The Haymarket Centre previously featured 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).

During 2021 Leicester City Council purchased the shopping centre for £9.9million [5] Plans for the redevelopment of the Haymarket site were originally drawn up in 1960, but these were superseded by the 1961 declaration of a larger Comprehensive Development Area.

[citation needed] In February 1969, a planning application for the new shopping centre was submitted by Taylor Woodrow, which received conditional approval from Leicester City Council the following month.

[citation needed] During clearance of the site, buildings demolished including four historic hotels (the Bell Hotel, the Stag and Pheasant, the White Hart and the George), and buildings on Bread Street, which ran between Belgrave Gate and Charles Street, and which disappeared completely.

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.

[citation needed] In May 2006 it was announced that Woolworths were to vacate their unit in the centre in early 2007 after being "made an offer they could not refuse" by the landlords.

Maxx, Holland & Barrett, B&M, Primark, The Entertainer, Deichmann, Card Factory, Heron Foods, OneBeyond, Cards Direct, Blue Banana, Matalan, Tesco Express, Metro Bank, Costa Coffee, Burger King, Halifax Building Society.

Located on Belgrave Gate at the front of the entrance to the Haymarket Theatre is The Metal Tree sculpture by Hubert Dalwood ARA.

Bailey's hosted many music and comedy acts such as Tommy Cooper, Bernard Manning, Mud, Slade, Gary Glitter (March 1978), Showaddywaddy, The Three Degrees and The Drifters.

Opening in mid 2016, the Haymarket Bus Station has been rebuilt and expanded and now forms a major transport hub for the north of the city centre.