Highcross Leicester

Highcross Leicester
	The interior of part of the covered extension
Location	Leicester, England
Coordinates	52°38′11.00″N 1°8′8.00″W / 52.6363889°N 1.1355556°W
Address	5 Shires Lane
Opening date	1991 (extension opened 4 September 2008)
Developer	Hammerson; Hermes Real Estate
Architect	Foreign Office Architects (Highcross extension)
No. of stores and services	140
No. of anchor tenants	1
Total retail floor area	110,000 m2 (1,200,000 sq ft)
No. of floors	2 (up to 4 in department stores)
Parking	3000 spaces
Website	highcrossleicester.com

Highcross Leicester is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. It was opened as The Shires in 1991 to supplement the Haymarket Shopping Centre, also since re-developed. It was built on a central location within the city centre on Eastgates and High Street. Frontages of buildings that were demolished were retained and new external construction was in a 'neo-Victorian' vernacular. An extension opened in 1994, with a frontage on to Church Gate. A further large extension opened in 2008, when the entire centre was renamed Highcross Leicester. Highcross Leicester contains over 100 shops, with a range of both large and smaller units, including branches of the department stores John Lewis & Partners. There are also 40 restaurants and cafés, a Showcase Cinema de Lux and two large car parks.