Atlanta Massage Parlors: The Square – Changes to Historic Board will give public more say
Posted on October 16th, 2011 in Atlanta massage parlors
Downtown Marietta was the center of Cobb County commerce for well over a century, but withered in the 1960s and ’70s as competition cropped up from nearby malls. So the city mounted a determined effort in the 1980s under then-Mayor Bob Flournoy to remake downtown. Glover Park in Marietta Square was renovated, groups like the Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society were formed and annual events like the Marietta Pilgrimage of Historic Homes were started. Numerous older buildings — those lucky enough to have escaped the bulldozers in the “urban renewal” push of the 1960s and ’70s — were renovated and restored.
The result is a downtown and city square with a rare historic ambience and small-town feel.
But that civic investment has been undermined at times, such as by efforts to build 10-story office towers there and by a massage parlor that was allowed to operate just steps off the Square for years. More recently, North Park Square has been blighted by an unsightly hole created by the demolition of a nearl …
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