Nobu hotel sets opening

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Nobu Hotel & Restaurant eyes late summer opening

▲A new luxury hotel and Japanese restaurant is expected to open in late summer.

Signage recently went up on the Nobu Hotel & Restaurant at Buckhead’s Phipps Plaza mall.

The hotel will include 150 rooms, a rooftop pool, spa and conference space. The restaurant will occupy 10,000 square feet, featuring Japanese cuisine.

Nobu is a brand founded by Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and Meir Teper. This is the first location in Atlanta.

The hotel and restaurant are part of a larger redevelopment at Phipps Plaza. The former Belk department store was demolished to make way for a mixed-use project, which also includes a 13-story office building, food hall called Citizens, and a Life Time athletic club.

Massive furniture store planned for Dunwoody

Buckhead shopping center to get facelift

▲Lenox Marketplace, a shopping center across from Phipps Plaza mall in Buckhead, is set to get a facelift.

The project would spruce up the façade of the shopping center. The multilevel mall at 3535 Peachtree Road, between Wieuca and Oak Valley roads, is anchored by Target, Publix, Dick’s Sporting Goods and LA Fitness.

At a January meeting, the Buckhead Development Review Committee spoke favorably about the project.

Atlanta-based Selig Enterprises and an Ohio teachers’ pension fund had acquired Lenox Marketplace in 2021. Architecture firm ASD/SKY is leading the project design.

▲A two-story, 110,000-square-foot furniture retail store is planned for Ravinia Parkway in Dunwoody.

Living Spaces Furniture is planning its first metro Atlanta location at the site. The Dunwoody City Council heard a rezoning request for the project at a January meeting, raising issues about tree preservation on the property. Some council members also expressed concern over whether the furniture store would be a good fit for the city. Living Spaces Furniture represents famous TV personality designers such as Chip and Joanna Gaines from the show “Fixer Upper” and Jonathan and Drew Scott, known as “The Property Brothers.”

“What do we do with 110,000-squarefoot shopping space that is owned by a company in California when the TV personalities get divorced, and their show goes away,” said Councilmember Stacey Harris.

The rezoning request was deferred at the Jan. 24 City Council meeting.