Westchester Pavilion: Abandoned Mall White Plains NY

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This Mall was a beautiful place that holds lots of memories for those who grew up in White Plains New York. The city plans to knock it down and build luxury apartments and high-end stores. This is absolutely disgusting, White Plains does not need any more luxury buildings. The westchester pavilion had a Borders, Toys "R" Us, Daffys, Sports Authority, Educational Warehouse, Master Kim's Tae Kwon Do, Mcdonalds, Corner Sushi, Subway and an Outback Steakhouse. There is no need for another glass tower in white plains with expensive stores, it will not "revitalize" anything.
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[@Jreyes1227]

Enough with gentrification

[@MikeLV777]

I have fond memories of checking out books, movies, and music at Borders, purchasing my first set of Roller Blades and Sports Authority, buying Nintendo 64 games at Toys R' Us, and going out to lunch to McDonald's with my friends during high school.

[@MrRetidy]

its sad that we have all these memories of a fun place like the pavilion and the next generation is only going to have memories of a luxury apartment building with a pool on its roof.

[@babaduke3298]

Think the last time I was even in the galleria mall, was when I worked at the movie theater downstairs back in the late 80's.😅

[@MrRetidy]

that's insane. do you happen to have any pictures of the movie theater? there are none online and I have been trying to see what it looked like.

[@JohnJames_23]

@@MrRetidy would love to see that memory too back when you could smoke In gall

[@seandoshandy]

Great video! I remember when it was constructed. My father worked on it! Sports authority etc. was the early 90s!

[@MrRetidy]

thank you for the comment! this place was awesome, all the stores in this mall were amazing.

[@Brunomgonzalez]

The fucking memories here rip

[@johnoconnor7918]

I really loved that place. Too bad it's gone now.

[@MrRetidy]

I know. I wish it was still there.

[@johnoconnor7918]

If this place was still here and still open, I would've really loved to walk around and listen to a CD there as I've done it around many other malls and shopping centers.

[@johnoconnor7918]

In fact, I've never listened to a CD in the Westchester Pavilion before.

[@hman1025]

Subway, McDonalds, Toys R Us I remember like it was yesterday

[@williampennjr.4448]

I remember when they built it. It was my second favorite places to go in White Plains until some idiot came up with the idea of charging for parking.

[@UnknownNY-ee7vb]

I also have memories being from Scarsdale, my mother would always go to this toys R us. Now with Toys R us, Borders, sports authority, educational warehouse and I believe Daffy's all have filed for bankruptcy. It is an unfortunate time for old retailers.

[@MrRetidy]

it is such a shame. big retail killed family owned businesses and now online shopping is killing big retail. we lost the westchester pavilion and we are soon going to loose the white plains mall.

[@UnknownNY-ee7vb]

I agree with you on family owned businesses but I believe the galleria mall is doing just fine. The Westchester mall is having the problems (the more expensive mall). It is also interesting to me that the Barnes and Noble in Eastchester (which took over borders) has a full course restaurant inside the bookstore just to stay afloat. Retail is changing very fast.

[@tandomcg2789]

Huh! Weres the big building over six year that dam building hasn’t been constructed

[@MrRetidy]

unfortunately plans fell through and nothing has been built there and won't be built there for a long time. They knocked down the mall for no reason at all.

[@Trthsker24]

I remember shopping for school clothes at Alexander's geez.

[@Lordran__]

I remember when the Westchester Pavilion opened in I think 96 or 97? Damn...

[@Charmedone9805]

i think it opened in 1994

[@johnmiller9201]

Charmedone9805 it opened in 1993 and it Originally had a borders, ToysRus, TJ Max and a Outback Steakhouse. But as the years went by. they added more places like McDonald’s, subway and all those other stores.

[@anthony3246]

I remember going there with my mom. She was a teacher so she loved the educational warehouse. If we behaved she bought us McDonald’s and took us to toys r us.

[@MrRetidy]

I still have a couple toys from the educational warehouse. such a shame, if only the pavilion was never demolished.

[@topshotta9497]

my older brothers grew up on that mcdonalds and the warehouse as well as the tae kwon doe spot but i never got the chance to

[@JohnJames_23]

Used to chief those hallways up

[@Jreyes1227]

This place wasn’t that old. Why do we need more buildings!!

[@MrRetidy]

That's White Plains for you. nothing but luxury apartments, bars and restaurants.

[@johnmiller9201]

MrRetidy I feel like one day, White Plains will turn into a apartment city.

[@ghouston69]

I worked at Sports Authority from 1996-2001. I wish I could see it one last time but I assume it is completely gone now correct?

[@MrRetidy]

as of today the only thing standing is the actual mall but the sidewalk surrounding it has been fenced off, the parking structure has been completely torn down and the entire area is full of piles of metal and concrete. id suggest you do visit whats left of it before the entire building gets knocked down.

[@hewhocannotbenamed842]

many blunts

[@JohnJames_23]

Word up Steiner

[@chickenjoe6716]

Rich was the manager of toys r us. He ran it into the ground.

[@clmartinez5124]

I got my first train table in that toys r us

[@outlaw_jay914]

Thats crazy about looks like that garage stored brand new cars

[@MrRetidy]

yes, I think they might have been stored there by a dealership since no one was using the garage.

[@YouAdmireThisName]

Memories.

