is a Shopping Mall in Guilderland, New York , not far from the nearby cities of Albany and Schenectady . The mall, which opened in March 1984 and underwent an expansion nearly doubling its size in October 1994 , has an area of 1,700,000 foot2 with two floors and 250 Shop s and Restaurant s as well as an 18-screen Regal Cinema Theater .
The mall is owned and managed by The Pyramid Companies , a group who also owns and manages other shopping malls such as the Carousel Center in Syracause , a mall which the group is currently planning to expand to the largest mall in the country as part of the DestiNY USA project.
Current anchors are as follows
- Macy's (currently in a 170,000foot2 location, to move into the 210,000 foot2 location formerly occupied by Filene's , key anchor of the 1994 addition, on May 2, 2006)
- J.C. Penney (key tenant in the original 1984 wing)
- Dick's Sporting Goods (upper level, original wing. Original Filenes store.)
- Cohoes (lower level,below Dick's. Original Filene's)
- Borders Books & Music (upper level, opening Summer 2006)
- Best Buy (upper level, original west end of mall. Formerly Caldor .)
- H&M (lower level, original west end of mall. Formerly Caldor .)
- DSW Shoe Warehouse (lower level, old wing)
- Old Navy (lower level, old wing)
- Bally Total Fitness (two level location in new wing adjacent to Regal Cinema and current Filene's/future Macy's)
- Regal 18 Cinemas (lower level in new wing, adjacent to Bally's and past Filene's/future Macy's)
- Filene's (210,000 foot2 replacement opened 1994, closed March 21, 2006 to make way for Macy's to move into its former location)
- Lord & Taylor (110,000 foot2 location in new wing, vacant since February 2005)
- Jordan Marsh (opened July 1985, became Macy's after Federated merged the brands together in 1996.
- Nobody Beats The Wiz (closed 1998, replaced by Cohoes)
- Caldor (a rare 2-level location in the space now occupied by Best Buy and H&M)
- TJ Maxx (closed September 2004, space will be filled by new Borders)
- The original movie theater, located on the third level above the Caldor/Best Buy space, closed in Spring 2005 .
- Klein's All-Sports (local chain with location in new wing, closed 2005)
In recent years, two well-publicized controversies have taken place regarding mall policies.
- At the dawn of the Iraq War in March 2003 , the mall became the center of a free speech controversy when Selkirk resident Stephen Downs was arrested for wearing an anti-war T-shirt in the mall. After much objections, the mall dropped the charges {Link without Title} .
- In July 2005, the mall adopted a curfew policy (since made standard for all Pyramid malls) for people under the age of 18 on Friday and Saturday evenings, disallowing them from entering the mall unless accompanied by a parent or guardian over the age of 21. Aside from the affected consumers, complaints came from organizations which saw the actions of the mall being hypocritical given that many stores survive on the under-18 market {Link without Title} .
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