Big plans for Gwinnett Place Mall, including more restaurants

The owners of troubled Gwinnett Place Mall have big plans for the property, once considered a crown jewel in the region. Owner Moonbeam Capital Investments intends to add more restaurants to the outside of the building, like Cumberland Mall has, in the first phase of the redevelopment.

But those plans — for more restaurants, green space, offices, a hotel and residences on the property — are far from imminent.

And the possibility that redevelopment could take a while, if it comes at all, has local business leaders looking for ways they can breathe new life into the surrounding area, long considered Gwinnett's downtown.