New Downtown Fashion & Retail District Set to Debut on Friday

This Friday, a new initiative to bring fashion and retail business back to Downtown Columbus kicks off with the launch of “Common Thread”, a new destination shopping experience featuring seven new shops on South Third Street.

The program is a collaboration between the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation (CDDC) and Columbus Fashion Council (CFC), located in the ground-floor retail space of the Columbus Commons Parking Garage. A new art installation was recently installed by muralist Mandi “Miss Birdy” Caskey at the intersection of Third and Rich Streets.

The retail program is just one aspect of the recently adopted 2022 Downtown Strategic Plan, designed to steer new development Downtown in the coming decades and return the city center population to 40,000 by the year 2040.