HA HA. Racist pigs rule. I was shot at because i was a minority. They suspected I voted for Obama because I was a non-white. I fought it out in court and lost. They told me if I ever came back in this town again they'd fuck me up so bad and give me the death penalty. If you're not white please DON'T GO TO COLUMBUS.
I remember when this mall opened. My husband worked on some of the marble. It was packed with people and lunch time concerts for a long time. I got to be an unsafe place to shop in the evening. At least that became the perception whether that was true or not.
@MissMaddy881 It reminds me of an awesome multi-level mall here which had a great design and glass elevators, etc. It was the best place but it's gone now.
Wow i remeber when in my Jr and Sr yr in Highschool we went on a Field trip to Columbus area for a Business Class and we got Free time at this mall i had no idea it was Empty now ! How sad i thought that place was awesome !
During its last decade of operation, City Center’s positioning as the premier shopping destination in Columbus was eliminated, due primarily to the opening of the three shopping centers across the northern end of Columbus, and the closing of its key anchor tenants. At the mall's peak in 1992, it had 144 tenants occupying 1,250,000 square feet of retail space; just seventeen years later, in 2009, there were only eight small stores open for business, occupying 5,000 square feet .
@KoldLokk i remember the stores in my area where the sign above the store glowed and glittered had a reel and it was using a filter moving over a light where it would show animation and illumination
Wow, I remember when I was a kid and City Center was always packed - that's before Tuttle Crossing and Easton were built. At least now that it's been torn down it's a nice park - something good out of something bad.
Yep it has been torn down. It's a city park now, and a rather nice one. I remember when it was built, though, really weird to remember when a mall was built and then see it torn down. Makes you feel really old!
This is why segregation was not bad!! How many inner city malls had to close when the bests of burden came in the area? They ruin everything!! just another mall closed down from white flight.
Not the best place to shop it was a parking nightmare and god help you if you wondered outside the main entrance. There used to be an ice skating rink before the mall was built it was packed during the winter.
Yes, it was our beloved City Center...they are not making it into a parking lot, they are supposed to be making it into a park called "Columbus Commons" and it will also feature retail and buildings on a smaller scale, but taller than the mall was.
In its heyday, this mall was the envy of the region, and it had so many awesome stores, and Christmas season was a delight when I was a kid, lots of people and street performances etc. But now it's just...a demolished building, in the middle of town.
I visited City Center at this time. It was a completely surreal experience walking into the empty, half-dark, painfully outdated Victoria's Secret and having muzak from the late 80's start to play. *chills*
yes...this mall was indeed torn down :( which is a shame because i remember taking lavish school field trips here around xmas time to see all the decorations and to see santa when i was in grade/middle school...if i remember correctly it eventually went out of business and fell dead due to crime/gang activity and the fact that someone was shot :(
@BrianOsborneCMH God I hope someone told the people at Waldenbooks. It seems no customers showing up really wasn't enough to cause them to shut their doors since they call that a normal business day.
@snakedal337 Yep, it's been torn down and they're making a city park (with an underground garage). It was basically Easton and Polaris that hurt City Center. That and all the landlord problems I've heard little about. Too bad. I went there a lot when I was a kid and it had a great atmosphere, especially around Christmas and everything.
The mall opened with much fanfare in 1989 with all of Les Wexner's Limited-owned stores in it, not to mention, Lazarus, Marshall Field's, and Jacobson's. 20 years later it was closed. Today it is completely demolished, the victim of urban sprawl and in part to unchecked downtown crime, thank you mayor Coleman! The only good thing left of it is the parking garage.
Hey, just be lucky that you had multiple floors! :-P Our closest dead mall (which apparently isn't set for destruction, as one of the couple remaining stores still does business) has much of the mall roped off. It used to be a huge three story complex.
