Dancing Goats’ Second Atlanta Location Will Be Ponce City Market
Decatur Metro | December 15, 2011Dancing Goats Coffee Bar has been a Decatur retail success story for near on, what? Five years now? A mix of great coffee, good location and ample parking for both your car and rear-end make it one of the happening-est places in a city happening places.
In that time, the Washington-based coffee company – with a roasting plant here in Atlanta – has not added any other retail locations around metro Atlanta. But that all changes today…
What Now Atlanta? reports…
Dancing Goats, a coffee bar in Decatur, will open a temporary store in the former auto-service bay area on the corner of Glen Iris and North Avenue at the former City Hall East site, according to Mike Ferguson, business development director for the coffee brand.
The coffee bar will relocate to a permanent 1,000-square-foot space in about two years, Ferguson told What Now Atlanta in a telephone interview Thursday.
Which leads to the obviously premature question of: is Ponce City Market the new Decatur??
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The title is definitely correct, but I think people may not realize the first actual Atlanta location (which opened earlier this year) is in Buckhead. This will be Batdorf’s third location in GA (or the Atlanta area, if Decatur wants to consider themselves part of that).
I know they announced the PCM location awhile back, but I love that they’ll be opening a temporary location in the meantime.
Huh. Really? Where in Buckhead?
3475 Piedmont Rd NE (lobby of Prominence in Buckhead). Of course I’m reminded that the original Batdorf Atlanta tasting bar (not DG branded, as they do not have an espresso machine) is inside Star Provisions.
Back in 1995 I worked at Peaxchtree Center. In may not have been a Danching Goats Cafe, but a small coffee place in the Food Court did serve that coffee roasters coffee.
This news is most significant to me in that it makes the PCM project feel like a reality. We’ve heard so many plans made for that place in the past, and all came to nothing. But by starting to roll out actual purveyors who will be filling the renovated space, it seems like it’s actually going to happen.
And no, I do not think PCM is the new Decatur. But I do welcome whatever it will be, which will be infinitely better than what it is now.
The entire “Old Fourth Ward” area is really developing nicely, and this can only jump it higher. In my opinion, that area is as close as the ATL can get to Brooklyn, NYC!
Just out of curiosity, what borough is Decatur in this analogy?
Actually I have thought some about that and I am not that familiar with that area (other than Manhattan and Brooklyn). Maybe somewhere just north of NYC in Westchester County, or across the river in New Jersey like Hoboken? Close enough to the city, but not in the City!
Decatur: The Jersey City of Georgia!
Not until we get a hot dog guy on the square selling real Sabretts. Sauerkraut and mustard please!
You know, JT, I was joking when I made that post, but now as I think about it, there was a lot in that neighborhood that Decatur now desires. I could walk to Aileo’s, the corner green grocer. Next to that was the butcher, Mr. Burgher. Then Mrs Pinkowitz, she sold ladies’ underthings and handkerchiefs. Next to that was the best of all, Eddie Cox’s, he had penny candy and a soda fountain. That was as far as I was allowed to walk without an older sibling or neighbor. Plus school, my kindergarten!
Also, a short walk for the grownups to the tube station which would whisk you into NYC in a few minutes. It seems hard to believe today.
I wonder if they will have longer hours at this location? Closing at 7 in that area will not be good for business
I wish they would do that in Decatur too. I would definitely be escaping the family to catch up on work if DG were open until 9 PM, even better 10 PM. Blue Elephant next door is open until 9 PM so I can see synergy going on there.
This would seem to be a good sign for the direction the development might take, i.e. not a bunch of national mass-market retailers.