The gourmet cookware store, cooking school and the wine shop are set to split, relocate.
Another joint location of The Cook’s Warehouse and Sherlock’s Wine Merchant is parting ways, this time in Decatur.
Mary S. Moore, founder and CEO of The Cook’s Warehouse and Douglas W. Bryant, founder and CEO of Sherlock’s Wine Merchant, Tuesday in a press release announced the “strategic decision” to split their joint store, at 180 W Ponce de Leon Avenue, and relocate.
“We opened this location in Decatur in 2005. It was a great next step for both of us and we have loved serving the Decatur community for over eleven years,” Moore said in the release.
“However, this location has not kept up with the growth of our other stores and is currently our highest occupancy cost with an increase on the horizon. While we both searched in the Decatur market to find a new location we both found strategic opportunities in other markets.”
Moore and Bryant shuttered their joint Brookhaven location in 2015 and are still looking for “the right spot to re-open in that market.”
The Cooks Warehouse Decatur is relocating late spring to the Peachtree Station Shopping Center, according to the release.
As for Sherlock’s, “I have been looking for a better location in the Decatur market and for a location in the Midtown/Ansley/South Buckhead markets for years,” Byrant said.
“Having found a great location on Peachtree Rd. at Palisades south of Piedmont Hospital made it an easier decision to move our operations to Sherlock’s Wine Merchant – Peachtree.”
Bryant hopes to eventually re-open in Decatur but “until I find a great spot…, we look forward to serving our customers in one of our other Sherlock’s locations.”
The lease for The Cook’s Warehouse and Sherlock’s Wine Merchant in Decatur ends February 28, 2017 and will not be renewed.
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Hate to see them go but also glad the landlord will lose a major tenant. They deserve it for allowing predatory parking enforcement on their property that has negatively impacted their patrons.