MALL HALL OF FAME

Syracuse's DeWitt ShoppingTown   The SHOPPINGTOWN strip plaza was officially dedicated in March 1954. The open-air complex was touted...

The Kallet ShoppingTown Theatre was installed in the basement floor and faced onto a lower level parking area on the back side of the compl...

  A full-line Dey Brothers store was the first bona fide anchor of the DEWITT SHOPPINGTOWN complex. The store, another northern...

Rochester-based E.W. Edwards & Son built the SHOPPINGTOWN center's second anchor department store. Situated in the rear parking are...

Meanwhile, the southern half of the original strip plaza had been torn down. The remainder (in  black ) was incorporated into th...

A 1975 newspaper advert proclaiming the grand opening of the newly-malled SHOPPINGTOWN center. By this time, the Kallet Shoppingtown Thea...

By the late 1980s, SHOPPINGTOWN MALL features three full-sized anchor stores and encompasses approximately 608,700 leasable square...

A circa-1987 aerial of the mall. The freestanding Shoppingtown 1-2-3-4 multiplex (the old twinplex, now quaded) is visible in the lower r...

A snapshot taken in the West Wing's   " Octagonal Court. " Lechters Housewares, a popular 1980s and '90s shopping mall ...

The mega mall that killed nearly all others in -or around- "The Cuse." Pyramid Companies' CAROUSEL CENTER (now known as DES...

In a desperate attempt to keep up with CAROUSEL CENTER, SHOPPING- TOWN was renovated and expanded during 1990 and '91.  Graphic from ...

A Northeast Wing (in medium gray ) was dedicated at SHOPPINGTOWN in August, 1991. Its Addis & Dey's was rebranded, by Pi...

The South Wing and its J.C. Penney storefront. The SHOPPINGTOWN Penney's encompassed 3 levels and 150,000 square feet. Photo from ...

At the time of a turn of the 21st century layout, SHOPPINGTOWN encompasses around 1,002,100 leasable square feet. The latest additions are...

Sears shuttered their 23-year-old SHOPPINGTOWN store in September 2018. This left the complex, already on life support, with no ...

DEWITT SHOPPINGTOWN Erie Boulevard East and Kinne Road Onondaga County (Town of DeWitt), New York One of the first post-war shopping cen...

New York State's Pyramid Mall Plattsburgh Syracuse's Pyramid Companies built five PYRAMID MALL complexes. The first two -PYR...

PYRAMID MALL PLATTSBURGH, circa 1976. In its original state, the North Country's " Shopping Showplace " encompasse...

In the mid-1980s, PYRAMID MALL PLATTSBURGH was hemmed in and could not accommodate a physical expansion. Pyramid Companies developed an ...

CHAMPLAIN CENTRE SOUTH (nee' PYRAMID MALL PLATTSBURGH) was demolished in 1999. Buildings left standing are surrounded in b...