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Banshee owners file plans for new restaurant at MARTA-adjacent development

  • Columbia Ventures, Quill

Owners of a popular East Atlanta restaurant will open their next venture at a new transit-oriented development.

The team behind Banshee will open Bonafide Deluxe within the commercial hub that sits between Spoke and Quill, two multifamily buildings that are nearing completion adjacent to the Edgewood/Candler Park MARTA Station. The Bonafide Deluxe space is on the Edgewood side of the station at 1454 LaFrance Street. It opens out onto a small green space called Edgewood Park.

Signage posted at the space gives passersby an idea of what to expect: “epic sandwiches coming soon.” Dillon Baynes, managing partner of Columbia Ventures LLC, the firm that is developing the project, offered some specifics.

Banshee chef Nolan Wynn “is going to focus on a premium sandwich execution,” Baynes told Atlanta Business Chronicle. Bonafide Deluxe will use custom-baked breads and fillings made with “real” and local ingredients. Wynn intends to put together some “creative combinations.”

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Source: Atlanta Business Journal

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Mixed-Housing Pioneer Noel Khalil Dies At 70

  • Columbia Ventures

Columbia Residential and Columbia Ventures CEO Noel Khalil, a giant in Atlanta affordable housing development, died Monday after a three-year battle with cancer, Columbia executives told Bisnow. He was 70.

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In 2013, Khalil formed Columbia Ventures, a market-rate and mixed-use division that partnered in the development of Studioplex in the Old Fourth Ward, Beacon Station in Augusta, and the transit-oriented mixed-use development connected to the Avondale MARTA station and Edgewood/Candler.

Columbia developed, owns and manages a number of projects around the Southeast, including the Villages at East Lake Gardenside, Amani Place in Edgewood, Capitol View Apartments, and many other Columbia-branded apartments and senior housing complexes in the city. Between 2018 and 2020, Columbia Residential and Columbia Ventures have invested in excess of $500M in 2,500 units of both affordable, mixed-income and market-rate units.

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Source: BISNOW – Atlanta

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Broughton Municipal Building to get new life as hotel, restaurant

  • Columbia Ventures

You may have previously visited the corner of Broughton and Abercorn streets to take out a loan or pay your utility bill, but in the coming years you might be there to enjoy a cocktail on Broughton Street’s only rooftop bar.

Designed by local group Levy & Kiley Architects 60 years ago, the Broughton Municipal Building at 132 East Broughton St. originally served as First Federal Savings & Loan before the city of Savannah purchased it in 1991. Now under the ownership of Columbia Ventures, it’s slated to become a 43-room hotel with a restaurant on the ground floor and a rooftop bar. Space will also include an entertainment and bar component in the basement.

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Source www.savannahnow.com

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