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Powers Ferry Square has landed two two tenants and recently welcomed a growing small business. J. Crew Factory and Playa Bowls will soon join the HomeGoods-anchored center along Roswell Road in Chastain Park. The new tenants join FOM (Frame Of Mind), a locally owned boutique eyewear retailer that recently opened in the center.
Macy's announced plans in February to close 150 stores over the next three years. At the time, the struggling retailer did not reveal where any of the closures would occur but did indicate that the first 50 closures would happen in 2024. In a move that seemed to confirm its fate, the company quietly listed its store and land at Northlake Mall for sale in May.
Sprouts Farmers Market will later this fall open a new Atlanta area store and has another on tap, too. The new healthy grocery store will open at The Bridges at Jodeco, a massive 158 acre mixed-use development along Jodeco Road, just off I-75 in Stockbridge.
The wait is finally over! Bloomingdale's the outlet store is opening Friday August 30 at Buckhead Station, just off GA 400 in Buckhead. The off-price outlet from upscale department store Bloomingdale's is the first in the state and 21st overall for the New York-based retailer.
After little more than a year in business Aberdeen Steakhouse has abruptly closed in Crabapple. The upscale steakhouse opened in May 2023. It "temporarily closed" as of July 30 but has not reopened, with sources close to the restaurant indicating that there were "liquidity challenges" that led to what is believed to be its permanent closure.
Roswell recently lost one restaurant but will soon gain another. 12 Lunar Eatery, an Asian restaurant that opened last year, has closed. Separately, LanZhou Ramen is opening a new location in another space nearby.
On the heels of its latest opening in Cumming last week, Caribou Coffee has at least three more locations in the works in Georgia. Plans reviewed by ToNeTo Atlanta indicate that new Caribou Coffee shops are planned for former Checkers restaurants in Athens, Griffin, and Lawrenceville.
Popular intown eatery Savage Pizza is looking to grow and has the suburbs on its mind. Established in Little 5 Points in 1990, the local pizza shop celebrated for its retro, superhero-themed environment, later added an Avondale Estates location but has for many years been just the two units.
In a puzzling move, Pita Mediterranean Street Food is returning to Dunwoody less than three years after leaving the area. A new franchise of Pita Mediterranean Street Food is coming to the Kroger-anchored Orchard Park shopping center (2090 Dunwoody Club Drive). The pita shop will occupy an 1,800 square foot space vacated this past January by DaVinci's Pizzeria.
If you thought metro Atlanta had enough choices for chicken...think again. A third franchise of Dave's Hot Chicken is coming soon to Alpharetta. Interestingly, the new hot chicken joint is replacing Viva Chicken, a rotisserie chicken spot that closed this past April after just over a year in business.
The Original Pancake House (OPH) has closed its restaurant at 5099 Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain. The closure comes on the heels of the shuttering of the brand's restaurant at 2321 Cheshire Bridge Road in Atlanta about three weeks ago.
A Japanese dessert cafe that just opened this past March in Buford has been listed for sale. The Fluffy Fluffy franchise, located at 2925 Buford Drive in the Exchange at Gwinnett shopping center, opened March 16 and was the second franchise to open in metro Atlanta following the brand's debut in Duluth in December 2023.
Portillo's, a Chicago-based restaurant best known for hot dogs and beef sandwiches, is getting closer to its planned metro Georgia arrival. The company indicated this past September that it was considering a metro Atlanta expansion and has now hired a local brokerage to spearhead that effort.
The owner of Inman Park's popular Kitty Dare restaurant is at it again, this time with Natalie Bianca. Situated in the Cascade Heights neighborhood, Natalie Bianca, like Kitty Dare, is named for a good but departed friend of owner Jamshad “Jaamy” Zarnegar.
Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A will next week debut a new restaurant format never before opened by the 3,000+ unit chain. Originally described in a July 2023 release, the new Chick-fil-A prototype features an elevated kitchen, conveyor belts, and first-to-market technology meant to speed service times and enhance the overall customer experience.
"Vegetable centric, fine-casual" restaurant Recess has closed its Buckhead restaurant. Located in the street level retail space of the Hanover Buckhead Village high-rise apartment building (3150 Roswell Road, unit #A1), Recess opened in October 2022 in place of original tenant Cafe Posh which had itself closed in August 2020.
On the heels of news that The Forum Peachtree Corners is adding several new restaurants and retailers and was purchased by Ponce City Market owner Jamestown comes news that longstanding tenant Barnes & Noble is on the move. An anchor since the project's 2002 opening, the bookstore is downsizing slightly with plans to reopen with the brand's latest prototype design.
