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CobbWorks Opens Mableton Job Assistance Center - Marietta Daily Journal
Along Mableton Parkway, a former Cobb fire station has been remodeled by career assistance nonprofit CobbWorks to serve the community in a new way. The 10,000-square-foot space officially reopened Wednesday as the organization’s new Work Source Center, which will provide workforce development services to more than 10,000 jobseekers per year. The $5 million renovation project is the second workforce center to open in the county, with the first located at Gritters Library in Marietta.
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Job training and revitalization comes to Mableton - Cobb County Newsletter
Officials celebrated the grand opening of the new Cobb WorkSource Center last week with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour of the newly renovated building in Mableton. CobbWorks renovated the Old Mableton Fire Station 1 with a more than $4 million investment, transforming it into a second workforce development center in the county.
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CobbWorks featured on the cover of Cobb InFocus
CobbWorks proudly announces its feature in this month’s edition of Cobb InFocus Magazine Cobb In Focus. The comprehensive spread highlights CobbWorks’ transformative impact on workforce development, emphasizing its innovative programs, community partnerships, and vision for economic empowerment across the region. The feature also highlights the upcoming Cobb Work Source Center in Mableton.
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Federal officials visit site of new workforce development center in Cobb- Atlanta Journal Constitution
U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo on Thursday visited the site of the new workforce development center underway in Mableton, funded in part through the federal American Rescue Plan Act. “Infrastructure upgrades that are happening across the state of Georgia, because of the most significant infrastructure plans since the Eisenhower administration, all of the manufacturing jobs and investment that are coming to the state now because of manufacturing incentives that we passed in Congress, all of this depends upon having a skilled workforce and empowering workers here in Cobb and across the state to take advantage of these new career opportunities,” Ossoff said.
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CobbWorks New Workforce Development Center Groundbreaking- Marietta Daily Journal
Cobb leaders break ground on Mableton Workforce Development Center. Mableton Mayor Pro Tem Keisha Jeffcoat welcomed CobbWorks to the city at the groundbreaking. Jeffcoat listed a number of benefits the new center...
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Old fire station being reborn as—coworking space- Urbanize ATL
CobbWorks has partnered with design-build firm MAPP-PGAL for the adaptive-reuse project, which aims to create a cutting-edge facility “designed to build talent pipelines for employers, nurture entrepreneurship, and address the unique needs of underserved communities,” according to project leaders.
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