City Center Closes Its Doors
Published: March 5, 2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio—The end has arrived for a Columbus shopping mall that died a slow death in the shadow of the Ohio Statehouse.
Thursday is closing day for Columbus City Center, which opened downtown 20 years ago and was once a major magnet for shoppers. But over the course of the last decade, the number of stores dwindled as the mall lost business to newer retail centers in the suburbs.
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman has announced that City Center will be torn down this summer and replaced with an urban park as part of a $165 million redevelopment project that will later include offices, restaurants and shops.
Mall fixtures and leftover store furnishings were sold off last month in a liquidation sale.
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UJ,
From everything I have read that is exactly the plan. A 9 acre placeholder that should prove far more attractive to companies looking to relocate or expand. As development continues, the park would shrink to about an acre.
You only need to look a few blocks north in the Arena District to see what clearing an area can do.
I agree that the City Center be made a Park. (a Central Park) The new housing, offices, and shopping should be surrounding the park, not IN the park.
No they need to tear down city hall so the mayor will have to sit out in the middle of Broad street. He kicked everyone out of the open shelter and now he is closing city center because he is too stupid to do anything with it. Well when the wrecking ball falls down on the mall take it over to broad street and get city hall too. Oh yeah coleman you can take your doom and gloom and your scare tactics and shove them up your rear. If we are in such dire despair then let the mayor and city council take a pay cut better yet let the mayor quit his job and that would save us all a lot of money and headaches
This place has no business being a park..We need a casino to generate funds for this city.
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