Shannon Mall Area Revival Planned

ATLANTA-On the selling block since August 2001 with no takers, the sales-sagging, 23-year-old, 770,000-sf Shannon Mall in suburban Union City, GA is about to receive some needed marketing assistance.

The South Fulton Chamber of Commerce plans to use a $60,000 planning grant from the Livable Centers Initiative to hire a marketing/planning consultant to provide ideas for increasing foot traffic to the once-glittering retail site, located five minutes north of Atlanta Hartsfield Int’l. Airport.

The chamber sees the General Growth Properties-managed mall being redeveloped and repositioned as a community shopping center rather than as a regional mall, the likes of which would compete with the 1.2-million-sf Arbor Place Mall in Douglas County and the 1.9-million-sf Mall of Georgia in North Fulton County.