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Journeys ending run
Marv Cermak

Word has it Journeys, a national shoe and apparel shop, will be closing its Rotterdam Square store this coming Saturday.
Sources at the Rotterdam mall said the shop, which opened several years ago, did not live up to financial expectations.
Workers at two Journeys outlets at Crossgates Mall Sunday confirmed the Rotterdam store closure. Journeys operates about 40 stores in New York...........>>>>..............>>>>.............Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/defa.....94.php#ixzz1E1o1L4wB

Another success story about running a business in Schenectady County.  Go Metroplex!  Woo Hoo!

I keep sayin' Rotterdam Square -  the next SCCC

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I keep sayin' Rotterdam Square -  the next SCCC

They're going to get THAT much funding?  LOL  The Metroplex hasn't even tried to walk near the door!

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Another success story about running a business in Schenectady County.  Go Metroplex!  Woo Hoo!

They need to get Death Ray Gillen more involved. Then it can look like St James Square in Nisky. Desolation Boulevard. But did you hear that nonprofit mooch Mercury Morris just bought 3 more businesses? Woo Hoo!

     Nonprofit solution: Open up Proctor's II at RSM. No taxes, no fees! But it will attract the artsey-fartsey crowd for lunch at McDonalds or Friendly's.

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     Nonprofit solution: Open up Proctor's II at RSM. No taxes, no fees! But it will attract the broke artsey-fartsey crowd for lunch at McDonalds or Friendly's.

mcdonalds left and friendlys left or is remodeling  

THANK GOD FOR THE NEW DEMOCRAPIC TEAM!

Rotterdamians are going to colonie center, saratoga and clifton park for their shopping pleasure....OR......mohawk commons. Rotterdam is full of nothing but dollar stores, second hand shops and discount stores. The only 'upscale' store left is macy's. How long will they hang in there? And what caliber of folks will rotterdam attract?

The city folk just love rotterdam!!!!

Rotterdam square will be imploded within 10 years, most likely sooner, will be and transformed into Mohawk Commons east.

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Rotterdamians are going to colonie center, saratoga and clifton park for their shopping pleasure....OR......mohawk commons. Rotterdam is full of nothing but dollar stores, second hand shops and discount stores. The only 'upscale' store left is macy's. How long will they hang in there? And what caliber of folks will rotterdam attract?
The city folk just love rotterdam!!!!  

reminds me of a song(DVoR) we used to sing at Camp TippyCanoe around the campfire

chorus
Salvation Army, Salvation Army, put a nickel in the drum save another drunkin' bum

classic verse
in our town all the girls wear tin skirts
and all the boys carry can openers

chorus
Salvation Army, Salvation Army, put a nickel in the drum save another drunkin' bum

todays verse
when we go to the mall
all we get to shop at are second handstores

chorus
Salvation Army, Salvation Army, put a nickel in the drum save another drunkin; bum

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Metroplex didn't build Rotterdam Square Mall --- nor does Metroplex have anything to do with its operation or the operation of any of the businesses in the mall.
So -- blaming the closing of any business in the mall on Metroplex is both disingenuous and asinine.

Having said that Rotterdam Square Mall is badly in need of a revamping and dare I say new management -- it has been poorly run for years.  And THAT is NOT the fault of Metroplex nor the Democratic party -- but the owners of the mall.

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THANK GOD FOR THE NEW DEMOCRAPIC TEAM!

With the new unified development team under bozos Death Ray and Mercury Morris another business has fled the County throwing 12 people out of work. Thank you Landslide Savage for keeping the highest County taxes in the region! 4X higher than Saratoga County! And you want to spend $40 MILLION more for a new nursing home?

A mall succeeds or fails on its anchor stores. You have to have at least one upscale anchor store to be viable.
Mohawk mall failed because of Bradlees and Wards. Northway mall failed because of Wards and Korvettes.
Penneys came too late to save Latham Circle.
Rotterdam square has K-mart, which has slipped below Walmart and a half assed Sears. That, and being a one floor mall is a recipe for empty spaces and eventually an empty mall.

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A mall succeeds or fails on its anchor stores. You have to have at least one upscale anchor store to be viable.
Mohawk mall failed because of Bradlees and Wards. Northway mall failed because of Wards and Korvettes.
Penneys came too late to save Latham Circle.
Rotterdam square has K-mart, which has slipped below Walmart and a half assed Sears. That, and being a one floor mall is a recipe for empty spaces and eventually an empty mall.

And it is up to the owners and managers of the mall -- to attract the right anchors and mix of stores and restaurants.