 mall of georgia is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall located in gwinnett county, georgia, near the city of buford,  northeast of atlanta. built in 1999, it is currently the largest shopping mall in the state of georgia, available by subscription from highbeam research consisting of more than two hundred stores on three levels.http://www.simon.com/about_simon/leasing/localmall.aspx?id=208 mall leasing information the mall's anchor stores include belk, dillard's, jcpenney, macy's, and nordstrom; other major stores include barnes & noble, dick's sporting goods, and havertys. also, located in the mall of georgia crossing is nordstrom rack, t.j. maxx, and target. also featured in the mall is a large village section, comprising lifestyle tenants and restaurants in an outdoor setting, as well as a 500-seat amphitheater. the mall attracts many high end stores such as armani exchange, swarovski, clarks, j.crew, guess, bebe, and aveda. simon property group manages the mall of georgia. ==history== the mall of georgia opened august 13, 1999 featuring dillard's, jcpenney, lord & taylor and nordstrom as its anchor stores, with bed bath & beyond (now youfit), havertys, and galyan's (now dick's sporting goods) as additional mini anchors. the mall of georgia also has a 20 regal cinema and an imax theater, which is 1 of at least 5 in the state of georgia; other imax theaters are located at fernbank museum of natural history in atlanta, the national infantry museum at fort benning and regal augusta exchange stadium 20, amc southlake 24 in morrow & imax in augusta. in 2000, atlanta-based rich's was added on,{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_
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