UPDATE (November 13, 2018): Ecco Phipps Plaza Now Open
Nearly a year-and-a-half after news broke that Ecco would open its third Atlanta-area location in Buckhead near Phipps Plaza, the next round of plans have been filed to move the project forward.
A whopping $2.2 million could be spent building the 9,498-square-foot Mediterranean restaurant from the ground up, according to a permit application submitted to City of Atlanta last week, the most recent filing for the restaurant.
That figure is in addition to nearly $400K that might have been spent readying the land for construction.
It’s unclear when the Buckhead restaurant, first announced in January 2016, will open its doors.
While original plans call for a mid-2017 debut, a company spokesperson didn’t have any additional information to share when What Now Atlanta sought comment Friday.
Ecco, a Fifth Group Restaurants concept, has locations in Midtown and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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Simon Properties has singlehandedly destroyed the class and style that was Lenox and Phipps. The former owners were responsible for the malls accent to the luxury markets through design and FINE TUNED MAINTENANCE! Simon has not power washed any entrance or maintained the surfaces of the mall itself. It’s dirty, stained, rusting, and the parking lots look like trash.
We need mall owners like Westfield, or Jamestown Properties. Every Simon property that I have been to across the country is anemic, poorly maintained and design execution has been totally forgettable. Let’s not get into the architecture….
Simon=Cheap
You’re so right–I think Macerich or Jamestown (especially) would have been a better manager of both properties. While I appreciate Simon for their refresh of the old Belk corridor at Phipps, the Lenox sister’s re-imaging looks piecemealed together, almost like a hodge-podge of random colors and textures.