Gwinnett Place Mall - The Fall of the Mall Ep. #1 Duluth, GA Starcourt Mall DEAD MALL 

One thing that is killing Mall of Georgia is there is no easy way to get from the suburbs south of I-85 to the Mall of Georgia because of all those ridiculous stop lights and the maze you have to go through when going through Lawrenceville on the way to Mall of Georgia. If they build something similar to Ronald Reagan pkwy that went from the Snellville/Loganville area to the Mall of Georgia then that mall would get a lot of business from people in those suburbs. It’s ridiculous how Hwy 124 ends abruptly and you have to suffer through that maze of turns and stop lights to get to I-85. Shame on Gwinnett county and the state of Georgia for their nonexistent planning.

@@nole8923 if you take Scenic Hwy from Snellville to Jackson Street and turn left Jackson turns into Buford Drive and that takes you right to the Mall of Georgia. You don’t need to go through the screwed up area of Lawrenceville. Go my way and it’s a straight shot. No turns.

In Malmo we had that to Caroli city in 80s it was so popular and then suddendly 2010 som many people just stopped to go there

q455frodomar why did this mall “die”? Did people stop going?

Mall of Georgia is why this Mall died.

@@THEDUDEABlDES that's lowkey racist

@@Math-xt6kh it's the truth

If you watch between 5:25 and 5:45 in the video that's the part of the mall converted for Stranger Things.

@@RetailWorld So that's why there's so many fences! Thanks! :)

yeah it sucks. I wish someone could have talked to her about that guy she was seeing.

@@dox1842 the cops did not want anybody to know that she was found dead there. They didn't tell anybody about it until two weeks later after they couldn't find out who she was. She was seen with her eyes badly bruised or something when she went to go pick up her paycheck and at the hotels she was staying at with that guy too. They called the police about it a couple times. The tattoo artist who put the tattoo on her face saw it too and tried to talk her out of getting that face tattoo. So sad that the girl is working a retail job at Perimeter Mall then she ends up being found dead in that empty restaurant that had been closed for a very long time. At least two weeks of not being found too. They should've closed off that whole section of the food court with a barricade. I went to look at the bathrooms by that old Subway and the men's bathroom was trashed. Oh but now let's turn that whole section into a nice movie set now after a girl has been found dead there. Just rubs me the wrong way.

ugh. i hope you arent traumatized. that would freak me out! peace out.

shits sick man RIP to her

SO THEY KICKED OUT THE POOR, TO BUILD A MALL?

@@MoneyComethToshelia my understanding was the developer paid each person well above the market value for each plot of land so everyone that was there made a killing and was easily able to afford to move elsewhere. Now that was 1980 in a much different time and corporate environment. Today they would just be kicked out and told tough luck.

@@MrJestyler thanks for the info

It is sad to see indeed. If you check out our other video of Gwinnett Place, we visit it on a Friday night when most malls would be packed it was almost empty of customers.

Mike Hipp agreed. This mall used to be vibrant, but now it is basically dead. Honestly, it doesn't seem like Pleasant Hill has changed much (there is still a lot of traffic) but it's really sad what happened to this mall. North Point and Mall of GA definitely had a big part in reducing customers

my boy bladed on here

HELLO THERE

Mall of Georgia opened in 1999

@@christfollower7315 ... soo early 2000s.

YEP! everything that once brought HAPPINESS to life has been replaced. like Denny's, Shoney's big boy, downtown shopping, then they built MALLS and now the malls are gone! life was so much better and happier before cell phones, computers, and AMAZON

Thanks! No I didn't use a gimbal, my cell phone camera has video stabilization built into it. I also used some creative ways to shoot out in the open with all of the security that walks this mall.

Thank you, that was some drone footage we took.

Hi Keegan, it's waterfront dining feat. Dan Mason ダン·メイソン - big trouble in little paradise

Retail World Great video. Brings back memories. I loved the music myself, I’ve been scouring iTunes to find this song or the song it sampled. No luck though.

Netflix wants to keep it blocked off for whatever reason.

Jorge Arechiga who died and what happened

@@brooklynnamoretv4250 the girls name was silling man. RIP

It really started declining after Moonbeam purchased it from Simon.

@@RetailWorld I'm reading around 2013 that happened? Wow not that long ago. Most dead malls i feel like began in the early/mid 00s. Anyway thanks for the reply, cool channel

Thanks for watching and thank you for the feedback on the video. I'm new to shooting this types of videos so I'm still working on my videography skills and my editing skills.

Yes. Some RU-vidrs make walking videos or mall videos with a whole lot of excessive panning around and quick cutting that makes the video not as enjoyable as it might otherwise be.

Hello, it's Waterfront Dining feat. Dan Mason ダン·メイソン - big trouble in little paradise. It's on the album Diners Club.

That is the walled off former Parisian/Belk wing of the mall.

@@RetailWorld Oh wow its cool how you got back there

Dennis W Is it getting any better? Im thinking about moving to the US and it really would be a bummer if the mall is closed when i get there

Haha it was a small slip up while reading our script. Good catch!

It's even worse now, this was taken 2 years ago. Over half of the mall is completely closed off now.

It's pretty close to it! Even more stores have closed since this footage was taken.