I remember going to this mall from back when I was a kid to early college years this mall used to be one of the biggest in Columbus and it was always packed until they built Easton and then it just went downhill. Even to this day I would've rather gone here if it was still open than Easton because it's nothing but preppie scum there.
see - Grand Island Mall in Grand Island, Nebraska
was built in 1985 right before the Conosgota mall was built, well, the GI mall never secrued any fluid contracts, it's still open, but at one time, there was 45 stores in there, RIGHT AFTER conostoga opened, all stores went there, and that mall builsing now houses a shopko, Hastings book and rental, and hibbits sporting goods, and a dollar tree.
not in the mall mind you, they redid the building into a strip-mall in 92'
wow, that looks like a pretty big mall to be empty. im not a huge fan of going to the mall( dont like shoping). but ive met many ppl and friends there so they are still important to me
I was just in there last week I took a ton of pics if you thought it was empty in this video you should see it now. It is boarded up and the windows and glass doors have paint on them so you can't see in there's broken glass no power some of the stores are a little trashed but so far no sign of vandalism. However the Columbus Fire Department are using some of the stores for training.
oh city center mall about 12 years ago that place was packed. not even an empty store front. I wonder what happen. I moved away many years ago. I bet the only reason the book stores are still open is its not to far from OSU home of the buckeyes.
-- I was in DETROIT malls , I was in Cincinnati mall , I got scared ,,, I can tell you that ,, In the middle of the sunny Saturday in April 09 .,. Almost no people in The mall ,
Know what is a constant reason for malls failing like this, its when certain violet demographics start to take over the area & in this case pick away at the dead body of the mall after they caused its down fall. I live by a dead mall in california called the hawthorne plaza which was used in multiple film like fast & furious TD & I HAVE PERSONALLY seen RAMPANT acts of theft and violence by the demographics that over ran the once nice city and mall which lead to its closure & residence flight.
Racist? Just stating facts...do you deny that when blacks start going to a mall in large numbers, that the mall soon closes because the whites flee? If you deny that, then your just being silly.
city center is an external eyesore and should be torn down, i remember going there when i was little and it was nice, you guys call them niggers, i call them people, but now that it's just a shell of building it should be torn down, then something could be built there to take back the buisness from easton and polaris, i'm so tired of those places, columbus also needs more substantial transit NOW, btw, for those of you who are only biggots on youtube, GROW SOME BALLS
Well zerrk thats what happens when the ghetto element invades an area...the malls die. I'm hearing that the same thing is happening to Eastland, despite it's attempted "comeback" by adding a whole new wing to it. The ghetto element will probebly cause it to close over time. Also hearing that your new mall of Easton is starting to get overun by the same ghetto element...too bad. I also lived in other cities and saw the very same thing happen.
Oh, I read where thsi mall was built in 1989...its new! But the blacks came in and ran the whites out. Usually what happens when the city planners get politically correct and say "hey, lets get a mall built in the ghetto so blacks have easy access to it!" They never learn that doing that insures the death of the mall. Whites will simply go out to a suburban mall.
That would of explain it! Hey I was raised in Columbus...havent been there since the 70's. Anyone know what happened to Westland mall and Eastland mall? Are they still there?
Yeah, City Center met a tragic fate... after there was a shooting death there in the late 1990s andEaston, Polaris and Tuttle were built, the place really went down the tubes. I remember back when it first opened, it was an amazing place. Christmas there was a spectacle to behold. Last I heard the city bought out the building and has plans to try to make it into a casino. They should do something with it, it's still in great shape and is HUGE.
From what i've heard from people working in there new landlords are running people out, one guy said he thinks they want to tear down the building and turn it into a parking lot, which kind of makes sense considering its directly across the street from the statehouse.
Christmas use to be huge there at city center. Best place to spend your time. Everyone from the theatre would go to dinner at spinagers when it was there, and open. Macys, WB Store, A Disney store, max and ermas, bath and body works, yankie candle co., a video game store, victoria secrets, oh heavens I miss it.
It is abandoned. It was once a busy busy place but since the addition of three major shopping centers near by, it's died out. It's a shame too, it was so fun to be there at one time.
