Steiner + Associates has two properties in Ohio. Steiner co-developed the 1.7 mission sq.-ft. Easton Town Center in Columbus with The Georgetown Cos.

Columbus, Ohio — Steiner + Associates, The Georgetown Co. and Limited Brands have broken ground on Easton Gateway, a 54-acre addition to Easton Town Center.

Easton Gateway brings 600,000 square feet of additional retail space to the mixed-use destination that redefined town center development in the United States.

The Easton Gateway shopping district will debut this Friday with the Costco opening. The food wholesaler has a location on Gemini Parkway at Polaris as well.

The area’s second Costco store will open at Easton Friday.

Perhaps the best way to begin a discussion about the “urbanization of suburbia”—a concept that has been discussed and debated with increasing frequency in recent years—is to correct a simple misunderstanding: there is no urbanization of suburbia.

Nordstrom Rack, a pioneer among outlet stores, is receiving a warm welcome from Columbus shoppers.

Easton Gateway, which will be home to destination stores Costco and Whole Foods, will gain another high-profile name when Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th opens a store there as well.

There is a seismic shift taking place in the bedrock of retail real estate development. Like the tectonic forces that move continents, the shift is gradual, but it is also profound.

Zachary and Erin Traxler didn’t take a honeymoon after they got married in 2010. They started a business. The couple launched Traxler Tees, a custom screen-printing business, within days of their wedding.