Kathy Wagstaff of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution relates the concerns of local residents (rr) as WM and others sully pristine wilderness with shopping options:
When Jack and Mary Ann Lockaby moved their family to Cherokee County in 1975, Eagle Drive was a dirt road, and children could run through the woods to Lake Allatoona without seeing a house or a person.Thirty years later, the Lockabys, along with son Keith, are still living in a small house near the corner of Bells Ferry Road on Eagle Drive. Instead of being surrounded by trees and solitude, the family is surrounded by bulldozers, surveyors and sewer lines.
"Some people call this progress," said Keith Lockaby, 44. "But I don't know."
The "progress" promises a change in the way people live, work and drive in south Cherokee. A transformation has begun at the intersection of Ga. 205 and Eagle Drive with a new 30-acre, 211,461 square foot Wal-Mart Supercenter.
The store is scheduled to open Wednesday and will employ about 450 people. It includes a grocery, retail shop and automobile center.
Posted by Kevin on January, 19 2005 at 11:03 AM