What mall is this?
jayfeather31 6 hours ago
What mall is this?
jayfeather31 6 hours ago
When I travel as a artist I will stay there for the night
pencilart360 1 day ago
It's always so weird to see places where there are usually a ton of people empty
shane8109 1 week ago
Every1 needs to pitch n and help bring the mall back it would be great to remodel it
4sportking 2 weeks ago
HA HA. Racist pigs rule. I was shot at because i was a minority. They suspected I voted for Obama because I was a non-white. I fought it out in court and lost. They told me if I ever came back in this town again they'd fuck me up so bad and give me the death penalty. If you're not white please DON'T GO TO COLUMBUS.
wyecee 2 weeks ago
I remember when this mall opened. My husband worked on some of the marble. It was packed with people and lunch time concerts for a long time. I got to be an unsafe place to shop in the evening. At least that became the perception whether that was true or not.
mildredwhite 3 weeks ago
@Bossk333 Three or four hand grenades would have been helpful.
Lockbar 1 month ago
all things must pass away
toddthedrysocket 2 months ago
Now a big outdoor park with green grass and trees.
joeslick65 2 months ago
how sad:(
it looks nice. i bet it was fun when it was open.
MissMaddy881 3 months ago
@MissMaddy881 It reminds me of an awesome multi-level mall here which had a great design and glass elevators, etc. It was the best place but it's gone now.
2002puravida 3 months ago
Wow i remeber when in my Jr and Sr yr in Highschool we went on a Field trip to Columbus area for a Business Class and we got Free time at this mall i had no idea it was Empty now ! How sad i thought that place was awesome !
AmericanNinja85 3 months ago
Thanks for posting this.
EconCat88 4 months ago
What a beautiful mall. It had elements of Italian, Roman and Art Deco architecture. I like the sylights everywhere, too! Thanks for posting.
Marshallmiracles 4 months ago
During its last decade of operation, City Center’s positioning as the premier shopping destination in Columbus was eliminated, due primarily to the opening of the three shopping centers across the northern end of Columbus, and the closing of its key anchor tenants. At the mall's peak in 1992, it had 144 tenants occupying 1,250,000 square feet of retail space; just seventeen years later, in 2009, there were only eight small stores open for business, occupying 5,000 square feet .
KoldLokk 4 months ago
@KoldLokk i remember the stores in my area where the sign above the store glowed and glittered had a reel and it was using a filter moving over a light where it would show animation and illumination
halomasterchief14 2 months ago
That mall was on tony hawk 1 man.
Baruch16 5 months ago
I remember before city center was built there used to be a skating rink in that location, anybody else remember
truckerguy38 5 months ago
where damn americans at?
akukurt1 6 months ago
aint that america?
MrDeerecub1977 6 months ago
Wow, I remember when I was a kid and City Center was always packed - that's before Tuttle Crossing and Easton were built. At least now that it's been torn down it's a nice park - something good out of something bad.
AkimaDoll 7 months ago
looks like the mall from left 4 dead 2
bigguns1080 8 months ago
Yep it has been torn down. It's a city park now, and a rather nice one. I remember when it was built, though, really weird to remember when a mall was built and then see it torn down. Makes you feel really old!
GenerationActzYouth 8 months ago
Let's skateboard :D
kevinbaconisbest 9 months ago
*hear zombie moans from a distance*
musicmakespeace 9 months ago
This is why segregation was not bad!! How many inner city malls had to close when the bests of burden came in the area? They ruin everything!! just another mall closed down from white flight.
DEDA96 10 months ago
this was city center it has been toen down and now is a park
thedude9907 1 year ago
@thedude9907 Put up a pix of this area now on here.
HattieLovesCattie 9 months ago
nice mall!
MissMaddy881 1 year ago
Not the best place to shop it was a parking nightmare and god help you if you wondered outside the main entrance. There used to be an ice skating rink before the mall was built it was packed during the winter.
aknatonra 1 year ago
What a shame as it is a beautiful mall! They should make it alive again or make it into indoor condos.
patsaxon 1 year ago
how did u get in there?
weazie1995 1 year ago
Yes, it was our beloved City Center...they are not making it into a parking lot, they are supposed to be making it into a park called "Columbus Commons" and it will also feature retail and buildings on a smaller scale, but taller than the mall was.