Atlanta is home to several Fortune 500 companies, multiple tech "Unicorns," more than one billionaire, and plenty of "$30,000 millionaires," but it could seemingly not support an uber-exclusive private membership club.
Captain D's Seafood Kitchen has closed its longstanding restaurant at 2032 Montreal Road in Tucker. The freestanding fast food eatery, located just off LaVista Road, abruptly shut without notice Monday, according to local ToNeTo Atlanta readers. DeKalb County property records indicate that the restaurant was built in 1976.
Atlanta's first location of Torchy's Tacos is finally opening! According to a recent post to the official Torchy's Tacos Facebook page, the new location, Georgia's first, is slated to open Friday August 23. The opening was pushed from a previously planned July opening.
The co-owners of Midtown's El Valle are planning to open a new Mediterranean restaurant in Peachtree Corners. The new eatery, which will reportedly be focused on authentic Persian cuisine, is planned for the former California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) at The Forum Peachtree Corners (5173 Peachtree Parkway).
A little more than fifteen months after its splashy debut at Phipps Plaza, Citizens Market has yet to find its groove and is pivoting once again. The 25,000 square foot "foodie’s playground" opened April 27, 2023, and brought a host of random restaurants few in Atlanta had heard of or, as it turns out, cared about.
A familiar restaurant is resurfacing in Sandy Springs. Bocado, from owner Brian Lewis, is coming soon to Powers Ferry Village, a Publix-anchored shopping center at the corner of Northside Drive and Powers Ferry Road, just off I-285.
Marietta is set to get its very own dog park and bar with the planned opening of The Drafty Dane Park & Pint. The new business is being opened by husband and wife dog-lovers and Marietta residents and Brennen and Emily Matthews and their business partners, husband and wife Fitz Johnson and Suzann Wilcox.
Chando's Tacos has closed its restaurants in Buckhead. The California taco shop in The Peach shopping center (2900 Peachtree Road) opened in September 2021 and reportedly closed "about a month ago," according to sources in the area.
The Colonnade, one of Atlanta's longest running, continuously operating restaurants, has been listed for sale with would-be buyers invited to "keep or convert." Established in 1927 in a white-columned house at the corner of Lindbergh Drive and Piedmont Road, the casual southern eatery thrived there until 1962 when it moved to its current home about a mile and a half away.
Buca di Beppo has closed its one Atlanta area restaurant. The family-style Italian-American restaurant was located at 2335 Mansell Road just off Exit 8 of GA 400 in Alpharetta. Sources in the area indicate the restaurant closed in recent days while other reports indicate the Orlando-based company closed as many as 13 "underperforming restaurants" within the last week or so.
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Atlanta based J. Christopher's has closed their restaurant in Peachtree Hills. The breakfast eatery, located at 10 Kings Circle, opened in 2017 and was the relocation of their former restaurant at 3050 Peachtree Road (Two Buckhead Plaza), less than two miles away. Their former location is now home to the popular Thai eatery Chai Yo.
After thirty-five years in business, The Original Pancake House near the corner of Cheshire Bridge and LaVista Roads in Atlanta has closed. The restaurant, physically located along LaVista Road, carried a 2321 Cheshire Bridge Road address. Tipsters in the neighborhood alerted ToNeTo Atlanta to the potential closure Saturday afternoon, which, after a little investigation, we were able to confirm.
Struggling build your own pizza chain MOD Pizza has closed two more locations in metro Atlanta including those in Buford and East Cobb. The East Cobb closure, first reported by East Cobb News, and Buford follow the March closure of the chain's Chamblee unit.
Just seventeen months after making its debut, Superica West Midtown has closed. The trendy Tex-Mex restaurant, located at 930 Howell Mill Road (street level of The Brady apartments), was the sixth in Atlanta from locally based Ford Fry Restaurants. Sources tell ToNeTo Atlanta the restaurant closed "within the past week" with its location already marked "permanently closed" on Google and wiped from the Ford Fry website.
A lease has been signed with "Stone Age Korean Steakhouse" at Ashford Place in Dunwoody. The new Korean steakhouse is opening in a roughly 7,200 square foot space left vacant since the 2022 closure of Memphis BBQ Co. The space was also previously occupied by Firkin & Gryphon, a British pub, and before that, Smokey Bones, a casual BBQ restaurant.
