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.
Trish Mayhorn's earliest memory of Northland Mall is tagging along with her mother to the Lazarus department store in the 1970s and getting a pair of Stride Rite shoes.
But it was the opening of Polaris Fashion Place on the city's Far North Side in 2001 that marked the beginning of the end for Northland as shoppers and retailers left the mall. Originally scheduled to close on Halloween in 2002, it couldn't even last that long, shutting its doors on Oct. 9 with the mall almost empty.
At the actual ribbon-cutting ceremony on opening day, attendees included Columbus Mayor Maynard Edward"Jack" Sensenbrenner; Lazarus president Charles Lazarus; Sears director Charles Kellstadt and Richard Jacobs, vice president of Visconsi-Mead-Jacobs. Judith Cockrell, 46, a longtime Northland resident who now is director of Elevate Northland, said the mall was the place to be in middle school and high school — both for area residents and celebrities. She remembers a trip to The Gap with her mother in the '90s that turned into a memorable run-in with the hip-hop group Arrested Development, who were in town for a concert.
After the space was demolished the following year, plans stalled. Safford said the city was in talks with Walmart to open a store on the site, but nothing materialized.
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