Colonie Center: Is It a Dying Mall? I'm Honestly Not Sure! Colonie, New York.
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2024
- Join me as I take a look at the Colonie Center Mall in Colonie, New York. Is it a dead mall, a dying mall or is it doing just fine? I'm honestly not sure. Let me know what you think about this mall in the comments!
This video was filmed in November 2023 around 11:30 am on a Tuesday.
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I think the fountain was removed less than 5 years ago. In terms of the health of the mall, compared to Crossgates and Viaport Rotterdam, this is the most thriving. I think the Christmas Tree Shops on the south side of the upper level closed right before your visit, but that was a big source of traffic. But weekends, between the restaurants and theater, you can't even park where you were parked. Whole Foods (inside the Sears but not accessible via inside the mall) is also a big source for traffic. At peak holiday season, it takes time to get around the traffic around this mall.
Been to this mall in 2022. Really good mall.
The only time I can remember going to Colonie Center was when my Mom and Dad took me there to see a dolphin called Skipper. That was roughly 50 years ago.
People are working and kids are in school.
You, my friend, had an anomaly. As a local, Colonie Center is usually a nightmare to find a spot to park or to navigate inside for all the people. Evenings and weekends are crazy, and I do my best to avoid the mall during the christmas season because what should be a 20 minute visit often turns into an hour plus.
As always great video 👍
I think it's doing fine
I've seen malls in worse shape. I suppose they got that going for them. The owners being in financial bad shape isn't a good sign. The mall does look like it might become one of those outward facing malls and the inside of the mall will fall into disuse or get phased out. The outside looks more trafficked than the inside.
BTW saw you on the CT news about the CT malls. Great job!
Typically if you visit during the week in the late morning/early afternoon you won't see many people as they are working, lol. You see more traffic later in the day and on weekends as trying to find parking can be rather difficult near the wolf rd side.
I usted to visit this mall everyday as I worked nearby and would walk on my lunch breaks and it has deffers had upgrades. They also allow well behaved dogs in the mall which is pretty cool. Some stores allow dogs as well and you'll know when you see the pet friendly sticker in the shops window. This is currently my corgi @einzelda favorite mall.
I've done the same thing in a Regal Cinema with an obvious camera (not to record movies, or course). Nothing. I came back later to see the movie listings, and was harassed by security that wasn't there, but simply for looking at the listings to see what's playing. The only security guy the whole time similar to this is the guy next to the elevator to the top level, guarding the projection room it serves. That guy was cool though.
You may not have noticed, but that "Grill"-like decal on the elevator windows is an advert. At least it allows you to see outside, as some don't.
....and since you sometimes ask, it's a Dover Impulse, which may have a newer "ThyssenKrupp" nameplate on the floor counter. TK is known to do that most of the time.
PS: A bit of a freak coincidence, as Rue21 is closing all their stores, that's what is front-and-center in your Whitney Field thumbnail.
Sears both floors were open until it closed (or sometime late in liquidation sales). Whole foods used only a corner of it, but confusingly uses both floors for a high ceiling. I figured the tile store did the same, but apparently not based on your description.
Alright, it's time for a Boscovs store tour.
It looks like the rumor of Saks Off 5th or Crate & Barrel is sourced on Wikipedia. I checked their reference article & that article has no mention of Crate & Barrel or Saks Off 5th at all.
I knew the mall up till September of 2020, when I moved out of the Capital District. Up until then, it was always fairly busy when I'd go there (which was mainly on Sunday afternoons.)
That fountain was in operation up until then--but at Christmas time, they would shut it off. Maybe it was just closed down for the holiday season as usual, and is still functioning at other times.
I live just a three-hours drive from the Colonie Center Mall and I have frequented it on several occasions. The anchor businesses are all doing good great: Barnes and Noble, Boscov's, L.L. Bean, Macy's, P.F. Chang's, etc. However, the interior mall itself is dead!
Always liked this mall. It’s definitely more dead than crossgates but hoping it’s getting back up on its feet. Also, yes that’s not bad foot traffic because it was a school day in the morning.
I go here all the time, it does well on weekends, and B&N and Cheesecake do really well.
I would call it doing kind of okay.....you are my dying mall video standard and by far my favorite
Thanks! I appreciate it!
You actually entered the mall on the west side.
I was really surprised to see that the Christmas Tree Shops store closed: it always appeared to be doing well (and in all seasons.)
I know that one factor that can kill a mall is a poor or ho-hum ambience inside. One of the great things about the Colonie Center Mall are all the skylights which help to make the inside look really nice.
I'll never understand how people can eat candy out of those things when everyone has put their fingers in the openings
Hasn't killed me yet
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger I guess or so they say
Builds up the biome. 😂
You keep bringing up how "dead" the mall is in the voice over. It's a Tuesday Morning at a mall that is 5 miles outside of the state capital of New York where the majority of suburbs work. That alone should explain why it's quiet. Yes, maybe it could of been more busy given the holiday season but it wasn't like there was nobody in the mall and you were hearing the echoes of your footsteps.
I think the health of the mall is more than showcased through the small quantity of empty stores or restaurants, and maybe at 4pm on the same day, you'd find the mall more filled with shoppers. And knowing that you've recently been to Aviation and Wilton Malls north of here, I know you've seen malls that are in MUCH worse shape.
