New Business Construction Continues on Ponce

The four-corner intersection where Ponce de Leon Avenue divides Monroe Drive and Boulevard continues to undergo a change.

The Texaco on the southeast corner of Ponce and Boulevard remains, but the other three corners have seen or are undergoing a metamorphosis here in the last several weeks and months.

Across Boulevard from the Texaco, Dunkin' Brands Group Inc., the parent company to Dunkin' Donuts, is building a 2,100 square-foot restaurant that will also include Dunkin's sister company, Baskin-Robbins.

At the northwest corner of Ponce and Monroe, the former Exxon service station at 486 Ponce de Leon was not long ago replaced by a new full-service Shell Food Mart. And as Patch reported earlier this year, the Alpharetta-based Shane Investment Property Group is planning to redevelop a roughly 5,500-square-foot commercial space located next to the Shell at 468 Ponce de Leon.

And at the northeast corner of Ponce and Monroe Fidelty Bank is in the process of moving into the vacated bank space at 494 Ponce.

A block or so west, a new Zaxby’s recently opened on Ponce, but this area remains still very much in transition.

Are you encouraged by the type of activity you’ve witnessed of late at this high-profile corner? What other types of changes are needed in this area of town?