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East Cobb Biz Notes: It’s luncheon week, and helping hands needed for MUST Ministries

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The third week of each month means local business groups in East Cobb are holding their monthly luncheons. Jen Carfagno, East Cobb Biz Notes

It’s not too late to register for them, including the East Cobb Business Association luncheon that’s Tuesday from 11-1 at the Olde Towne Athletic Club (4950 Olde Towne Parkway).

The guest speaker is Jen Carfagno, meteorologist and host of AMHQ program at The Weather Channel.

This year the ECBA expanded its luncheon hours to include more networking (for the first half hour), and there’s an additional networking session built into the program.

The cost is $20 in advance for members, $25 in advance for visitors. The cost at the door is $30 for everyone. Click here to register.

The ECBA is also looking for volunteers later this week to help with one of its ongoing community initiatives. They’ll be assembling sandwiches for MUST Ministries’ summer lunch program for needy kids.

The lunch-packing takes place from 10-noon Friday at the Foothills Community Room (1407 Cobb Parkway North). Parking is behind the building, and you’ll enter at the blue and gold door marked for visitors and volunteers.

Here’s more on what MUST does in the summertime.

And don’t forget ECBA’s Friday East Cobb Open Networking breakfast at Egg Harbor Cafe. It’s a new location, but the same informal setting to meet and greet fellow local business professionals.

NCBA Luncheon Wednesday

At Wednesday’s Northeast Cobb Business Association luncheon the guest speaker is Mark Butler, the Georgia Commissioner of Labor.

The luncheon is from 11:30-1 at the Piedmont Church, 570 Piedmont Road. The cost is $15 for members and $25 for non-members.

Coming up in August

The next East Cobb Women in Business luncheon is Aug. 16 from 11:30-1 at the Paradise Grille (3605 Sandy Plains Road). No need to register; just pay for your lunch and bring plenty of business cards for networking. Visit their Facebook page for more.

The next East Cobb Area Council quarterly breakfast of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce is the annual East Cobb Pigskin Preview. It’s from 7:30-9 on Aug. 9 at the Indian Hills Country Club (4001 Clubland Drive), and features the six head coaches from Kell, Lassiter, Pope, Sprayberry, Walton and Wheeler football teams and selected players.

The cost is $20 for Chamber members and $30 for guests and you can register here.

 

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East Cobb Biz Notes: New RaceTrac location on Roswell Road breaks ground; Gigi’s Cupcakes closes

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Carwash USA, East Cobb biz notes

A couple of weeks ago demolition crews began knocking down what had been a Carwash USA location at Roswell Road and Old Canton Road (3103 Roswell Road).

The car wash closed there in December after 14 years, and the owners indicated the business would reopen “nearby” in 2018, although they did not specify a new location.

Carwash USA, East Cobb biz notes

One of East Cobb’s biggest bottleneck intersections has become competitive ground for a glorified gas station battle.

A nearly 5,000-square-foot RaceTrac is going up at the site, which initially was a gas station, and it’s on a catty-corner from a newly renovated and expanded Quick Trip.

This RaceTrac will include a convenience store, free Wi-Fi, frozen yogurt and a coffee selection.

When we drove by earlier today, construction crews were digging deep into the Olde Mill Shopping Center outparcel. A news report last March indicated that the new RaceTrac will open in the third quarter of this year, but it looks to be sooner than that.

RaceTrac, which is headquartered in Cobb at the Galleria, also has an East Cobb location at 2337 Canton Road.

Gigi’s Cupcakes closesGigi's Cupcakes Marietta

The Gigi’s Cupcakes location at Merchants Walk (1281 Johnson Ferry Road) closed on Jan. 31, but the announcement didn’t come until today, two days before Valentine’s Day. A message posted on the store’s Facebook page said “we will miss being a part of your lives.”

Gigi’s opened in East Cobb in early 2011. A Kennesaw location, the only other Gigi’s store in Cobb, also closed the same day.

On the move

Palm Beach Tan has relocated from Market Plaza (1275 Johnson Ferry Road, adjacent to Zeal’s) to The Avenue (4475 Roswell Road). It’s located in Suite 1420, between the Barre 3 studio and Springfree Trampoline.

That’s the same location formerly occupied by Solar Dimensions, which was purchased by Palm Beach Tan in January.

 

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East Cobb Biz Notes: Hollywood Feed opening soon; Café 33 closes; business assocations kick off new year

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Hollywood Feed Woodlawn Square, East Cobb Biz Notes

Coming soon to Woodlawn Square Shopping Center (1205 Johnson Ferry Road): Hollywood Feed, a natural pet food and supply store chain that’s growing in metro Atlanta.

