Tavistock Development and Steiner + Associates have lifted the curtain on their star entertainment tenant at Lake Nona Town Center in Florida and it’s Cinépolis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tavistock and Steiner + Associates are showcasing Lake Nona Town Center at ICSC’s NY Deal Making Conference this week.

Tavistock Development Co. is working with Google’s Intersection division to create one of the most techno-centric retail centers in the U.S. — at Lake Nona, an 11,000-acre mixed-use community in Orlando, Fla.