MABLETON — On the southern corner of Mableton Parkway and Discovery Boulevard lies an unremarkable parking lot where tractor trailers sit idle behind a stand of trees.
That property, Commissioner Monique Sheffield told the MDJ on an unseasonably warm morning this week, will hopefully one day be the site of one of the Chattahoochee River’s marquee access points.
“This is going to be transformational for the community. … It’s a great introduction into south Cobb to have this regional trailhead here, and whenever you have these external amenities, obviously it brings about other types of development,” she said from across the street.
The trailhead is but one component of an ambitious vision to transform the Chattahoochee frontage along a 100-mile stretch from Lake Lanier to Newnan. And south Cobb is expected to see the first built-out portion of…
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