Filming for the third season officially began on April 23, 2018.[40] Jackson, Georgia remained as primary filming area for scenes in Hawkins' downtown area.[41] The South Bend Pool in Atlanta served as the Hawkins community pool.[41] The major setpiece of the season, Starcourt Mall, was filmed at a re-dressed Gwinnett Place Mall near Duluth, Georgia.[42] The production team had searched around Georgia for a dead mall, one either closed or with significantly reduced vacancy, for film, and found Gwinnett was nearly perfect, having been built in 1984 and thus having the staples of construction from malls in that period.