Starting today, Easton shoppers will be able to pick up a Tesla Model S in between dinner at Ocean Club and a movie at AMC.

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.