45-Foot-Tall Cobb Movie Theater OK'd
The 4-1 county commission vote clears the way for a $6.5 million revival of Sandy Plains Village.
Your chance to get dinner and a movie in the same Northeast Cobb seat moved closer to reality Tuesday. The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1, with East Cobb’s Bob Ott opposed, to approve the rezoning of the Sandy Plains Village Shopping Center and clear the way for Movie Tavern to move in. The decision offers the dated, largely vacant shopping center a new life but exposes neighbors in the Chatsworth subdivision to a 45-foot-tall building just beyond their backyards. The shopping center along Highway 92 (Woodstock Road) between Sandy Plains and Mabry roads dates to the late 1970s and was built before Chatsworth. It once was home to two anchor stores, Kroger and Stein Mart, but now is only 18 percent leased, said Kevin Moore, an …
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Kristin
11:44 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
I was really hoping that construction was to build a Whole Foods. Happy they are revitalizing that shopping center but I would love to see a Whole Foods in the area. more ›