Big Lots and other recent store closings add to over 3 million square feet of empty Columbus retail space, but experts say that might not be so bad.

The fast-fashion empire has already closed two of its three central Ohio locations in the past five years, leaving only a shop at the Mall at Tuttle Crossing. Forever 21 cited foreign competition ...

133,000 square feet in the Mall at Tuttle Crossing; 75,000 square feet in Great Western Commerce Center on Wilson Road; 66,000 square feet at Eastland Square on South Hamilton Road; and 128,000 ...