County hopes new website will boost redevelopment

Cobb County’s community development agency will soon be launching an online database of all the available developments in Cobb County. Dana Johnson, planning division manager, said this searchable redevelopment inventory website will make it easy for interested developers to see the locations offered in Cobb County.

“We’ve been working on this website because usually we’re planners and we create nice books and they look great and then no one ever reads them,” he said. “They’re not used by the people we’re trying to get them too.”

The website, which Johnson said should launch in March, allows future developers to sort Cobb County’s entire development inventory by location, size, zoning or available incentives. The website will also contain links to other pertinent sites like Cobb County’s community development agency and Georgia Department of Transportation.

Bob Ott, Cobb County’s District 2 commissioner, explained that the website will be easy for prospective developers to navigate.

“It’ll be designed that if the developer kind of wants to get the information and go it’ll all be a downloadable file with tabs and bookmarks so they can go through all of this not connected to the Web,” he said. “The idea is to make this as convenient as possible for developers to find a potential site in Cobb County.”

Johnson said his department is currently in talks with some of the city development agencies in Cobb County to get their listings added to the site as well. Once live, the inventory database will be accessible through the community development agency website.