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The Buckhead outpost of The Original Pancake House has closed. The restaurant, located at 2964 Peachtree Road at Buckhead Centre (now Buckhead Center?) in Buckhead, opened in May 2021 after COVID delayed their originally planned 2020 opening. It's unclear when exactly the restaurant closed. While we just noticed it this week, local sources suggest it's been closed for more than a month!
Del Taco has closed its short-lived restaurant along Buford Drive in Buford. The restaurant, located at 3385 Buford Drive, in front of Sam's Club, opened in early 2020 and reportedly closed in recent days, according to a ToNeTo Atlanta reader in the area. The Buford outpost was one of several in metro Atlanta that were converted former Pollo Tropical restaurants.
The Rusty Nail, an Atlanta mainstay for nearly five decades, is closing. The pub, located at 2900 Buford Highway, will have a "Last Call" Saturday September 23, before closing for the final time. Located in what is today part of the City of Brookhaven, the dive bar opened in 1974 and became a landmark, in part due to the 18 foot (smoking) gun out front.
The owners of Eden plan to bring their popular juice, smoothie and smoothie bowl business to Atlanta. Husband and wife Chris and Stephanie Beck opened Eden on Chambers Street in downtown Woodstock in June 2021 and have signed on to backfill the former Jamba at Madison Yards in Reynoldstown. Jamba, a franchise of Atlanta-based Focus Brands, opened in the Publix-anchored center in June 2020 and closed quietly earlier this summer. Jamba has struggled in metro Atlanta having previously closed locations in Buckhead, Decatur, East Cobb and Midtown, among others. Eden, which serves a similar menu to Jamba's has a 4.9 rating on Google with nearly 200 reviews and will hope to find better success in the intown space.
Although not quite in what many readers would call "Atlanta," another new Raising Cane's is coming to town. A new Raising Cane's is planned for Pleasant Hill Road, just off I-85, in front of Gwinnett Place Mall in Gwinnett County. The new 4,200 square foot restaurant would be constructed from the ground up at 2110 Pleasant Hill Road, on the site of a former Steak 'n Shake in Duluth.
One of the worst kept secrets in Atlanta real estate is out. Publix will replace yet another former Kroger in metro Atlanta. Following several years of talk, City of Brookhaven Councilwoman and Mayor Pro Tem Linley Jones took to Nextdoor to announce that Publix will replace the former Kroger at Cambridge Square (2036 Johnson Ferry Road) in Brookhaven. The new Publix will replace the existing store in nearby Oglethorpe Crossing (3435 Ashford Dunwoody Road).
Bennie's Shoes, an Atlanta mainstay for more than 100 years, has announced it will soon close permanently. A graphic attached to the Facebook post announcing the closure reads "Lost our lease." The store, located in Buckhead Crossing shopping center (2625 Piedmont Road,) spans 8,100 square feet and was once one of three locations of the locally owned business in metro Atlanta.
Office Depot is closing its store at Buckhead Crossing near the Lindbergh MARTA station in Buckhead. The 22,457 square foot store relocated to Buckhead Crossing from nearby Lindbergh Plaza when the latter was redeveloped into what it is today. The current Office Depot occupies a portion of what was once a Cub Foods grocery store. Office Depot is currently offering all in stock merchandise at savings of up to 40 per cent off, with most "deals" only 10 per cent. Signage at the store directs would be customers to the next nearest location at The District at Howell Mill in West Midtown. Office Depot previously closed a store along Roswell Road in Sandy Springs where ToNeTo Atlanta reported in July that a new HomeGoods is expected to open.
The former Rosati's Chicago Pizza at 4629 Wieuca Road in Chastain Park will soon be demolished to make way for a car wash. Building permits filed with the City of Atlanta confirm that BamBoo Car Wash plans to open a new car wash facility on the site of the former Rosati's and the former Fabricare dry cleaners (4621 Wieuca Road) next door. Together the two parcels total just over an acre.
