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Earlier this month, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal announced that Smyrna-based Floor & Decor, a do-it-yourself home improvement retailer, was moving its headquarters to a nearly-vacant office building at the Wildwood office complex. The 16-story, 329,000-square-foot building at 2500 Windy Ridge Parkway, where Coca-Cola Enterprises once had office space, has only one current tenant. That’s meant … Read more
The following East Cobb restaurant scores from Sept. 17-Oct. 3 have been compiled by the Cobb & Douglas Department of Public Health. Click the link under each listing to view details of the inspection: Dodgen Middle School 1725 Bill Murdock Road October 1, 2018 Score: 100, Grade: A Domino’s Pizza 2146 Roswell Road, Suite 100 September … Read more
Coming soon to the Pavilions at East Lake, likely this month: Kayhill’s Sports Bar and Grill, next to the J. Christopher’s. Kayhill’s will take up more than 10,000 square feet, the largest space in the retail center at 2100 Roswell Road behind the Kroger store, according to Brixmor, the Pavilions management company. Owner James Kayhill … Read more
The Cobb County Tax Commissioner’s office has announced that the Canton Road tag office will be undergoing renovations starting next week. The office is located at 2932 Canton Road, in the Market Plaza Shopping Center (just north of the Piedmont Road intersection). The closure begins next Wednesday, July 25, with reopening in the fall. A specific … Read more
In less than a month the rebuilt campuses of Brumby Elementary School and East Cobb Middle School will be open for classes at their new adjacent locations on Terrell Mill Road. We swung by there over the weekend and saw that the parking lot at East Cobb Middle is just about complete, and that … Read more
On paper, considering a 3-home subdivision proposal might seem fairly routine. On Tuesday, the Cobb Board of Commissioners did do that, but the Wesley Chapel Road rezoning case they approved came after a good bit of wrangling. By a 3-2 vote, the commissioners approved a substitute motion to rezone less than two acres on Wesley Chapel … Read more
By a 4-1 vote, the Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday morning approved rezoning for a project in the Powers Ferry-Terrell Mill area that its developer and a nearby citizens group are hailing as a cornerstone of community redevelopment. More than 100 citizens, many from the Powers Ferry Corridor Alliance, applauded wildly after the commission … Read more
If you plan to attend Tuesday morning’s Cobb Board of Commissioners zoning hearing, you need to get there well in advance. The proposed Powers Ferry-Terrell Mill development is the first item on the agenda, and it’s expected to attract a full house. Two homeowners associations on either side of the Z-12 application by SSP Blue … Read more
The Cobb Planning Commission is recommending approval of a Powers Ferry-Terrell Mill Road development that’s been held up for months, but made some changes Tuesday before sending it along for formal action later this month. By a 4-1 vote the planning board approved rezoning a 23.9-acre tract at the northwest corner of Powers Ferry and … Read more
In December the Cobb Planning Commission decided to hold a zoning application for a major Powers Ferry-Terrell Mill Road project that was opposed by some nearby condominium dwellers. When the case goes back before the planning board Tuesday, the proposed redevelopment will come with a request for a new zoning category and will bear a … Read more
The following East Cobb restaurant scores from Dec. 13-Jan. 12 have been compiled by the Cobb & Douglas Department of Public Health. Click the link under each listing to view details of the inspection: Atlanta Country Club 500 Atlanta Country Club Drive December 21, 2017 Score: 100, Grade: A Baskin Robbins 4811 Lower Roswell Road December … Read more
After nearly two hours of discussion that included heated opposition from residents in a nearby townhome complex, the Cobb Planning Commission on Tuesday voted to hold the long-delayed rezoning request for the proposed Terrell Mill Towne Center. By a 3-2 vote, the Planning Commission—which is an advisory board to the Cobb Board of Commissioners—requested more … Read more
We posted back in October some details about the proposed Terrell Mill Towne Center development that’s finally coming up for rezoning this month after months of delays. The first step in the process comes Tuesday, when the developer, Eden Rock Real Estate Partners, gets a hearing before the Cobb Planning Commission for its 23-acre plan … Read more
Mike Maloy is active in a local veterans organization and is something of a classic car enthusiast, so he and his son turned out on a chilly Saturday morning at Sandy Plains Village for a first-time event that blends both of those interests. For D.J. Little, the co-owner of a fitness business at the shopping … Read more
Last week we wrote about two rezoning applications for Northeast Cobb residential proposals that go to the heart of density disputes. Those two items are part of a larger agenda to be heard by the Cobb Planning Commission Tuesday that includes other similar applications in the area. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the 2nd … Read more
What’s currently the location of Brumby Elementary School and adjoining office and retail space along Powers Ferry Road is set to become the Terrell Mill Towne Center. That’s the name the developers of a proposed 23-acre mixed-use project at the northwest intersection of Terrell Mill and Powers Ferry are calling their project. It is to … Read more
The Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a request for a liquor license for a proposed Northeast Cobb restaurant that has been fought by nearby residents for the last two years. By a 4-1 vote, the commissioners granted the alcohol permit to Naseeb Rana of Kasbah Corp., who wants to open the Paprik’a Restaurant … Read more
After being delayed from consideration last month, a proposal to redevelop the former Mountain View Elementary School site into a mixed commercial complex will be heard Tuesday by the Cobb Planning Commission. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the second floor meeting room of the Cobb BOC Building, 100 Cherokee St., in downtown … Read more
The man wanted for an East Cobb bank robbery last week has been arrested, with assistance from a tip via the Greater Atlanta Crime Stoppers tip line. Cobb Police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said Eduardo Estrada, 35, of East Point, has been charged with robbery by intimidation in connection with a holdup at the Fifth Third … Read more
An East Cobb bank robbery Thursday morning resulted in the short lockdown of two nearby schools as police pursued a suspect. According to the Cobb County School District, the exterior doors to Wheeler High School and East Cobb Middle School were locked for about 15 minutes after Cobb Police began investigating the robbery at the … Read more
