Five Seasons Brewing confirmed Monday afternoon that they would be closing their location at The Prado in Sandy Springs at midnight on December 31. The restaurant, one of the longest running tenants in the development, has been in business for 19 years. The Five Seasons Brewing on Marietta Street on the Westside will remain in business.
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The restaurant posted the following message to their Facebook page:
"Happy New Year to all friends and family of the 5 Seasons Prado location in Sandy Springs.
As many of you know, tonight marks the end of our lease here at the Prado location and we will be closing our doors here in Sandy Springs at midnight.
I wanted to personally thank our dedicated staff, enormous customer support and community that allowed us to operate here for the last 19 years.
It has been our pleasure to provide millions of handcrafted beers, meals and good times to so many for so long.
We will continue to operate the Westside location located at 1000 Marietta Street in Atlanta Georgia
Cheers!"
The popular Atlanta-based brewery and restaurant closed their location on Old Milton Parkway in Alpharetta last June where upstart barbecue eatery Loyal Q and Brew later opened. In our June 2017 post, we noted that real estate sources indicated that The Prado location was on "borrowed time," and was on a month-to-month lease.
The 9,570 square foot space that Five Seasons occupies has been quietly marketed by The Shopping Center Group since at least last year as "Redesigned Restaurant Row." In the artist's rendering below, the structure to the top left with the circled "R" is the Five Seasons space, while the two spaces to its right are today occupied by Iron Age, an all-you-can-eat (AYCE) Korean steak house that opened this past July.
The Prado project, redeveloped by by St. Petersburg, Florida-based The Sembler Company in 2008, has been plagued by closures as of late, competing with TOWN Brookhaven (2010), another Sembler developed center, for the number of closures since opening.
A couple of months ago, Barberitos, a quick-serve burrito joint, closed, preceded in demise by neighbor Yogurt Mountain which closed in early 2015. This past weekend, Publix shuttered their store in the project, with real estate sources telling ToNeTo Atlanta that Pizza Crosta, a quick-serve pizza joint in the development, could close as soon as this week.
Staples previously closed in the project, as did Kobe Steaks, among others.
Some local neighbors fear the rash of closures in the development could spook new would-be tenants and/or cause other existing tenants to close, such as Target.
One would hope that the Five Seasons closure relates to there being a replacement tenant identified, but there is no indication that is actually the case.
Are you surprised to see Five Seasons Brewing close at The Prado? What would you like to see open at The Prado? Why do you think so many businesses struggle at The Prado in Sandy Springs?
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