Marble Slab Creamery, Great American Cookies to open in West Lake Village shopping center

Marble Slab Creamery and Great American Cookies will open a new location in Summerwood. (Courtesy Marble Slab Creamery)

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By Kelly Schafler | 9:05 AM Nov 4, 2020 CST

Marble Slab Creamery will open a new location in early 2021 at 12230 W. Lake Houston Parkway E., Houston. The Summerwood-area business will feature numerous flavors of ice cream as well as sorbet, low-fat yogurt, sundaes, cakes, smoothies, shakes and brownies. Cookie company Great American Cookies will also serve fresh-baked cookies from the ice cream shop. www.marbleslab.com

By Kelly Schafler

Editor, Lake Houston | Humble | Kingwood

Kelly Schafler is the editor for the Lake Houston, Humble and Kingwood edition of Community Impact Newspaper, covering public education, city government, development, businesses, local events and all things community-related. Before she became editor, she was the reporter for the Conroe and Montgomery edition for a year and a half.

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