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January when Express Limited and Borders Express shut down.
Marv Cermak

Shoppers and other tenants said Express Limited was a too-pricey women's apparel shop that lost much of its business during the recession. Express Limited stores remain at Crossgates, Colonie Center and the Wilton Mall.

Borders Express, an arm of the bookstore chain giant, closed a number of its nationwide shopping mall outlets as a result of the economy slowdown.

During the last year or so Rotterdam Square has lost several other significant tenants including the Zales and Belden's jewelry shops, Men's Wearhouse, KB Toys and PacSun, which sells clothes for young people.............>>>>...............................>>>>.........Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspS.....Page=2#ixzz0f2mrlyag

Might just as well be the city mission down there....what an F'EN dump....I go to colonie center....sorry, but this is ridiculous.......close it before the crime costs more than the taxes collected......JMHO....

GET OFF MY BACK....

and you wonder why I support CHOICE abortion......honestly---people UNDERSTAND what is involved-----WITHOUT the God DAMN guilt--------GET OFF MY BACK..,,,,,,,,BOTH YOU IDIOT PARTIES.......

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ROTTERDAM
Vacant storefronts are sign of times
Rotterdam Square manager prefers to focus on successes
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Macy’s advertisements now hang in the empty storefront windows of the Express Limited at the Rotterdam Square mall.
    Across the hall from the shuttered clothes retailer is another darkened storefront, blocked by a metal gate and obscured by a plastic curtain. The defunct stores are joined at the junction near the Sears corridor by a makeshift wall concealing another pair of empty store fronts.
    Further down the short corridor running parallel to Express Limited is the former location of Brooklyn’s American Grill. The defunct restaurant closed about four years ago and still hasn’t drawn a new tenant.
    There are five retail spaces in this section of mall and only the smallest one carries a functioning business — the Easy Method Driving School. Outside, the scores of empty spaces in the mall’s rear parking lot seem to accentuate the Rotterdam Square’s seemingly growing number of retail vacancies.
    “It’s probably the emptiest it’s ever been,” confessed Joann Jackson, a manager at Glennpeter Jewelers who has worked at the mall for eight years.
    While the mall’s three anchor stores remain viable and its movie theater was recently refurbished, roughly a fifth of its storefronts remain vacant, according to an unofficial count conducted last week . Among the 73 retail spaces appearing on the mall directory, only 59 are listed as occupied.
    The directory also still lists Express Limited and Borders Express. Both retail chains left the mall in January. .................>>>>..............>>>>................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00902&AppName=1

The Gazetto has weighed in on the Rotterdam Square Mall debacle. Only six days after TU's Marv Cermak.

     As one store manager put it "It's probably the emptiest it's ever been". 14 empty stores and they wonder why County sales tax revenue is plummeting? Even McDonald's has closed. Maybe they need a facade program?

Let's face it....that mall has been on a decline for the last few years. The recession just added to it's pain. More people go to Mohawk Commons, colonie center and crossgates. And why? Because those malls are constantly changing, expanding and updating. Not so with this mall. It looks almost the same as it did 20 years ago. Just emptier!!

I am not so concerned about a few stores closing as I am at the chance of the entire mall closing it's doors altogether. Then rotterdam will be stuck with yet another empty beast that was built on land (aquifer) that should have never been built to begin with.

Just one more 'possible' failure, due to lack of vision and rumored kick backs on the part of our past administrations.