A popular Cardiff events space has revealed plans to move to a huge venue in the city. Known for their street food and Bingo Lingo events, the DEPOT has been based at its current site for four years, regularly attracting long queues.
The DEPOT has announced that it will be relocating from its current site on Williams Way and is investing £500,000 into a brand new premises. Eight years after it established itself as a pop-up street food venue, the DEPOT will relocate to a new 30,000 sq ft venue on Curran Road as part of Vastint's mixed-use development scheme.
The new space is set to increase total capacity from 1,600 to 2,500 and refurbishment works are set to start this month. It is expected that the new venue will be in operation by June this year.
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Their new Curran Road site will include three permanent street-food kitchens based inside 20 ft shipping containers, as well as a second room for putting on smaller and more intimate shows, and the return of their ‘speakeasy’ style bar.
This is the second move for the business after first opening in 2014 as a temporary pop-up - in a now demolished warehouse on Dumballs Road - before moving to Williams Way in 2019. The 24 shipping containers which were purchased when the venue moved to Williams Way in 2020 will also be incorporated in the move and repurposed at the new site.
DEPOT began as a street food venue in 2014 after being granted a temporary three-month licence, run by then 23-year-old Nick Saunders. Since then, it has hosted a wide variety of events including showing game from the World Cup last year.
It is expected that 10 new jobs will be created, growing the team of permanent staff to 30. Nick Saunders, founder and Managing Director of The DEPOT said: “This is our second move in three years – which is a lot to navigate as well as navigating through Covid during that period - our relocation to the new Curran Road site has always been part of our long-term plan.
"We’ve worked closely together with the developers at Vastint over the last four years to ensure the DEPOT story continues, and we couldn’t be happier to move to a new site which allows us to grow to a 2,500 capacity – filling a gap in the market that the city is currently lacking.”
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