The Crosswoods area in Columbus is just north of 270 in the Worthington area.
Last Sunday I tweeted (texted from my phone to Twitter):
The Quizno's at Crosswoods is gone.. Closed..
Two people from Columbus responded:
OHTom@MoInColumbusOH Lots of empty restaurants at Crosswoods these days!
solesearching@MoInColumbusOH I'm surprised that Quiznos lasted as long as it did. That whole area is dying a slow painful death...
Is Crosswoods dying? hmmm I know restaurants open and close there with great regularity... but that's been going on or years. Who knows maybe the Quiznos has been gone since last summer... I drive by sometimes... but not always. I am not a big sub sandwich eater so Quiznos was not a place I would pay a lot of attention to. I have options, I drive different routes. We do go to Crosswoods oftent to eat at El Acapulco Restaurant at Crosswood. We eat at the Columbus Fish Market at Crosswods occasionally.
We went to two movies in one weekend at the Marcus Cinema recently ... we have options the Rave is just north in the Polaris area but we had a gift certificate to the Marcus Cinema. We probably saw as many first run movies that weekend as we saw in 2008.
Crosswoods is not new. I stayed at the Red Roof in at Crosswoods when we were moving to Columbus in 1990. We wrote an offer on a house sitting in the Bob Evans at Crosswoods. The road did not go through back then... Campusview Blvd. ended at some point before the rail road crossing. To get to the Park Road area you came up Worthington Galena or went up to Flint Road. Less driving options.
There are lots of offices at Crosswoods. There are no stores at Crosswoods, just hotels, motels, a movie theater and restaurants. It was developed that way.
Of course I remember when the Marcus Cinema came to town...
There was not a sign for the theater for awhile as I recall. When the Marcus Cinema sign went up I thought it was going to post what movies were playing... maybe not what time but what was showing so I would not have to drive back to the theater to see what was showing. Or call on the telephone or whatever it was we did to find out this info back then....
I was suprised that the sign ended up being for the restaurants in the area, It shows who is there, I think of the sign as the Crosswoods sign, not the Marcus Cinema sign... (now that I look at it... it is ugly) but who am I to judge. Crosswoods is a tough area, wedged in between the city of Worthington and Polaris the way it is. I assume it is very important to the smaller restaurants at Crosswoods that people travelling on High Street and Campusview know they are there.
Who is there now? Who is on the sign? Starbucks, Chipolte, Sushi Ko, Panera, Tandoori Palace... Ooops Tandoori Palace has not been at Crosswoods in a couple of years. I am not sure if Crosswoods is dying a slow death or if it is the same as it has been all along.
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