Decline
During its last decade of operation, City Center’s positioning as the premier shopping destination in Columbus was eliminated, due primarily to the opening of the three shopping centers across the northern end of Columbus, and the closing of its key anchor tenants. At the mall's peak in 1992, it had 144 tenants occupying 1,250,000 square feet (116,000 m2) of retail space; just seventeen years later, in 2009, there were only eight small stores open for business, occupying 5,000 square feet (460 m2).
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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