Owners of the mall, Eastland Mall Holdings LLC of Louisiana, reached an agreement with the city in November to demolish much ...

With demolition underway, what does the future hold for Eastland Mall? Some possible answers arrived Thursday.

The new Eastland plan focuses on eight areas: housing, retail, small business, education, community well-being, jobs, transportation, identity, and gathering spaces.

tearing off chunks of what used to be the Lazarus department store at the mall. Eastland Mall opened in 1968 and closed in 2022. At one time, it was known for its four anchor stores, Lazarus, JCPenney ...

Some efforts are already underway to revitalize the community. The Eastland Mall, for example, is now in the process of being torn down to renovate the space into use for future developments.

"I remember Eastland Mall in its glory days," said Ava Johnson ... would like to see pursued on and around the former shopping center, which closed in December 2022, nearly 55 years after ...

This story has been changed to correctly identify the former department store being demolished. More than half a century after its opening, Eastland Mall in Columbus is crumbling to an end.

Workers have started demolishing part of Eastland Mall, 57 years after the shopping center on Columbus' Southeast Side opened. Owners of the mall, Eastland Mall Holdings LLC of Louisiana ...