McKinley Mall

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McKinley Mall
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McKinley Mall
Location Hamburg, New York
Coordinates 42°47′04″N78°48′27″W / 42.7844°N 78.8074°W / 42.7844; -78.8074
Opening dateOctober 7, 1985
Developer Zamias Services, Inc. [1]
Owner Kohan Retail Investment Group [2]
No. of stores and services55
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) [3]
Website www.shopmckinleymall.com

McKinley Mall, which opened on October 7, 1985, is a shopping mall in Buffalo, New York, United States. The mall is located in Hamburg, New York at the intersection of McKinley Parkway and Milestrip Road (New York State Route 179) immediately east of Interstate 90 and the New York State Thruway. McKinley Mall services the Southtowns of Erie County, New York.

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The mall retains the traditional retailers Best Buy, Old Navy, Barnes & Noble, and JCPenney.

History

The McKinley Mall opened on October 7, 1985, in Blasdell, NY, just south of Buffalo. At the time of opening the mall featured approximately 80 inline stores, including a food court known as "The Garden." It also featured anchors of the time: AM&A's, The Sample, and Sears. In 1986, a six screen General Cinema Theatre opened. The construction of the mall in the early 1980s brought a wave of controversy throughout the adjoining town of Hamburg, as the town was divided over whether or not the mall should be built. At the time the site was largely undeveloped but has now become largely developed.

Monday, August 15, 1988, local chain L. L. Berger added on to the mall opening a 40,000-square-foot (3,700-square-meter) store. On Thursday, April 6, 1989, the mall saw Sibley's add on to the mall, relocating from the Seneca Mall. 1989 also saw the opening of the Walden Galleria 10 miles north in Cheektowaga. A super-regional mall, the Galleria helped accelerate the death of many aging surrounding malls including the Seneca Mall, and the Thruway Mall. However, the Mckinley Mall continued on almost unfettered, as it served the Southtowns of Western New York. 1991 saw JCPenney add on to the mall. 1990 also saw the conversion of Sibley's into Pittsburgh based Kaufmann's and in 1991, the entire L. L. Berger chain closed after filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and became Kaufmann's Home Store in 1994.

Throughout the 1990s, the presence and success of the McKinley Mall brought enormous growth in peripheral retail surrounding the property. Surrounding the mall within the property included the opening of stores such as Circuit City, Pier 1, Media Play, Dollar Tree, and Rosa's Home and Furniture Store. Likewise, many restaurants opened surrounding the property including Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and TGI Fridays. Outside the mall on McKinley Parkway and Milestrip Road, stores such as Home Depot, BJ's Wholesale Club, Toys "R" Us, Jo-Ann Fabrics, OfficeMax, A.C. Moore, TJ Maxx, Wegmans, and Aldi opened. Restaurants that opened outside the mall included Ruby Tuesday, Applebee's, Friendly's, and Outback Steakhouse. 1994 brought the opening of York, Pennsylvania based The Bon-Ton after they purchased Buffalo based AM&A's the same year.

In 2006 it was announced that Bed Bath and Beyond would open a store in the Sears wing on the mall's western side while Best Buy announced they would open a store next door. In September 2006, Pittsburgh based Kaufmann's became Macy's. 2008 saw the opening of Barnes and Noble. 2009 saw the opening of Ulta Beauty and in 2011, Old Navy moved into the mall where KB Toys used to be.

The later 2010's saw several storied traditional department store retailers update their brick-and-mortar formats after being encroached upon to a degree by several digital retailers in recent years. In April 2016, Macy's, which retains several much larger outposts around Western New York, announced that after a strategy had been elected by them to solely focus on their highest achieving locations that they would be leaving the shopping center. In April 2018, it was announced department store retailer The Bon-Ton would shutter after it wasn't able to establish any new conditions to satisfy its established long-term debt. In February, 2020, Sears announced they would shutter as part of an on going decision to eliminate their brick-and-mortar format.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced all malls to close in response to prolonged lockdown orders nationwide. During this time some inline stores left the mall with speculation the mall would be retrofitted and with customers commenting that they'd like to see the mall refreshed with new stores. On July 28, 2021, the Kohan Retail Investment Group purchased McKinley Mall for $8.5 million. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Adamczak, Rick (January 19, 1989). "McKinley Mall Has Been Catalyst For Hamburg Growth". The Sun and the Erie County Independent. p. 15.
  2. ↑ Petro, Michael (June 21, 2021). "Developer Mehran Kohansieh agrees to purchase but his intentions for property still unknown". Sun+.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-10. Retrieved 2007-12-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ Hackford, Rob (July 9, 2021). "Sale of McKinley Mall approved by judge, objections from town and developer denied". WGRZ. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
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