Columbus, Ohio — Steiner + Associates, L Brands and Georgetown Co., co-developers of Easton Town Center in Columbus, have signed nine new tenants to the $225 million mixed-use center.
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Shake Shack has unveiled plans to open at Easton Town Center in Columbus in early 2019. The burger restaurant, which also serves chicken sandwiches, fries and shakes, will occupy 3,523 square feet.
Abercrombie & Fitch is going to school with a new concept store aimed at university students, according to one of its landlords in Columbus, Ohio.
Easton Town Center’s Felton Square was featured as the cover photo of the June issue of Shopping Center’s Today! The national retail real estate magazine leveraged the photo as a natural complement to their mixed-use feature story.
The sentiment among retail real estate professionals remained upbeat on the second day of exhibitions at this year’s RECon. Some attendees felt the “doom and gloom” of retail headlines seem to be, at least for the moment, somewhat in the past as retailers, owners and developers try to move the industry forward.
In the opening workshop session, held Sunday morning at ICSC’s RECon Convention, Yaromir Steiner, CEO of Steiner + Associates, talked about how understanding the difference in need based services versus want base services is key.
The challenges facing developers and retailers as they plan for the shopping venues of tomorrow were brought home by a panel of shopping center executives at the SPECS session, “Shopping Venues of Tomorrow,” moderated by Lou Allevato, principal, HFA.
At 1.3 million-sq.-ft., it was one of the largest mixed-use centers to come online in 2015. Developers Steiner + Associates and Bucksbaum Retail Properties envisioned Liberty Center as the first of a new generation of town center-style projects.
National candy retailer IT’SUGAR has opened its first Columbus store and second store in Ohio. The company, which has more than 100 locations across the country and offers a variety of candies, confections, and novelty products, opened at Easton Town Center.
At ICSC’s New York Deal Making event, industry veterans offered varied perspectives on the challenges facing the sector, and attempted to correct misconceptions that have emerged during a challenging year.