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A new Mexican restaurant is planning to make its metro Atlanta debut. Papa's & Beer, which currently has eight locations across North and South Carolina, will in early 2022 open a new location in Roswell. (Beard Papa's is a similar sounding name but completely different eatery serving Japanese style puff pastries with Atlanta area locations in Peachtree Corners and Sandy Springs.)
Buckhead's Steak 'n Shake will likely soon close to make way for something far more exciting: Chase Bank. The 3,517 square foot restaurant, located at 3380 Northside Parkway, is slated to be demolished and replaced by a new, 3,289 square foot Chase Bank, according to permits filed with the City of Atlanta. Chase will spend about $1.5 million to build the new branch. Fulton County tax records indicate that the Columbus, Ohio-based bank paid $4.2 million for the just over half acre site at the end of 2020.
Upstart athletic apparel business Outdoor Voices will open their first Atlanta area store in Buckhead. The new store, situated in what some might consider an odd location, will be at 3231 Paces Ferry Place in Buckhead Village. The store will open in a onetime residence that, like other area businesses along the short street, have been converted from residential to commercial buildings to house their mostly independent storefronts.
After making its Atlanta debut last June, Publix has decided to pull the plug on its GreenWise Market banner in East Cobb. The roughly 25,000 square foot store anchored the new Sandy Plains MarketPlace shopping center at the corner of Shallowford Road and Sandy Plains Road. The store, meant to be Publix's answer to Whole Foods Market and The Fresh Market, stocked a wider variety of natural, organic and "better for you" offerings than a typical Publix in addition to fresh-made burritos, sushi, acai bowls, smoothies, and pizza.
A new Chinese restaurant is set to replace the shuttered BurgerFi in Midtown Atlanta. "Urban Hai," a new eatery from restaurateur Gary Lin, has signed on to replace the burger eatery in 2022. The 3,600 square foot restaurant space is situated in the 77 12th project and is located between DUA Vietnamese Noodle Soup and Sam's of San Francisco. BurgerFi opened in Midtown in early 2014 but had closed by January 2018. The space has been vacant in the years since.
