The Mall That Made Downtown Feel Big
Before it faded from memory, Columbus City Center was hard to ignore. Its sheer size was part of the draw: three stories, more than a million square feet, and a view of the Ohio Statehouse from the atrium escalators.
From its opening day in August 1989, the place carried a kind of weight that downtown hadn’t seen.
Anyone tracking things to do in Columbus, Ohio, back then had it near the top of the list. What followed, though, wasn’t built to last…