This is our walkthrough of the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, NY from January 22, 2019. This is quite old footage of a property we could very easily forget. Built against the will of the community it was placed in, a mall no one wanted was designed with a look no one wanted either. Built in the same sort of industrial design you would expect from a warehouse store, this mall leaves you feeling cold, walking around a lifeless box of stores with nothing else aesthetically pleasing.
Songs used in this video (in order):
Carte Blanche - Offshore
Casiopea - Space Locomotion
Fuse One - Sunwalk
Carte Blanche - Streamline
Casiopea - Some When Some Where
Soichi Noriki - Cozy's Melody
Steve Gray - Wonder Groove
Steve Gray - Reach Out
This is actually a very thorough and well cited Wikipedia article. Please do consider reading the rest as there is a lot of history after the 2000s involving this mall:
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Also, if you can find a copy, there is an excellent documentary retelling the history of the planning and building of this mall. It goes into great detail with plenty of historical footage about how the Pyramid Companies built a mall the community didn't want, despite months of loud protests, and indifference about the community from Pyramid.
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I'd like to say a few words about being an ambassador to your local malls. We have been taking the time to visit all the malls within a reasonable driving distance to check up on them and see how they are doing. Also filming an updated video every year or so, regardless of the lack of many changes, just so there is a video record of the health over time. We think this is an important thing to keep tabs on, especially in these wildly turbulent times. The current health emergency has accelerated the impending Retail Apocalypse we've all been talking about these last several years. This was already a big problem, but the shutdowns and restrictions have made the issue 5x worse and likely hastened the death of the enclosed shopping mall.
I know we've all been on pins and needles wondering how bad the fallout is going to be from all of this.
There really is no way to know exactly unless we ALL go and do our small part to make it known how it turns out. I implore you, if you have the means to pick an area you would like to be an ambassador for, and go document your local malls. Whatever your medium, it doesn't matter, any and all documentation is necessary and vital in this day and age. Whether it be on Social Media, Flickr, KZfaq, any platform gets it out there and preserves it for posterity. We can't paint this picture unless we all grab a brush...
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