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Mar 5, 2019 · “City Center became central Ohio’s premier shopping center overnight.” Long before Easton or Polaris came along, the City Center Mall exposed Columbus shoppers to destination brands...
Columbus City Center was developed by the city as part of the Capitol South development, opening on August 18, 1989. [1] Lazarus , already open since 1851, was made one of the original anchor stores by connecting it with the mall via an enclosed bridge across High Street.
Mar 5, 2021 · Nearly 20 years after City Center opened as a shining star in the retail universe, the nearly abandoned mall will be demolished and replaced by an urban park beginning this summer.
Jan 22, 2013 · City Center is the three-level shopping mall in downtown Columbus. (Ran in the paper on August 19, 1989.) The mall marked a turning point in Downtown redevelopment. Three new suburban shopping malls opened between 1997 and 2001: Tuttle Crossing, Easton Town Center and Polaris Fashion Place.
- The History of The Mall
- A Chequered Past
- The Evolution of The Mall
- An Australian Variety of Mall
- Adapt Or Die
- The 21St-Century Mall
The enclosed, climate-controlled mall developed in the US after World War II in response to the twin forces of suburbanisation and increased car ownership. In the 50s, retail sales in inner-city areas began to stagnate at the same time as sales in the suburbs boomed, says Bailey. "With more people driving cars, retail needed to adapt." Austrian-bor...
For all Gruen's idealism, early malls were not egalitarian and accessible spaces. In the US, early malls were racially segregated. "Low-interest-rate mortgages that allowed so many former service members to buy their first homes in these newly built suburbs were largely available only to white servicemen," says Lange. As a result, "the people that ...
The mall didn't remain the preserve of white middle-class housewives for long. By the 70s, their children became teenagers and wanted to go to the mall on their own, says Lange. The mall adapted, introducing arcades and teen-focused retail chains, such as Hot Topic. It served as a social hub for teens; a parent-sanctioned place where they knew they...
Australia's first indoor mall – or shopping centre, as we call them – opened at Chermside in Brisbane in 1957. Since then, the Australian shopping centre has evolved its own distinct characteristics thanks largely to the nation's planning legislation, says retail historian Matthew Bailey. While in America you could build a shopping centre almost an...
The demise of the department store as society's leading taste-maker due to the combined effect of closures, consolidation and the internet has created an existential challenge for mall owners. Young people today are more likely to take their style cues from Instagram than from a bricks-and-mortar department store. "If that is the anchor for your ma...
Retail historian Matthew Bailey says the future of the mall lies in further diversification: "We tend to think of the shopping centre purely in terms of retail, but they encompass a far wider range of functions than just shopping." Made from "big slabs of concrete", large shopping centres look monolithic, "[but] the people who manage them are very ...
The Linden Centre is a shopping center in Neu-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin. It was opened on 26 October 1995 and is situated next to the "Eastgate" shopping center in Marzahn , the "Spreecenter" in Hellersdorf and the "Forum Köpenick" one of the major shopping centers in East Berlin.
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Aug 20, 2019 · Columbus gained control of the mall at the end of October 2007, when Cap South bought it and adjacent land for $2.87 million on the city’s behalf.
