Palisades Center
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| Location | 1000 Palisades Center Drive West Nyack, New York, USA 10994 |
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| Opening date | March 7, 1998 |
| Developer | The Pyramid Companies |
| Management | The Pyramid Companies |
| Owner | The Pyramid Companies |
| No. of stores and services | 200+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 16 |
| Total retail floor area | 2,217,323 sq ft (205,996.0 m2) |
| No. of floors | 4, plus 1 level below ground parking garage |
| Parking | 18,000+ parking spaces |
| Public transit access |
 Rockland Coaches bus routes: 20 & 49J, Tappan Zee Express bus, Transport of Rockland bus routes: 91 and 92 |
| Website | Official site |
The Palisades Center Mall, often referred to as the Palisades Mall, in West Nyack, New York is the second largest shopping mall in the New York metropolitan area, the eighth largest in the United States by total area, and sixth largest by gross leasable space. As one of the nation's most lucrative malls, the industrial style mall, which houses over 200 stores, receives 20 million visitors a year, and produces $57 million a year in taxes, including $40 million in sales tax and $17 million in property taxes.
Palisades Center is bounded on three sides by major state routes - the New York State Thruway (Interstates 87 and 287) to the north (from which it can be accessed at exit 12), NY Route 303 to the east, and NY Route 59 to the south. It is also located near the Thruway's intersection of the Palisades Interstate Parkway, and is only a few miles west of the Tappan Zee Bridge, which provides access from points east of the Hudson River.
Named after the nearby Palisades, which border the Hudson River and the eastern part of Rockland County, the mall opened in 1998, and is operated by the Pyramid Companies, the original developer and current owner.
According to the mall's sponsoring partner, Thomas Valenti, it took 16 years to get the mall approved and built. The 130-acre site was purchased by The Pyramid Companies for about $3 million and promised to clean up the two landfills, which were filled with incinerator ash and garbage. The 875,000-square-foot mall was proposed in 1985 with a goal of luring upscale retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor (who currently operates a store at the mall), and also a promise to keep sales tax dollars from slipping across state lines into New Jersey. The site was selected for its proximity to the New York State Thruway and Westchester County. Its location four miles from New Jersey, where blue laws in Bergen County keep the malls closed on Sundays, was also a factor. Local residents, recalling how the Nanuet Mall nearly drew the life out of Rockland County's traditional shopping villages about 20 years earlier, opposed the mall, predicting that it would bring crime, increased traffic, air pollution, and an economic downturn to the area's downtowns, and that the site was not properly tested for toxins. Ground was broken on the project in October 1993. The mall cost between $250 million and $280 million.
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