Cobb Place is a shopping center at 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 Lechmere ("leech-meer"), Service Merchandise, and Uptons (all of which went out of business nationally), and entertainment outlets Q-Zar [1] and 8-screen AMC Theatres [1].
Lechmere's location later became the giant Phar-Mor drugstore, meant to be a direct competitor to supermarket-sized Drug Emporium (and 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, which was originally several smaller stores torn down and reconstructed to accommodate another large retail chain. After agreeing to the space, that chain merged with another more established chain with an existing location across the street, and thus the new space was never finished.
In the summer of 2000, the AMC 8 Theatres moved to another development nearby, where it became the huge AMC 24 Theatres. A HobbyTown USA [1] franchise which had moved in from Austell about two 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.
The former Service Merchandise façade was torn down, and is now American Signature Furniture. The former BB&B was also gutted and a new roof applied, and is slated to open in late October or early November 2003 as Discount Shoe Warehouse. Several smaller retail stores are also under construction and nearly finished at the end of the shopping center, down the side of this same space.
A small United States Post Office branch (30144) is also located at Cobb Place, along with several restaurants, a futon store, and others.
