With Gwinnett Place Mall In Public Hands, Locals Begin Planning For The Future A concept rendering of a transit-oriented development improvement replacing the Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia.
After its previous owner spent a full year searching for a buyer, the struggling shopping mall at the heart of Gwinnett Place will soon belong to Gwinnett County itself. With the $23M purchase of the Gwinnett Place Mall set to close at the end of March, officials and residents are facing a new question: What’s next?
The first step will likely be crafting a master plan for the Gwinnett Place Mall site. The road map will build upon the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District’s vision and concept studies conducted in recent years, paring back vacant retail space and repurposing vast parking lots into housing, offices, green space and transit amenities. But exactly what will go into that master plan is still to be determined.