Thursday, September 6, 2012
Smyrna Beer Market will set up shop in Market Village in the old gelato shop.
A growler store is coming to Market Village just a few short weeks after Smyrna City Council passed an amendment to the alcohol ordinance that clears the way for these establishments. Owner Brandon King said Smyrna Beer Market will open in the space formerly home to Italio’s Gelato and Café as early as mid-October. The store will carry about 45 different varieties of draught beer that customers can buy in half-gallon growlers, large glass bottles used for holding craft beer. “We’re trying to maintain local and regional focus on those,” King said. “All the bottles and beer we’ll carry will be the harder to find stuff for beer connoisseurs.” He added that Smyrna Beer Market will also partner with local chefs to carry gourmet items like rubs…
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
However, the vacancy rate in the development is still higher than the average in Smyrna.
Smyrna’s Market Village vacancy rate is on the decline thanks to some new businesses. Andrea Hall, the city’s community development coordinator, said that the recent opening of a sports therapy gym called Ozone Fitness, Buckhead Academy and the pending opening of The Corner Taqueria bring Market Village’s retail vacancy rate from 30 percent to 21 percent. “That’s still slightly higher than the overall Smyrna average for retail, but Market Village is a unique concept in Smyrna,” she said. “We’ve got some other things that the building owners are working on, they just haven’t signed a lease yet.” Buckhead Academy, a tutoring center for students from kindergarten through 12th grade, recently opened in the space that was formerly home to Pie …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Some members of the Smyrna Rotary Club discussed what they feel are misconceptions about the city and offered suggestions for how to correct them.
Does Smyrna need an image makeover? Some Smyrna Rotary Club members think so. At their meeting Tuesday the conversation turned toward outsiders’ perceptions of the city and what its residents can do to make it better. A Mistaken Identity Suzanne Pruitt, the Smyrna Rotary Club program chair, moved to Smyrna several years ago from Atlanta’s Inman Park neighborhood. She said her friends were shocked when she told them she was moving to Smyrna and some didn’t know where it was. “People don’t know about Smyrna,” she said. “Smyrna is the closest suburb to the city. I think it suffers from a huge perception problem and I don’t know where that’s come from over the years, but people have this preconceived notion about Smyrna that’s not true. It’s a…
Roger N
10:38 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012
Seriously? You think a high end craft beer store would attract "drunken customers" tossing their beer bottles all over? So off the mark it's not even funny. Now, the Atkins Park and Vintage Tavern crowds, maybe...but if you bought residential next to a bar you should know what you are getting into. more ›