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59th Street-Columbus Circle (New York City Subway)
Websitewww.theshopsatcolumbuscircle.com

The Shops at Columbus Circle is an upscale shopping mall in Deutsche Bank Center, a skyscraper complex in Manhattan, New York City. It is located at Columbus Circle, next to the southwestern corner of Central Park.

Description

Known during planning as the Palladium, it was designed with 347,000 square feet (32,200 m2).

The Related Companies.[3][4]

The mall is designed to follow the curve of Columbus Circle,[5] measuring 450 feet (140 m) long.[6] It contains an atrium measuring about 150 feet (46 m) high, leading west from Columbus Circle. A passageway, extending north and south from the atrium, includes 11,000 square feet (1,000 m2).[7]

Basement

Among the first retail tenants in the mall's basement was a Whole Foods Market, as well as an Equinox gym.[8] The Equinox location covered 35,000 square feet (3,300 m2) and also extended to the ground floor, with a gym and a spa.[9]

When opened, the Whole Foods Market at Columbus Circle sold liquor from an attached room near the cash registers away from the main shopping aisles. However, this configuration was in violation of New York's liquor licensing laws, which require grocery stores to have a separate street entrance to their liquor departments, ostensibly to avoid minors from buying liquors. In 2005, Whole Foods settled with state authorities and closed its liquor operations at Columbus Circle, hoping to transfer its license to a new location it would be opening on the Lower East Side.[10] The space formerly used for liquor now sells Whole Foods' ECO line of cotton/hemp clothing, Whole Foods' health line Whole Body, and a restaurant, On Tap.

Ground and second floors

The shopping mall includes

Williams Sonoma
.

The center has ground floor tenants including designer shops and restaurants.[11]

Restaurants

The third and fourth stories contain the Restaurant Collection, with restaurants such as Masa, Per Se, and Porter House New York.[12] Among the first restaurants to open in the mall was Gray Kunz's Cafe Gray, on the third floor, designed by Diego Gronda.[13]

New York Times critic Roger Mummert disapproved of the arrangement, writing: "I'm not sure that driving into the city to spend $500 per person for an imitation of the dining experience that we enjoy here in the suburbs is really my cup of tea".[14]

History

Construction

In July 1998,

Time Warner and the Related Companies won their bid to develop a mixed-use development, which later became Time Warner Center. The plan included a mall at the base of the development.[15][16][17] The Palladium Company, jointly owned by Kenneth A. Himmel and the Related Companies, was hired to operate the retail space at the complex.[18] A groundbreaking ceremony for the complex occurred on November 14, 2000.[19] Insignia/ESG was hired as the leasing agent for AOL Time Warner Center.[20] The mall was one of five projects that were planned to provide over 1 million square feet (93,000 m2) of new retail space in Manhattan by 2003.[21]

The first large retail tenant,

Park Avenue South restaurant district.[23] Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, leasing slowed at Palladium, as with other retail spaces in Manhattan.[24] Even so, five storefronts were leased between the attacks and early 2002.[25] This included 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) by Equinox Fitness and 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) by Elizabeth Arden, Inc..[26]

By 2002, eighty percent of the space had been leased.

United Colors of Benetton.[24] In October 2002, California pension fund CalPERS and MacFarlane Partners offered to buy a half-ownership stake in the retail space and two other sections of Time Warner Center.[28][29] The sale to CalPERS and MacFarlane was finalized in early 2003, with the partners receiving a 49.5 percent stake.[30][31] At the time, about 90 percent of the 330,000 square feet (31,000 m2) had been or was being leased, including space for Borders Books,[31] as well as space for Sephora and Cache Inc.[32]

Opening

The complex opened in 2004 along with what was the rest of Time Warner Center.[8]

Among the other retailers in the 2010s were an Amazon bookstore that was announced in 2017.[33][34]

References

Citations

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  10. ^ Fabricant, Florence (May 24, 2005). "Whole Foods's Wine Shop Closes at Columbus Circle". Retrieved April 2, 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  11. ^ Kusisto, Laura. "It's Free to Look: 25 Columbus Circle". The New York Observer. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
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  15. ^ Grant, Peter (July 28, 1998). "Victory in battle for Columbus Circle". Daily News. p. 6. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
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  30. ^ "CalPERS JV to Buy Stake in NYC's $1.7Bln AOL Time Warner Project". Commercial Real Estate Direct. February 4, 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
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