ToNeTo Atlanta has learned that Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK) is looking to open a new location in Johns Creek. The new restaurant, planned for 5805 State Bridge Road, would be built in an outparcel of the existing Hobby Lobby-anchored Medlock Corners shopping center. The Shack Shack restaurant would be 3,500 square feet and feature a drive-thru.
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The new Shake Shack would be situated on State Bridge Road alongside an existing outparcel Arby's which opened in January 2018 in a converted former Pollo Tropical restaurant. Landlord Willow Capital Partners has in recent years added several other businesses to new outparcels including Discount Tire and most recently, "Shops at Medlock Corners," a 6,200-square-foot retail strip center home to Jersey Mike’s, Ideal Dental and ATI Physical Therapy. Willow Capital sold the three tenant center April 6 for $4.3 million.
Shake Shack, which got its start as a food cart in New York's Madison Square Park in 2004, has today grown into a publicly traded company with about 450 locations worldwide.
In metro Atlanta, the company currently operates eight units: Buckhead Village District in Buckhead, Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody, EDGE on the Atlanta BeltLine in Old Fourth Ward, Concourse A of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Lenox Square in Buckhead, Alpharetta Crossing in Alpharetta, Piedmont Park, and their newest location at Westside Provisions District in West Midtown.
The company opened its first drive-thru in December 2021 and debuted the model in metro Atlanta in February 2022 when the company opened in a converted Burger King in Alpharetta.
There are currently only about a dozen Shake Shack drive-thru locations but the chain plans to open 10-15 in 2023 along with another 60 or so non drive thru units. If all goes according to plan, Shake Shack will likely enter 2024 with more than 500 units worldwide.
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