The seven-level retail component of the 2.8 million sf AOL Time Warner Center, collectively known as The Shops at Columbus Circle, will consist of a retail, restaurant, and entertainment complex totaling 350,000 sf of leasable space.

Once completed, the center will feature a mix of over 40 luxury and specialty retailers along with five world-class restaurants and a park view "one-of-a-kind" luxury bar. Major retailers will include Hugo Boss, Joseph Abboud, A/X Armani Exchange, Sephora, Cole Haan, J. Crew, Eileen Fisher, Thomas Pink, Coach, Stuart Weitzman, Tourneau, Whole Foods, Equinox, Borders and Williams-Sonoma. On the second concourse level, The Equinox Health Club and Spa will create a 40,000 sf "club within a club," while Whole Foods will occupy 60,000 sf on concourse level one.

The complex, master designed by David M. Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and retail designed by Howard Elkus of Elkus/Manfredi in Boston, is being developed by the Related Companies LP and Apollo Real Estate Advisors LP. The project will feature the new 879,000 sf world headquarters of AOL Time Warner, a Jazz at Lincoln Center performing arts facility with three main performance venues amd rehearsal and recording studios and classrooms. There will also be the Shops at Columbus Circle featuring luxury and specialty retail shops and Restaurant Collection, the One Central Park residential condominiums containing 191 luxury apartments, a 251-room five-star Mandarin Oriental, New York, 200,000 sf of state-of-the-art Class A office space, and a 504 stall valet parking garage.