Aviation Mall is a major regional shopping mall in Glens Falls North, New York. It serves the extreme northern portion of the Capital District ( Albany Metropolitan Area) as well as the

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/ Lake George area. The mall has a

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of .Aviation Mall
,

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. Accessed December 15, 2007. It is owned and managed by

The Pyramid Companies Pyramid Management Group (also known as The Pyramid Companies) is a development firm formed in 1968 in Upstate New York, by Robert J. Congel. It is the largest privately held shopping mall development firm in the Northeastern United States, wit ...

. The mall is anchored by the traditional chains

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Gir ...

, Dick's Sporting Goods,

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, and

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. This mall currently features a number of prominent specialty stores which are Bath and Body Works, Famous Footwear,

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, and Peter Harris.

History

Aviation Mall opened in 1975 with

and Denby's (a regional chain) as anchors. The mall was relatively small when it first opened, but was later expanded with

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

and then

Caldor Caldor, Inc. was a discount department store chain founded in 1951 by husband and wife Carl and Dorothy Bennett. Referred to by many as the Bloomingdale's of discounting, Caldor grew from a second story "Walk-Up-&-Save" operation in Port Ches ...

. In 1994, JCPenney built a new store next to its old store, with mall management reconstructing the former space to feature more small store space.

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was added the same year replacing space previously occupied by Magrams. In 1998, Caldor shuttered and was converted to

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built on in 2004, and Dick's Sporting Goods moved into remaining space of the original JCPenney in 2005. In 2017, Regal Cinemas opened after expanding from seven screens to nine and was upgraded to feature new flooring and wall coverings along with reclining seats. The later 2010's saw multiple traditional chain anchors update their brick-and-mortar fleets after being disrupted by digital retailers in recent years. On January 31, 2018, it was announced that regional division The Bon-Ton would shutter as part of bankruptcy. On March 4, 2019, it was announced its space will become

which was set to open August 28, 2019. On August 22, 2018, it was announced that Sears would shutter as part of an ongoing plan to phase out of brick-and-mortar. Potential replacement tenants have been rumored in discussion since 2019.

References

External links

Official Site
{{Shopping malls in Upstate New York The Pyramid Companies Shopping malls in New York (state) Queensbury, New York Shopping malls established in 1975 1975 establishments in New York (state)