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Ithaca Mall: More of a Walking Track Than a Shopping Destination

If you’re heading to Ithaca Mall expecting a lively shopping experience, you might be in for a letdown. Once a bustling retail hub, the mall now feels eerily quiet, with many empty storefronts and a noticeable lack of energy. Instead of shoppers, you’ll find stickers on the floor encouraging indoor walking exercise, almost as if the mall has accepted its fate as a makeshift fitness track rather than a shopping destination.

That said, if you’re looking for a warm place to get your steps in during winter, it does serve that purpose well. The wide walkways and minimal foot traffic make it an easy, uninterrupted stroll. But if retail therapy is your goal, options are quite limited. A few stores and restaurants still operate, but the overall atmosphere leans more towards nostalgia than excitement.

Unless you’re in the area for specific errands, this mall is better suited for an indoor walk than a shopping spree. Hopefully, it sees a revival in the future, but for now, it’s more of a ghost town with...

seriously this mall is BORING! The arcade sucks, there are no teen stores, no fun places for friends and family and the Movie prices are stupid high! wait 3 to 6 months and you can own the movie instead of watching it once for almost the same price. A small drink or bottled water costs as much as a 12 pack of soda in a grocery store. The popcorn is like eating Styrofoam drown in artificial butter that has been burnt. I could buy a whole box of ice cream treats for the price one pays at the theatre. Only highlights here, Sicilian Delight's garlic pizza, Claire's, Best Buy for computers and Target for quick meal pick ups after getting your prescriptions filled so you don't have a trip added to the grocery store. Other than that, you are better off driving to Rochester malls (either) or Destiny USA and making it a fun filled day there with specialty shops, great food court selections, frozen yogurt and inside Pokémon Go games with pokéstops and 3 gyms to battle. Just don't waste your...

Relatively unfazed by the pandemic, this mall is in its usual state of disrepair, with roughly the same stores it housed 2+ years ago. There’s a board game store, a small arcade for children, a Michael’s, a Target, a Bath & Body, a room within which there are young men wrestling. There are many dark, closed rooms. There is a locked room with lots of kayaks. Where there was once a Planet Fitness, there is now Pickleball Mania, which was open but with no players in the rows of courts when we visited on a Sunday afternoon. The old mall arcade (behind the Sicilian pizza shop in the food court) is now a room of six or seven pool tables, moodily lit in red and purple neon light, at the center of which is a single garbage can. There is a perfectly good movie theater.

I needed toothpaste, Target had it. We enjoyed walking around. Overall, I had nebulous expectations and this mall perfectly satisfied...