Then retail space, designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, opened in February 2004 with 40 stores and 10 restaurants.

[2][3] The shops also opened the largest Whole Foods Market at 59,000 square feet (5,500 m2) and a flagship branch of Equinox.

[3] The shopping mall includes Lululemon, H&M, Alo, Hugo Boss, Tumi, Diptyque, J.Crew and Stuart Weitzman.

[6] When opened, the Whole Foods Market at Columbus Circle sold liquor from an attached room near the cash registers away from the main shopping aisles.

In 2005, Whole Foods settled with state authorities and closed its liquor operations at Columbus Circle, hoping to transfer its license to a new location it would be opening on the Lower East Side.