New Athens Locally Grown Location This Week!

Hi! This is a reminder that Athens Locally Grown IS MOVING to a new location this week. Our Thursday pickups will now be at Ben’s Bikes, located at the corner of Pope and Broad Streets. Their address is 670 W. Broad Street, but their entrance is off Pope Street. That intersection is between downtown and Milledge Avenue. If you’re heading toward downtown, it will be on the left. Going toward Milledge, on the right. The building is shared by several businesses, including a video store and an alterations shop. Those businesses are right along Broad Street, but Ben’s Bikes has the entire bottom floor of the building, and has an entrance at the rear. Just turn onto Pope Street, then right into their parking lot.

You can find a map here: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=106615564576602772749.000475e974a674ae172ce&ll=33.956033,-83.382432&spn=0.014025,0.01929&z=16.

There is even more parking room than where we have been, but the inside area where we will be is quite a bit smaller. I’m sure it will take us a few weeks to adjust our workflow to the new space, so please bear with us if the line moves slower than usual. We’ll adjust our process as needed to get things moving quickly again.

We’ll be at the far end of the building. For now, enter through the roll-up door, past the regular customer entrance to the bike shop. We may adjust that as we go, but we’ll try that this week.

If you send someone to pick your orders up for you, be sure to tell them about the new location! There won’t be anyone at the old place to point them to the new. If you get lost, give me a call at 706-248-1860.

We’ve got a great opportunity to work with the folks at Ben’s Bikes to do what we need to make it a really nice market spot. We’ll work over the winter as things slow down to get it really ready for Spring, and I think the place has a lot of long-term potential for us and the entire community. I do expect tomorrow will be a bit rough, but hopefully that’ll be confined to our volunteers. We do adapt quickly, so if you do have any problems, please bear with us.

See you there, from 4:30 to 8pm!