Question: This large strip mall in Albany, New York is considered the first mall followed by Latham Corners Shopping Center, and Stuyvesant plaza?

Context articles: Colvin Central Plaza
Seven Corners Shopping Center
Stuyvesant Plaza
Strip mall
Ashley Landing
Peter Stuyvesant
Latham Circle Mall
Westgate Plaza (Albany, New York)
Northern Lights Shopping Center
Crosstown Plaza (Schenectady, NY)

Colvin Central Plaza was a large strip mall in Albany, NY along Central Avenue, a major business and shopping area of the New York State Capital Region.
 For this area, it was significant as it was over 100000 sqft and was initially opened in 1981.
 It survived in this form for two decades.
Seven Corners Shopping Center was the first major shopping center to open in suburban Washington, D.C..
 It is located in Seven Corners, Fairfax County, Virginia.
 At its opening in 1956, it was the largest regional shopping center in Virginia.
 The backsplit two-story mall structure was razed in the mid-1990s and replaced with a dual ground level power center.
Stuyvesant Plaza is a major shopping plaza and office complex in the U.S. state of New York's Capital District.
 It is located in the town of Guilderland, on Western Avenue (US 20), near the south end of the Adirondack Northway, I-87 and the city of Albany.
 The shopping plaza opened in 1959, making it the third oldest in the Capital Region, after Latham Corners Shopping Center (1957) Times Troy Record 10-09-1957 and Westgate Plaza.
A strip mall (also called a shopping plaza, shopping center, or mini-mall) is an open-air shopping mall where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front.
 Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front.
 They face major traffic arterials and tend to be self-contained with few pedestrian connections to surrounding neighborhoods.
Ashley Landing (originally opened as Ashley Plaza and later known as Ashley Plaza Mall), built in 1970, was the first indoor shopping mall built in the West Ashley area of Charleston, South Carolina.
 The center is located at 1401 Sam Rittenberg Boulevard (S.C. Highway 7) at the fork of Old Towne Road (S.C. Highway 171).
 It was built as a joint venture of shopping center developers the LeFrak Organization of New York City and The Cordish Company of Baltimore, Maryland under the name Ashley Plaza Mall Associates.
 Ashley Plaza Mall was originally constructed in the late 1960s as a strip shopping center featuring a J.M. Fields Department Stores joined to a Pantry Pride supermarket.
 In 1970 the locally owned Condon's Department Store was built adjacent to Pantry Pride as a freestanding building.
 The center was originally known as "Ashley Plaza" and had a large red and white neon pylon "Ashley Plaza" sign in the center of the parking lot that remained until 1989 when it was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo.
Peter Stuyvesant (English pronunciation /ˈstaɪv.ə.sənt/; in Dutch also "Pieter" and "Petrus" Stuyvesant; (1610–1672) served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.
 He was a major figure in the early history of New York City and his name has been given to various landmarks and points of interest throughout the city (e.g. Stuyvesant High School, Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, Stuyvesant Plaza, Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, etc.).
Latham Circle Mall was an enclosed shopping mall located adjacent to the Latham Circle (the intersection of US 9 and NY 2) in Latham, New York.
 Built in 1957 as Latham Corners Shopping Center, the mall was renovated several times in its history, most notably in 1977 when it became a fully enclosed and temperature-controlled shopping mall.
 As of 2013, its sole tenant is its anchor store, JCPenney, which has been part of the complex since it opened in 1957.
 By the early 2000s, the mall had become classified as a dead mall.
 Demolition of the mall began in March 2013.
Westgate Plaza is a large strip mall in the city of Albany, New York, located on Central Avenue.
 Westgate is considered the first mall in the Albany area, and opened in 1957.
Northern Lights Shopping Center is a strip mall located in Economy, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh.
 While it continues to serve as a traditional community-style strip mall for the immediate area, it was a major power center-style strip mall from its opening until the early 2000s.
 Due to the high vacancy rate at the plaza, it is today largely considered a dead mall.
 A Walmart that opened next door to Northern Lights in 2014 is expected to help revitalize the plaza as well as help dilapidated southern Beaver County, although parts of the plaza are scheduled to be demolished by 2018.
Crosstown Plaza is a large strip mall in Schenectady, NY (at the Rotterdam-Schenectady line) along Watt Street and NY State Route 7 near the I-890 entrance.
 As of January, 1991, the strip mall consisted of 183,500 square feet.
 By August, 1995, it was 193,500 square feet.