The Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a contract for traffic improvements at the intersection of Shallowford Road and Gordy Parkway in Northeast Cobb.
The project was awarded to Backbone Infrastructure of Sugar Hill in the amount of $995,561, and was the low bidder out of four companies.
According to an agenda item, the work will focus on the western intersection of Shallowford and Gordy, including realigning the turn lanes and pavement markings onto Gordy northbound and modifying the traffic signals.
The Shallowford-Gordy intersection is in a congested area with a heavy mix of commercial, residential and institutional uses. It includes Highland Plaza Shopping Center, the Sandy Plains Centre Shopping Center, several outparcel businesses and provides access to subdivisions along Gordy Parkway.
It sits between the Shallowford-Sandy Plains intersection and Lassiter High School, and traffic issues there have played into zoning and other development issues in recent years.
There was a movie theatre at the western intersection, the Park 12 Cobb, that was proposed to be a Lidl grocery store. But commissioners rejected the rezoning in 2017 following community oppositions concerned about traffic.
A self-storage business now occupies the former theatre building. In 2023, the King’s Hawaiian restaurant chain got approval from commissioners to alter the site plan to occupy space at the intersection despite traffic concerns being raised again.
But King’s Hawaiian backed out, saying that the conditions imposed in the approval “weren’t going to make it work,” including reductions in buffers to accommodate parking and drive-through service.
Commissioners approved the traffic project 4-0 on its consent agenda at Tuesday’s meeting, with Commissioner Erick Allen absent. The agenda item states that the contractor is expected to finish the work in 300 days after getting notice to proceed.
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