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(formerly Lakewood Freeway) in the Sylvan Hills neighborhood of southern

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. It was built in 1962 by the same company and in the same style as

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near

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. It was considered a major regional retail center. "Major retail center statistics", U.S. Census Bureau, 1963
/ref> Tenants at one time or another included J.C. Penney,

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, Woolworth,

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, Warehouse Grocery,

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grocery (later a Big Star Market),

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, Lee's Men's Shop, Dipper Dan's Ice Cream, Bell Brothers Shoes, the Stewart-Lakewood Fabric Center and a National Shirt Shop. Lubie Geter, one of the children murdered in the

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, was last seen at the Stewart-Lakewood Center. Today part of the original 40+ unit mall has been demolished. A handful of the remaining units are occupied by a dollar store, wig store, and others. In 2005 Atlanta newspaper ''Creative Loafing'' named it one of "five undiscovered redevelopment gems". The center was the filming location, representing for the

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strip mall in home to the ''Cobra Kai'' dojo in the hit 2018 Netflix series

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, the spin-off of the original 1984 film,

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."Cobra Kai Filming Locations", ''Men's Health''
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External links

(blog)
Stewart-Lakewood page on ''Mall Hall of Fame''

References

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