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With building preparation under way and plans to announce tenants this spring, Discover Mills appears to have negotiated the higher set of hurdles set for developers in Gwinnett.
Originally Sugarloaf Mills, the 1.3 million-square-foot outlet mall was renamed Discover Mills, after the credit card company that bought the mall's naming rights. The developer, Arlington, Va.-based The Mills Corp., announced the name change last month in a first-ofits-kind naming-rights deal.
About 80 percent of the 230-acre property at Interstate 85 and Sugarloaf Parkway in Gwinnett County has been cleared, according to development director Erick Collazo. Building pads are being prepared and steel for the mall is scheduled to be delivered to the site in late August or early September, Collazo said, in preparation for an early fall 2001 opening.
That's about a year later than originally planned. Road construction on Sugarloaf Parkway and Georgia 120 is cited as the primary reason for the delay. A new entrance to
the mall is scheduled to be ready for traffic in October according to Department of Transportation estimates, Collazo said.
Collazo said with the road work scheduled to be...