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Commons Mall

From the authors' mapReinhabitedRetrofit builtColumbus, IN

Reinhabited in 2009. · from the fields below

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Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/187698264626224 overture · all sites with this

Website alive

This site: …http://www.thecommonscolumbus.com overture / http check · all sites with this

Place

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent road

This site: 39,560 on SR 46 fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

Bike network nearby

This site: 27 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 1 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High inland flooding risk

This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this

High natural hazard risk (FEMA NRI)

This site: Relatively High; tornado, inland flooding, winter weather fema-nri · all sites with this

High social vulnerability tract (SVI ≥ 0.75)

This site: 0.79 cdc-svi · all sites with this

High tornado risk

This site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with this

National Register place within 500 m

This site: McEwen-Samuels-Marr House; Bartholomew County Courthouse nps-nrhp · all sites with this

Rail within 800 m

This site: Columbus Transportation Hub openstreetmap · all sites with this

Renter-majority tract

This site: 74% census-acs · all sites with this

Tract house prices doubled in 10 years

This site: +105% fhfa · all sites with this

Tract income up 60%+ since 2013

This site: +62% census-acs · all sites with this

Strategy

Reinhabited

This site: Reinhabitation: community event space record · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

IN, Columbus: Commons Mall/ The Commons, 2009
• Reinhabitation: community event space

Now

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
What is there now	Reinhabitation: community event spaceauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	2009authors' map reported

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Commons Mall” and “Columbus” (36 hits, first 36 sampled, 8 other filers such as tenants left out). No commercial-mortgage trust names this mall in the sample, which does not rule out a securitised loan. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

Kind	Filer	Filings	Dates	Forms
Public owner (weak)	ROUSE COMPANY	9	2001-03-30 to 2006-04-18	10-K 8, 10-Q 1
Public owner (weak)	GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES INC	2	2005-03-22 to 2006-03-31	10-K 2
Public owner (weak)	GLIMCHER REALTY TRUST	2	2005-02-24 to 2005-04-28	8-K 2

Site context

Transit within 800 m	Columbus Transportation Hub (rail)OpenStreetMap
Motorway junctions within 2 km	junctionOpenStreetMap
FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	21: ARLINGTON PLATING CO CORP; BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY COURT SERVICES CENTER; COLUMBUS CITY OF 1821 TRAIL; COLUMBUS ENGINEERING INC; COLUMBUS ROAD CONSTRUCTIONEPA FRS
Census tract 18005010100	5,641 people, 2,890 per sq mi; median household income $60,399; median gross rent $1,150; 74% renters; 8.6% vacant units; 2.3% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 9.3 of 20; 105 intersections per sq mi; no transit stop within the EPA search radius; land-use mix 0.61; 22,850 jobs within 45 min by car; 15% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 1 grocers, 2 schools, 11 parks or playgrounds, 2 health, 6 civic, 7 food and drink; 27 cycleway segments, 135 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
National Register places within 500 m	6: McEwen-Samuels-Marr House; Bartholomew County Courthouse; Columbus City Hall; Haw Creek Leather CompanyNPS
Housing permits, Bartholomew County (IN), 2024	0 units in 5+ unit buildings, 12 in 2–4, 183 single-family; 2023: 0 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.79; socioeconomic 0.76; housing and transport 0.93; 39% below 150% of poverty; 15% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	1 within 10 km, 1 within 25 km: NexusPark (0.1 km)computed
Overture Maps	place Commons Mall (shopping_mall, confidence 0.92, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 8,773 m², 10.533737182617188 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.thecommonscolumbus.com (alive); archived 2018–2026 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Tract change 2013–2023	population +23% (4,588 → 5,641); median income +62% ($37,218 → $60,399); renters 69% → 74%; median home value +25% ($89,500 → $111,600)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively high overall (score 86.0); expected annual loss $3.3M; high: tornado, inland flooding, winter weather; community resilience relatively highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	1 LIHTC properties, 25 units: Armory - 2 (25 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	4,860 jobs in 300 establishments; average annual pay $34,045; employment location quotient 0.99; employment +0.6% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	15,520 jobs; 267 in retail trade, 559 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 18005010100)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 34th income percentile as adults; 5.5% incarcerated at the 2010 count (831 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	low-income, low-access tract (1 mile urban / 10 miles rural); 20% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 23.5%; median family income $45,884; 351 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Bartholomew County School Corporation (PK-12); 3 public schools within 1 mile: Central Middle School; CSA Lincoln Campus; Richard L Johnson Early Educ CntrNCES EDGE
Elevation	628 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	63 county-logged events: 41 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 7 flash flood, 5 flood; $3,307,200 property damage reported; 2 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 47201, 2026-09	median list price $294,945 (-6.7% on the year); 170 active listings; median 45 days on market; 23% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	286 establishments (-8%); 4,861 jobs (+2%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $274,111 (+2% 1 yr, +30% 5 yr); typical rent $1,380/mo (+2% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025	474 (2000 = 100); -0.4% 1 yr, +55% 5 yr, +105% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	39,560 vehicles a day on SR 46 (principal arterial, 4 lanes); 1,530 trucks; 37 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

Pages with photos

Columbus Indiana - The Commons - Historic Architectur… flickriver.com
Week 22 (The Commons: part 1) | 52 weeks of Columbus, Indiana 52weeks.rickyberkey.org
The Commons - Columbus, Indiana Photograph by Susan Ri… fineartamerica.com
Image Gallery: The Commons, Cesar Pelli, Columbus, Indiana tboake.com
The Commons Mall, in downtown Columbus Indiana… alamy.com
The Commons – Community event center in Columbus, Indiana thecommonscolumbus.com
The Commons is a Free Indoor Playground in Columbus (with a two-story ... littleindiana.com

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History and original facts

Now called / also known as	The Commons
County	Bartholomew County
Census division	3 · East North Central

Not yet recorded: acres, GLA, year opened, original developer. Know it? Tell us.

Timeline

2009 Retrofit: reinhabit

Sources

Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Commons Mall, Columbus, IN." Record m-0d0bf34a22, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/in/columbus-commons-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_columbuscommonsmall,
  title = {Commons Mall, Columbus, IN},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/in/columbus-commons-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-0d0bf34a22, release 2026-10-21, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}

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