Come this weekend, a Ponce City Market retail space fronting the Atlanta Beltline’s most popular trail will finally have a permanent tenant. 

Project officials announced today local brewery, distillery, and restaurant concept Three Taverns Ponce Brew Terminal is set to open for business on Saturday with a front-row seat to the Beltline’s Eastside Trail. 

The business has claimed retail space at the base of the 21-story Signal House apartment tower, which marked Ponce City Market’s first new-construction, standalone building when it opened two years ago. 

The 680 North Ave. retail space was completed a decade ago, attached to a parking garage, and has functioned as an art gallery and a Splatter Studio location—but nothing that fully capitalized on its Beltline visibility and large patio area.   

Outdoor seating along the Beltline at Three Taverns Ponce Brew Terminal. Photo by Andrew Thomas Lee

The concept from Three Taverns Craft Brewery will feature a full kitchen from Atlanta-based DAS BBQ, which operates locations on Collier Road and Memorial Drive in Grant Park. (Find a preview of the menu over here.) 

Award-winning Three Taverns, founded in 2013, operates two other ITP locations: The original Decatur brewery in Decatur and another space just off the Beltline, The Imaginarium in Reynoldstown, which opened in 2020 with a focus on more experimental concoctions.

Three Taverns’ lineup includes classic lagers, multiple IPA styles, sours, and stouts. Its longstanding flagship IPA, fittingly, is a “A Night On Ponce IPA,” and other “Ponce” variants have long been produced. 

Jess White, a well-known Atlanta bartender, is serving as director of hospitality and head creator of cocktails.

Interior design at Three Taverns Ponce Brew Terminal. Photo by Andrew Thomas Lee

Atlanta architecture and interior design firm Gentle Works led designs. 

The space features large garage doors that open to the patio and frame the Beltline. Interior color schemes are a nod to A Night on Ponce IPA’s packaging, while other aspects of the interiors pay homage to the rail corridor’s legacy and the location’s past lives as a Sears, Roebuck, & Co. store and distribution center and, before that, Ponce de Leon Springs, according to an announcement today. 

Three Taverns Ponce Brew Terminal’s business hours will be: Monday to Thursday: 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday: 12 p.m. – 11 p.m.; and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m. 

Inspiration for the interior color scheme. Photo courtesy of Jamestown

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