Editing Columbus, Ohio (section)

===Shopping===
Both of the metropolitan area's major shopping centers are located in Columbus: [[Easton Town Center]] and [[Polaris Fashion Place]].

Developer [[Richard E. Jacobs]] built the area's first three major shopping malls in the 1960s: [[Westland Mall (Columbus, Ohio)|Westland]], [[Northland Mall|Northland]] and [[Eastland Mall (Columbus, Ohio)|Eastland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2003/03/03/story2.html?page=all|title=New owners poised to revive Westland|last=Showalter|first=Kathy|date=March 3, 2003|work=Columbus Business First|access-date=April 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214222948/http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2003/03/03/story2.html?page=all|archive-date=December 14, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Near Northland Mall was The Continent, an open-air mall in the [[Northland (Columbus, Ohio)|Northland]] area, mostly vacant and pending redevelopment. [[Columbus City Center]] was built downtown in 1988, alongside the first location of [[Lazarus (department store)|Lazarus]]; this mall closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2011. [[Easton Town Center]] was built in 1999 and [[Polaris Fashion Place]] in 2001.