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===Transport Links===
A bus interchange has been built on Causeway lane & St Peters Lane the services below stop as follows

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
!Stand !! Service !! Operator !! Destination
|-
! A1
| 15 || Arriva Fox County || '''Fosse Park''' via Thorpe Astley
|-
! A2
| 13A || Michael Robinson Travel || '''Kirby Muxloe''' via Leicester Forest East
|-
!rowspan="2" | A3
| 70 || First Leicester || '''Blackmore Drive''' via Narbrough Road
|-
| 140 || Centrebus || '''Rugby''' via Fosse Park, Narborough & Lutterworth
|-
!rowspan="4" | A4
| 50 || Arriva Fox County ||'''Croft''' via Fosse Park, Enderby & Narborough
|-
| 50A || Arriva Fox County || '''Fosse Park''' via Narbrough Road
|-
| 51 || Arriva Fox County || '''Braunstone Crossroads''' via Narbrough Road
|-
| 51A || Arriva Fox County || '''Croft''' via Rowley Fields, Fosse Park & Narborough
|-
!rowspan="7" | A5
| 13A || Michael Robinson Travel || '''Kirby Muxloe''' via Leicester Forest East
|-
| 15 || Arriva Fox County || '''Fosse Park''' via Thorpe Astley
|-
| 48 || Stagecoach || '''Coventry''' via Hinkley & Nuneaton
|-
| 104 || Arriva Fox County || '''Fosse Park''' via Braunstone
|-
| 152 || Arriva Fox County || '''Coalville''' via Desford, Barlestone & Ibstock
|-
| 153 || Arriva Fox County || '''Market Bosworth''' via Desford & Barlestone
|-
| 158 || Arriva Fox County || '''Nuneaton''' via Hinkley
|-
!rowspan="4" | A6
| 12 || First Leicester || '''Ryder Road''' via Glenfield Road & Park Rise
|-
| 18 || First Leicester || '''Braunstone''' via Hinckley Road
|-
| 103 P&R || Veolia (Paul James) || '''Meynells Gorse''' Park & Ride
|-
| 162 || Centrebus <br>''Coachcare (from 05/05/09)''|| '''Braunstone Frith, Tatlow Road''' via New Parks
|-
! A7 - A9
| colspan="3" | Services to City Centre (alighting only)
|}



==References==
==References==

Revision as of 15:24, 26 April 2009

Highcross Leicester
Map
LocationLeicester
Coordinates52°38′11.00″N 1°8′8.00″W / 52.6363889°N 1.1355556°W / 52.6363889; -1.1355556
Address5 Shires Lane, Leicester, LE1 4AN
Opening date1991 (extension opened 4 September 2008)
DeveloperHammerson
Hermes Real Estate
ManagementTom Nathan
ArchitectForeign Office Architects (Highcross extension)
No. of stores and services125
No. of anchor tenants3 (John Lewis, Debenhams and House of Fraser)
Total retail floor area110,000 m2
No. of floors2
Parking3000 Spaces
Websitehttp://www.highcrossleicester.com/
The interior of part of the covered extension

Template:Redirect6 Highcross Leicester is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. It was opened as The Shires in 1991 to supplement the ageing and run-down Haymarket 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 mock-olde style. 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 120 shops, with a range of both large and smaller units, including branches of the department stores House of Fraser, Debenhams and John Lewis. There are also 15 restaurants and cafés, a cinema and two large car parks.

The Shires becomes Highcross Leicester

The most recent extension, known as Shires West during the planning and early construction phases, doubles the retail space available. This extension lies between the former Shires and the inner ring-road. It includes a John Lewis department store, the first in Leicester, and a Cinema de Lux, the only multiplex cinema in the city centre. There are also two new public squares, residential apartments, a bus interchange and a further 2000-space car park on the opposite side of the ring road, linked by a glass footbridge, which replaces one of the earlier Shires car parks that was demolished to make way for the new extension. Other new tenants include designer fashion brands G-star, Lacoste, Hugo Boss and Zara, and there is also an Apple Store & JJB SPORTS are moving into the former NEXT store sometime in early 2009 . Thirteen new restaurants and cafés signed up to open in the new centre. [1] The extension makes Highcross Leicester the largest shopping centre in the East Midlands.

