[ALERT] Homesense to Open First Metro Atlanta Store in November

The 2025 holiday shopping season will finally bring metro Atlanta its very first Homesense store!  Newly displayed signage at the upcoming Alpharetta site indicates that the new store is to open November 13!   

The new Homesense store is opening in North Point Marketcenter, a large shopping center at 6050 North Point Parkway near North Point Mall in Alpharetta.  The new home goods retailer will occupy about 30,000 square feet of the former Bed Bath & Beyond, with about 10,000 square feet remaining available to be leased.  The large space had remained vacant since the closure of all remaining Bed Bath & Beyond stores in June 2023.   

Having visited one Homesense store, we would best describe the concept as the yin to HomeGoods' yang.  The two have a symbiotic relationship in the same way shoppers visit both TJ Maxx and Marshalls for similar but different reasons.  Homesense, in our visits, seemed to have a wider variety of lighting and home decor but less food and small goods than HomeGoods stores.  

In North Point Marketcenter Homesense joins fellow TJX Cos. (NYSE: TJX) brand Marshalls with other sibling brands TJ Maxx and HomeGoods in nearby Mansell Crossing.  Sierra, the only other TJX brand not yet in Alpharetta, came to Georgia in 2024 with a store in McDonough.  ToNeTo Atlanta reported August 6 that new locations of both Homesense and Sierra are coming to Buford near the Mall of Georgia.  

ToNeTo Atlanta first reported on Homesense in 2017 ahead of the company's initial launch in the U.S.  Nearly six years later, in April 2023, we shared the news that TJX was looking to finally open its first Atlanta area Homesense store in Suwanee/Johns Creek. Ultimately, the company decided to open that store as a HomeGoods instead.    

Last March we exclusively reported that TJX was bringing a Homesense store to Kedron Village in Peachtree City. The store eventually opened this past May.  

Have you ever been to a Homesense store?  Are you excited about the opening of Homesense in Alpharetta? Where else in metro Atlanta would you like to see a Homesense store open?

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