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Columbia Mall (Columbia)

From the authors' mapRedevelopedPartly retrofittedColumbia, MD

Partial Redeveloped in 2012. · from the fields below

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Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

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Website alive

This site: …https://www.themallincolumbia.com/en/directory.html 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

Bike network nearby

This site: 236 ways openstreetmap · all sites with this

County typical rent $2,000+

This site: $2,358/mo zillow · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 3 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High-income tract ($100k+)

This site: $127,833 census-acs · all sites with this

Low social vulnerability tract (SVI ≤ 0.25)

This site: 0.18 cdc-svi · all sites with this

Renter-majority tract

This site: 83% census-acs · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

This site: Partial redevelopment, mixed use From Vision to Reality: Revitalizing Downtown… record · all sites with this

New use

Mixed use

This site: Partial redevelopment, mixed use From Vision to Reality: Revitalizing Downtown Columbia: h arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

MD, Columbia: Columbia Mall, 2012
• Partial redevelopment, mixed use
• From Vision to Reality: Revitalizing Downtown Columbia: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=9679f749440c4e71981e71410d1cbd82

Now

Status	Partly retrofittedauthors' map reported
Strategy	Partial Redevelopedauthors' map reported
What is there now	Partial redevelopment, mixed use From Vision to Reality: Revitalizing Downtown Columbia: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=9679f749440c4e71981e71410d1cbd82authors' map reported
Retrofit year	2012authors' map reported

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Columbia Mall” and “Columbia” (422 hits, first 100 sampled, 8 other filers such as tenants left out). Common name: these matches are unreliable. Only weak matches to commercial-mortgage trusts: the mall may have backed a securitised loan, or may just be mentioned in the filing; several trusts usually means one loan split into pari-passu notes. Earliest trust filing in the sample 2008-01-11 (a sample date, not the issuance date); candidate loan vintage 2007 from the trust name (weak match). Whether the loan is still in the pool, in special servicing or repaid is in the trust's monthly distribution reports, which are not searchable here. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

Kind	Filer	Filings	Dates	Forms
CMBS trust (weak)	Bear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 2007-PWR18	1	2008-01-11 to 2008-01-11	8-K 1
Public owner (weak)	GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES INC	36	2001-03-19 to 2010-10-29	8-K 27, 10-K 7, 8-K/A 2
Public owner (weak)	CEDAR SHOPPING CENTERS INC (CDR-PB, CDR-PC)	17	2005-11-01 to 2012-03-06	8-K 16, 8-K/A 1
Public owner (weak)	CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES INC (CBL)	15	2001-01-19 to 2003-04-24	8-K 8, 10-Q 3, 8-K/A 2, 10-K 2
Public owner (weak)	ROUSE COMPANY	5	2002-03-22 to 2006-04-18	10-K 5
Public owner (weak)	General Growth Properties, Inc.	4	2010-12-13 to 2012-02-29	10-K 2, 8-K 1, 8-K/A 1
Public owner (weak)	Howard Hughes Corp	1	2014-12-18 to 2014-12-18	8-K 1

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	19: AGFA GEVAERT INC; APPLE, INC. R168; BENNIGAN'S OF COLUMBIA; COLUMBIA MALL, INC; EXXON GAS STATIONEPA FRS
Census tract 24027605404	4,482 people, 4,447 per sq mi; median household income $127,833; median gross rent $2,364; 83% renters; 10.4% vacant units; 3.4% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 3 grocers, 1 schools, 11 parks or playgrounds, 2 health, 3 civic, 41 food and drink; 236 cycleway segments, 118 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, Howard County (MD), 2024	285 units in 5+ unit buildings, 4 in 2–4, 592 single-family; 2023: 195 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.18; socioeconomic 0.12; housing and transport 0.50; 9% below 150% of poverty; 7% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	0 within 10 km, 16 within 25 kmcomputed
Overture Maps	place Columbia Mall Play Area (shopping_mall, confidence 0.92, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 35,077 m²Overture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.themallincolumbia.com (alive) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Tract change 2013–2023	tract boundary changed between the 2010 and 2020 census; no 2013 comparisonCensus ACS
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	very low overall (score 17.8); expected annual loss $709,201; high: winter weather; community resilience very highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	noneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	15,501 jobs in 877 establishments; average annual pay $47,199; employment location quotient 0.91; employment -3.6% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	12,039 jobs; 1,851 in retail trade, 1,959 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 24027605404)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 42th income percentile as adults; 1.9% incarcerated at the 2010 count (405 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 10.3%; median family income $106,222; 233 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Howard County Public Schools (PK-12); 5 public schools within 1 mile: Bryant Woods Elementary; Running Brook Elementary; Talbott Springs Elementary; Wilde Lake HighNCES EDGE
Elevation	376 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	267 county-logged events: 166 thunderstorm wind, 42 flood, 39 flash flood, 13 hail; $37,639,000 property damage reported; 3 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 21044, 2026-09	median list price $449,875 (-10.6% on the year); 84 active listings; median 36 days on market; 27% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	843 establishments (-2%); 15,369 jobs (-4%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $625,349 (+1% 1 yr, +16% 5 yr); typical rent $2,358/mo (+3% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	23,491 vehicles a day on 795 (minor arterial, 4 lanes); 22 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
county grew 5.9% 2018–23
median rent $2,038

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History and original facts

County	Howard County
Census division	5 · South Atlantic

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Timeline

2012 Retrofit: redevelop

Sources

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

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Columbia Mall, Columbia, MD." Record m-ce151e66f3, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/md/columbia-columbia-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_columbiacolumbiamall,
  title = {Columbia Mall, Columbia, MD},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/md/columbia-columbia-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-ce151e66f3, release 2026.10.20, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

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