A new retail center will replace the former Mountain View Elementary School that had been in that location since 1928. Opened in July, now the new Mountain View Elementary School is at 3151 Sandy Plains Road, Marietta in a 144,320-square-foot building at a cost of $23.4 million.
Comprising nearly 14 acres, the retail site of the former school is on the east side of Sandy Plains Road, south of Shallowford Road and the northern end of Hunters Lodge Road. Other nearby retailers are Rite-Aid, O'Charley's, Target and Kroger with the Mountain View Community Center and The Art Center. This development also will have an unnamed grocery anchor, said the applicant's attorney Kevin Moore, and a bank, retail and a restaurant.
On the application, hours of operation are 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day for the restaurant, 7 a.m. to midnight daily for the grocery store and 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day for retail.
During the public hearing, six raised their hands in opposition but none voiced their disapproval. Instead Trish Steiner, vice president of the East Cobb Civic Association, said ECCA was impressed with the buffer proposed by the applicant to shield the adjoining residences.
Moore said that buffer includes a 30-foot undisturbed buffer, an eight-foot opaque fence at the residents’ request and 20 feet of landscaped buffer with a double row of 12-feet evergreen trees at planting.
Brooks Chadwick Capital is the applicant, and the owner is the Cobb County Board of Education.
Information: cobbcast.cobbk12.org/?p=20526.
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