Mall at Stonecrest
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| Location | Dekalb County, Stonecrest, Georgia, USA 30038 |
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| Opening date | 2001 |
| Management | Forest City Enterprises |
| No. of stores and services | 120+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,162,000 sq ft (108,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | the Mall at Stonecrest |
The Mall at Stonecrest (often Stonecrest Mall) is a super-regional shopping mall in the soon to be incorporated City of Stonecrest, Georgia along Interstate 20 in eastern metro Atlanta. The Mall of Stonecrest is off exit 75 on Interstate 20
The Mall at Stonecrest opened in October 2001 as part of a master-planned community on the growing I-20 corridor.
The mall has four anchors: Sears, Dillard's, Macy's, JCPenney. Also attached to the mall is an AMC Theatres movie theater located in the outdoor plaza near the pavilion food court. Across from the AMC Theatres on the opposite side of the plaza is Round One Entertainment. Surrounding the mall area there are also many other stores and restaurants. This successful mall carries many of the popular national retail stores, and is opening new restaurants in its plaza area in 2014. Apartments and condos are also popping up in the area, making Stonecrest a mixed-use community.
The mall serves a diverse clientele including blacks and Hispanics, and provides, for example, both black and white Santas in the period running up to Christmas.
This mall was envisioned and planned over 30 years ago. Original opening dates as reported by the AJC included dates in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The mall had names like Turner Hill Mall, Interstate East Mall or Metro East. Each time, there were proposed dates that ended up falling through due to various issues among various developers. One land developer had an issue in the early days of getting retailers to commit (at the time South Dekalb Mall was still thriving). A few times the land was cleared of forest to make way for the mall and then things fell through. Local residents often questioned if the mall was even going to happen. Other things were envisioned for the area as planned by Dekalb County planners to include a convention center, outdoor theatre, mid-rise to high-rise apartment units, MARTA rail station (proposed terminus for the east line), satellite college campus and more. While the county did construct a library (Stonecrest Library), MARTA is currently reviewing plans of the east line rail extension to the mall with a proposed new sales tax, and economic development officials are studying to see if a convention center for the area is still viable. The goal would be to attract private investment with incentives rather than public dollars to build such.
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