The Shops At Worthington Place

This mall appears to be on the up-​and-​up again. I hope so at least. Pies & Pints was a good addition, as will the Piada which is coming soon. Hopefully that adds some much needed foot traffic to the mall. As it stands it is very nice inside and has a cool little kids playground, but gets a bit creepy when you are the only one in the whole mall besides employees.
Special note: come here for the winter farmer’s markets on Saturdays if you can. It is usually pretty busy, and the best part is walking around inside an old Victoria Secret building looking at homemade goods. Probably the only pink walled farmer’s market around!

Worthington Mall is pretty empty and really has no shops anymore. However, I am hoping with the renovations they are able to get this mall back on track.
I had to add a star, however, because there is a wonderful indoor play area for the kids that is pretty empty most of the time. It’s not huge, but it has long imitation grass, a slide, things to climb on, and really enough to keep the kids busy on a cold or rainy day. Really, because of this alone Worthington Mall will stay on our list of places to frequent.

There’s a lot of potential here. Still under renovation, with new shops «coming soon» and others moving around inside the building as their spaces get finished. My friends and I are really looking forward to the arrival of a running store and Panera in the next few months.

If Randy S. thought Worthington Square Mall was in dire condition in 2008, he does not want to go back now. I remember coming here when I was a child but childhood memories are not so good. I also came here frequently when I lived in Clintonville in 2003 – 2006. Even though it didn’t have a great selection of stores, it was convenient and the staff in the stores were always friendly.
But I came here this past Friday… ouch.
What happened was that I was going to an event in the area and had an hour to kills and so I thought I’d run by here and do a bit of pre-​Easter shopping. At first sight, I thought they were closed. There were only a few cars in the parking lot, I didn’t see any people, and the windows and doors were empty. The first storefront upon walking in was empty too.
I felt like I was the only person in the place. I walked around for about a half and hour, stopped at Cheryl’s Cookies, Crabtree and Evelyn, and Pendleton’s and then left. I couldn’t take anymore. The staff even seemed surprised to see a customer and didn’t quite know how to react to an actual customer. The Easter Bunny was there for pictures, but on Good Friday at 5pm, there wasn’t a child in sight. Rather sad to see.
Its a shame because the colonial looking building is in a nice area but with Polaris and Easton just as easy to get there, I suppose that Worthington Square will be ready to close in the near future.

Poor Worthington Mall. I’m surprised you’ve lasted this long with Polaris and Tuttle just down the road. I stopped visiting after Gap left a two or three years ago. I mean, what can be said for a mall where the only store that sells men’s clothing is JoS. A. Bank. Come to think of it, I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen another man in Worthington Mall. Hmm.
What the mall does have — women’s clothing — is relatively high end: Talbot’s, Chico’s, Ann Taylor, Victoria’s Secret as well as a few more. There is a random shop here and there Monkworks (gifts) and Cheryl & Co. (Mmmm, cookies!) and a First Watch restaurant that is frequently busy. That’s about it.
Yet another one of C-​bus’ malls dies a slow death. Too bad.