Town Center at Cobb or Town Center Mall, Kennesaw GA
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N 34° 01.141 W 084° 33.911
16S E 724825 N 3766938
Town Center at Cobb (often called Town Center Mall), is a regional shopping mall located in Kennesaw, Georgia near Atlanta.
Waymark Code: WM26D8
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2007
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Opened in late February 1986, the mall was originally anchored by Rich's, Macy's and Sears. The Macy's store was the first in Atlanta not to have originally been part of the Atlanta-based Davison's chain, which Macy's eliminated after owning it since 1929. The largest mall in the state when it opened, a fourth anchor, Mervyn's, joined the mall later in 1986.
Town Center is part of a major retail hub in northern Cobb County, Georgia along Barrett Parkway. It is located between parallel parts of I-75 and I-575, just north of where the interstates meet or split from each other. The mall itself has seen several significant changes over the years. Built with a pad for an additional wing, a new wing extending north from the east wing was finally added in 1993 with a Parisian department store, the first to open in the Atlanta area. This brought the store count at the mall up to 220 stores and the amount of anchor store up to five. No other mall in the state had five anchors at the time except for North Point Mall, which opened also in 1993.
Enormously successful and drawing away customers that originally shopped at older Cumberland and Cobb Center Malls, the mall was first renovated in 1995 but has never been expanded aside from the Parisian addition. Store consolidations and retractions, however, have shaken up the anchor line-up in recent years. First, in 1996, JCPenney took over the former location of Mervyn's, which pulled out of Georgia in late 1995. Second, Rich's and Macy's were merged into one store, prompting the closure of the three-story Macy's that had been there since opening. However, part of the store was refurbished and is now used as a Macy's Furniture Gallery (originally a Rich's-Macy's Furniture Gallery). Macy's now occupies the former Rich's.
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