Progress continues to be made on the city centre site of Swansea’s emerging new community services hub Y Storfa.
Once open it’ll be home to facilities such as a new central library including a new children’s library.
Other council-run services there will include those such as the contact centre, Housing Options, lifelong learning and the West Glamorgan Archive Service.
Non-council tenants are set to include Careers Wales, Citizens Advice and Swansea University’s South Wales Miners’ Library.
These and other publicly accessible services there will encourage footfall for local businesses as the council continues its £1bn regeneration programme.
Y Storfa is close to car parks, bus stops and cycle routes.
Council leader Rob Stewart said: “It’s great to see progress being made on our repurposing of this very large city centre site for public services.
“Y Storfa will be a fantastic location for people from across the city to access essential services.
“This area of the city centre is being transformed with a great mix of public and private sector investment.
“Castle Gardens is going to be greener and much more welcoming, there are plans for new homes above McDonald’s, and new homes and businesses are being created at the former Castle Cinema.
“Nearby, in Oxford Steet, there are other exciting developments bringing new homes and business opportunities and multi-million pound investment transforms our new-look city centre.”
At Y Storfa, recent weeks have seen main contractors Kier Group continue work on elements such as the installation of:
- a steel framework for an eye-catching three-storey central stairway
- beach hut-style meeting pods for Careers Wales
- internal and external widows
- external cladding panels.
The city centre project, in the former BHS store in Oxford Street, is on course for completion this year.
Funders of Y Storfa include the Welsh Government Transforming Towns programme.