By the mid-1980s, the shopping hub has gone through a metamorphosis into MARKET SQUARE AT NORTH DEKALB. Its western half was gutted and rebuilt, taking in Woolworth in the process. Two new anchors joined the tenant list; California-based Mervyn's and Massachusetts-based Lechmere. The revitalized complex now spanned 635,000 leasable square feet and housed eighty-five stores. There was free parking for 3,774 autos.

A late '80s view of the new Food Court area, a component of the award-winning reinvention of the center into MARKET SQUARE AT NORTH DEKALB.
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