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Lately, however, the bar’s front entrance had been obstructed by construction fencing and Dumpsters from the neighboring 725 Ponce project-a nearly $200 million mixed-use development replacing the former “ Murder Kroger”-which is under construction along the Beltline’s Eastside Trail. Model T once operated at the ground floor retail strip of the Ford Factory Lofts in Poncey-Highland. But if Cowtippers should fall, it wouldn’t be the first popular queer-centric business to succumb recently to the forces of gentrification.Īt the end of November, popular LGBTQ dive bar Model T was forced to close after serving as a homey watering hole for 26 years.
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Metrotainment Cafes has told Project Q the bank deal isn’t yet set in stone. Owned by Metrotainment Cafes, the popular restaurant has served food and drinks to crowds of LGBTQ people (and anyone else) for about 25 years.Ĭowtippers management had worried the business would shutter in January to make way for a Beltline-adjacent development, although that project never panned out, leaving some hope for the beloved establishment.īut last month, Tomorrow’s News Today discovered that a representative for Chase Bank had gone before the Beltline Design Review Committee to propose the new 3,470-square-foot branch project. Another LGBTQ-embracing establishment in Atlanta is being threatened by new development.Īt the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Monroe Drive, in the Piedmont Heights neighborhood northeast of Midtown, Cowtippers Steaks & Spirits could be on the chopping block, thanks to tentative plans to build a new Chase Bank, according to Project Q Atlanta.