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Old 01-23-2018, 05:56 PM
 
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That place is a dump. Turn it to a Top Golf.
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Old 01-23-2018, 06:31 PM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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Just simply close it and demolish it. Reserve it as development space for new TOD mixed-use with office towers, as soon as the Gwinnett Place MARTA station finally opens in the year 2188.
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Old 01-23-2018, 07:42 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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The issue is, demographics in the area have shifted dramatically and they didn't adjust to it. I'm sure an ethnic themed mall would do awesome in the area but they are trying to bring back an old demographic instead of focusing on a new one.
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Old 01-23-2018, 07:45 PM
 
Location: Lake Spivey, Georgia
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Ethnic Mall = Santa Fe Mall
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Old 01-23-2018, 07:59 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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Ethnic Mall = Santa Fe Mall
Basically, with some Asain places too. That's what Greenbriar does with African and African American centered stores. Sell products that people in the area would actually buy. Southlake focuses on stores that cater to the lower middle class population of Clayton (places like Aeropostale, American Eagle, H&M), West End has discount stores.
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Old 01-23-2018, 08:07 PM
 
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Ethnic Mall = Santa Fe Mall
Thank you so much, this is EXACTLY true!!!


I've watched this for a long time, and the Asian businesses saving the neighborhood doesn't work the way people think it would. What did MegaMart do for the mall? Nothing. It just made people confused having a grocery store in a shopping mall, a half a floor with ridiculously overpriced merchandise, and a third floor you're not allowed on.


What can save Gwinnett Place? I don't know, but I do know THIS: It isn't another Asian grocery store or Korean barbecue joint. Sure, they keep the buildings from being empty, but it's saturated. How many do you need? While many of these businesses keep up their exteriors and look fine, a lot of them are really quite bad for curb appeal. Take a look at the outside of Great Wall some time to see what I mean.


The reason people don't want to cave to letting Gwinnett Place mall become an ethnic mall is exactly because they DON'T WANT a Santa Fe mall. If you want to know why not, just go in there. It's an interesting novelty if you need a cowboy hat or quinceanera dress. But it's not really doing much for the area aside from keeping a building from going vacant.


The best thing would be to create some type of experience that draws from the diversity and make some sort of global village area that blends everything into a sort of fusion. So you don't have yet another Korean barbecue joint, you have a steakhouse that draws from Asian flavors. Stuff like that might be cool, but an ethnic mall wouldn't really be much better than what we have now. The ethnic businesses have had their chance to save the area, and they have failed.
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Old 01-23-2018, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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What's wrong with Santa Fe Mall? From what I see, ethnic businesses are thriving in the area.
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Old 01-23-2018, 08:33 PM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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What's wrong with Santa Fe Mall? From what I see, ethnic businesses are thriving in the area.
What's wrong with Santa Fe Mall is that Q-Zar closed five years ago. I miss Q-Zar.
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Old 01-23-2018, 09:21 PM
 
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I used to live in Norcross in an apartment and I would go to Santa Fe Mall's dollar theatre.. ..yes...I said it... I was there!
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Old 01-23-2018, 11:04 PM
 
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I used to live in Norcross in an apartment and I would go to Santa Fe Mall's dollar theatre.. ..yes...I said it... I was there!
We would take our family to see movies there. Really not a big deal (North Dekalb Mall’s first run movies are pretty cheap now, so we haven’t been in a while).


As far as Gwinnett Place goes, a healthy Mall should feel like a person is treating themselves to something special when they go there. You can’t really do that with an indoor mall with empty storefronts. They need to find a way of scaling it down to something mangeable and presentable—either repurpose part of it as something other than retail, or tear half (or more) of it down. Maybe put in a park/Asian garden bordered by restaurants or an outdoor theater or something. Once you have scaled it down, then rename it as something other than a mall, so folks will have different expectations (“The Shops at Gwinnett Place Gardens”?).

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