Per the all-knowing Carl over at InDecatur…

Rue de Leon is closing on June 15th, while Birdi’s owner wants to get the heck out of Dodge and “move to the mountains”.

Carl also points out that RockIt Boutique opens “officially” this weekend. We saw this a couple weeks back before I went overseas, but never got around to posting it, because I had no real info or a link for it. I think its in the old record store space on the pedestrian-only portion of Sycamore. Not positive its that exact location though.

Also he notes that Saba (love the awning) and Tastings are opening this coming week.

This humble blogger has been invited to the the Tastings soft-opening party tomorrow night, so hopefully I’ll have some pics for those of you who have yet to see the amazing renovations they’ve undertaken at the old Tropical Smoothie location.

Based on the email from Decatur police, here are the guys that were arrested in connection to the flat-screen robberies in Oakhurst.

Let’s talk about another office building for a change.

This morning’s AJC profiles the transformation of One West Courthouse Square from an office building evacuated by the CDC to a downtown educational hub thanks to the addition of The Arts Institute of Atlanta-Decatur and DeVry.

Not much new information in the article, but its a good read, and gives the city’s hypothesis on how an influx of students will change downtown in the coming years.