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It also includes a number of refurbished dock warehouses, modern hotels, the Red Dragon Centre and Cardiff Council's County Hall.", "narrative": "Atlantic Wharf (Welsh: Glanfa'r Iwerydd) is a southern area of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It is primarily an area of new houses and apartments located on the west side of the disused Bute East Dock and to the east of Lloyd George Avenue. It also includes a number of refurbished dock warehouses, modern hotels, the Red Dragon Centre and Cardiff Council's County Hall. Atlantic Wharf lies in the Butetown electoral division of Cardiff and the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency for the UK Parliament and the Senedd.\n\n\n== History ==\nThe Bute East Dock (originally called the East Bute Dock) was constructed to ease pressure on the existing Bute Dock in the 1850s.", "narrative_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "narrative_source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wharf", "zoning_change": null, "public_subsidy": null, "entitlement_year": null, "planning_notes": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q4816592", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wharf", "osm_id": null, "verified": "draft", "verified_by": null, "last_verified": null, "last_updated": "2026-10-18", "created": "2026-10-18", "contributor_name": null, "contributor_org": null, "contributor_link": null, "international": 1, "county_fips": null, "opp_score": null, "opp_reasons": null, "for_sale": 0, "distressed": 0, "url": "https://retrofitatlas.org/industrial/uk/cardiff-atlantic-wharf/", "events": [{"year": 1859, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Bute East Dock opened", "source_id": 8856}, {"year": 1859, "date": null, "kind": "opened", "detail": "Opened", "source_id": null}, {"year": 1970, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Bute East Dock closed and railway sidings removed", "source_id": 8857}, {"year": 1970, "date": null, "kind": "closed", "detail": "Closed", "source_id": null}, {"year": 1980, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Redevelopment began around the disused dock", "source_id": 8858}, {"year": 1980, "date": null, "kind": "retrofit", "detail": "Retrofit: redevelop, reinhabit", "source_id": null}, {"year": 1988, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "County Council built new headquarters", "source_id": 8859}, {"year": 2000, "date": null, "kind": "note", "detail": "Collingdon Road redeveloped and renamed", "source_id": 8860}], "sources": [{"id": 8855, "site_id": "n-db18155e4b", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wharf", "title": "Atlantic Wharf", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": null, "quote": "Atlantic Wharf", "kind": "wikipedia", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 8856, "site_id": "n-db18155e4b", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wharf", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "It was opened by the 12-year-old Third Marquess of Bute on 14 September 1859.", "kind": "quote", "license": null, "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}, {"id": 8857, "site_id": "n-db18155e4b", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wharf", "title": "Timeline", "publisher": null, "date": null, "quote": "Eventually the Bute East Dock was closed in 1970. 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