A new Whataburger is planned in place of a former bank in Johns Creek. The new Whataburger is planned for the former Wells Fargo bank branch in an outparcel of the Publix-anchored Medlock Corners shopping center (5805 State Bridge Road).
MTO RE STATE BRIDGE JC LLC, an affiliate of Made To Order Holdings, a multi-unit Whataburger franchisee, owns the property. According to Fulton County tax records, MTO purchased the 1.5 acre bank site on December 19, 2023, for $3.25 million.
The MTO website indicates that the group currently operates ten Whataburger restaurants throughout Georgia. Texas-based Made to Order Holdings is controlled by Travis Goff of Goff Capital, a family office. Through his company Crescent Real Estate, LLC, Goff's father, billionaire John C. Goff, owns more than a dozen hotels across the country, including The Hotel at Avalon, Home2 Suites by Hilton in Alpharetta, and the Kimpton Brice Hotel in Savannah.
According to planning materials, MTO is looking to replace the roughly 4,700 square foot bank building with a new roughly 3,000 square foot restaurant that would be situated parallel to State Bridge Road with a double drive-thru lane.
The new Whataburger would be in close proximity to both a relatively new Arby's (in a former Pollo Tropical) and the newly opened Dutch Bros. Coffee. A drive-thru Shake Shack was proposed on a separate nearby parcel along State Bridge Road, but its plans were thwarted when city leaders denied the plans as they would have meant the removal of a 100-year-old tree.
ToNeTo Atlanta reported this past March that MTO was looking to replace another Wells Fargo along Roswell Road in Sandy Springs with a new Whataburger. That location received a mixed reception from city officials, and after a split vote by the Sandy Springs City Council, Mayor Rusty Paul decided to deny MTO's conditional use permit request.
Among MTO's current Atlanta area units are Whataburger restaurants in Covington, Conyers, McDonough, Fayetteville, on Woodstock Road in Roswell, which the company debuted this past October, and at The Bridges at Jodeco in Stockbridge, which opened this past December.
Through both corporate and franchisee expansion, Whataburger today has more than 30 restaurants open in Georgia, with more, including one on Sandy Plains Road in East Cobb, coming soon, and another on Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth that's due to open September 22.
Are you excited to see Whataburger opening in Johns Creek? Have you been to any of the local Whataburger restaurants and had a good... or bad experience? Do you think the Whataburger food and experience are different in Atlanta than in Texas?
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3 comments:
The ones in Texas are far above and beyond in terms of food quality and service than what we have in Georgia.
There is a completely built and ready to open Whataburger on Hwy 140 in the Hickory Flat area of Canton.
With all these Whataburger restaurants being built, will there be any real estate locations left available for In-N-Out burger when they make their long awaited expansion into Metro Atlanta?
That’s already an interesting turn just past that parcel going from Medlock to State Bridge coming from the North. That’s going to be an adventure getting there. I guess when there are long lines, it will be spilling out into the shopping center parking lot, so it’ll keep it off the road, at least.
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