Retail + Eateries + Hotels + Convenience Stores + Residential + Grocery + Banking +
After several delays, a restaurant that has looked like it could open "any day now" has finally set its final opening date. We are pleased to confirm that Whataburger will make its metro Atlanta debut Monday November 28 at 705 Town Park Lane NW in Kennesaw. The Whataburger, on which ToNeTo Atlanta exclusively reported last August, replaced a shuttered O'Charley's not far from the campus of Kennesaw State University.
A new Lidl grocery store is being proposed in Cobb County. Plans filed in September with the Cobb Zoning Office show Lidl is requesting the rezoning of 3.47 acres at the southwest corner of Canton Road and Piedmont Road for a 31,000-square-foot food market. A former Eckerd turned Rite-Aid building (2833 Canton Road) occupies about 1.4 acres of the site. The building, constructed in 1998, has been vacant since Rite Aid shuttered it in 2018.
This coming Sunday will bring something extra scary to sports fans in Atlanta: a future without Fox Bros Bar-B-Q at Mercedes Benz Stadium. The popular Atlanta-based barbecue business owned by pitmaster brothers Jonathan and Justin Fox announced Friday afternoon that this coming Sunday will be the last day of service for the restaurant that opened with the stadium in 2017.
If you've driven by the old Zesto at 2469 Piedmont Road, you may have noticed something odd: it's open! Following the restaurant's closure on September 18, new ownership and management have reopened the business as "Buckhead Burgers." Interestingly, the new restaurant features literally the same menu as Zesto, with the Zesto logo and other proprietary items covered up or otherwise renamed on the new menu.
With two Raising Cane's locations already in the works for the greater metro Atlanta area, we have now confirmed a third! Following announcements in Buford and Dacula, a third Raising Cane's is being planned for Woodstock. The new restaurant would come to a roughly one acre parcel at 9887 and 9911 Highway 92. The primary parcel was most recently home to a Velox insurance office but was built as a Mrs. Winner's Chicken & Biscuits.
 |
| The future Raising Cane's when it operated as a Mrs. Winner's via LoopNet |
The owners of Six Feet Under Pub & Fish House plan to "move" their popular West Midtown pub nearly six miles away to 1824 Cheshire Bridge Road. The new Six Feet Under will replace ROXX Tavern which "temporarily" closed this past December but never reopened. The roughly 4,600 foot restaurant that Dean Chronopoulos opened as ROXX in 2000 was originally built as a McDonald's. The Golden Arches moved to their current home at 2350 Cheshire Bridge Road in 1999.
Stop us if you've heard this before: a restaurant expected to open months ago had its debut delayed due to permit challenges in City of Atlanta. Original ChopShop, a new to market fast casual eatery, hopes to finally open its first Atlanta area outpost Wednesday November 9 at Peachtree Square (2274 Peachtree Road) in south Buckhead.
Nuts ‘n Berries Healthy Market in Decatur has been listed for sale. The grocery store and market, which opened June 1, 2020, occupies a nearly 6,000 square foot space in North Decatur Plaza (2118 North Decatur Road), a shopping center at the corner of North Decatur and Clairmont Roads, not far from Emory University. Nuts 'n Berries replaced Rainbow Natural Foods, a similar store that closed in early 2019 after more than four decades in business.
The game will soon be up at Round1 in Lithonia. Employees confirm that the entertainment facility will on Sunday, December 4 close for the final time at 10PM. Round1 opened their location at The Mall at Stonecrest (2929 Turner Hill Road) March 4, 2017, in a space created by the combination of several smaller shops. No explanation was given for the closure.
After two brief years in business, it appears Mrs. Winner's has closed in Sandy Springs. ToNeTo Atlanta readers report that Mrs. Winner's has been closed for the past several days with calls to the restaurant left unanswered. Located at 8550 Roswell Road, Mrs. Winner's debuted in late 2020 in place of what had most recently been a Bojangles.
Nordstrom has announced that it will open one of its off-price "rack" stores in Kennesaw. The new Nordstrom Rack will open in Barrett Place, an existing shopping center at 860 Barrett Place Boulevard, just off Ernest Barrett Parkway, not far from Town Center at Cobb. The new store will replace OfficeMax which is currently open but is slated to close in the coming months.
 |
Kroger announced Friday it plans to close two locations — "Baby Kroger" at 720 Commerce Drive in Decatur and "Disco Kroger" at 3330 Piedmont Road in Buckhead. The Decatur location, which has been open for 21 years, will close as of December 2. The Piedmont Road store, which has been in business 47 years, will close December 9 according to the press release.
Urban Hai, a new eatery from restaurateur Gary Lin, opened earlier today in Midtown. 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. The new Szechuan eatery replaces BurgerFi which opened in the complex in early 2014, but was closed by January 2018. The space has been vacant in the years since. ToNeTo Atlanta first reported on the upcoming restaurant last November.
Wawa, the popular chain of convenience stores and gas stations, announced plans Wednesday to expand to Southern and Coastal Georgia. The chain plans to open its first Georgia store in 2024 with the potential for up to 20 additional stores in the market in the years to come.
This past March we shared news that Fuddruckers would be opening ten new mall-based locations nationwide including two in metro Atlanta. The news was met with tremendous enthusiasm with at least one reader requesting "bi-weekly status updates," and even going so far as to volunteer his time to hire permit expediters. The plan then was for the restaurants to open by the end of 2022. ToNeTo Atlanta has now learned that the number of openings - all of which were planned in partnership with property owner Brookfield Properties Retail - has been reduced to a single location...
 |
