Dead Mall: McKinley Mall - Blasdell, NY 

This was my old stomping grounds. I grew up at this mall and every teenager in the area came there. I had the best times of my youth spent there. Now sadly it's a far distant memory and a little fragment of what it was. Back in the day it was lit! Christmas time you could barely move and only walk two feet without running into someone you knew. It's really ashame that now only the memories remain. I will miss those days forever.

Wallie and Kayla You Guys are Always Awesome.

I grew up hanging out at this mall! The state it is in in breaks my heart:( love your videos! Hopefully you find some food.

Ooh look another dead mall video great video WallieB26

Very sad seeing all that area just close 😢 😞 😔 😪 😕 I hope they can open back up thank you wallie and Kayla for awesome videos keep being awesome

Another mall bites the dust. Feel sorry for the small stores that are trying to stay afloat with an outside entrance. There has to be a way to bring people in again. Thanks for the video.😊

I really enjoyed the mixing in of still photos during the drive part. Seeing what it use to look like compared to now had a big impact to what I was seeing.

Back in the heyday. If you lived in the Blasdell, Hamburg, Orchard Park, West Seneca area. The McKinley Mall was the place. Especially with a lot of the shops that are dead now (Media Play, Sam Goody, Circuit City just to name some).

My old Hometown. I remember when that mall was decent. Still go to Barnes & Noble there when visiting.

Most of the malls in the Buffalo area are closer to the city, in the first ring of suburbs. McKinley Mall was built for people in the Southtowns, who had a longer drive to the Walden Galleria, Boulevard, or Eastern Hills malls. It was a great mall, anchored by Macy's (Sibley's, Kaufmann's), the Bon Ton (AM&As), Sears, and JC Penney - only JC Penney is still standing. They have tried to keep it open by adding additional stores that open to the outside, like Bed, Bath & Beyond, Ulta (now closed) and Best Buy, but I'm afraid that if JC Penney closes, it will be all over. It's a nice, clean, walkable mall with a few stores left - and obviously the pandemic isn't helping mall traffic and stores at all. I was nostalgic even watching this video, because the food court is entirely closed at this point, along with some of the other stores on the video. It seems that shopping (for those of us that still want to try things on) is reverting back to open-air plazas. There is a plaza less than a mile from this mall with a Target, Home Goods, Ulta, and many other stores, restaurants, and a movie theatre that does very well. With Buffalo weather being what it is at certain times of the year, I can't explain why uncovered plazas do better...

Love the dead mall videos! Keep up the great work and man do I miss when malls where full and busy.

Awesome Wallie

Man you guys get around alot love the videos. Hope you guys have a great week thanks for sharing. Love how you added the news footage to the video.

Awe those kitties are so cute 🥰 awesome video thanks for sharing

Every Mall That you or anyone else has explored and Walk through as some ones memories. That center court is absolutely Amazing!!! The Kitties at the end. Thank you for taking us along Wallie.

Hi my friend and Great find and take care

ty for showing this

I enjoyed watching this video! The Mckinnley Mall is really beautiful inside. They keep the mall really clean as well. It's really sad to see the mall's decline. Thanks for the footage of the cats at the end of the video! There was one cat that looks like my cat Skeeter. Skeeter was 1 year old as of August 8th this year. Have a KMartlicious Day!

Our mall has a gym, arts performances area, school, trampoline park yet still very dead. The fye, candy shop, old navy and Spencer's left due to new owners doubling rent. New owners are killing our mall fast. Maybe 8 stores open and most non traditional. I think it has like 70 empty areas

Wow the colors/detailing of the center court is beautifully retro. Looks like it was designed with care.

I love the background music 🎶

Awesome video

The one thing is that CLEAR how Best buy is still in business with the head c.e.o doing long time employees wrong 😡

Cool 😀

This is becoming an all too common sight. Malls are dying even here up in Canada. I've made the occasional side trips to this place during my U.S. getaways, and for all the stores affected by this I am truly sorry for this malls demise. In particular, I hope the best for Dean's Hollywood and arcade. This is a very friendly family owned business that sells unique movie and music memorabilia including a large selection of SLAYER merchandise. Double devil horns for that. But their arcade is nothing like any other place. The cleanliness and sanitation protocols would never give covid a chance to breed. When large families would come in, Dean himself would come out to greet the members and cheer them on as they played the games. Afterwards, he would award extra redemption tickets to the kids for their efforts so they could claim larger prizes. Let's see Cheezie Charlies do that. I wish them the best at their impending new location. I'll be one of the first ones in line.

I enjoyed your video, Wallie! It was a great one! Thank you so much!

great vid thats my local mall!

My parents would drive from Toronto to this mall and buy us school clothes in the late 80s.... I would take my own son around 2012 to the Toys R Us...

Good video! I have never been to this mall! I am more closer to Eastern Hills Mall! Sad to the malls go away! Don't see to many kittens in a mall either!

Cool

even tho its dying , I have to say its rather clean !!!!

Slayer is planning to cover all the greatest jams of Waterfront Dining!

Love the kitties at the end .. TgT

Wally you should check out the Wyoming valley Mall in Wilkes-Barre township PA that one's sort of getting in bad shape too

The colors and native theme of the center court was totally Overlook Hotel in The Shining. Dug it

Did you say Kohan owns McKinley Mall in your video? If so they own the mall I grew up with here in Clay, New York called the Great Northern Mall. It is soo sad every time I go back there to see how it is doing on the inside. At most there is maybe 6 stores left open including a Time Out arcade in the food court area that has no restaurants open anymore. We lost our 10 screen Regal Cinema due to the health crisis. I personally loved that theater. Had the nicest employees ever. I remember when I was younger and most of the mall was occupied. I saw Drake Bell from the show Drake and Josh on Nickelodeon perform for free in the food court area. I have soo many great memories from there. :(

Our mall in Spokane Washington north town is starting bto go down hill was thriving until covid!!

Dang kind little behind lol 😂

Ed sure has a interesting hair style

Kings Plaza mall was once a dead mall in Brooklyn New York.

lmao I was just there the other day

I got BURNED THREE TIMES buying sneakers off Amazon. Yesterday, I went to a brick and mortar store and walked out with the best pair I could have ever hoped for! I'm about to call it quits with Amazon completely, soon.

It’s a shame the building itself is really nice just nothing there

Malls are irrelevant now. Good times at this mall as a kid, and then it was the hangout as a teenager. It's so bizarre to see it in it's current state. Like witnessing the end of a whole era.

I never liked McKinley mall. Always went to eastern or galleria. But as the news said.. online shopping is where it’s at.. malls are going away. Sadly..

Yeah, I'm not a fan of online shopping. Rather see and feel what I buy.

This is sad. I really liked the McKinley mall. It was closer than the galleria. I also heard some poor woman got stabbed to death in the SEARS baby section prior to that store closing.

This mall was a couple of hours from my home. I liked shopping in it as it wasn’t so huge as the Walden Galleria. Back in the day the mall had lots of Canadian shoppers. Then the mid 2000’s hit and the property began its downward spiral. The Canadian shoppers left. Now in late 2021 it’s beyond repair. The chance of attracting new anchors is hopeless, even if they existed. The mall itself is nothing much in terms of architecture. It’s rather dull. So this is clearly the case that the land is worth more than the mall itself. Demolition will come in the future and the land will be repurposed.

My local mall near me got wiped out by a tornado last year it made national news Jonesboro Arkansas

I'm assuming your backlogged on videos

Consolidation, bankruptcy are the main reasons why malls like this fail. Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston NY is worse than this.

B FLOW lol

You should join our Facebook group save the McKinley mall

malls are A O A