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North DeKalb Mall once again has new owners who are looking to redevelop the property. According to a report Tuesday by Decaturish, Columbia, South Carolina-based EDENS has acquired the nearly 70 acre property from West Palm Beach-based Sterling Organization. The sale reportedly closed in recent days and while North DeKalb Mall has been removed from Sterling's website, it's not yet present on EDENS.
Tre Vele opened Monday September 20 at City Walk in Sandy Springs. The new Italian restaurant, bar, and market spans about 5,600 square feet and includes a rooftop patio. The restaurant, opened by brothers Ryan and Jonathan Akly replaces Three Sheets, also an Akly concept. The brothers collaborated with chef/partner Ian Winslade of their Mission + Market restaurant in Buckhead to create the new Sandy Springs eatery. Executive Chef Giancarlo Ruiz (formerly of Storico Fresco) was recruited to helm the kitchen. Tre Vele’s initial hours for dinner are Monday through Thursday 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday through Saturday 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tre Vele plans to add lunch and brunch shortly after opening. The café and retail hours are scheduled to be Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with plans to offer lunch to-go options alongside the retail offerings.
Mendocino Farms plans to make Georgia its third market with a location planned for Buckhead. The restaurant, described as featuring "chef-driven sandwiches, salads and more, offering unique twists on classics and globally-inspired flavor combinations," will open at the new Modera Prominence apartment development at the corner of Lenox and Piedmont Roads. The new restaurant will occupy a 3,100 square foot space along Lenox Road that will also include a roughly 800 square foot patio.
Two budding entrepreneurs are looking to turn a failed restaurant space into a brewery and taproom. Mutation Brewing Company is slated to open later this fall at 5825 Roswell Road, just outside the perimeter, in Sandy Springs. The new brewery will replace Taqueria Tsunami, which closed in the two level 9,137 square foot space in 2020. Prior to Taqueria Tsunami, the space, two blocks north of I-285, was occupied by Double Zero Napoletana before its "move" to Emory Village.
Fifth Third Bank plans to open a new branch in Roswell. The Cincinnati-based bank plans to convert the existing Arby's restaurant at 665 West Crossville Road into a new bank branch. The Arby's, which closed in the Trader Joe's anchored Roswell Crossing shopping center in late 2019, originally opened in 1999. This marks at least the second time that the bank has taken over a former quick-serve restaurant building in metro Atlanta having previously converted the one-time El Pollo Loco along Buford Highway in Chamblee into a bank. Elsewhere in metro Atlanta, Chase converted a former Pollo Tropical in Alpharetta and a former Krispy Kreme in Doraville into bank branches, while Regions demolished a former Pollo Tropical in East Cobb to build its new branch.
