Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Mountain View (Cobb County), Georgia

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'''Mountain View''' is an [[unincorporated area]] in far northeastern [[Cobb County, Georgia]]. This area is named for the view of [[Sweat Mountain|Sweat Mountain]], including the [[Cobb County Public Library System|CCPLS]] Mountain View [[library]], the [[Chattahoochee Tech]] Mountain View [[campus]], the [[Cobb County Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department|Mountain View Aquatics Center]], and the much older [[Cobb County School District|Mountain View Elementary School]] and the original and newer [[Cobb County Fire Department|CCFD]] [[Fire station|fire stations]] next to it.

== Geography ==
This community is centered around the [[Intersection (road)|intersection]] of Sandy Plains Road (northeast and southwest) and Shallowford Road (east and west), an area that quickly went from [[forest]] to [[Parking lot|parking lots]] and [[Strip mall|strip malls]] in the 1990s. Both roads, which were two lanes each and met at a [[four-way stop]] with a flashing red light overhead until then, became four-lane divided [[Arterial road|arterial roads]], and are now several lanes wide each at the intersection.

== History ==
Gordy Parkway was built from Sandy Plains Road (opposite Holly Springs Road) on the southwest side, clockwise to Shallowford Road on the west, back to Sandy Plains on the northeast side, and just a few more yards or meters back to Shallowford on the east across from [[Target Stores|Target]] (which moved from the former [[Richway]] a few miles southwest on Sandy Plains Road at Canton Highway after one was built near [[Town Center at Cobb]]). This near-circle allowed hundreds of homes to be built west of Sandy Plains Road, most of the existing forest being [[clear-cut]]. The family of [[Frank Gordy]], proprietor of [[The Varsity]], owned much of the land, and the part where the one-building Chattahoochee Tech campus now sits was donated to the county, which in turn provided the land for the [[State university|state]] [[technical college]].

== Economy ==
Despite being only a decade old or less at the time, three of the five major [[Anchor store|anchor stores]] have changed, with [[Drug Emporium]] becoming an [[Office Depot]], [[Kmart]] becoming [[Home Depot]], and [[Harris Teeter]] sold to [[Kroger]]. A similar explosion in [[land development]] has occurred in [[Hickory Flat, Georgia|Hickory Flat]] in the 2000s. There was also a multi-screen [[movie theater]] that closed down due to lack of funds in January 2021.

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