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Northland Mall was a shopping mall located on the north side of Columbus, Ohio, at the intersection of Morse Road and Karl Road. It opened in 1964 as an open-air shopping center. Northland was the first of the four directionally-named shopping hubs in Columbus, along with Eastland, Westland, and Southland (a small strip center, now closed ...
Northland, the first of the city's three compass-point shopping centers, opened to immense crowds on Aug. 13, 1964. The Columbus Citizen-Journal reported that more than 50,000 people walked...
In polls conducted shortly after Tuttle’s opening, Northland was now the 3rd most popular shopping destination in Central Ohio behind Tuttle and City Center. Whether fact or fiction, Northland began to develop the reputation of being an unsafe mall.
Northland Mall opened in 1964 to great fanfare, but by 2002, it had only one tenant left when it closed. Now, the area is seeing a retail renaissance.
There are a lot of shopping possibilities, the Easton Plaza, and Polaris Fashion Place, some of the newest and most popular shopping destinations, not to mention other regional malls thought the city and around the Jack Nicklaus Freeway.
When thinking about the Northland neighborhood, many local's minds may turn to the former Northland Mall, a diverse array of good food, and Anheuser-Busch.
Northland was the first of the directionally-named malls in Columbus. Built in 1964 as an open-air shopping center, it was followed by Eastland in 1967 and Westland in 1969. When it first opened, Northland had two anchors, Lazarus and Sears, as well as 40 other stores that were a mix of national chains and smaller local stores.
The first major mall to open up in Columbus was Northland. Construction began in June of 1963 on the 71-acre site at the corner of Morse and Karl Road. The plans included a 55-store outdoor mall with two large anchor stores: the biggest Lazarus branch and the first Sears in Central Ohio.
I have such fond memories of Northland. That’s where we would always go when I was a kid to sit on Santa’s lap. It’s sad that it closed on 10/9/2002, but I’m glad they did a good job redeveloping it and it didn’t turn into a rotting corpse dead mall lake Westland or Eastland.
The area had two large shopping areas in the late 20th century: Northland Mall and The Continent. The Continent opened in 1972 as an open-air mall, with a European-influenced design and cafes, stores, and apartments.