Plans call for new restaurant, retail, office hub in Buckhead a block from Peachtree Road

Originally Posted on Urbanize Atlanta by Josh Green on JUNE 02, 2023

Plans are coming into clearer focus for how ailing buildings on a popular Buckhead restaurant strip could be remade, modernized, and brought back to life.

The pair of vacant structures—a former restaurant/residential building and an office building—are located on a corner property at 3121 and 3125 Piedmont Road, a block south of Peachtree Road in central Buckhead. Both buildings are damaged and currently share the same parking lot, according to new ownership.

Plans submitted to Buckhead’s SPI-9 Development Review Committee ahead of a scheduled meeting Wednesday show the buildings reimagined as a trendy hub of retail, restaurant, and offices uses that melds several architectural styles.

New renderings indicate the commercial node could be called “The Buckhead Collection.”

Architect Robb McKerrow of the r*development firm is scheduled to present updated plans to the Buckhead DRC for renovating and expanding the properties where Piedmont Road meets Martina Drive. The project last came before the committee in November.

Records indicate the properties sold to an LLC called Partina Land for $3.75 million in August 2020.

The 3125 Piedmont building—a former home, constructed of brick, that’s suffered fire damage—housed popular Persian restaurant Divan for 16 years, before it uprooted to Midtown’s historic Castle building. McKerrow’s plans call for demolishing the kitchen, constructing a two-story addition where the current kitchen is, and adding upstairs dining rooms along with a two-story entrance for restaurant uses.