Starbucks is coming to downtown Roanoke.Athens Corner Grill and Core Life are closing.

Additionally, plans have been submitted at Roanoke City Hall to build a Starbucks within or adjacent to the northwest corner of One Ten Franklin. south norfolk Roanoke office tower. The location is south of City Market, near the fountain.

The building I was in was athene corner grill The Roanoke property is under a lease, “allowing the new operator to begin operations in earnest,” according to the real estate listing.

For $4,500 a month, the address comes with a “fully equipped” kitchen and a fully furnished dining room. Poe & Kronk Said. There was no mention of what happened to the closure of the popular Greek restaurant opened eight years ago by brothers Dimos and Stanley Trypodianos, and the restaurant’s website and Facebook page has not been touched either.

The story begins when the brothers, the children of Greek immigrants who became lawyers in New York, develop a fondness for Roanoke while visiting family here. Pursuing their dream of becoming restaurateurs like their grandfather in New York, they rented a former medical building on South Jefferson Street, spent a year renovating it, and opened it in November 2015, according to Roano Kerr’s article. The Athens Corner Grill opened on the 30th.

of roanoke core life eatery The New York company that operates the restaurant chain is listed as “closed” on its website as other area eateries have their lights out.

George Gramenopoulos opened the restaurant in the Earth Fare Shopping Center on Franklin Road in early 2020.

An online auction house put the store’s equipment up for sale last week. By all appearances, everything is fine, including the health-conscious restaurant’s robot coupe and his juicer. The juicer cost him more than $1,000 new, but he sold it for $352 an hour before the auction started Wednesday morning.