[ALERT] Crate & Barrel Opening New Outlet Store in Metro Atlanta (2024)

Home furnishings retailer Crate & Barrel will later this week open a new outlet store in metro Atlanta. The store, located at 5300 Peachtree Boulevard in Chamblee, will occupy a freestanding former Office Depot which has sat vacant since the office supply store closed in 2021. The new store will be the first in metro Atlanta for the Northbrook, Illinois-based retailer.

The company operates full line stores at The Shops Around Lenox in Buckhead and at Avalon in Alpharetta as well as a warehouse in Duluth. The company also in 2021 brought its CB2 brand back to metro Atlanta with a store at Westside Provisions District in West Midtown.

Signage at the store announces the new Crate & Barrel outlet will open Friday, February 17 and according to real estate sources, will likely remain open for about a year given the company has reportedly signed a short-term lease. Another real estate source called the former Office Depot building "structurally obsolete," which may explain why it has been vacant for so long.

Real estate sources tell ToNeTo Atlanta that Crate & Barrel considered several sites in metro Atlanta for their new store, including at least one in Sandy Springs, before deciding on the Chamblee location.

The store's windows are not currently covered so one can easily get a glimpse of the products the store will carry which seem to focus heavily on furniture, particularly couches and chairs. Signage on the store's windows indicate the store will also carry merchandise from sibling brands Crate & kids and CB2.

ToNeTo Atlanta has visited Crate & Barrel Outlet stores in other markets and in our experience, true "bargains" are few and far between, but for those in the market, savings of what seems to be 10-30% off retail may still be worthwhile.

Rival home furnishings retailer Pottery Barn opened a "warehouse sale" clearance store in 2017 near Southlake Mall in Morrow but closed it about a year later. The company, along with sibling brands Williams-Sonoma and West Elm, all continue to operate traditional outlet stores at the North Georgia Premium Outlets in Dawsonville. RH (Restoration Hardware) also operates an outlet in Dawsonville at Dawsonville Marketplace.

Elsewhere in metro Atlanta, Frontgate and Ballard Designs both operate outlets in Roswell.

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