Polaris Towne Center — Attraction in Columbus

This is an excellent little shopping center (do note, this is across the street from the actual mall). I've been coming here a couple of years and there is a great selection of stores, including Jo-Ann Fabric, Target, Best Buy, a few clothing places, and even a hardware store and a grocery store. Usually when I'm up this way, it's to go to Lowe's, Target, or Best Buy, although sometimes my girlfriend and I hit up Big Lots or Jo-Ann for some odds and ends. The restaurants up here are pretty decent and range from super expensive to cheap fast food. I don't know if you can make a whole day out of coming up here and it's definitely not as social or interesting as the mall, but this is the first place I come during Xmas season to go shopping for gifts. It's a fun little place to check out.

If I did have any complaints, it's that getting into and out of this shopping center is pretty awful. The grocery store (arguably the busiest place at any given time) is in the front which means shoppers and cars are in and out all day. There is only one exit to my knowledge that isn't Polaris Pkwy. Getting into and out of this place is a bit of a hassle, but the store selection is...

This a a really nice upscale mall to the North of the Westerville area and on the way to the new outlet mall. The anchor stores are Macy's, Sacs, and Von Mar. There are two levels of shopping, hair cut places, large and small stores Including Bath and Body Works and Victoria's Secret. There's a food court with food that's priced higher than places outside the mall but convenient. There's a place that makes Bourbon Chicken that's really good, a Chick-fil-A, etc...

The new Ikea Store is in Polaris and opens in June 2017. There's a plethora of fine dining, moderately priced, and fast food in and outside the mall Including Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Molly Woo's, etc...

Across the street to the North there's plaza-style shopping with Target, Lowe's, Kroger, Big Lots, Best Buy, Old Navy, Joann's, etc...

Just about any shopping you could need and any style/kind of food you could want. It's a nice place to shop but the roads get really backed up at rush hour as well as around the holidays. The planning for traffic was not well done at the time Polaris was built. The mall also gets crowded on weekends and around...

The variety and option of stores here is GREAT this time of year for Christmas!. You don't have to drive all over the city for gifts!!! Another PLUS, is being outdoors you do not have the concern of becoming hot with coats & jackets, or others who are sick & coughing, or how annoying kids run through an indoor mall! The problems you face here is the VERY BAD driving!!! The challenge of walking bank/forth to your car without becoming roadkill, and the ones who park so BAD and CLOSE in this HUGE parking lot then they dent your doors getting in/out while you're inside a store!!! Lastly, the jealous ones whose budget is a lesser amount to shop with than yours, then try to curse or sabotage your Joy, Finances, health, etc., while in the store! When all they had to do was NOT focus on everybody else shopping and just themselves and what they came to get!!! HATERS and WITCHES...