[@wavyyychristian7745]

Don’t know if you’ll reply still but idk if you remember there was like a sushi place in one of the entrances Also do you know what year the toys r us closed I’m just curious

[@MrRetidy]

Absolutely! Corner Sushi, the best sushi in white plains. such a great cozy place with nice employees and a chill atmosphere. I miss it very much. the toys r us closed 2013 and moved to the city center. It ended up closing for good when toys r us filed for bankruptcy

[@johnoconnor4019]

RIP, Westchester Pavilion. 1993-2015

[@MrRetidy]

I wish it never closed

[@johnoconnor4019]

MrRetidy Me too. I loved that place. I like how I entered on the 1st floor and rode the elevator up to the 3rd floor and went to McDonald’s and sat by a window... ON THE STREET LEVEL!? Then it felt like a 1st floor, due to being on another side of a hillside mall building. I felt like it was magic how you walk in the building on the bottom floor and then ride the elevator to the top and then you look out the window to see the new ground floor you’re on. I wish I could go back in & take a walk around listening to a ‘Now!’ CD. What was your favorite thing about this mall?

[@MrRetidy]

@@johnoconnor4019 My favorite thing about the mall was how it felt inside, it was nice and quiet and did not feel like a mall. also nothing can compare with the feeling of walking through toys r us and then getting a sandwich from subway upstairs.

[@johnoconnor4019]

MrRetidy Have you been on the elevator here before? I have.

[@neilonicko1]

they are building high end condos to go there they have yet to take down the old white plains mall they are building condos there for commuters to go back and forth from the city..

[@metsoneredsoxtwo]

wasn't that where Alexander's was?. :-(

[@MrRetidy]

Yes, Alexander's was here.

[@Charmedone9805]

yeah they ended up closing and turning it into the Pavilion i wanna say in 1994? it was mainly big box stores like office max toys r us and borders

[@fcbarcelonafanforlife9483]

David Oliva To arrest Arjun Mallya

[@xxdavi95]

FC Barcelona fan for life Around hired take construction demolition so he can bomb the place.

[@xxdavi95]

FC Barcelona fan for life you got a new phone?

[@anthony3246]

Why does the alarm go off?

[@MrRetidy]

if you look at 1:27 there is a kid running around the corner. he was smoking in the stairwell like an idiot and set off the alarms. if he had not done that I might have been able to get more video of the interior of the mall.

[@margovictoria1608]

I used to shop here

[@thomasmacdonough288]

Ah, white plains. A pure symbol of capitalism. A whole city of business and financial districts, who all strive for money and growth. Even if it means the destruction of something as fun as a mall if it means they get more people and money.

[@snappy452]

White Plains has an obsession with emulating Manhattan.

[@Alliejaa]

Don’t know if you still reply but I have a few questions Why did it close Is their any footage of the mall while still in operation or of the toys r us and when was it demolished

[@MrRetidy]

sure I'll always answer any question The mall closed because the owners sold the property in 2015 to a company that wanted to construct a luxury apartment complex in its place. in the last few years the Westchester Pavilion had become known as "an eyesore" due to the fact that it never received an upgrade and looked the exact same as it did when it opened in 1995 and also to the fact that several stores had left the mall and were just kept abandoned like the borders bookstore and sports authority. unfortunately I have been hunting down any footage that I can find and all there is besides My video are two from DieselDucy about the elevators, it contains the only footage of the mall when it was open but most of it is on the elevators. you can find the videos by searching westchester pavilion dieselducy on youtube. the toys r us in this mall was a very beautiful 90s toys r us, lots of Geoffrey decals and an amazingly large video game section. the mall officially closed its doors in 2016 and was fully demolished in 2017. today the site is still just a hole in the ground with no start date on the proposed luxury apartment complex.

[@Alliejaa]

@@MrRetidy That’s just sad to think that I once have been their and now it’s just a land of dirt, I feel like if they didn’t sell it and did update the look and stores didn’t move that WP might of still be open today but sadly it didn’t happen and now soon the white plains mall is gonna follow WP as a defunct mall which only leaves the galleria, city center, and the westchester mall which CC and WM seems to be doing the best and I think the galleria is struggling since it doesn’t have any main anchor stores and I’ve heard they might knock the place down so in a couple of years galleria might close, it’s just sad to see at one point their were 5 malls at white plains and now soon it only gonna be 3 or maybe even 2

[@MrRetidy]

@@Alliejaa I really do wish they never got rid of the Westchester Pavilion. It was my favorite mall in white plains and I honestly loved the way it looked inside. the White Plains mall will most likely be closed sometime next year and if what they are saying about the galleria is true then it might be gone within the next 5 years. Its a shame that white plains was once the shopping center of westchester and now its just a boring city with a bunch of luxury apartment buildings.

[@Alliejaa]

@@MrRetidy yeah it’s truly sad

[@Lordran__]

@@Alliejaa The WP mall is gone & next up is The Galleria in March. 🪦

[@williampennjr.4448]

what is it with all the luxury apartments. There aren't that many rich people in all of Westchester. If you are rich enough to afford the rent why wouldn't you just buy a house or condo? Some of those apartment go for $6000 to over 10,000 per month.

[@MrRetidy]

I wish white plains would expand and build more houses instead of tearing down existing areas for apartments. I think the mayor is trying to make white plains into a utopia for these yuppies working in manhattan. these buildings all look the same too, nothing but glass and steel.

[@undergroundtomas8083]

If I'm not mistaken, there's a new building up there right now

[@MrRetidy]

unfortunately its just an empty dirt lot now. construction was supposed to begin but plans fell through and now they are trying to figure out what to do

[@undergroundtomas8083]

MrRetidy my bad, i totally had the location mixed up. i was thinking about the apartments being built on dekalb, haha

[@Lordran__]

It’s STILL empty after 7 years. What a joke.