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What Shelia Edwards Plans to Do to Boost Businesses in South Cobb
A Family Dollar Located Across the Street from a Dollar General is NOT the Answer to Good Economic Development in South Cobb
During a two-hour forum hosted recently by Mableton Improvement Coalition (MIC) and the Austell Community Taskforce (ACT), District 4 candidate Shelia Edwards provided her thoughts on a number of issues. Here is an excerpt from the MDJ article on the forum:
“There’s nothing to do,” area resident O’Dell Thompson said back in February, after a meeting hosted by the South Cobb Redevelopment Authority. “No restaurants, no banks, no grocery stores. All we got is convenience stores, liquor stores, dollar stores. No place I want to spend my money.”
Changing that begins with the Magnolia Crossing property, said Shelia Edwards, a business owner and one of the candidates.
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“I will put to rest the myth that the only economic development our community can get is a Family Dollar across the street from a Dollar General,” she said.
"Redevelopment of the 50-acre Magnolia Crossing property — which is owned by the South Cobb Redevelopment Authority — could plant the seeds for district-wide growth", she said, "and an end to the area’s status as a food and banking desert".
