NEW YORK, NY -- The AOL Time Warner Center -- owned by Related Companies LP of New York City and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP -- will open next year in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The center will take up 2.1 million square feet of the circle, and its two towers will reach 80 stories into the city's skyline.
The center's first five stories -- comprising 340,000 square feet -- will be retail space, dubbed "The Palladium." Top retailers such as: Joseph Abboud, Cole Haan, Hugo Boss, A/X Armani Exchange, J. Crew, Sisley, Benetton Kids, Clio Blue and Eileen Fisher have officially signed on for space in The Palladium. The complex AOL Time Warner blueprints place restaurants, offices and condominiums above the shopping Palladium, while also connecting it to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Jazz at Lincoln Center.