Floor & Decor (NYSE: FND) will reopen its original Northeast Expressway store in Brookhaven July 25. The store, the company's first, opened in 2000 and was completely demolished in late 2021 to make way for a new 80,000 square foot flagship store replacement. In other Floor & Decor news, the company is also opening a "Design Studio" at Tower Place in Buckhead. ToNeTo Atlanta was first to report on the planned opening this past January but visible work has only recently commenced on the former restaurant space along Piedmont Road.
Blue Nile, a luxury fine jewelry and diamond engagement brand, is opening a showroom at Lenox Square on July 8th. The new store, which ToNeTo Atlanta exclusively reported this past December, will be housed in a roughly 1,900 square foot space on the mall's second level in a suite most recently home to Godiva.
A Subway franchise has closed at Parkside Shops along Roswell Road in Sandy Springs. The roughly 1,800 square foot restaurant space is situated between Wingstop and Chipotle in the Tuesday Morning and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse anchored center.
North Italia, which June 22 opened its first Atlanta area outpost at Lenox Square in Buckhead and was previously planned to open in Dunwoody July 22, is now looking to open August 17, according to a newly updated Google listing. The Dunwoody restaurant will be located in a freestanding building at 4600 Ashford Dunwoody Road in place of California Pizza Kitchen, which closed in 2020.
PNC Bank has closed its branch at 125 Perimeter Center West in Ashford Lane. The freestanding bank branch, which reportedly closed in late May, has been cleared of basically all PNC branding save for a few signs that direct customers to where the branch "moved," an existing branch in Dunwoody Village, 1636 Mount Vernon Road, about two miles away.
A new restaurant called Snooks Grill & Cocktails is opening in the Kroger-anchored Rivermont Station at 8465 Holcomb Bridge Road in Johns Creek. The new eatery, which in early 2020 opened its original outpost in Marietta, but closed in 2021, is replacing former tenant BurgerIM in a roughly 1,900 square foot space next to El Portillo in its new home. The restaurant was originally expected to open in the spring, according to its Facebook page, but has yet to open.
Guthrie's will be opening a new location in the greater metro Atlanta area. Please click here to read our full report from our friends at The City Menus.
On a recent trip to Downtown Atlanta, we also noted that in CNN Center, Moe's Southwest Grill, Fresh to Order (F2O) and Starbucks remain "temporarily closed," while other CNN Center food court staples like Chick-fil-A and Great Wraps have reopened.
Mr. Veg'n, a restaurant that opened in the Perimeter Mall food court this past January, is now closed indefinitely reportedly due to the "unprofessional conduct" of a mall security guard. (Brown's original restaurant in Stockbridge, Vulgar Vegan, has closed permanently.) Strangely, although the Dunwoody restaurant has been closed for nearly three weeks following the incident (which reportedly involved trash and debris accumulated at the business' back door), it has managed to garner twenty-one five star reviews in the past week - including references to the restaurant's "atmosphere""clean building" and "perfect dining experience"
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