Bits & Bites [Commercial Real Estate News Atlanta]

This post has been in the works since April so some news may be slightly outdated while other bits are as fresh as ever.  Thanks as always for your continued tips, readership, photos, tweets and "love your blog" notes - they mean more than you know! 

[EXCLUSIVE] Chick-fil-A Shopping for More Space in North DeKalb

Chick-fil-A, the Atlanta-based chicken chain that saw its restaurants ring up a reported $13.7 billion in sales in 2020, is again looking to better position itself for continued growth.  ToNeTo Atlanta has since 2017 reported on more than a dozen "scrape & rebuilds," relocations and new restaurants for the quick-serve chain.  We have now identified another planned relocation that company has in its metro Atlanta pipeline. 

[YEEHAW!] Burgeoning Boot Brand Buckhead Bound

Tecovas, a new boot brand born online and now growing its retail footprint, will bring one of its newest stores to Buckhead!  Recently installed signage indicates that Tecovas will open at The Shops Around Lenox between CorePower Yoga and lululemon.  The boot company will backfill a roughly 2,600 square foot space vacated last year by stationery and cards retailer Paper Source following their Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.  

[EXCLUSIVE] MOOYAH Hoping to Make Lots of Moolah in Metro Atlanta

Move over Five Guys and Steak & Shake, a new burger franchise is coming to town and its bringing a drive-thru with it!  Fast-casual restaurant MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes plans to open their first in Atlanta, and one of their first ever drive-thru enabled locations late this year in Mableton.  The new restaurant will open at The Walk at Legacy, the retail portion of the Legacy at the River Line housing development, at the corner of Veterans Memorial Highway and Discovery Boulevard in Cobb County.  Mooyah will occupy a roughly 2,400 square foot endcap space with an existing drive-thru lane. 

[UPDATE] EZ One Price Cleaners Now Double Its Original Price

EZ One Price Cleaners is once again raising its "one price."  The company, which has three locations in metro Atlanta, opened their first outpost along Roswell Road in Chastain Park in 2013.  A second location opened along Roswell Road in Sandy Springs in 2014 followed by a third along Cheshire Bridge Road in Atlanta in 2015.  Originally, all three locations offered basic dry cleaning for "one price:" $1.99 per piece.  Gradually the chain raised their price, first to $2.29, then $2.59, $2.79 and most recently to $2.99.