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'Adult oriented" store coming to Thomas CrossroadsThu, 12/04/2008 - 4:24pm
By: Ben Nelms
One of Coweta County’s new businesses may not be the dime-a-dozen type, but it’s owner says it fills a need. Coweta resident and Starship CEO Kelly Rogers said the new Thomas Crossroads location that will sell “adult-oriented” and other items is expected to open in mid-January. Rogers said the decision to pursue a Coweta location came from the multiple calls per day he and his wife received due to his home phone number in Coweta previously being listed as Starship. “We were fielding 20-30 calls a day from people wanting to know where the Coweta store was located,” Rogers said, explaining that his home is approximately 4 miles from the Thomas Crossroads location. “We saw there was a need and there’s nothing on this side of metro. If they want to shop, why not keep the dollars in the community?” In Coweta County, ordinances say that establishments qualify as an adult-type business if more than 25 percent of the business involves “adult” items or materials. Businesses coming in under that threshold do not have to be located in industrial-zoned areas where such businesses have been assigned by most communities. Rogers said because he will sell less than 25 percent “adult” items he was able to obtain a general retail license. As for the remaining 75 percent of the store’s items, Rogers said they would include a large variety of goods such as lingerie, incense, lamps and lighting, swords, knives, self-defense materials, games, glass pipes and cigars. From the street, Rogers said the building would look no different from the outside than any other business, soon to be painted with battleship gray and blue earth tones. “There will be nothing suggestive on the outside,” Rogers said. “It won’t look any different than the (former) gym, except that it will look better.” Addressing concerns he had heard over what parents would tell their children about the new storefront, Rogers said that, “from the outside you should not be able to tell what type of business it is.” The target date for the opening is Jan. 15. The business will be located at 3209 Ga. Highway 34 East. No one under age 18 will be allowed inside the store. login to post comments |