Wahlburgers will be closing its last remaining Atlanta area restaurant this coming Sunday November 3, according to employees at the restaurant. The restaurant is located at the corner of Heritage Court and Battery Avenue at The Battery Atlanta.
The restaurant, physically located at 455 Legends Place, will be open for regular business hours and close for good at 8 pm Sunday.
A second Atlanta location of Wahlburgers opened at 218 Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta in January 2020. As we all know, that was a challenging time to run any restaurant, let alone get one off the ground in a downtown neighborhood decimated by reduced business and event travel in the wake of the pandemic. The restaurant quietly closed at the end of 2022 and remains vacant today.
While the Braves did not have the playoff result we were all hoping for, the team remains among the most popular nationwide. The Braves and Truist Park ranked fifth overall across both leagues in attendance in 2024. In 80 home games, the Braves had a total attendance of 3,011,765, an average of 37,647 per game.
Worth noting, too, is that the Braves will finally get to host their third overall All-Star game next July. The team, originally set to host the Midsummer Classic in 2021, saw the MLB revoke the game and ultimately move it to Denver. All- Star Game 2025 will take place July 15. The collective All-Star Week, July 11-15, will also include the All-Star Futures Game and MLB Home Run Derby.
It remains unclear why Wahlburgers is closing now - before the end of the year and also seemingly mid-lease term - but it suggests that The Battery has a replacement lined up and that they want to move quickly to have the new tenant, likely another restaurant, open by next year's All-Star Game.
There are several local and national burger joints and other quick-serve restaurants that would likely have interest in the space, so it will be exciting to see who scores the space.
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