A reader sent in this photo of a sign posted at Sugar Moon Bakeshop’s retail location in Oakhurst.

Shumacher Real Estate recently posted…

The Shumacher Group, Inc. sold  Colbeh Persian Kitchen & Bar located at 123 East Court Square Decatur, Georgia 30030. Steve Josovitz of The Shumacher Group, Inc. represented Seller in transaction.

Buyers are the Owners of Calle Latina located steps away in Downtown Decatur also. The new concept will be a reinvented NY style 1980’s Tavern and Bar to be called Truman.

Photo courtesy of Raymund S. via Yelp

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Image courtesy of CL via O4W Pizza 

SJ Collins has released a rendering of the coming development that will include a Whole Foods’ 365 grocery store as an anchor tenant.  There’s more information on the SJ Collins website, including the following site plan to give a better idea of the scope of the project.

SJ Collins has scheduled a community input session next Monday, June 13th at 7pm at North Decatur United Methodist Church at 1523 Church Street.

Deanne Thomas, President of the Decatur Heights Neighborhood Association, sent us a note that she sent out to area residents encouraging them to attend the meeting to highlight concerns about traffic and other impacts to surrounding neighborhoods.  (The development is just outside the Decatur city limits)

Here is Deanne’s letter in full…

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This year’s Decatur Arts Festival has quite a varied and interesting lineup this year!  If you haven’t spent anytime checking out the weekend’s offerings yet – and were just going to wing it (aka wander the artist’s market aimlessly) – you should definitely do some research HERE.

Here’s one such interesting twist on the longest-running of all current Decatur festivals – it’s own beer!

Decatur’s Three Taverns Brewery has brewed a session IPA called “3 Day IPA” for this year’s event.  As Nathan at Three Taverns noted to me in an email ” This is the first time a beer has been brewed specifically for a (non beer-related) Decatur festival. It’s something we’re very excited about.”

I actually snagged a growler of 3-Day over the weekend at Ale Yeah! and I will tell you that it’s a very solid offering.  It’s light and flavorful.  I’d describe it as displaying sweet, biscuity malts, semi-dankish hops and a dry finish.  But I’m just an amateur beer connoisseur with a limited beer-cabulary, so I’m likely doing a terrible job of describing it.

Either way, I’d definitely recommend purchasing a pint when you’re up on the Square this weekend.  And if IPAs are your game, don’t fear.  The other beer sponsors at this years event are Creature Comforts and Burnt Hickory, so you’ll likely be awash in a spectrum of solid beer opinions.

Cheers!

Decatur officials have confirmed that the Decatur Downtown Development Authority has subleased its space at 115 Clairemont Ave  – the spot next to the Decatur Visitors Center – to “Rocket Fizz” a franchise soda pop and candy shop with locations nationwide.

According to Rocket Fizz’s website the store offers “thousands of bottled soda pops and candies from all over America” and “hundreds of retro and gag gifts, and concert posters and posters and tin signs too.”  Also, there’s a short history of the company…

The Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shops, LLC was founded in 2007 by Robert (Rob) Powells and Ryan Morgan and in 2012 Rich Shane became the company CEO. The original “flagship” store located in Camarillo, California opened in 2009. The Camarillo and Sherman Oaks, California locations are company-owned. In under five years the Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shops has become the largest and fastest growing soda pop and candy shop franchise brand in America.

The Decatur location will be Rocket Fizz’s third in Georgia, with locations already in both Marietta and Savannah.

Asst. City Manager Lyn Menne projects an opening date of late summer/early fall opening.

Photo courtesy of Rocket Fizz website

If you scavenge the internets, you can find renderings of the interiors of proposed Whole Foods “365” grocery stores.    Here are a few interior renderings of the Silver Lake, CA locations from the L.A. website “The East Sider” to give a sense of what the Decatur location of the 365 concept store will look like when it opens in a 2018.

A couple more views after the jump.

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