Eastland Mall (Columbus, Ohio)
| Location | Columbus, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 39°55′06″N 82°53′03″W / 39.918295°N 82.884103°WCoordinates: 39°55′06″N 82°53′03″W / 39.918295°N 82.884103°W |
| Address | 2720 Eastland Square |
| Opening date | 1968 |
| Developer | Richard E. Jacobs |
| Management | The Woodmont Manager |
| Owner | The Woodmont Company |
| No. of stores and services | 80 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 0 (4 vacant) |
| Total retail floor area | 999,458 square feet (92,852.7 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in Sears and Lazarus/Macy's; 3 in JCPenney) |
Eastland Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio. Opened in 1968, it no longer has any open anchor stores. Its four vacant anchors were originally occupied by Lazarus, Kaufmann's (later Macy's), Sears, and JC Penney. The mall is managed by Woodmont Management.
The mall was built in 1968 by Richard E. Jacobs group, who also developed Columbus's Northland and Westland Malls. It was the first enclosed shopping mall in Columbus. As with the other two "directional" Jacobs malls in Columbus, Eastland's original anchors included J. C. Penney, Sears, and Lazarus.
Although Eastland itself is a single-story mall, all three of its original anchor stores were constructed with two stories of retail space. The Sears store closed off its upper level at some point during the 1980s.
The mall remained under Jacobs' ownership until Glimcher Realty Trust bought it in December 2003. The property became Glimcher's second mall in Columbus, following Polaris Fashion Place. Among Glimcher's first moves with the property was to add a fourth anchor, Kaufmann's. This Kaufmann's was the first in a "lifestyle" prototype featuring a smaller floor plan with wider aisles. The same year, the Lazarus store became Lazarus-Macy's. Macy's moved from the former Lazarus to the former Kaufmann's in 2006 when the Macy's chain purchased Kaufmann's then-parent company. Three years later, Glimcher proposed to demolish the former Lazarus-Macy's building for a new J. C. Penney, while dividing Penney's existing store among new tenants. However, as of 2013 the former Lazarus-Macy's building remains both standing and vacant. J. C. Penney announced the closure of its existing store in early 2015.
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