A new upscale complex at Bradley Park is located just on Whitesville Road just off Bradley Park Drive behind the Publix and in front of Rivertown Ford. This place offers a multitude of destination shops for which people travel regularly from Montgomery, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia. Besides having amazing shops, this place is centrally located within a 2 mile radius of the town’s best restaurants and amusements. You can walk to about five car dealerships, a bowling alley, and a Hollywood Connection while shopping here. There is a Breusters Ice Cream right across the street. For lunch there is a Panera Bread restaurant, and around the corner many fast food chains. The stores include Chico’s, JOs A. Bank, Talbots, The Buzz, The Beadcage, The Kiddie Shoppe, Schomburg's Jewelery, Columbus Cooks, the famous Bliss Salon, the Blue Door and many others. The Buzz offers the teenage past college age girls and women the most exciting and cutting edge fashions. Moderately priced clothes to jeans over $200 a pair. You won't find these clothes in a department store. Casual to elegant and shoes to purses this place is awesome. While the girls shop at the Buzz, moms can shop at the Blue Door, Chico’s, and Talbots. These stores are always packed with the best dressed here in Columbus.
The little ones will love the Kiddie Shoppe with the most amazing selection of clothes for kids. This store is combined with McKay's women's boutique, a Columbus institution for years.
Another local favorite is The Beadcage, www.thebeadcage.com . This is an upscale gift store and bead boutique. They have thousands of beads and they are a Swarovski distributor. Once you buy your clothes at the other stores, go here and get a Mommy Bracelet or have custom jewelry made to match. They sell the most amazing purses including Mary Francis and Mylinka. The have hundreds of fragrance lamps including the full line of Lampe Berger as well as others. They have tons of jewelry and their selection seems to change weekly. You could spend a whole day in this shop alone. Like Columbus Cooks, The Beadcage offers classes and parties in their large dedicated classroom. You can go here and design your own jewelry and they help you put it together. If you are in town bridal shopping this is a great place to have custom designed jewelry to match yours and your brides maid’s dresses.
Another favorite place to go is Columbus Cooks, www.columbuscooks.com, where their huge 4000 sq ft complex offers every imaginable gadget for the home cook or chef. They offer cooking classes and their staff is excellent. The have a full line of gourmet delicacies from coffees and teas to rubs and exotic vanilla. They carry lines you just won’t find elsewhere including Vita Mix Professional Series Blenders and Zojirushi.
Make your appointments in advance for the famous Bliss Salon. The closest thing the South has to a New York style salon. People come from Atlanta and farther just to get their hair cut here. They carry Aveda products. http://bliss-salon.com
When you are finished shopping there is a Hilton Garden Inn a half mile away or you can go Downtown to the Marriot and then enjoy the night life there.
Additional shopping can be found at the Columbus Peachtree Mall off of Manchester Freeway, www.peachtreemall.com . It is a very good sized mall for the area. It is anchored by Macy’s and Parisians. It is a clean safe mall with ample free parking. It is less than five miles from the above shops.
If an outdoor strip mall is what you desire, one of the newest malls in Columbus includes about a half mile of stores. There are a multitude of chain restaurants and a Marriot Residence Inn. www.shopcolumbusparkcrossing.com . This is only about 2 miles from the above stores.
Columbus has many other shops scattered throughout the city, but there are too many to mention.