During the early 1990s depression in Finland, the company started building business spaces in the area by itself as it could not find any suitable investors.
Businesses located in the expansion part included K-Supermarket, Posti Group, Tokmanni, Jysk and the self storage rental company Cityvarasto.
Bonava plans on buying building rights of about 32,000 m2 (340,000 sq ft) habitable space for owner-occupied and rental apartments.
[6] Numerous businesses related to daily groceries, clothes, beauty, the household and free time, as well as restaurants and services, are located in the Columbus shopping centre.
Businesses in the centre include Alko, R-kioski, S-Market, K-Supermarket, Lindex, Hesburger, Subway, a pharmacy and Tokmanni.