Lation shopping center to open in Chamblee

CHAMBLEE - An eight million-dollar Latino shopping center is expected to open at the end of the year in Chamblee in metro Atlanta. <br> <br> The shopping center will be called Plaza del Sol. <br> <br> Jeff Humphreys is director of the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia&#39;s Terry College of Business. He says the new shopping center will be a ``reflection of the increasing level of wealth and income&#39;&#39; in the Hispanic community. <br> <br> The Plaza del Sol project marks the second-largest business deal involving a partnership of Latinos in the metro area. <br> <br> The first was the founding of the United Americas Bank in 1999. <br> <br> Plaza del Sol will include a sun inlaid in a central open-air plaze, a stage, fountains and suites with individual entrances. It&#39;s being built on a site that held an ironworks factory.

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