Things to Do in Sandy Springs This Summer: What’s New

Three Dollar Cafe has poured beer and served queso at the corner of Wieuca and Roswell for years, on the Atlanta side of the line. That location is closing. The restaurant isn't folding. It's relocating a short drive north into the old Snooze Eatery space at 4600 Roswell Road, crossing the city line that separates Atlanta from Sandy Springs, a border most regulars never think about until a favorite spot moves across it.

Ask around and you'll hear guesses: rent went up, the lease ran out, Buckhead got too expensive. The Fulton County deed filing from this spring records the sale of Chastain Market.

The Chastain Market Sale

In May 2026, Connolly and Coro Realty Advisors sold Chastain Market, the roughly 120,000-square-foot retail center at Roswell Road and Windsor Parkway, to Indianapolis-based Kite Realty Group. The price was $71 million. Four years earlier, in 2022, the same partners paid $40.5 million for the property when it was still called Sandy Springs Gateway, according to Bisnow's reporting on the sale. That's a 75 percent gain in four years, and Kite paid more than $580 per square foot, one of the higher per-square-foot retail prices logged in the region so far this year.

Connolly and Coro spent four years filling every space and rebranding the center along the way. The sale closed once that work was finished, not before. Several restaurant moves are landing in the same twelve-month period as the sale.

The Businesses Making the Move

The clearest example is the Three Dollar Cafe relocation itself. Once the Chastain Market location opens, the chain will operate ten locations across metro Atlanta, two of them in Sandy Springs, and none inside the Atlanta city limits.

Moxie Burger is opening its sixth location at the same property, joining existing spots in East Cobb's Paper Mill Village, Roswell, Marietta, Kennesaw, and Chandler Park. What Now Atlanta first reported the lease in April, noting the burger chain will slot into the same 122,000-square-foot development that already anchors a Trader Joe's and a CVS.

Nearby on Roswell Road, a different kind of opening tells the same story from the nightlife side. Wat Room, a speakeasy-style Asian fusion lounge with a full sushi bar, opened this year tucked along the same corridor, according to Explore Georgia's listing. It's a reservation-only concept betting on enough late-night foot traffic to support it. That's not the kind of restaurant that opens on a stretch of road still figuring itself out.

The Flagship Reopening That Set the Tone

None of this happens in isolation from what's happening at the neighborhood's most visible dining address. Rumi's Kitchen's flagship location on Roswell Road closed in March 2025 for what was originally planned as a $3.5 million renovation. By the time it reopened on March 6, 2026, the budget had nearly tripled, according to Atlanta Magazine's coverage of the reopening. Chef and owner Ali Mesghali explained the overrun in plain terms.

"Our kitchen was too small, and the restaurant was doing six-times the sales from the original Rumi's."

That's not a business quietly hoping demand shows up. It's a business that already had more demand than its kitchen could handle and rebuilt around that fact, adding a 22-seat curved marble bar, a private dining room with a floor-to-ceiling mural by artist Dean Barger, and a pastry program run by Sohrob Esmaili, the 2021 Food Network Spring Baking Championship winner. When the flagship reinvests at that scale, it's a signal to every other operator on the corridor that the traffic is real.

The Free Calendar That's Still Running

None of the deed history changes what you can actually do this weekend. City Springs still runs two concert series through early fall, and as of this week there are two dates left on the calendar.

Both series are free, according to the City of Sandy Springs' own concert page, with City Green Live drawing nationally touring acts to select Friday nights and Concerts by the Springs keeping things lower-key on Sunday afternoons at the Heritage Amphitheatre. Rough Draft Atlanta's reporting from March noted that sponsorships for both series run through the Sandy Springs Foundation, the resident-led nonprofit the city created specifically to fund this kind of programming.

If you're headed to either one, park at the Sandy Springs United Methodist Church Activities Center off Sandy Springs Circle or the south lot at Blue Stone and Mt. Vernon. Skip the City Walk shopping center that houses Kroger, and skip Centre Court, the retail block formerly home to Ace Hardware. Cars left in either lot risk a tow.

The Sandy Springs Farmers Market runs every Saturday through November at City Springs, and it isn't just a nice local habit anymore. It was named a Best of Georgia winner in the Produce Markets and Local Farm category, according to Visit Sandy Springs. Sundown Social on City Green Plaza runs on select dates from May 14 through October 27, with live local music, lawn games, and a rotating signature cocktail, according to City Springs' own events page.

The Dining Changes Along Roswell Road

The sale followed four years of leasing and rebranding work at the center. Rumi's Kitchen's renovation adds another notable chapter to this year's dining news along Roswell Road.

For anyone who already calls Sandy Springs home, those changes are part of the shuffle you're noticing this year.

If you're weighing what any of this means for your own address, whether that's what your home might be worth in a corridor this active or what to expect if you're thinking about a move within the neighborhood, Purpose Driven Real Estate Group knows this stretch of Roswell Road block by block. Schedule your free consultation and we'll walk through it together.

This article is general information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Consult a qualified professional about your situation.