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December 12, 2019

Crossgates Spreads Cheer & Extended Hours this Holiday Season!

Crossgates is the perfect place to be this holiday season, offering a wide variety of shops, restaurants and entertainment destinations.

Crossgates will be extending hours of operation in the weeks leading up to Christmas Day for your holiday shopping convenience. Starting Friday, December 13 the mall will operate under an extended holiday hours schedule, opening at 9 a.m. and closing at 10 p.m. (9 p.m. closing on Sunday, December 15th). The final days before Christmas, starting on Friday, December 20th, Crossgates will remain open until 11 p.m.. Last-minute shoppers can visit us from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve, December 24th. The center will be closed on Christmas Day with the exception of select restaurants and entertainment venues.

While here, help spread the holiday cheer by supporting the many local non-profits that rely on Crossgates’ space, and the friendliness of its shoppers, to successfully run their largest fundraising campaigns of the year! Volunteers from local charities call Crossgates home during the month of December as they decorate their tables for the season, all while educating the public and raising much needed funds for their cause. Visit organizations such as these to help make their seasons bright:

  • The Regional Food Bank, located on the lower level near Apple, partners with local businesses that work and match, dollar-for-dollar, the money raised by shoppers.
  • Make-A-Wish, located on the lower level near Dave & Buster’s, is looking for those that are willing to ‘adopt-a-wish’ for six terminally ill, local children.
  • Need someone to help wrap your gifts while you take a break from busy holiday shopping? Hadassah Capital District and the American Cancer Society both jump into action the week prior to Christmas, by gift-wrapping presents for shoppers for a small donation. 

As we welcome back our friends from various local charities, some having been a part of the holidays at Crossgates for over 20 years, we look to our shoppers to share in the joy of the holiday season with them. “We love being a part of the community” says Jennifer Smith, Marketing Director at Crossgates.  “And with the generosity of our guests, our Capital Region organizations are more than happy to share their time and excitement with us! We appreciate that these local non-profits return each year as a staple of the community we have built at Crossgates during the holiday season and throughout the year.”

For more information on the local organizations that are at Crossgates for the holiday season, please visit https://www.shopcrossgates.com/events/.