Buckhead Crossing (2625 Piedmont Road) will in 2025 welcome two new tenants. In a roughly 17,000 square foot space vacated by the relocation of Michaels, Ulta and Skechers will each open new stores. Planning materials indicate the Ulta will be 10,170 square feet while the Skechers will be 6,916 square feet.
Ulta, the beauty company with more than 1,300 stores nationwide, already has over a dozen stores in metro Atlanta but has reportedly been looking to grow its "intown" presence. The company 2021 opened a store along North Druid Hills Road at Toco Hills and also operates several "shop-in-shop" locations in local Target stores, including those on North Druid Hills and Piedmont Road, across the street from Buckhead Crossing among others.
It's worth noting, too, that Ulta also operates a roughly 10,000-square-foot store at Buckhead Station (3495 Buckhead Loop), less than two miles from the Buckhead Crossing store, but all indications are that the company has no plans to replace one with the other.
The idea that the company would operate two stores so close together (three, when you count the mini store in Target) is not outrageous when you consider that there are two Marshalls stores on Piedmont Road and Peachtree Road, also less than two miles apart, as well as HomeGoods stores on Roswell Road and Piedmont Road, less than three miles apart.
Fellow cosmetics retailer Sephora also operates stores at Buckhead Exchange and in Lenox Square, only a mile apart.
For their part, Skechers, too, has been looking to get a foothold ITP. The footwear retailer has several stores in metro Atlanta and has, in recent years, moved beyond suburban outlet centers to power centers, too. The company has, in recent years, added stores to shopping centers around metro Atlanta, including Barrett Parkway in Kennesaw, Peachtree Parkway in Suwanee (Johns Creek Town Center), Scenic Highway in Snellville (Scenic Promenade), GA-5 in Douglasville (Arbor Square), and Cumming Highway in Canton (Canton Marketplace).
The retailer also operates stores at North Georgia Premium Outlets in Dawsonville, Sugarloaf Mills in Lawrenceville, The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta in Woodstock, Tanger Locust Grove in Locust Grove, and Tanger Commerce in Commerce.
Elsewhere in Buckhead Crossing, a 3,200 square foot space along Sidney Marcus Boulevard remains vacant and available for lease. The space was for more than two decades home to locally owned Cuban eatery Coco Loco before its early 2011 closure. Mattress Firm later occupied the space but subsequently closed it, having come to the realization it doesn't need 99 stores in Buckhead.
Are you excited to see the new tenants planned for Buckhead Crossing? What would you like to see open in the former Mattress Firm/Coco Loco? Who remembers when Buckhead Crossing has Cub Foods, Drug Emporium and KFC?
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