Via Port Rotterdam is still listed as a shopping mall, but that label fits worse each year. The building contains a state government call center, a bingo hall, an aquarium, and indoor batting cages. Whatever it is, the name for it hasn’t caught up.
It opened in 1988 as Rotterdam Square, a conventional department-store-anchored regional center on West Campbell Road in Schenectady County.
The former Macy’s anchor now holds hundreds of state workers on weekdays. Part of the former Kmart is filled with bingo players in the evenings. Neither use appeared in the original leasing plan…