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The popular Texas-based fast food chain, Whataburger, is heading to Gwinnett County with at least two locations.

A report surfaced on the online development news outlet, Atlanta Tomorrow's News Today, that Whataburger planned to build a restaurant at The Exchange at Gwinnett, which is located near the Mall of Georgia in Buford.

The Daily Post confirmed those reports on Monday.

An engineer is preparing a permit for city review to remove the buildings at 1 Riverside Ave.

The Jacksonville Downtown Development Review Board has approved the site plan for the One Riverside Development. The 18.84-acre mixed-use development will be on the old site of the Times-Union Building.

The plans by Fuqua Development include a grocer, retail shops, a restaurant accessible from the Riverwalk, an initial 271 residential housing units, and a parking garage. It also reroutes and daylights McCoy's Creek and builds a public park between the creek and the CSX railroad tracks. The width of the creek will also be expanded from 40-feet to 80-feet.

Atlanta developer Jeff Fuqua proposes to start construction in 2022 on the proposed $151.61 million retail, residential and park redevelopment at 1 Riverside Ave. in Brooklyn.

There aren’t many areas of racing where Mario Andretti hasn’t been a champion.

He's won championships in FormulaOne, Indy Car, NASCAR and World Sportscar. He has won both the Indianapolis 500, which is one of Indy Car's most famous races, and the Daytona 500, which is one of NASCAR's most famous races.

He won the 1978 Formula One World Championship as well.

The iconic former Florida Times-Union building along Jacksonville's Riverwalk may soon make way for a retail, office, restaurant and apartment project after being empty for a little more than two years.

Atlanta-based developer Jeff Fuqua, with experience building grocery-anchored centers in Brooklyn and Riverside, has a contract to buy the former Florida Times-Union property to create a $250 million retail, office, restaurant and apartment project.

Owners of The Varsity have applied to tear down the iconic Athens restaurant, which one commissioner said has been "a long time coming."

The current building at 1000 West Broad St. has stood since 1965, though The Varsity has been established in Athens since 1932, just four years after the original Atlanta location opened.

The new Sprouts Grocery Store at The Exchange at Gwinnett mixed use development near the Mall of Georgia will open its doors to customers in August, but first it needs to hire 100 employees.

Go karting is coming to the Mall of Georgia area.

Andretti Indoor Karting and Games announced it will open its new location at The Exchange at Gwinnett on Thursday, with a grand opening celebration set for two days later. The new location will be Andretti's second venue in Georgia.

A new entertainment venue will open at The Exchange at Gwinnett near the mall of Georgia, bringing 360 jobs with it.

Located at 2925 Buford Drive, Andretti Indoor Karting and Games will open to the public on May 13. The venue will hold a grand opening on May 15, in which the first 100 customers will receive free goodie bags, t-shirts and other items.

Stores are starting to open for business at The Exchange at Gwinnett, a $350 million mixed-use development billed as an "urban hamlet" near the retail epicenter surrounding the Mall of Georgia.

The Exchange at Gwinnett, a 106-acre project on Buford Drive near I-85, will offer nearly 465,000 square feet of retail and restaurants. Fuqua Development also plans 1,000 units of apartments, townhomes and senior housing, giving about 3,000 people a new place to call home.

Golf fans, as well as novices to the sport, have a new place to try out their swings in Gwinnett County.

TopGolf is set to hold the grand opening for its new location at The Exchange at Gwinnett in Buford Friday. The entertainment chain gives people, regardless of skill level, a way to play golf in a way that mixtures the old sport with new technology.

Hoots Wings, a sister chain to Hooters, opened its latest location last week in Peachtree Corners. Located in the city's town center, it offers chicken sandwiches, seafood, salads and five wing varieties with 20 sauces and dry rubs.

A Food Network star and retired professional wrestler worked the room over burgers at a sneak peek event last week for a new Peachtree Corners restaurant opening its doors Wednesday.

With a successful restaurant in Duluth, Willie Jack Degel, host of reality television show Restaurant Stakeout, is bringing another location of Uncle Jack's Meat House to Gwinnett County after nearly three years of planning.

After three years of planning, Willie Degel finally got to host an event at his new Uncle Jack’s Meat House location in Peachtree Corners this past week.

It was a three-night VIP sneak peak meet-and-greet at the restaurant, which will open to the public Wednesday on a reservations only basis. There were sample size versions of the restaurant’s signature dishes as well as drinks and a visit by retired wrestler Ric Flair, who frequently had people coming up to him at the bar to ask if he would pose with them for a photo.