Malls · Georgia

Buford Clairmont Mall

From the authors' mapReinhabitedRetrofit builtChamblee, GA

Reinhabited in 2000. Owner of record Plaza Fiesta Owner LLC.

Status nowRetrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported

Owner of recordPlaza Fiesta Owner LLCcounty assessor, 2026-10-15 reported

Site size23.89 acres (parcels)county assessor reported

Retrofit year2000authors' map reported

Walkability17 of 20 · 15-minute 6 of 6EPA, OpenStreetMap

Rail within 800 mNoOpenStreetMap, HUD

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Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/151785691500654 overture · all sites with this

Website alive

This site: …http://www.plazafiesta.net/ overture / http check · all sites with this

Ownership

Single-purpose entity

This site: PLAZA FIESTA OWNER LLC county-parcels · all sites with this

Place

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

200+ tax-credit housing units within 1 km

This site: 204 units in 1 properties hud-lihtc · all sites with this

3+ other atlas sites within 10 km

This site: 18 within 10 km computed · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 6 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High-income tract ($100k+)

This site: $220,694 census-acs · all sites with this

Low social vulnerability tract (SVI ≤ 0.25)

This site: 0.02 cdc-svi · all sites with this

Tract income up 60%+ since 2013

This site: +126% census-acs · all sites with this

Walkable block group (EPA ≥ 12)

This site: …index 17 epa-walkability · all sites with this

Strategy

Reinhabited

This site: Reinhabitation: ethnic mall record · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

GA, Chamblee, Buford Clairmont Mall/Plaza Fiesta, 2000
• Reinhabitation: ethnic mall

Now

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Reinhabitedpublic sources reported
What is there now	Reinhabitation: ethnic mallauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	2000authors' map reported
Owner of record	Plaza Fiesta Owner LLCcounty assessor reported

Parcels, tax and title

Parcels within 40 m of the site point, as published by the county (layer); county terms apply; unverified here. Mortgages, liens and deeds are recorder records, not assessor data: DeKalb County Clerk of Superior Court (deeds, liens).

Parcel

Owner of record

Acres

Use · zoning

Value (appraised · assessed · taxable)

Last sale · deed

18 244 05 001

all 32 county fields

PARCELID	18 244 05 001
CVTTXCD	24A
CVTTXDSCRP	CHAMBLEE-ANNEX
CLASSDSCRP	C4
SITEADDRESS	4166 Buford Highway Atlanta, GA 30345
OWNERNME1	PLAZA FIESTA OWNER LLC
PSTLADDRESS	802 GERVAIS ST STE 200
PSTLCITY	COLUMBIA
PSTLSTATE	SC
PSTLZIP5	29201
CNTASSDVAL	27200000.0
LASTUPDATE	1582293599000
CREATED_BY	SDE
CREATION_DATE	1527586225000
DIMENSIONS	1158 X 18 X 73 . . . .
FRONTAGE	1158.0
LAST_UPDATED_BY	ADADAIR
REASCD	MC
STATUS	7
TOTAPR1	68000000.0
ADDRESS_NUMBER	4166
CITY	Atlanta
FULL_STREET_NAME	Buford Highway
STATE	GA
ZIP	30345
ZIP_EXTENSION	1081
PRCLKEY	416134
PSTLCITYSTATEZIP	COLUMBIA, SC 29201
ACREAGE	23.89

