The Mall at Tuttle Crossing is an enclosed shopping mall located in northwest

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. It has a

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mailing address, but it is in the Columbus city limits. It was developed by a joint venture of

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and the Georgetown Company and opened July 24, 1997. In 2021, the mall was reported to be heading towards foreclosure. The anchor stores are

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, Scene75 Entertainment Center, and

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. One vacant store previously housed

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History

The mall was originally planned for a site at Sawmill Road and SR 161, however plans did not materialize and the site ultimately became Sun Center in 1994. The mall opened on July 11, 1997 with Sears,

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, and JCPenney as anchor stores. In 2003, Lazarus was rebranded Lazarus-Macy's, and the original Marshall Field's became

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in February 2003. Lazarus-Macy’s became Macy’s in March 2005. In 2006, due to the Federated-May merger, the Kaufmann's store was renamed Macy's at Hayden Run. As of October 2006 there were two Macy's located at the mall, Macy's at Tuttle Crossing (the original Lazarus store) and Macy's at Hayden Run (the former Marshall Field's/Kaufmann's) until March 2017. On January 4, 2017, Macy's announced it would close its store at Hayden Run later that year. In early summer 2018, Scene75 Entertainment purchased the former Marshall Field's/Kaufmann's/Macy's building and tract. Soon after Scene75 on October 11, 2019 they were open to the public. On December 28, 2018, it was announced that Sears would also be closing as part of a plan to close 80 stores nationwide. The store closed in March 2019. The Mall portion has had three owners during its history (both prior owners were purchased by Simon): *

from its opening in 1997 until 2003 *

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from 2003 until 2007 *

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, which owned 50%, and managed by Simon from April 2007 to until 2020 * after 2020 the mall was placed into Receivership by the courts. * The Woodmont Company, was the management company for the mall from 2020 to 2023. *

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is the current management company for the mall from 2023 to present.

Description and location

The mall itself anchors an economically strong and growing area of office complexes, restaurants, apartments and condominiums surrounding the interchange of

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and Tuttle Crossing Boulevard. The area is a good example of the

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phenomenon known as an

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Current anchors

(opened in 1997) *

at Tuttle Crossing (opened in 2005) *Scene75 Entertainment (opened in 2019)

Former anchors

(opened in 1997, renamed in 2005 to Macy's (at Tuttle Crossing)) *

(opened in 1997, became

in 2003, then became Macy's (at Hayden Run) in 2006, closed in 2017, became Scene75 in 2019) *

(opened in 1997, closed in 2019, now vacant)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mall at Tuttle Crossing Namdar Realty Group Shopping malls in Columbus, Ohio Shopping malls established in 1997 1997 establishments in Ohio