In its heyday, this mall was the envy of the region, and it had so many awesome stores, and Christmas season was a delight when I was a kid, lots of people and street performances etc. But now it's just...a demolished building, in the middle of town.
peanutnozone 1 year ago
perfect place for zomnie movie
TheAznBoy1011 1 year ago
I visited City Center at this time. It was a completely surreal experience walking into the empty, half-dark, painfully outdated Victoria's Secret and having muzak from the late 80's start to play. *chills*
twistinginthewind 1 year ago
This mall was great with nice stores -- Jacobson's and Lazarus.
anthonisaac 1 year ago
theres a building similar to that in PA. not abandoned, just about the same design. Has all kinds of doctors offices in it. Actually cool to go to .
dixiewife47 1 year ago
So sad as it was very beautiful mall! You need to visit the Galleria Mall in down town Houston, Tx, fascinating design and architecture of the past!
patsaxon 1 year ago
yes...this mall was indeed torn down :( which is a shame because i remember taking lavish school field trips here around xmas time to see all the decorations and to see santa when i was in grade/middle school...if i remember correctly it eventually went out of business and fell dead due to crime/gang activity and the fact that someone was shot :(
subatomikproduktions 1 year ago
It's city center in downtown Columbus near the state buildings. I believe its has been torn down by now, can anyone verify?
snakedal337 1 year ago
@snakedal337
Yes, it's completely gone now.
See the video titled "City Center Mall - Demolition Complete"
rudolft 1 year ago
@snakedal337 its completely torn down and commons are being built there
RuneMacer55 1 year ago
@snakedal337 yea its gone
weazie1995 1 year ago
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BrianOsborneCMH 1 year ago
@snakedal337 It is City Center. Closed and demolition completed in March 2010.
BrianOsborneCMH 1 year ago
@BrianOsborneCMH God I hope someone told the people at Waldenbooks. It seems no customers showing up really wasn't enough to cause them to shut their doors since they call that a normal business day.
Fektthis 1 year ago
@snakedal337 Yep, it's been torn down and they're making a city park (with an underground garage). It was basically Easton and Polaris that hurt City Center. That and all the landlord problems I've heard little about. Too bad. I went there a lot when I was a kid and it had a great atmosphere, especially around Christmas and everything.
elmolewis62 1 year ago
@snakedal337 This was the old Columbus Commons, right? Its now a green grass park.
zacharymichael1 8 months ago
@snakedal337 Yes, it is City Centre, and yes, it's been torn down and replaced with a city park.
zenfrodo 6 months ago
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bradeaston1 3 months ago
@snakedal337
Yes it's gone - very sad, it was once very very lively
MuscleDaddyCMH 3 months ago
@snakedal337 i seruouslly want to make a porn video in there and just fuck girls on the stairs and fountain
mike23456789101112 2 weeks ago
I live in Columbus, what mall is this? It looks strangely familiar to me, but last time I was there (if I was there) it was quite active.
youroptionsaremusic 1 year ago
at the begging theres a waldenbooks
BillRizer193 1 year ago
The mall opened with much fanfare in 1989 with all of Les Wexner's Limited-owned stores in it, not to mention, Lazarus, Marshall Field's, and Jacobson's. 20 years later it was closed. Today it is completely demolished, the victim of urban sprawl and in part to unchecked downtown crime, thank you mayor Coleman! The only good thing left of it is the parking garage.
dukesgrill 1 year ago
In about two years THERE ALL GOING TO LOOK LIKE THAT.
websuspect 1 year ago
My favorite mall of all time, killed so that Les could have Easton.
jimtfmb 1 year ago
I used to love shopping at City Center....It was connected to the Capitol Square Hyatt, right?
staycejayne 1 year ago
Hey, just be lucky that you had multiple floors! :-P Our closest dead mall (which apparently isn't set for destruction, as one of the couple remaining stores still does business) has much of the mall roped off. It used to be a huge three story complex.
