Westside Ironworks Midtown Atlanta

Westside Ironwroks in Atlanta Adds Retailer, Restaurants to Tenant Roster

by John Nelson

ATLANTA — Westside Ironworks, a 19,000-square-foot, $8.5 million retail redevelopment in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood, has added three new tenants, bringing its pre-leasing to 75 percent occupancy. The new tenants include O-Ku (3,200 square feet), a Southern-style sushi restaurant; Dixon Rye (5,000 square feet), an upscale, rustic-style home furnishings retailer; and Tom+Chee (2,600 square feet), a café-style, comfort food restaurant known for its Grilled Cheese Donut. All three retailers are expected to open this fall. The Westside Ironworks redevelopment transforms the former site of Iron-Works International Inc. into a retail destination. The project is spearheaded by Westside Ironworks LLC, a partnership between Frank Buonanotte and Jeff Stein. Buonanotte is the founder and chairman emeritus of The Shopping Center Group and the founder and principal of Metro Real Estate Investment Advisors, a real estate investment fund. In 2010, Stein founded Stein Investment Group, which has invested in and is actively acquiring real estate throughout metro Atlanta and the Southeast.