Buckhead Crossing (2625 Piedmont Road) will in 2025 welcome two new tenants. In a roughly 17,000 square foot space vacated by the relocation of Michaels, Ulta and Skechers will each open new stores. Planning materials indicate the Ulta will be 10,170 square feet while the Skechers will be 6,916 square feet.
Ulta, the beauty company with more than 1,300 stores nationwide, already has over a dozen stores in metro Atlanta but has reportedly been looking to grow its "intown" presence. The company 2021 opened a store along North Druid Hills Road at Toco Hills and also operates several "shop-in-shop" locations in local Target stores, including those on North Druid Hills and Piedmont Road, across the street from Buckhead Crossing among others.
It's worth noting, too, that Ulta also operates a roughly 10,000-square-foot store at Buckhead Station (3495 Buckhead Loop), less than two miles from the Buckhead Crossing store, but all indications are that the company has no plans to replace one with the other.
The idea that the company would operate two stores so close together (three, when you count the mini store in Target) is not outrageous when you consider that there are two Marshalls stores on Piedmont Road and Peachtree Road, also less than two miles apart, as well as HomeGoods stores on Roswell Road and Piedmont Road, less than three miles apart.
Fellow cosmetics retailer Sephora also operates stores at Buckhead Exchange and in Lenox Square, only a mile apart.
For their part, Skechers, too, has been looking to get a foothold ITP. The footwear retailer has several stores in metro Atlanta and has, in recent years, moved beyond suburban outlet centers to power centers, too. The company has, in recent years, added stores to shopping centers around metro Atlanta, including Barrett Parkway in Kennesaw, Peachtree Parkway in Suwanee (Johns Creek Town Center), Scenic Highway in Snellville (Scenic Promenade), GA-5 in Douglasville (Arbor Square), and Cumming Highway in Canton (Canton Marketplace).
The retailer also operates stores at North Georgia Premium Outlets in Dawsonville, Sugarloaf Mills in Lawrenceville, The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta in Woodstock, Tanger Locust Grove in Locust Grove, and Tanger Commerce in Commerce.
Elsewhere in Buckhead Crossing, a 3,200 square foot space along Sidney Marcus Boulevard remains vacant and available for lease. The space was for more than two decades home to locally owned Cuban eatery Coco Loco before its early 2011 closure. Mattress Firm later occupied the space but subsequently closed it, having come to the realization it doesn't need 99 stores in Buckhead.
Are you excited to see the new tenants planned for Buckhead Crossing? What would you like to see open in the former Mattress Firm/Coco Loco? Have you been to Talkin' Tacos in Buckhead Crossing?
Please share your thoughts below.
13 comments:
Not only do I remember Cub Foods, et al, I remember when some lovely two-story brick colonial revival apartments occupied that site. I also recall when the bank site up on the corner was a Blockbuster! I probably won’t be a customer of Ulta nor Skechers. Their products are not relevant to me. I miss the Office Depot! We’re in an office supply desert here. I REALLY miss Artlite, but I digress.
I remember those stores too, but it was a Turtles Records and Tapes that subsequently became a Blockbuster Music Store after Blockbuster acquired the Turtles, Record Bar and Sound Warehouse chains in the Atlanta area around 1993.
Sketchers is the perfect tenant for such a sketchy area lol.
Yes, exactly, like the half of places that used to be fun and safe, but now just smell of pot and low class
Skechers? Really? What is even their demographic…? I’d be shocked if they can hold their own in a brick and mortar… especially outside a suburban shopping mall.
And Drug Emporium. “Savings so big you need a shopping cart!”
Then don’t shop there. Go somewhere else, maybe way out in the country where “no one” smokes pot. 😂
I like Ulta and shop there, but with the Buckhead loop location close to this, I wonder if it will eventually close. Either way this is closer/easier for me. Add Skechers to your death watch list now, that does not seem like the right tenant for that center…
Ulta too, selling 6 inch eye lashes and 6 foot hair extensions. The pot smell is extra though.
They make you have someone open the vasectomy if you want to smell perfume. Too much of a waste of time. I spray ot at Macys instead
Remember when the Rathskellar was on the corner? And just to the south was a Krispy Kreme.
No pots, perfume
Not exited at all. Trader Joe’s would have been a much better fit.
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