Monday, August 20, 2012
The old Blue Rooster Café & Bakery location in Lilburn has been vacant for more than a year and a half. What do you think should go there?
Old Town Lilburn just isn't the same with the closed Blue Rooster Café & Bakery languisihing on Main Street. For a year and a half now, it's sat empty -- a literal shell of what it used to be. Mayor Johnny Crist has said he'd like to see a top-notch restaurant come to the location. It could be a virtual beacon for other changes to come, and make the area a destination, he said. However, there are improvements that would have to be made, he added. Property records show the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) purchased the building for $160,000 in October 2011. That was half the initial $320,000 asking price from the seller, a bank. The DDA had hopes of quickly leasing it to a restaurant operator. There have been interested parties, but, to…
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Lilburn's Downtown Development Authority wants to get tenants into the building as quickly as possible; city council on Monday will consider a recommendation to loan $40,000 to the DDA toward the purchase.
Lilburn's Downtown Development Authority plans to buy the Blue Rooster property on Main Street in order to get tenants in the building as quickly as possible, according to Doug Stacks, planning and economic development director for the city. The Blue Rooster Cafe closed shortly after Christmas, and it's now bank-owned. A lot of people have expressed interest in renting the space, but the bank can't lease it out, Stacks said. "It's been sitting there vacant for a good time, bank-owned," Stacks said. "The immediate plan is to get someone in there." The DDA could "at least get a good tenant in there" until a buyer can be found. City council on Monday will consider a recommendation to loan $40,000 to the DDA to be used toward the purchase, …
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Ground breaking on Main Street project set for spring of 2012, completion fall of 2013
Lilburn was named near the turn of the 20th century, the themed period of its upcoming rebirth. Well into design of its new downtown city hall and library along revamped Main Street immediately east of Highway 29, that turn-of-the-century plan remains one City Manager Bill Johnsa hopes rejuvenates a Gwinnett County city first settled in the early 1800s. "We want to build something that's new, but looks old," he said. "What we're creating is a new gateway into the downtown area." Inspired by downtown streetscapes of Suwanee, Buford, Duluth and elsewhere, Lilburn's planned theme will be similar to one comparably sized Sugar Hill recently began, complete with wide sidewalks, globe street lamps and mixed-use development. Chiefly, Main Street's…
Ben
9:37 am on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The Problem I see this former restaurant is off of the main drag, The Blue Rooster done well, after everyone knew there was a great place to eat there, This again would be hard to do, because people in the Restaurant busness want to be seen, have a lot of Cars passing by each & every hour, Business people know it will take a lot of money to set up a restaurant, staff it and hope to get business, … more ›