The incident sparked allegations from Buffalo's African-American community that Pyramid did not want people from Buffalo's predominantly minority East Side to have easy access to the mall. Later that year, on December 14, 17-year-old Cynthia Wiggins of Buffalo was struck by a dump truck while trying to get to her first day of work in the mall's food court from a NFTA Metro bus stop on Walden Avenue. In 1995, York, Pennsylvania-based department store chain The Bon-Ton acquired the AM&A's chain, converting all outlets to The Bon-Ton. Both Filene's Basement and Loehmann's would close within three years.
Later that same year, three more anchor stores were added to the mall: Lechmere, Loehmann's, and Lord & Taylor. The Sample closed in 1991, and was soon replaced with Linens & Wares, a household goods-based retailer also, by the end of the year, Filene's Basement would open in the former L. Berger declared bankruptcy in 1991, closing all of its stores. Altman. The owner of the Thruway Mall sued the AM&A's chain, claiming breach of contract the chain would later be declared liable for damages to the Thruway Mall, which was subsequently torn down and rebuilt as a strip mall in the early 1990s. Finally, Hoyts sold the Walden Galleria theater complex to General Cinemas by the end of the year. That same year, local chain AM&A's (Adam, Meldrum & Anderson Company) moved from the nearby Thruway Mall into the space originally planned for B. In 1990, Sibley's parent, May Co., merged operations with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Kaufmann's. At the time, the two-story mall also featured more than 150 stores, as well as a theater owned by Hoyts Cinemas. Altman and Company, but it remained vacant, as the chain decided not to open the Walden Galleria store due to credit restraints.
Berger, and The Sample. Sibley's opened in late 1988, several months before the rest of the mall.Īn additional anchor space was originally built for B. At the time, the mall featured six anchor stores: national chains JCPenney, and Sears, regional chain Bonwit Teller, and three Western New York chains: Sibley's, L. Built on a site near Exit 52 of the New York State Thruway, the mall was opened in 1989.
The Walden Galleria was developed by The Pyramid Companies, a New York-based shopping center management firm.
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