Gwinnett Place Mall in trouble (Atlanta, Duluth: bankruptcy, building, location)

[Newsboy]

I remember when it opened ... HUGE deal! My high school friends and I drove all the way from Fayette County to see it. There had never been any other mall like it. Shannon Mall (also a Scott Hudgins project) was our hangout, and Gwinnett Place was Shannon on steroids! For some reason the thing I remember most was the multicolored neon that was embedded throughout the walls, skylights and support columns. We thought that was so cool.

[cqholt]

Make it a movie studio

[Need4Camaro]

I would like to see an outlet with colonial style shoppes replace it. And instead of making it a long strip (like Tangier Outlets / Georgia Premium Outlets), make it a grid with cobble stone walkway paths and call it "Pleasant Hill" XD.

Actually what would be interesting is if they could somehow cater such an area for business starters who need office space / retail space.

[brown_dog_us]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Make it a movie studio

winner.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

I would like to see an outlet with colonial style shoppes replace it. And instead of making it a long strip (like Tangier Outlets / Georgia Premium Outlets), make it a grid with cobble stone walkway paths and call it "Pleasant Hill" XD.

No, you're not doing it right. You need to have a phony "main street" layout with very limited street parking, plus "speed tables" and sunken storm drain grates in the middle of the street so driving down it feels like a ****ing off-road adventure, and you can't drive any faster than 10 MPH without bottoming out, even in an SUV. And the development needs to have a name with all the buzzwords that'll make the upper-middle-class Hausfrauen moist, like "The Lifestyle Shoppes at Pleasant Hill Towne Centre Pointe Crossing."

And if there's a residential component to the development, add it later, off to the side of the development where nobody sees it, and give it a generic, derivative name like "The Place at Pleasant Hill Towne Centre Pointe Crossing." Bear in mind, though, that if you include an apartment building in the residential complex that's x stories tall, then no more than x-1 stories are allowed to have a brick facade on the outside. You have to "value engineer" the top story or two, preferably with ****ty-looking aluminum or cement fiber board siding. Better yet, use multiple materials, and off-set all the windows from top to bottom or side to side (or both). That'll make it look totes unique!

Just follow my instructions, and this new development will be a 21st-Century New Urbanist paradise! BOOM! Profit.

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

No, you're not doing it right. You need to have a phony "main street" layout with very limited street parking, plus "speed tables" and sunken storm drain grates in the middle of the street so driving down it feels like a ****ing off-road adventure, and you can't drive any faster than 10 MPH without bottoming out, even in an SUV. And the development needs to have a name with all the buzzwords that'll make the upper-middle-class Hausfrauen moist, like "The Lifestyle Shoppes at Pleasant Hill Towne Centre Pointe Crossing."

And if there's a residential component to the development, add it later, off to the side of the development where nobody sees it, and give it a generic, derivative name like "The Place at Pleasant Hill Towne Centre Pointe Crossing." Bear in mind, though, that if you include an apartment building in the residential complex that's x stories tall, then no more than x-1 stories are allowed to have a brick facade on the outside. You have to "value engineer" the top story or two, preferably with ****ty-looking aluminum or cement fiber board siding. Better yet, use multiple materials, and off-set all the windows from top to bottom or side to side (or both). That'll make it look totes unique!

Just follow my instructions, and this new development will be a 21st-Century New Urbanist paradise! BOOM! Profit.

LOL, this reminds me of one day I was in Downtown Orlando FL and driving across their cobblestone roads it it felt literally the way you described AND one of my brake bolts LITERALLY came loose due to all the vibration and I nearly lost a calipre due to that.

[ATLTJL]

[magnetar]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

"The Lifestyle Shoppes at Pleasant Hill Towne Centre Pointe Crossing."

Nah nah nah that name is too early 00's; to be a truly opulent OTP retail destination it needs to have a name that's just a single word that reeks of nouveau riche, like Avalon or Halcyon or Agamemnon.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by magnetar

Nah nah nah that name is too early 00's; to be a truly opulent OTP retail destination it needs to have a name that's just a single word that reeks of nouveau riche, like Avalon or Halcyon or Agamemnon.

In that case, here are some good names:


Anspruchs
Argosy
Babylon
Baizuo
Ebullition
Granat
Hautaine
Inutili
Izquierda
Mauve
Narcisse
Pasha
Puttana
Skägg
Soja

[magnetar]

My vote is definitely for "Narcisse." If you wanted to be a little more wordy you could go with something like Narcisse at The Plantation.