Dead Mall: McKinley Mall - Blasdell, NY
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Dead Mall: McKinley Mall - Blasdell, NY. Right on the edge of the Buffalo suburbs of Blasdell and Hamburg is this old mall whose best days are long behind her. Opening in 1985, McKinley Mall saw its peak in the 90s despite the Walden Galleria dominating the Buffalo region by being a very successful mall. Unlike Eastern Hills, Seneca, and Thruway Malls which all saw their demise as a result, McKinley hung on... That was until the mid 2000s and the recession of 2008 which began the downward spiral. With anchors closing in the late 2010s and the pandemic of 2020 causing most businesses to struggle and several mall tenants to cloae the downward spiral for McKinley accelerated to its current state now. This is how we saw it in early May 2021.
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This was my old stomping grounds. I grew up at this mall and every teenager in the area came there. I had the best times of my youth spent there. Now sadly it's a far distant memory and a little fragment of what it was. Back in the day it was lit! Christmas time you could barely move and only walk two feet without running into someone you knew. It's really ashame that now only the memories remain. I will miss those days forever.
I grew up hanging out at this mall! The state it is in in breaks my heart:( love your videos! Hopefully you find some food.
diversity our strength. when it was white area place was booming, when Egyptians king came, all change....but hey, at least they "taught" us how to wash
Wallie and Kayla You Guys are Always Awesome.
Ooh look another dead mall video great video WallieB26
Very sad seeing all that area just close 😢 😞 😔 😪 😕 I hope they can open back up thank you wallie and Kayla for awesome videos keep being awesome
Another mall bites the dust. Feel sorry for the small stores that are trying to stay afloat with an outside entrance. There has to be a way to bring people in again. Thanks for the video.😊
I really enjoyed the mixing in of still photos during the drive part. Seeing what it use to look like compared to now had a big impact to what I was seeing.
Most of the malls in the Buffalo area are closer to the city, in the first ring of suburbs. McKinley Mall was built for people in the Southtowns, who had a longer drive to the Walden Galleria, Boulevard, or Eastern Hills malls. It was a great mall, anchored by Macy's (Sibley's, Kaufmann's), the Bon Ton (AM&As), Sears, and JC Penney - only JC Penney is still standing. They have tried to keep it open by adding additional stores that open to the outside, like Bed, Bath & Beyond, Ulta (now closed) and Best Buy, but I'm afraid that if JC Penney closes, it will be all over. It's a nice, clean, walkable mall with a few stores left - and obviously the pandemic isn't helping mall traffic and stores at all. I was nostalgic even watching this video, because the food court is entirely closed at this point, along with some of the other stores on the video. It seems that shopping (for those of us that still want to try things on) is reverting back to open-air plazas. There is a plaza less than a mile from this mall with a Target, Home Goods, Ulta, and many other stores, restaurants, and a movie theatre that does very well. With Buffalo weather being what it is at certain times of the year, I can't explain why uncovered plazas do better...
It’s bizarre to me. I miss the days of looking forward going to the mall getting all your shopping done at one place and than going to a restaurant/ food court afterwards for a nice meal. But with nothing there it’s depressing. Online shopping is nice buts it not the same as human interaction / trying things on I’m sorry. It blows my mind that if the roof was chopped off and it was a plaza it would be successful.
Love the dead mall videos! Keep up the great work and man do I miss when malls where full and busy.
My old Hometown. I remember when that mall was decent. Still go to Barnes & Noble there when visiting.
Back in the heyday. If you lived in the Blasdell, Hamburg, Orchard Park, West Seneca area. The McKinley Mall was the place. Especially with a lot of the shops that are dead now (Media Play, Sam Goody, Circuit City just to name some).
Awesome Wallie
Awe those kitties are so cute 🥰 awesome video thanks for sharing
Our mall has a gym, arts performances area, school, trampoline park yet still very dead. The fye, candy shop, old navy and Spencer's left due to new owners doubling rent. New owners are killing our mall fast. Maybe 8 stores open and most non traditional. I think it has like 70 empty areas
What mall?
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@@davidconrad3681 Let’s go I was right. I’m planning on visiting that mall on Friday since it’s on the way home from my college.
I enjoyed watching this video! The Mckinnley Mall is really beautiful inside. They keep the mall really clean as well. It's really sad to see the mall's decline. Thanks for the footage of the cats at the end of the video! There was one cat that looks like my cat Skeeter. Skeeter was 1 year old as of August 8th this year. Have a KMartlicious Day!
Hi my friend and Great find and take care
I love the background music 🎶
Thank you!
Every Mall That you or anyone else has explored and Walk through as some ones memories. That center court is absolutely Amazing!!! The Kitties at the end. Thank you for taking us along Wallie.
The one thing is that CLEAR how Best buy is still in business with the head c.e.o doing long time employees wrong 😡
Oh I know. What they did is horrible. Kayla worked for Best Buy and filled me in on all the news. Though she had been long gone already, she is still friends with some of her old coworkers from there. It's despicable what the ceo did to those working full time for years and years. Dedicating their LIVES to that company just to have her throw them all away basically. I haven't shopped there since. I won't spend another dollar there because of her selfishness. Rather than take a pay cut since you know she's rich and makes 900% more than the employees, nah... just get rid of everyone that made the company what it is.
@@WallieB26 the day is coming up with everything will cause the person who did this to loose everything and be left out in the cold
Uh-Oh, what exactly has 'Best Buy' done? Are they going down the same path their arch-rival Circuit City went down a decade or so ago? CEO (of Circuit City) at the time was a fella by the name of Philip Schoonover (sp?). He fired all the experienced long-time sales staff to save on payroll and accrued vacation time and replaced them with just-over-minimum-wage part time teenagers and college-age students. He collected a multi-million dollar bonus that year for his "cost-saving brilliance". Within 18 months Circuit City was in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy proceedings and would end up liquidating / closing all its stores. You'd think Best Buy would have learned from watching their primary competitor self-immolate, but I guess folks have a short memory.
