Breaking Ground and Building Foot Traffic
In 1987, developers from The Pyramid Companies saw an opportunity where others saw asphalt.
Cheektowaga, a town sitting just east of Buffalo and tucked against the New York State Thruway, was chosen for their next retail project. Construction moved fast.
By spring 1989, Walden Galleria stood finished—1.6 million square feet of retail space anchored by giants like Sears, JCPenney, Bonwit Teller, Sibley’s, AM&A’s, L.L.Berger, and The Sample…