What is the Current Status of Crosswoods and Continent (Columbus: apartments, house)

[NewToCA]

I have now been away from Columbus for almost two years, and was wondering how they handled the problems they had keeping the Crosswoods and Continent shopping areas open.

Have they made progress in making these areas viable as retail centers, what is the status of these areas today?

[JilliO]

Crosswoods--restaurants. Most seem fairly busy. Continent, gee, I work down the street and I never go down there. think they're trying the restaurant route too. there's supposedly a good jamaician restuarnt there, and i think a comedy club, and a second-run movie theatre with beer and food.

[NewToCA]

Were they able to retain the IMAX Movie House in Crosswoods? Do they have many vacancies?

[streetcreed]

Crosswoods has gotten much more empty in the past 3 years.

There are many empty restaurant spaces. A few had local business try and replace the gone restaurants but many of them have closed. The IMAX theater has been gone. The large movie screen is now used by the theater to play movies on the large screen. I think that the IMAX left quite a while ago. Fudruckers, Cameron Mitchel Steak House, Don Pablos are just some of the chains to have left the Crosswoods area, mostly for Polaris, in the recent years. Some of the empty spaces, that were going to be used for offices, have been used for upscale apartments.

The Continent is much the same as 3 years ago. The movie theater is still open, as a cheaper theater selling second rate movies. There are some bars and nightclubs there. They seem to open then close with a new one coming in trying to make it.

[NewToCA]

Shame that they haven't come back. During the 14 years I lived in the metro Columbus area the one negative attribute I noticed about the retail/restaurant scene was the lack of being able to bounce back and redevelop shopping areas that went downhill.

Perhaps Graceland is an exception, but I've seen stuff on Sawmill (north of 161) go downhill in Columbus and Dublin with no good plan for revival, and I had observed the two I mentioned in this thread appear to struggle. Now I read about the City Center area, and I have concerns that the area doesn't do a very good job of reenergizing decaying centers, preferring to just go and build new instead.

Thanks for the updates.