Friday, April 5, 2013
The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners will vote Tuesday on whether to take land near Oak Grove Center for right-of-ways and construction easements.
An Oak Grove business and some nearby residents are gearing up to protest DeKalb County's plans to condemn land for a series of right-of-ways and temporary construction easements as it prepares to redesign the intersection of Lavista and Oak Grove roads. The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners is slated to consider a series of proposals Tuesday from the public works department to take small slivers of land near the center and the intersection. Melissa Connor, co-owner of Ella Guru Record Shop in the center, emailed nearby residents this week, asking for help to pressure the county. From the board of commissioners' agenda: D3. Resolution, Order and Declaration of Taking – SR236/Lavista Road and Oak Grove Road, 2741 and 2747 Lavista Road; 0…
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The record store quietly returned to the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area in November. Here are five questions for its owner.
Ella Guru Record Shop has been around this part of town before. First opened in the Vista Grove shopping center in the late 1990s, it then moved to the Toco Hills Promenade, expanded in 2007, moved to Inman Park later that year, closed in 2009 but has now resurfaced in Oak Grove. Now located on Lavista Road in the shopping center with Beer Growler Nation and other shops, Ella Guru is back and ready to satisfy the demands of anyone looking for that old-school vinyl sound. Owner Don Radcliffe answered five questions from North Druid Hills-Briarcliff Patch. Q: What attracted you to reopen in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area? A: We'd known the Kontoes family for a long while. They own Evans Fine Foods, over at North Decatur and Clairmont…
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Ella Guru Record Shop quietly opened last month in the Oak Grove shopping center on Lavista Road.
A all-vinyl record shop opened quietly in Oak Grove last month. And it's more of a return than an opening. Ella Guru Record Shop opened adjacent to Beer Growler Nation, replacing the closed Beehive hair salon at 2747 Lavista Road, according to Tomorrow's News Today. From the TNT post, a brief history of this store as it has traveled throughout metro Atlanta: Don Radcliffe opened the first Ella Guru in Vista Grove shopping center in the late 1990s. A few years later he packed up and relocated to the Publix-anchored Toco Hill shopping center. The store later expanded into a second storefront but in 2007, he moved once again. Subleasing a small space from an adjacent scooter shop, Ella Guru reopened on Elizabeth Street in Inman Park in late …
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Tom Doolittle
5:59 pm on Saturday, April 13, 2013
That's too bad. RoundyRound as they say in Souht Carolina would further cement the little village as unique--and make the relationship with Emory even more obvious. There's is nothing about this idea that money and engineering wouldn't fix--perhaps an over and above partnership with businesses. Could be a very good intial reason to have a business organization (area CID) and/or nonprofit org. more ›