About Atlanta Intown. (Sandy Springs, GA) 1998-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 2025)
roughdraftatl Follow Message Rough Draft atlanta 1,996 posts 25.7K followers 2,547 following Rough Draft Atlanta @ roughdraftatl Media/news company News & features from Atlanta Intown, Reporter Newspapers, @thegeorgiavoice & our award- winning newsletters, Subscribe at... more @ linktr.ee/roughdraftatl + 2 Contents SEPTEMBER 2025 Read more at the link in bio. Home Grown owners purchase building, securing Southern diner’s future roughdraftatl and 2 others Home grown GA roughdraftatl 1w At a time when most restaurants occupy leased spaces in Atlanta, one of the city's most cherished restaurants will remain in the building for as long as the owners want and continue to draw patrons to Memorial Drive in Reynoldstown. Earlier this week, Chef Kevin Clark and Lisa Spooner added property owners to their resumes, purchasing the building in which their diner, Home Grown, has served its coveted comfy chicken biscuits, Southern fare, and Blue Collar lunch specials for 15 years. • Read more at the link in bio about what Clark and Spooner have planned for Home Grown, including adding dinner, a small bar program, and a coffee shop. QQVW 2.000 likes August 15 Log in to like or comment. Our followers saw it first. lnstagram.com/RoughDraftATL 28 4 e. Yhac I F II 30 END OF AUGUST : Editor s Note 4 Community Beltline Transit Plan 6 CDC Shooting 8 Memorial Drive Greenway 10 Sustainability Above The Waterline 13 Special Section Decaur Book Festival Preview 14-19 Arts & Entertainment Artist Timofey Abel 20 Art Amusement Park 20 Out On Film 24 Dogwood Festival Finances 26 Dining Elise Restaurant 26 Home Grown 28 Real Estate Centennial Yards Tower 30 04W Apartments Project 30 Midtown Fire Station 30 Sweet Auburn Revitalization 31 Focus on Education: A Special Section Electric School Buses 34 Georgia Milestones Scores 36 Oglethorpe Career Prep 37 Fernbank Expansion 38 Culinary Classes 40 Acting Classes 42 Atlanta Intown Reporter Newspapers Georgia Voice RoughDraft A RoughDraft Publication • • Y ARoughDraft Publication • atlanta Editorial Collin Kelley Executive Editor Beth McKibben Editor-in-chief Sr. Editor Food & Dining Cathy Cobbs Managing Editor, Reporter Newspapers Sammie Purcell Associate Editor Staff Writers Katie Burkholder, Bob Pepalis, Logan C. Ritchie, Sarra Sedghi Contributors Sally Bethea, Rebecca Grapevine, Sherri Daye Scott Published By Rough Draft Atlanta Keith Pepper Publisher keith@RoughDraft.news Neal Maziar Chief Revenue Officer neal@RoughDraft.news Rico Figliolini Creative Director Circulation Each month, 27,000 copies of Atlanta Intown are mailed to homes and distributed to businesses in and around ZIP codes 30306, 30307, 30308, 30309, 30324 and 30329. For delivery information, delivery@RoughDraft.news To subscribe to home delivery, ($125 I year) email delivery@RoughDraft.news Advertising sales@RoughDraft.news Deborah Davis Account Manager | Sales Operations deborah@RoughDraft.news Jeff Kremer Sr. Account Manager jeff@RoughDraft.news Suzanne Purcell Sr. Account Manager suzanne@RoughDraft.news Operations Savannah Pierce savannah@RoughDraft.news About the Cover Students at David T. Howard Middle School in Old Fourth Ward headed back to class on Aug. 4 this year. (Photo courtesy Atlanta Public Schools/Adrian Williams) ROUGHDRAFT.NEWS RoughDraft.news Instagram.com/ eh Facebook.com/ roughdraftatl • F roughdraftatl •4bsky.app/ •• RoughDraftAtlanta.com Scan to subscribe to Rough Draft, or, text DRAFT to 66866 Honored as a newspaper of General Excellence ©2025 with all rights reserved Publisher reserves the right to refuse editorial or advertising for any reason. Publisher assumes no responsibility for information contained in advertising. Any opinions expressed in print or online do not necessarily represent the views of Rough Draft Atlanta. SEPTEMBER 2025 | 3
