Minutes from the centre of Leicester

The Driver Building is situated on Leicester's chic King street, just a short walk from the city's main shopping area and within Leicester's Professional Quarter. Leicester has seen a remarkable change over recent years making it an exciting place to live and work. This has been created by the good choice of up-market restaurants, bars and clubs all within walking distance of The Driver Building. Leicester is also becoming a shopper's paradise due to the expansion of The Shires Shopping Centre, which will feature a state of the art John Lewis department store. For the fashion conscious there is St. Martin's Square, where you will find designer boutiques. The covered market, Europe's largest, is also very popular for fresh produce.

Whether you work within the area or do not have to work at all, making your home at The Driver Building puts you at the centre combining all the benefits of cosmopolitan life with rapid access to the spacious and beautiful countryside at Leicestershire. Just round the corner is the Phoenix Arts Centre, which is an important venue within Leicester for Alternative film, drama, dance and music.

Nearby attractions

While for more mainstream productions the forthcoming Performing Arts Centre, which will be located only a few blocks away on Rutland Street. This £32 million glazed curtain wall theatre, designed by internationally reputed architects Raphael Vinyoli, will reinforce Leicester as one of the most important cultural centres within the Midlands. From Rock to classical music, The De Montfort Hall is place to be. Renowed to be accoustically, one of the best concert halls within the country, you are always guaranteed to hear a great performance.

Just off King Street is the Romantic eighteenth century tree line promenade, known as New Walk, which leads to one of the several extensive parks within the city boundaries. Half way up New Walk is the Leceister Museum and Art Gallery, which contains painting and watercolors of the English School and a group of paintings by the German Expressionists. The modern British artists are also well represented. The museum also houses a fantastic collection of the prehistoric with the mighty Rutland Dinosaur being the centerpiece.