Launching Retail Under Glass, 1962
The Boulevard Mall opened in 1962, bringing an enclosed shopping center to Amherst, New York, for the first time.
It stood on Niagara Falls Boulevard, a road already busy with traffic, and took its name directly from that strip.
The concourse stretched across 904,000 square feet, and the two anchor tenants made it feel large from the start. Sattler’s filled 220,000 square feet on two levels, while Jenss operated an 80,000 square foot store of its own…