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Italian motorcycle brand Ducati is slated to open its first dealership in Atlanta in the coming months. The dealership, set for Doraville, will open along DeKalb Technology Parkway, with prominent visibility from Interstate 85, just south of Spaghetti Junction.
After hearing talk of a planned Whole Foods Market in south Forsyth County for several weeks, we now have confirmation that the grocer is in fact in talks for a new store in the area. The new Whole Foods would anchor a new project planned by Fuqua Development (dba Fuqua Acquisitions II, LLC) to the east of The Collection at Forsyth along Ronald Reagan Boulevard, behind an existing RaceTrac.
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.
Henri's Bakery officially opened its fifth overall bakery cafe December 22 in Brookhaven. The new shop, located at 2163 Johnson Ferry Road, was previously Corner Pizza and before that a Domino's Pizza franchise. Henri's Brookhaven joins existing outposts in Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Marietta and Upper Westside.
A new location of Crumbl Cookies is planned for Toco Hills Promenade. The new cookie shop will open in suite 260, a roughly 1,900 square foot space most recently home to a Jimmy Johns franchise. The first Crumbl opened in Logan, Utah in 2017, and in the years since, the chain has experienced meteoric growth with nearly 650 locations open and dozens more in development. In metro Atlanta, there are currently fifteen Crumbl franchises open including those in Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buford, and Marietta, with at least one more coming soon to Sandy Springs.
A new bb.q Chicken - Korea's Finest Fried Chicken plans to open in Decatur. The new franchise restaurant will open at 319 West Ponce de Leon Avenue where it will open in place of Pho King, which closed at the end of 2021. The roughly 2,600 square foot space originally debuted in early 2016 as an outpost of Taziki's Mediterranean Café. Seoul, South Korea-based bb.q Chicken has existing Atlanta area locations in Doraville, Duluth, Johns Creek and Suwanee.
ToNeTo Atlanta has been spending a lot of time in East Cobb (more on that later) and there is plenty of development activity to report on. In months past we have shared news of new restaurants, services and retailers opening in the area and while we have updates to share on some of them, we also have new developments to report, too!
It's been more than three years since Whole Foods Market made the disappointing decision to "move" its beloved Briarcliff store to a glitzy new mixed-use development in Midtown, some six miles away. There had been hope for a time that the grocer, owned since 2017 by Amazon, would see the error of its ways and reopen, that dream seems highly unlikely today. ToNeTo Atlanta has reviewed planning documents that indicate that a new Tesla sales and service center will replace the former grocer at 2121 Briarcliff Road.
Talbots will close its longtime Phipps Plaza store at as of Saturday, May 21. The Phipps Plaza store is nearly 6,500 square feet and is located in the Saks Fifth Avenue wing on the mall's second level. The pending closure, revealed in an email to patrons Tuesday morning, thanks customers for their patronage and directed them to the company's other Buckhead store at Peachtree Battle shopping center, 2391 Peachtree Road, just over three miles away.
Wendy’s earlier this week celebrated the opening of its newest restaurant in Georgia. The restaurant, a franchise owned by Genesis Restaurant Group, opened at 765 Dacula Road in Dacula and brings the Columbus, Ohio-based burger chain to 296 restaurants in Georgia and 7,000 globally. The Dacula restaurant features the company's latest smart design with a Y-lane that offers Wendy’s customers a faster, more efficient drive-thru experience.
This post has been in the works since April so some news may be slightly outdated while other bits are as fresh as ever. Thanks as always for your continued tips, readership, photos, tweets and "love your blog" notes - they mean more than you know!
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| The Carvana vending machine in Greensboro |
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| A typical Andy's Frozen Custard |
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| A Carvana Vending Machine |
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| Inside the Mercedes me showroom in Canada's CF Markville mall |
