MM: Callaway Vacant, Ale Yeah Closes Kennesaw Location, and Google Fiber at PCM
Decatur Metro | May 5, 2016 | 11:39 am
- Callaway Building vacant, sale to developer pending [AJC]
- Ale Yeah’s Kennesaw Shop Has Run Dry [Eater]
- Driver indicted in death of Lakeside High teacher changes plea to guilty [Decaturish]
- Former Decatur superintendent weighing Florida college offers [AJC]
- Governor OK’s tax exemption for fulfillment centers [Decatur Tax Blog]
- Google lands at Atlanta’s Ponce City Market [ABC]
-Driver indicted in death of Lakeside High teacher changes plea to guilty [Decaturish]
Awful all around, but a great lesson for our teenagers.
No word on the future of Touch a Truck with the Callaway Building’s sale?
Fair to assume they’ll just hold it somewhere else.
Let’s hope!
There’s got to be some kind of fun public event one could plan with an empty Calloway Building before destruction. Laser tag. Hunger Games. Throwing burning couches off the roof. The possibilities are endless.
Big-a** escape room.
So simulate a Trump presidency, basically?
I think they should have a competitive process for the demolition bid for that building. The most creative idea wins, and that’s the one we all get to see in action.
Here’s one: the developer is required to fund a study to harness the power of time travel. A group of scrappy ne’er-do-wells is selected to utilize this new technology to travel back in time and prevent the building from ever being built. The catch is that they have to time their journey so that it is after the old jail is torn down but before the Callaway building is built. However, I guess they’d be stuck having to wait out the next 40 years preventing anybody else from developing the site by any dastardly means necessary.
I think I need to get out more.
Does the AJC article say that the City is not going to make any money off of the sale of Callaway? How is that possible? The value must have appreciated a lot since the City bought it.
I’m very curious about that too.
A lot of the growler stores seem to be closing shop. The Beer Growler franchise had locations in Savannah, Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Suwanee, and Athens (the original one) that have all went out of business over the past few years.
I guess it is hard to turn a profit at these type of stores. The prices are already on the higher side of things and I guess not enough people were going to these places on a regular basis. I love the Avondale Beer Growler and go their at least once a month or more. Would hate to see that place shut down.
Perhaps it’s because of craft beers’ explosion over the past couple years? Once, growler/specialty beer shops were the only place to get not only exotic brews, but even some standard craft brews. Now with so many bars following Brick Store’s lead and seeking out the newest and best — not to mention even regular grocery store chains trying to better stock their beer selection — it’s not quite as hard to track down the good stuff, removing the specialty stores’ competitive advantage. If you can get it at some other place that also sells groceries or your dinner, why make an additional trip to the specialty shop?
I have no data to back this up — just speculation.
It’s an easy start-up business so no surprise there were too many that opened. I’m a craft beer fan, but since my wife and I don’t like the same beers I don’t buy growlers very often. The smaller sizes are a poor value, and I can’t drink the full size ones fast enough. I suspect this is true for others. Despite the growth in craft beer popularity, this remains a niche business that will struggle even more when the current beer boom fades.
I think it comes down to a lot of places offering growlers that sell other things too. A place that offers just growlers might need to diversify.