The new year brings a renewed push to build a multi-use development at the former site of a K-Mart in Doraville.
That store shut down in 2010 and the building was razed a few years ago, leaving a 13-acre patch of dirt off Buford Highway near I-285.
But this week the developer, Insignia LLC, filed documents with the state to move forward with the project.
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Its name is Lotus Grove, and it would include 780 apartments, a 168-room hotel, restaurants, shops and offices.
Buford Highway has a multicultural richness about it; immigrant communities have long taken root along the corridor.
Sunny Park emigrated here from South Korea in 1978 and remembers shopping at the K-Mart.
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The store closed in 2010 and the building was torn down a few years ago, leaving an empty space.