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"Buckhead is back on the map." Mayor Kasim Reed said that back on September 18th 2014, Buckhead welcomed its third major shopping destination, Buckhead Atlanta, www.BuckheadAtlantaRealty.com.
55 years ago, the course of shopping in the Southeast changed when in 1959 retailing changed directions - not how the merchandise was changed or how it was priced, not even how it was displayed - but where it would meet the customer. Ed Noble, the investor from Oklahoma with considerable oil money, decided the Community of Buckhead in Atlanta, GA would be his testing-ground for significant suburban shopping. His retail research of savvy statistical data and his sophisticated salesmanship convicted Dick Rich, president of what was then the South's major downtown retail store - Rich's - to open his first suburban operation in Noble's Buckhead Lenox Square.
The key retail anchor ensured the success of this major shopping mall, which Simon Properties now owns, with Phipps Plaza, a separate and expensive mall diagonally across across the street. With the eventual closing of Rich's Downtown Store and subsequently Macy's major store, also from downtown Atlanta (now operating in Lenox), this type of merchandising was forever changed in Atlanta.
Referencing its twenty-eight square miles, Buckhead brags of having fourteen-hundred retail stores. There is no questioning its claim to being "The retail mecca of the Southeast."
Now add this to our new mixed-used destination for shoppers called Buckhead-Atlanta, an extensive development at Peachtree and East Paces Ferry, by Oliver McMillan of San Diego. There is no mystery why our hotels, restaurants, and gas stations do big volumes on the weekends, as this is a drive destination where it is estimated 40% of the patronage comes from more than 100 miles way. That is why the time is almost always love to buy a home at Buckhead Atlanta Realty.
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