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The Haymarket Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in the city centre of Leicester, England. It opened on 4 June 1973〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us )〕 as the Haymarket Centre and is the oldest shopping mall in Great Britain. It is located east of and adjacent to the Clock Tower. The shopping centre is owned by ING Real Estate Investment Management.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ING takes £77.5m Leicester shopping centre )〕 The retail space is on two levels, three in the case of the two pre-existing buildings (former C&A and former Littlewoods). The Haymarket Shopping Centre boasts around 65 outlets, a bus station, a two-stage theatre, and Haymarket House (a three-story office block atop of the rooftop car park), and had previously boasted two nightclubs (located either side of the clock tower entrance), Dino's restaurant (adjacent to the theatre entrance) and two enclosed foot bridges (one crossing Charles Street in to Kildare Street and the other crossing Humberstone Gate linking to Lewis's department store). Four wide pedestrian access points are located on the streets Haymarket (clock tower), Belgrave Gate, Charles Street and Humberstone Gate. Noticeably, there are no doors so no bottlenecks occur during busy periods. Some of the outlets can only be accessed from the street and some can only be accessed from the mall. The larger stores can be accessed either way. ==History== In May 1967, the newly built Littlewoods store was opened by Sir Barnett Janner MP. The building is of an imposing concrete construction close to the clock tower. It is four stories high and features three balconies on the two frontages. In 1970, Lea's store on the corner of Humberstone Gate and Charles Street was demolished to make way for the construction of a new store for C&A. Construction is of standard brick and three stories high. Construction of the Haymarket Centre began in 1971 of red brick, linking Littlewoods and C&A (located 120 metres apart). The centre was opened on 4 June 1973. It is six stories high; levels 1-2 are for retail, levels 3-4 are for car parking, levels 4-6 are Haymarket House and levels 2 plus for the theatre. Level 2 balconies feature on Humberstone Gate and outside the theatre. In 1993, Lewis's department store was demolished prompting the removal of the foot bridge linking Lewis's and the Haymarket Shopping Centre. In 1996, the Haymarket Shopping Centre closed for refurbishment. The general colours of brown and beige were replaced with white, a new glass roof was built, and the escalators and staircase switched sides and were replaced with new ones. The toilets were moved from above the clock tower entrance to above the Charles Street entrance. The children's ladybirds ride was removed. The spiral road to the high level car park was demolished in favour of a straight ramp, with access being moved from Charles Street to Belgrave Gate. In a separate, publicly funded project by the Leicester City Council, a row of shops was purchased on Charles Street and demolished in order to build the Haymarket Bus Station. In 1997, the foot bridge crossing Charles Street was closed; it was removed in 2007. In May 2006 it was announced that Woolworths were to vacate their unit in the centre in 2007 after being "made an offer they could not refuse" by the landlords.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Woolies bought out in Leicester )〕 Peacocks have since opened a new fashion store on the former Woolworths site facing Marks and Spencers. The store opened in October 2007. The bus station was demolished in 2015, along with two food outlets (McIndians and Subway) and the Bohemian Public House on the corner of Charles Street and Belgrave Gate in order to build a larger bus station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Haymarket Shopping Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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