*EDIT: Okay, yes, towards the 20 minute mark you bring up maybe foundation cracks with how the property has lost value... but I still think this mall is better off than the two other malls I mentioned still.*
This is a mall that has adjusted well over the years, first when Crossgates came to Guilderland on the other side of I-87 and I-90, then when smaller malls like Latham Square and Northway Mall closed up shop not far away from here.
Chris Drury owns the Colony Grill Pizza 🍕
At around 4:10, was somethin' funky goin' on, w/ that store's lights? Or was it some sync issue w/ your camera?🤔
That store is a beauty salon. Only the wall lights flicker; they must be the type that causes that flickering in the camera
Probably a video sync issue
I really injoyed this mall video
Thanks!
Same developers as the failing Steeplegate Mall in Concord, NH
I've been going to this mall since the early eighites. It is definitiely dying, believe me, especially since Sears closed. The mall is almost always semi-deserted. They're actually allowing people to bring their dogs into the mall in the hopes of attracting more shoppers. Whole Foods is always busy, but the people who shop there don't go into the mall. The same is true with the movie theater, as the people who go to said theater usually don't go into the mall. Ditto in regards to the Cheesecake Factory. BTW, I don't remember Macy's being in the middle of the mall; I thought they just expanded the store when they built the addition.
I grew up in that area so Colonie Center was one of my go to malls. Surprised to see so many of the stores I used to visit still there.
I think it's slowly dying. In my opinion, all malls are. We have the Internet to thank for that.
I'm pretty sure that sign was there as I remember back in the 90s
Anytime a hedge fund buys a mall it's only a matter of time for last rites
Who shops on a Tuesday AM, same with the arcade. You would have to go some time other than work school hours.
Not too bad of a mall. I love watching all your videos. I haven’t been to flea markets in years but you’ve got me interested again. I love uranium glass. I only have 2 pieces but I’d love to find more. Can you tell me what Geiger counter you have? I saw you use it in another video. Howdy from Houston
Glad you like them! Thanks!
I don't think its dying. But it has lost some really good stores either from them going out of business or moving to crossgates mall.
If they were to get some of those back it would help.
Given it is a Tuesday morning I can’t say it feels that strange to me for it to be this empty. That said, the mall does seem relatively healthy to me except for that old Sears wing (again, a recurring theme) but like you said, if that gets redeveloped that’s great news.
Nice mall I live in Vermont my sister lives in Cahoes I will go there when I visit losing sears is a joke and bed bath and beyond
A fireplace in a mall is just weird it looks ok
I can only speak for myself. I don't like walking around a big mall to get what I want. I just order online or go to Walmart.
I hear Colonie Center is doing well. At this point, it’s not in any danger of becoming a dead mall.
Candy machine crunch ASMR
The movie theater at Garden State Plaza is even bigger than this one with a few more screens.
I think the mall is somewhat struggling but not to the point of no return. Food court looks good & tenants are being added to the former Sears.
Serious question...is there a way that you are able to make the camera look a bit more stealthy? Maybe wear a light jacket or windbreaker so the straps are covered and the camera just peeks out the front? Great video!
Not that I can think of, especially if it's in the summer.
Wow itspretty dead right for a Tuesday morning that's a shame it's a very clean mall inside
If you’re ever in the Evansville Indiana area we have 2 malls for you to explore!
Mayne someday. That's a little bit too far for now.
Sorry if you have answered this before, but have you thought about coming to the Pacific Northwest The Southcenter Mall in Tukwila (south of Seattle) still has a Sears store and it's definitely not a dying mall
Maybe someday. I currently can't afford the airfare.
hey sir this was a nice mall but you forgot to mention that there was a giant nordstrom as well
You mean the Nordstrom Rack?
Not sure if that's a dead mall or not, but that parking lot's surface is definitely on life support.
An actual Hickory Farms store??? Haven't seen one of those in decades. Usually all you get in the malls around here are the seasonal Kiosks.
4:00 why sweet tarts? *Smarties are better*
At least the hallways aren't walled off like how a tumor appears to wall off a part of a lung as it grows. It could come back or it could go down. Not too sure.
How is it a dead mall? There are times you go there and you can't even get parking. It's not a dead Mall
Never said it was dead
Didn't said dead. Said dying. Two different things.
@@fleabittenadventuresyes you did liar
@@fleabittenadventuresyou put dead mall in the title lol
@@scottshep8978it's not dead not even close
Your comment on the chandelier: "It's up there." Ba Dum Tss!
LOL Mr White
Seems like a nice mall. Yes it does seem somewhat empty, but doing OK it seems.
22:07 I'm not sure what was being said there but if it's what I think, it's something that happens far too often in today's society. Too much 'chippiness' going on.
Eh. Going to have to disagree a little bit. This mall is pretty busy, especially on weekends. The movie theater is pretty busy, which brings in the business. I like coming here over Xgates to be honest.
After seeing that cheesecake factory is certainly not dead
Looks like the arcade was a former pharmacy chain maybe Fays or Eckerds or Rite Aid
Anyway malls or stores or cinema's shouldn't say anything about videoing in their places cause it's our 1st amendment rights to film
If say anything about videoing in their places their volitating our 1st amendment rights
It was a baby GAP, the sports zone was a GAP
If you had filmed on a Saturday instead of a Tuesday morning, you would have seen a lot more foot traffic.
Isn't illegal to take pics and video in a mall?
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