Cobb Place

Cobb Place is a shopping center at 840 (originally numbered 800) Barrett Parkway in northern Cobb County, Georgia, just southeast of Kennesaw (a suburb of Atlanta). It opened in 1987, the year after the main shopping attraction at Town Center at Cobb mall, on the other side of Interstate 75.

The original anchor stores were (from left/south to right/north) Lechmere ("leech-meer"), Service Merchandise, and Uptons (all of which went out of business nationally), and entertainment outlets Q-Zar and 8-screen AMC Theatres .

Lechmere's location later became the giant Phar-Mor drugstore, meant to be a direct competitor to supermarket-sized Drug Emporium (both of which are now also defunct). The same location later became Bed Bath & Beyond, which in 2003 moved to a newly-constructed anchor store right next to itself. That space was originally several smaller stores, torn down and reconstructed to accommodate another large retail chain. After agreeing to the space, that chain (specializing in baby clothing and furniture) merged with another more-established chain which already had an existing location across the street, and thus the new space was never finished. The former BB&B space was completely gutted, and became a Discount Shoe Warehouse (DSW).

In the summer of 2000, the AMC 8 Theatres moved to another land development nearby (on Cobb Place Lane), where it became the huge AMC 24 Theatres. A HobbyTown USA franchise (which had moved in from Austell about four years before) renovated it by removing major walls, pouring new non-sloped floors, and adding sufficient lighting; and moved down from their smaller store in the center in November of that year to become HobbyTown's largest and busiest store in the country.

Like the first BB&B, the former Service Merchandise façade was torn down and the inside gutted. This location is now American Signature Furniture. Smaller stores to its left were demolished to become Cost Plus World Market, and the same was done to its right for a new Basset Furniture, and a Thomasville Furniture store (which moved from Town Center Oaks). To the right of that, Ashley Furniture now occupies the revamped former Uptons. Some of the smaller retail spaces lost to the new anchors were restored at the south end of the shopping center, in the side part of the former Lechmere/Phar-Mor/BB&B which faces south.

A small United States Post Office branch (sharing Kennesaw ZIP code 30144, unique 30160 for its PO boxes) is also located at Cobb Place, along with several restaurants, a vacuum cleaner store, and others.

Other current tenants include:

• Weight Watchers
• Cornerstone Kitchens and Bath

Other former tenants include:

• Delta Air Lines, at the far east end
• ...