They’re hiring for the East Cobb location, as well as several others in the region. Based in Memphis, Hollywood Feed operates in eight states in the South, and currently has eight stores in Georgia.

The new Hollywood Feed store at Woodlawn Square will take up suites 119 and 121, in space formerly occupied by the Sweet Spirit Christian bookstore.

Café 33 closes in Sprayberry area

In case you missed the story we posted over the weekend: Café 33, a family-homestyle restaurant operated near Sprayberry High School by former Yellow Jackets football player and Shane Clements, closed on New Year’s Eve.

The restaurant specialized in breakfast and lunch fare and also added a dinner menu, but cited a drop in foot traffic and landlord issues for shutting after more than six years.

New venue for ECBA luncheons

The East Cobb Business Association‘s monthly luncheons are moving to the Olde Towne Athletic Club (4950 Olde Towne Parkway) after several years at the Indian Hills Country Club.

The ECBA kicks off its 2018 luncheon slate next Tuesday, Jan. 16, with Cobb Commission Chairman Mike Boyce as the featured speaker. The event lasts from 11-1, starting with networking and the luncheon session starting at 11:30 a.m.

On Jan. 30, Cobb Police Precinct 4 Major Jerry Quan is the guest at the ECBA’s quarterly breakfast at J. Christopher’s East Lake (2100 Roswell Road) from 7:30-8:30 a.m.

The Northeast Cobb Business Association holds its monthly luncheon next Wednesday, Jan. 17, at its usual spot, the Piedmont Church (570 Piedmont Road), from 11:30-1. The guest speaker is Ryan Blythe from the Georgia Trade School in Acworth.

Business women who lunch

The next East Cobb Business Women Networking Lunch is scheduled for next Wednesday, Jan. 17, at Paradise Grille, in the Highland Plaza Shopping Center (3605 Sandy Plains Road) from 11:30-1. The cost to attend is free, you just pay for your own food, bring business cards and network in a supportive environment.

The host is Resonate Marketing, a female-run agency. Luncheons are the third Wednesday of the month.

 

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East Cobb Biz Notes: Primrose School expanding to Paper Mill Village; Hoyle’s sports bar opens and more

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Primrose School, East Cobb biz notes

A vacant lot between the shops and back offices at Paper Mill Village is being cleared for a new location of the early education Primrose School.

That’s the view from Moxie Burger for the Primrose School East Cobb at Paper Mill, and pre-enrollment is now underway. The address is 202 Village Parkway, and the phone number is 470-631-9327.

It will be the fourth Primrose location in the East Cobb area, along with East Lake (2065 Roswell Road), Sprayberry (2531 East Piedmont Road) and Lassiter (2821 Lassiter Road).

The former 120 Tavern at 1440 Roswell Road (across from Williamson Bros. BBQ) is now Hoyle’s Kitchen + Bar. Per www.tonetoatl.com, Hoyle’s general manager describes the new place as a “sports bar with a twist,” including an expanded outdoor patio. It’s open for lunch and dinner seven days a week, and aced its opening restaurant inspection.

Hoyle’s is one of the first new restaurants opening along the Roswell Road corridor of East Marietta ahead of the forthcoming opening of an I-75 interchange as part of the Northwest Corridor Project to be completed early next year.

A Waffle House opened earlier this year, right at that junction (and next to Frey’s Gin Road) and the Studio Movie Grill is slated to open soon in the same retail center recently vacated by Harry’s Marietta.

The Cobb Community Development Department recently issued licenses for the following new business in East Cobb:

  • Atlanta Autism Counseling, 4939 Lower Roswell Road (psychologist);
  • Body & Brain Yoga Tachi, 2595 Sandy Plains Road, Suite 9 (fitness trainer);
  • The Craft Beer Factory, 2145 Roswell Road, Suite 110 (package store);
  • Earth & Sky, 4191 Blackland Drive (painting artist);
  • Hammond Group, PC, 111 Village Parkway, Suite 2-200 (certified public accountant);
  • Marietta Technical Services, 3000 Johnson Ferry, Suite 201 (computer & data processing);
  • Motion Stretch Studio, 1255 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 26 (fitness center);
  • Orangetheory Fitness Center, 2960 Shallowford Road, Suite 102 (fitness center);
  • Pivot Point Counseling, 3225 Shallowford Road, Suite 710A (family and individual counseling);
  • Skinsations, 1275 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 220 (medical clinic);
  • Trinity of Success Club, 3290 Ethan Drive (travel agency);
  • Tyiese Scarpa, 4475 Roswell Road, Suite 940 (shoe and accessories store);
  • Village Autism Center, 4994 Lower Roswell Road, Suite 10 (psychologist).

 

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