopping complex in the late 1980s.

Parc Tawe is divided into two shopping areas separated by the road linking the Parc Tawe Bridge with Strand Row: the original Parc Tawe area and the newer Parc Tawe North. Units located in Parc Tawe include Pizza Paradise, Joe's Ice Cream, Toys 'R' Us, Staples and Mothercare World
Mothercare

Mothercare plc is a United Kingdom retailer which specialises in products for Pregnancy and in general merchandise for children up to 8 years old....
. Retailers in Parc Tawe North include Homebase
Homebase

Homebase is a United Kingdom home improvement store and garden centre, with 320 stores across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is well known by its green and orange colour scheme....
, Lidl
Lidl

File:Lidl Egypt.JPGLidl is a European discount supermarket chain of Germany origin that operates 7,000 stores. In Germany, it is Aldi's main competitor....
, Outfit, JJB Sports
JJB Sports

JJB Sports PLC is one of the United Kingdom's leading sports retailers. Since early 2009 JJB has been in talks with banks to secure its future and in February secured a deal with its bankers to give it a month to raise the cash required to avoid administration.....
, JD Sports
JD Sports

JD Sports, part of the JD Sports Fashion Plc and now more commonly known as just JD, is a sports-fashion retail company based in Bury, England with shops throughout the UK and the Republic Of Ireland....
, ...instore and Pets At Home.