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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