Ground breaks on Nona Mia space (formerly Sweet Devil Moon) for ‘Campagnolo.’ Peasant Restaurants, the group behind Peasant Bistro, has broken ground on a soon-to-open Italian eatery in Midtown, Creative Loafing first reported. Permits filed with City of Atlanta last September suggested the Italian restaurant would open as “Bistro 980.” Instead, it will be called [...]
Atlanta Public Schools spending $74 million to build 383,000-square-foot high school on Northside Parkway
APS files permits to build North Atlanta High School’s new campus. Atlanta Public Schools (APS) is moving forward with its plan to build a new high school on Northside Drive. APS purchased a 56-acre property, at 4111 Northside Parkway, for the construction of North Atlanta High school’s new campus, according to Atlanta Public School’s website. [...]
The Georgia Aquarium’s retail provider spending $650K to renovate main gift store
Aquarium to open temporary gift shop during construction. The largest of The Georgia Aquarium’s two gift shops is slated for renovations. A permit citing construction costs of $650,000 was filed with City of Atlanta for the project. The aquarium’s retailer provider, Event Network, will be funding the renovations, Mackenzie Anderson, public relations specialist for the [...]
Midtown to get Senor Patron Mexican Restaurant
Eatery to open at Spire Condos. Midtown is getting a new Mexican restaurant start-up. Senor Patron filed permits to open in space formerly occupied by Fune Sushi Bar and Ultra lounge inside the Spire Condos, at 860 Peachtree Street. The space will receive new furniture, seating and bar, according to the permit. Its kitchen will also [...]
Little Five Points’ 7 Stages Theatre to close temporarily during renovations
Theatre’s plan for new roof forces change in performance schedule. 7 Stages Theatre is saying goodbye to its leaky roof once and for all. The Atlanta-based theatre founded in 1979 announced in a press release Tuesday it’s getting a new roof and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC). Faye Allen, the producing director for [...]
Fresh To Order opening two new Metro-Atlanta locations, re-imaging, updating menu
‘Fast fine’ restaurant signs deals to open near Emory University Campus and at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Fresh To Order (F20), a “fast fine” restaurant, has extensive expansion plans for 2012 and beyond. The Atlanta-based restaurant chain announced in a press release Tuesday it will open two new locations, one near Emory University and the [...]
Cafe At Pharr opening its fifth location at Vinings Jubilee
Restaurant to replace The Grape which recently shuttered. The Grape space at Vinings Jubilee, which closed December. 31, won’t stay dark long. Atlanta-based Cafe At Pharr will take the recently-vacant restaurant’s space, a spokeswoman with for the shopping center told What Now Atlanta Friday. “The lease has been signed and renovations start shortly,” she said. [...]
Midtown’s ‘Bellissima’ closes after an attempt to sell it
Nightclub at Amsterdam Walk unable to secure purchaser, owner says. Anna Ragghianti, owner of the now shuttered Bellissima, announced on Facebook Wednesday her nightclub of three years has closed. Ragghianti told Project Q in November, she was going to sell the bar because she wanted “to move on, travel and work on film projects she’s [...]
Another day, another Family Dollar
Discount retailer to open Fairburn Heights store. Family Dollar Stores Inc. is planning other Metro-Atlanta area location, this time in Fairburn Heights. The national chain of discount stores filed a permit with City of Atlanta Wednesday to develop land, at 500 Fairburn Road, where I-20 intersects I-285 on the West. Family Dollar is also in [...]
Relapse Comedy Theatre temporarily setting up shop at Atlantic Station’s Geisha House space
Improv and standup comedy theatre opening second Midtown location. Relapse Comedy Theatre is opening an impromptu location at Atlantic Station. The improv and standup comedy threatre secured a short-term lease with the Midtown development for its second intown location, according to Starr Cumming, specialty leasing and sponsorship manager at Atlantic Station. Relapse will open at [...]
James Joyce Pub now called ‘Brewhouse Cafe Avondale,’ its fourth name in four months
Owner claims the Avondale Estates pub’s identity crisis is over. Denise Gerard, owner of the pub on East College Avenue formerly named James Joyce Irish Pub, confirmed Monday with Avondale-Estates Patch, that she has settled on Brewhouse Cafe Avondale as its final name — since October, the restaurant has undergone three name changes (excluding its [...]
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