Plaza Fiesta Owner LLC

23.9

$68.0M (appraised)
assessed $27.2M

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Total

23.9

$68.0M

Site context

Transit within 800 m	no rail stationOpenStreetMap
Motorway junctions within 2 km	93OpenStreetMap
FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	10: ASHFORD PLACE AT DERING (FKA ASHFORD PLACE); CVS PHARMACY #2526; DEKALB PEACHTREE AIRPORT - 21L EMAS PROJECT; DOMINYS AUTO SERVICE; HESS STATION 10228EPA FRS
Census tract 13089021412	3,879 people, 3,205 per sq mi; median household income $220,694; median gross rent $2,593; 13% renters; 13.4% vacant units; 1.1% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 17 of 20; 182 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 341 m; land-use mix 0.69; 270,149 jobs within 45 min by car, 72,938 by transit; 13% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 6 grocers, 1 schools, 7 parks or playgrounds, 2 health, 5 civic, 14 food and drink; 0 cycleway segments, 283 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, DeKalb County (GA), 2024	385 units in 5+ unit buildings, 0 in 2–4, 853 single-family; 2023: 1,563 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.02; socioeconomic 0.05; housing and transport 0.02; 3% below 150% of poverty; 1% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	18 within 10 km, 68 within 25 km: Corporate Square (3.0 km); 1800 Century Blvd. (3.2 km); Northlake Mall (5.0 km); Phipps Plaza (5.1 km); Lotus Grove (5.6 km)computed
Overture Maps	place Plaza Fiesta (shopping_mall, confidence 0.94, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 12,795 m², 5.970378875732422 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.plazafiesta.net (alive); archived 2001–2026 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views	32,917 since 2015; 1,772 in the last 12 months (-29% vs the prior 12); peak 2022-11 with 617Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	population +16% (3,331 → 3,879); median income +126% ($97,500 → $220,694); renters 28% → 13%; median home value +89% ($319,800 → $603,000)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	very low overall (score 19.8); expected annual loss $971,942; community resilience relatively lowFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	1 LIHTC properties, 204 units: Bryton Hill Apts (204 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	32,172 jobs in 2,296 establishments; average annual pay $47,643; employment location quotient 1.04; employment -4.5% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	1,036 jobs; 293 in retail trade, 45 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 13089021412)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 34th income percentile as adults; 2.4% incarcerated at the 2010 count (215 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 5.6%; median family income $183,750; 70 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	DeKalb County School District (PK-12); 2 public schools within 1 mile: Dresden Elementary School; John Robert Lewis Elementary SchoolNCES EDGE
Elevation	968 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	157 county-logged events: 124 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 10 flash flood, 4 tornado; $5,131,000 property damage reported; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 30345, 2026-09	median list price $668,738 (-0.9% on the year); 84 active listings; median 70 days on market; 27% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	2,187 establishments (-1%); 32,286 jobs (+6%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $332,528 (-2% 1 yr, +9% 5 yr); typical rent $1,764/mo (+2% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025	1,014 (2000 = 100); +6.4% 1 yr, +44% 5 yr, +88% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	24,500 vehicles a day on Clairmont Rd; (minor arterial, 4 lanes); 40 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the web

Pages with photos

The Best Dishes and Desserts at Plaza Fiesta on Buford Highway ... atlanta.eater.com

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
median rent $1,591

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History and original facts

Now called / also known as	Plaza Fiesta, Buford-Clairmont Mall
County	DeKalb County
Census division	5 · South Atlantic

Not yet recorded: acres, GLA, year opened, original developer. Know it? Tell us.

Background

Plaza Fiesta is a 350,000 square feet (33,000 m2) shopping mall in DeKalb County, Georgia on the eastern border of the city of Brookhaven, on Buford Highway and Clairmont Road. The mall contains a large supermarket, several large discount stores, and a large space filled with over 140 small vendors, modeled on a Mexican mercado or flea market. According to newspaper Creative Loafing, "to Atlanta's immigrant population, Plaza Fiesta has become as vital a shopping destination as Lenox Square or the Mall of Georgia."

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

2000 Retrofit: reinhabit

Sources

Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20
retrofittingsuburbia.com · 2022
ArcGIS Online · 2022
Wikipedia: Buford-Clairmont Mall · 2026-06-23 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Buford Clairmont Mall, Chamblee, GA." Record m-0828e55f1a, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ga/chamblee-buford-clairmont-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_chambleebufordclairmontmall,
  title = {Buford Clairmont Mall, Chamblee, GA},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/ga/chamblee-buford-clairmont-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-0828e55f1a, release 2026.10.20, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-20}
}

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