Mountain View Area
The Mountain View area is named for the view of this mountain, including the CCPLS Mountain View library, the Chattahoochee Tech Mountain View campus, the Mountain View Aquatics Center, and the much older Mountain View Elementary School and the original and newer CCFD fire stations next to it.
This community is centered around the intersection of Sandy Plains Road (northeast and southwest) and Shallowford Road (east and west), an area that quickly went from forest to parking lots and 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 roads, and are now several lanes wide each at the intersection.
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 (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 technical college.
Despite being only a decade old or less at the time, three of the five major anchor stores have changed, with Drug Emporium becoming an Office Depot, Kmart becoming Home Depot, and Harris Teeter sold to Kroger. There is also a multi-screen movie theater. A similar explosion in land development has occurred in Hickory Flat in the 2000s.
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