I can tell you a funny story about my last experience in a Best Buy. (Pre-pandemic) I was shopping for a laptop computer. A young employee glommed onto me like white-on-rice. He kind of hovered near me and it made me kind of nervous, and, every time I would ask him a question, he would basically just re-phrase my question as a statement and repeat it back to me. I noticed that he was furiously scribbling in a little notepad the whole time. When I moved to leave the store (without making any purchase), he tore off a sheet from the notepad and handed it to me. He had basically written down everything I had said to him while I was in the store! And I could see there were 3 copies, one to give to the 'customer' one to turn in to his manager, and one for the 'associate' to keep. I guess they expect the employees to keep account of what they are doing with their time.
@@irefusetoaskmydoctorifyour6401 the thing who is going to be taking the place of Best buy when they go down 👇👎 for good
Wow the colors/detailing of the center court is beautifully retro. Looks like it was designed with care.
Man you guys get around alot love the videos. Hope you guys have a great week thanks for sharing. Love how you added the news footage to the video.
This is becoming an all too common sight. Malls are dying even here up in Canada. I've made the occasional side trips to this place during my U.S. getaways, and for all the stores affected by this I am truly sorry for this malls demise. In particular, I hope the best for Dean's Hollywood and arcade. This is a very friendly family owned business that sells unique movie and music memorabilia including a large selection of SLAYER merchandise. Double devil horns for that. But their arcade is nothing like any other place. The cleanliness and sanitation protocols would never give covid a chance to breed. When large families would come in, Dean himself would come out to greet the members and cheer them on as they played the games. Afterwards, he would award extra redemption tickets to the kids for their efforts so they could claim larger prizes. Let's see Cheezie Charlies do that. I wish them the best at their impending new location. I'll be one of the first ones in line.
ty for showing this
My parents would drive from Toronto to this mall and buy us school clothes in the late 80s.... I would take my own son around 2012 to the Toys R Us...
Awesome video
I enjoyed your video, Wallie! It was a great one! Thank you so much!
even tho its dying , I have to say its rather clean !!!!
Good video! I have never been to this mall! I am more closer to Eastern Hills Mall! Sad to the malls go away! Don't see to many kittens in a mall either!
Cool 😀
The colors and native theme of the center court was totally Overlook Hotel in The Shining. Dug it
Love the kitties at the end .. TgT
Slayer is planning to cover all the greatest jams of Waterfront Dining!
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Dang kind little behind lol 😂
Did you say Kohan owns McKinley Mall in your video? If so they own the mall I grew up with here in Clay, New York called the Great Northern Mall. It is soo sad every time I go back there to see how it is doing on the inside. At most there is maybe 6 stores left open including a Time Out arcade in the food court area that has no restaurants open anymore. We lost our 10 screen Regal Cinema due to the health crisis. I personally loved that theater. Had the nicest employees ever. I remember when I was younger and most of the mall was occupied. I saw Drake Bell from the show Drake and Josh on Nickelodeon perform for free in the food court area. I have soo many great memories from there. :(
great vid thats my local mall!
Our mall in Spokane Washington north town is starting bto go down hill was thriving until covid!!
Wally you should check out the Wyoming valley Mall in Wilkes-Barre township PA that one's sort of getting in bad shape too
lmao I was just there the other day
Yeah, I'm not a fan of online shopping. Rather see and feel what I buy.
Me too! I am never satisfied with what I buy online. Never looks like I think it will ☹️
It’s a shame the building itself is really nice just nothing there
I got BURNED THREE TIMES buying sneakers off Amazon. Yesterday, I went to a brick and mortar store and walked out with the best pair I could have ever hoped for! I'm about to call it quits with Amazon completely, soon.
Ed sure has a interesting hair style
Kings Plaza mall was once a dead mall in Brooklyn New York.
I never liked McKinley mall. Always went to eastern or galleria. But as the news said.. online shopping is where it’s at.. malls are going away. Sadly..
Malls are irrelevant now. Good times at this mall as a kid, and then it was the hangout as a teenager. It's so bizarre to see it in it's current state. Like witnessing the end of a whole era.
I'm assuming your backlogged on videos
Yeah. I mentioned that a bunch of times this year.
This is sad. I really liked the McKinley mall. It was closer than the galleria. I also heard some poor woman got stabbed to death in the SEARS baby section prior to that store closing.
right, and looting Galleria (and malls/stores ) is not cause store closing? "diversity" 🙄
My local mall near me got wiped out by a tornado last year it made national news Jonesboro Arkansas
This mall was a couple of hours from my home. I liked shopping in it as it wasn’t so huge as the Walden Galleria. Back in the day the mall had lots of Canadian shoppers. Then the mid 2000’s hit and the property began its downward spiral. The Canadian shoppers left. Now in late 2021 it’s beyond repair. The chance of attracting new anchors is hopeless, even if they existed. The mall itself is nothing much in terms of architecture. It’s rather dull. So this is clearly the case that the land is worth more than the mall itself. Demolition will come in the future and the land will be repurposed.
Consolidation, bankruptcy are the main reasons why malls like this fail.
Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston NY is worse than this.
No more disposable income; between mortgage/rent, car payments, etc., people cannot afford to shop at malls.
B FLOW lol
malls are A O A
You should join our Facebook group save the McKinley mall