The multiplex cinema and John Lewis parts of the centre mark the UK début of architecture firm Foreign Office Architects. The cinema is covered in a slightly buckled, stainless steel cladding, while the department store features two layers of glass, each with a swirling fabric design from John Lewis's archives, allowing light in and a view out, but obscuring the interior from the outside. The use of a fabric pattern recognises Leicester's past as a textile-producing city. [2]

An open day was held on Sunday, 1 June 2008 to show the people around the new development. More than a thousand people attended.The newly extended and refurbished shopping centre opened to the public on 4 September 2008 with over 125,000 visitors.

Naming controversies

On 14 July 2006, it was announced that the entire centre would be renamed the Highcross Quarter, relating to a Highcross that used to stand in what is now Highcross Street.[3] This received a mixed reaction, with criticism directed in particular at the use of the word "quarter" as opposed to "centre". [4]

On 19 July 2007, the principal owners of the development, Hammerson, announced that they had decided to change the new name for the centre to Highcross Leicester. [5] On 23 July 2007, the Leicester Mercury reported that the latest name change had been the result of a year-long dispute [6] with a local coven of witches, who pointed out that "High Cross Quarter" is the name of a high point or major sabbat in the wiccan calendar, and registered five [7] internet domain names relating to the name. Hammerson refused to comment on the dispute, and claimed that the name change was to "give it a stronger identity for customers and raise the profile not only of the development but also the city." [8]

The Daily Telegraph reported on 25 July 2007 that the Highcross Leicester developers had their offer to buy the domain names from the witches involved rejected. [9] Despite Hammerson saying they were no longer interested in the highcrossquarter domain names for the renamed Highcross Leicester development as the name had now "evolved", the Telegraph reported that Hammerson had escalated the matter all the way to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva where it was seeking a ruling on ownership of the highcrossquarter.com domain name. On 30 August 2007, the WIPO ruled against Hammerson's complaint. [10]

A bus interchange has been built on Causeway lane & St Peters Lane the services below stop as follows

Stand Service Operator Destination
A1 15 Arriva Fox County Fosse Park via Thorpe Astley
A2 13A Michael Robinson Travel Kirby Muxloe via Leicester Forest East
A3 70 First Leicester Blackmore Drive via Narbrough Road
140 Centrebus Rugby via Fosse Park, Narborough & Lutterworth
A4 50 Arriva Fox County Croft via Fosse Park, Enderby & Narborough
50A Arriva Fox County Fosse Park via Narbrough Road
51 Arriva Fox County Braunstone Crossroads via Narbrough Road
51A Arriva Fox County Croft via Rowley Fields, Fosse Park & Narborough
A5 13A Michael Robinson Travel Kirby Muxloe via Leicester Forest East
15 Arriva Fox County Fosse Park via Thorpe Astley
48 Stagecoach Coventry via Hinkley & Nuneaton
104 Arriva Fox County Fosse Park via Braunstone
152 Arriva Fox County Coalville via Desford, Barlestone & Ibstock
153 Arriva Fox County Market Bosworth via Desford & Barlestone
158 Arriva Fox County Nuneaton via Hinkley
A6 12 First Leicester Ryder Road via Glenfield Road & Park Rise
18 First Leicester Braunstone via Hinckley Road
103 P&R Veolia (Paul James) Meynells Gorse Park & Ride
162 Centrebus
Coachcare (from 05/05/09)		 Braunstone Frith, Tatlow Road via New Parks
A7 - A9 Services to City Centre (alighting only)


References

  1. ^ Cornish, Jenny (2008-07-19), "Thirteen restaurants and cafes signed up for Highcross" ([dead link] – Scholar search), Leicester Mercury {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |format= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  2. ^ Woodman, Ellis (2008-05-03), "Foreign Office Architects: No, it's not a Guggenheim - it's a John Lewis", The Daily Telegraph {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ "Goodbye Shires... Hello highcross!", Leicester Mercury, 2006-06-14 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  4. ^ "Highcross is not bad - but is it a quarter?", Leicester Mercury, 2006-06-14 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ^ "A perfect place for shoppers", Leicester Mercury, 2007-07-19 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  6. ^ "Big Business Hammerson Plc commences an audacious..." (Press release). highcrossquarter.com. 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
  7. ^ "Domain Name Dispute Case" (Press release). highcrossquarter.com. 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
  8. ^ "Witches force shopping centre to change name", Leicester Mercury, 2007-07-23 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  9. ^ Adams, Stephen (2007-07-25), "Victory for witches in £350m shops fight", The Daily Telegraph {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  10. ^ Shires (GP) Limited v. Mel Gordon (Leics Techs), Case No. D2007-0866, WIPO

See also

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