NyeTunes 1 year ago
id love to skate that place
REALYskater 2 years ago
Holy shit. Is that City Center?!?!
Dali0Lama 2 years ago
Can't they redevelop this mall into a school?
orionpirates 2 years ago
Scarrrrrrrry!
Lousypenguin 2 years ago
Id go to that mall grab my shotgun and play Dawn of the Dead.Now if only i could find stuff like this in Texas.
pyramzone 2 years ago
It's City Center and it's being demolished as I type.
u2bzane 2 years ago 4
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M0LONLABE 2 years ago
sorry never mind, I should've read the comments below ... my bad
M0LONLABE 2 years ago
What mall is this?
JohnnyBondage1 2 years ago
Wow Wtus The Point of this mall still being opend>?
Lol
inCASHweTRUST90 2 years ago
23 malls have closed in Ohio according to deadmallscom.This one has closed too.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
lol looks like fair oaks mall in virginia.
meplayvgalot 2 years ago
What city is Fair Oaks in?At Deadmalls.con there are 11 malls that closed on their list.I googled the mall,its in Fairfax folks.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
fairfax virginia.
meplayvgalot 2 years ago
I guess Springfield Mall is still open.I have gone to the two I listed earlier.Montgomery Co Mall killed the other malls in Va.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
oh no fair oaks is still open lol. All the malls are open. It's just it seems like taubman uses the same mall design on alot of there malls.
meplayvgalot 2 years ago
Well,a few have closed according to deamalls com but I'm sure many are still open but empty.I heard Springfield Mall is all ghetto now.
HattieLovesCattie 2 years ago
lol wow. Never been there before. Manassas mall doesn't look to good either.
meplayvgalot 2 years ago
I remember going to this mall from back when I was a kid to early college years this mall used to be one of the biggest in Columbus and it was always packed until they built Easton and then it just went downhill. Even to this day I would've rather gone here if it was still open than Easton because it's nothing but preppie scum there.
scorpiogoddess1981 2 years ago
see - Grand Island Mall in Grand Island, Nebraska
was built in 1985 right before the Conosgota mall was built, well, the GI mall never secrued any fluid contracts, it's still open, but at one time, there was 45 stores in there, RIGHT AFTER conostoga opened, all stores went there, and that mall builsing now houses a shopko, Hastings book and rental, and hibbits sporting goods, and a dollar tree.
not in the mall mind you, they redid the building into a strip-mall in 92'
Rcrby525 2 years ago
Columbus City Center Mall... just think, once upon a time it was 94% occupied.
kcaj789 2 years ago
wow, that looks like a pretty big mall to be empty. im not a huge fan of going to the mall( dont like shoping). but ive met many ppl and friends there so they are still important to me
tubefube 2 years ago
How were you there last week? Didn't it close to pedestrians in march??
Post a link to the photos if you have them! :-) I'm sure others would be interested to see them.
snakedal337 2 years ago
go to the westland mall it the same it on the west side of columbus ohio
gallowayaaron 2 years ago
I was just in there last week I took a ton of pics if you thought it was empty in this video you should see it now. It is boarded up and the windows and glass doors have paint on them so you can't see in there's broken glass no power some of the stores are a little trashed but so far no sign of vandalism. However the Columbus Fire Department are using some of the stores for training.
Jays300e1 2 years ago
oh city center mall about 12 years ago that place was packed. not even an empty store front. I wonder what happen. I moved away many years ago. I bet the only reason the book stores are still open is its not to far from OSU home of the buckeyes.
Jasonm1976 2 years ago
This is really creepy.
SevereTstormFan 2 years ago
Wow it looks like a depression.
