The Miromar Factory Outlet Center opened in June 1993. It was located right off Exit 42 of I-87 roughly 2 miles south of the Canadian border and 20 miles north of Plattsburgh. The center was clearly targeting Canadian cross-border shoppers from Quebec. The strategy worked for a while but over the years, Canadian traffic dropped, stores started to close, and eventually the entire center was empty. 

Several factors influenced the center's fate:

• The Canadian Dollar value plummeted in the years after the center's opening drastically reducing the number of cross-border shoppers from Canada.

• The closing of Plattsburgh Air Force Base in 1995 was a big blow to the local economy and jobs in the area.

• The mall was in a remote area and heavily oriented towards the Canadian shoppers. When these shoppers started to vanish, local shoppers were not sufficient to keep the mall afloat.

• Plattsburgh had more shopping centers, restaurants and big box stores. That became more attractive to locals and to Canadians (who started to drive right by the struggling outlets directly to Plattsburgh).