Anticipated Opening Date of Kimball House: August 1st
Decatur Metro | May 20, 2013
Included on the agenda for tonight’s Commission Meeting, a liquor license application for the Kimball House and applicant Miles A. Macquarrie, which states that the anticipated opening date is August 1st. Back in April, we reported that the build-out would take approximately 4 months, so this really isn’t new news, but hey, everyone likes a date!
In related news, Andryannis Greek Bistro Cafe has also applied for a liquor license, so I would anticipate some alcoholic offerings there soon as well.
Photo used with Dave Blanchard’s permission
Eh. I suspect that date is way early. They’re just making sure the license is in place before everything else is done, because it would suck to finish the work and not have a license.
My birthday! Here’s hoping they make it.
Trying to wrap my head around the whole concept:
So here is the Kimball House razed in 1959 to make way for a concrete parking structure:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Kimball-house-1890.JPG/800px-Kimball-house-1890.JPG
And here is the concept:
“The Brick Store Pub team plans to open a new restaurant next spring. They’re calling it Kimball House, after the hotel that was razed in the 1960s, “in the spirit of progress and preservation and as an homage to the barmen who kept the beautiful hotel lounge.”
Okay, I think I get it and historical preservation is a huge plus. But shouldn’t a train depot celebrate trains?
Train station theme should be retained. Especially for those of us who still have “Freight Room” in our brains.
I’m with you Bruce and understand your sentiments. This picture helped me a bit – http://atlantahistorycenter.tumblr.com/post/29897618829/1890s-view-of-atlantas-kimball-house-opened-in With a train in front visible in the picture, I can make that connection more easily.
I think they can celebrate the fact that it is an old train depot in subtle ways. The name doesn’t need to reflect that. Maybe a lot of their cocktails will have train-themed names….
I also thought it was weird that they were naming it after a place in Atlanta and not something that had more to do with Decatur. And trains.
Are they going to be able to fix that nasty sewer smell that has haunted that building in its past incarnations?