South Gwinnett News

For years, the Gwinnett Place Mall has been completely unoccupied, and while malls are becoming ghost towns in many American cities, Gwinnett Place represents 562,000 square feet of complete absence of anything.

A study is being conducted to determine what can be done with the property, according to CBS 46.

In early October, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners and the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District decided to spend $275,00 to determine possible uses for the property, which the county bought for $23 million this year.

“Over the years I’ve heard everything, from keeping it to making it like it used to be, which I don’t think is going to be the case," Joe Allen of the Gwinnett County Community Improvement District told CBS 46. "We’ve done envisioning activities over the years. This is really going to be that deep dive of what can actually happen at that mall site.” 

The study is anticipated to take nine to10 months and will be conducted by the Livable Centers Initiative Study, CBS 46 reported. Meetings with property owners near and at the mall site will begin soon.

The mall was the set for Netflix’s "Stranger Things" in 2018, while in 2017 a woman’s body was found in the food court after she had been missing for two months, CBS 46 said.