SevereTstormFan 2 years ago 6
-- I was in DETROIT malls , I was in Cincinnati mall , I got scared ,,, I can tell you that ,, In the middle of the sunny Saturday in April 09 .,. Almost no people in The mall ,
aviomaster 2 years ago
that columbus city center mall was my favorite that mall was my kingdom but right now it is RIP i'm going to miss my kingdom mall.
tjb411 2 years ago
Know what is a constant reason for malls failing like this, its when certain violet demographics start to take over the area & in this case pick away at the dead body of the mall after they caused its down fall. I live by a dead mall in california called the hawthorne plaza which was used in multiple film like fast & furious TD & I HAVE PERSONALLY seen RAMPANT acts of theft and violence by the demographics that over ran the once nice city and mall which lead to its closure & residence flight.
niceguy60 2 years ago
Spooky.
CSIpictures 2 years ago
thats city center and its being torn down in a couple of months. its completely closed now. Kinda sad.
lilsummersgirl10 3 years ago
Racist? Just stating facts...do you deny that when blacks start going to a mall in large numbers, that the mall soon closes because the whites flee? If you deny that, then your just being silly.
calimar28 3 years ago
city center is an external eyesore and should be torn down, i remember going there when i was little and it was nice, you guys call them niggers, i call them people, but now that it's just a shell of building it should be torn down, then something could be built there to take back the buisness from easton and polaris, i'm so tired of those places, columbus also needs more substantial transit NOW, btw, for those of you who are only biggots on youtube, GROW SOME BALLS
u2bzane 3 years ago 2
Well zerrk thats what happens when the ghetto element invades an area...the malls die. I'm hearing that the same thing is happening to Eastland, despite it's attempted "comeback" by adding a whole new wing to it. The ghetto element will probebly cause it to close over time. Also hearing that your new mall of Easton is starting to get overun by the same ghetto element...too bad. I also lived in other cities and saw the very same thing happen.
When will mall owners learn?
calimar28 3 years ago
I remember when I was little, my parents used to take my sisters and me to City Center on Sundays. I really miss Natural Wonders and Lazarus.
zerrk 3 years ago
Oh, I read where thsi mall was built in 1989...its new! But the blacks came in and ran the whites out. Usually what happens when the city planners get politically correct and say "hey, lets get a mall built in the ghetto so blacks have easy access to it!" They never learn that doing that insures the death of the mall. Whites will simply go out to a suburban mall.
calimar28 3 years ago
That would of explain it! Hey I was raised in Columbus...havent been there since the 70's. Anyone know what happened to Westland mall and Eastland mall? Are they still there?
calimar28 3 years ago
they are both still there westland is going out fast though eastland is still doing good with lots of stores
snareman6 3 years ago
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City Center was great until the niggers ruined it.
Go one block south of City Center toward the County Government Complex and you are in an ocean of nigger crime and filth.
blackjebus3000 3 years ago
Yeah, City Center met a tragic fate... after there was a shooting death there in the late 1990s andEaston, Polaris and Tuttle were built, the place really went down the tubes. I remember back when it first opened, it was an amazing place. Christmas there was a spectacle to behold. Last I heard the city bought out the building and has plans to try to make it into a casino. They should do something with it, it's still in great shape and is HUGE.
SeanDoyle1 3 years ago
its a good rib place there thats were i take my dates when i want them to feel special have em fillin the whole mall is jus for us lol
joeblowno 3 years ago
Any idea what they'd going to do with it? Seems a shame, as it doesnt look that old
Brac1 3 years ago
From what i've heard from people working in there new landlords are running people out, one guy said he thinks they want to tear down the building and turn it into a parking lot, which kind of makes sense considering its directly across the street from the statehouse.
snakedal337 3 years ago
It's okay, we went to easton after this, and... by god I can understand why this place went under LOL. It's HUGE
snakedal337 3 years ago
Christmas use to be huge there at city center. Best place to spend your time. Everyone from the theatre would go to dinner at spinagers when it was there, and open. Macys, WB Store, A Disney store, max and ermas, bath and body works, yankie candle co., a video game store, victoria secrets, oh heavens I miss it.
apricottart 3 years ago
It is abandoned. It was once a busy busy place but since the addition of three major shopping centers near by, it's died out. It's a shame too, it was so fun to be there at one time.
loathingfear 3 years ago