• Toro Development Company announced that Justin Long and David Pugh have been appointed as Vice Presidents of Development. With more than 55 years of combined real estate experience, Long and Pugh will be instrumental in executing TDC’s development pipeline, which currently includes Medley, the $560 million mixed-use destination in Johns Creek that is underway on vertical construction.
• Ponce City Market announces The Commodore barbershop is set to debut on the second floor of the Central Food Hall in late 2025. Open six days a week, the new outpost will mark The Commodore’s fifth location, with others in Buckhead, Chamblee, Roswell, and West Midtown at Westside Provisions District. The Commodore was founded in 2015 by Robert Hopper, who has over 15 years of experience in the barbering industry and is internationally trained. The barbershop has established a reputation for helping to bring UK-based techniques to the Southeast and provides traditional barbering services, including haircuts, beard trims, straight razor shaves, and more.
• Pravida Health, a new high-performance medical wellness center, is now open at 1801 Peachtree Road in Buckhead. The center offers Georgia’s first AI-powered robotic massage table from Aescape.. This fully automated massage delivers customized bodywork with remarkable precision–from deep-tissue recovery to stress relief.
• A free “Make AI Work for You” workshop will be held Tuesday, July 29, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Terry Executive Education Center, 3475 Lenox Road NE, Suite 300. Held in partnership with the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the University of Georgia SBDC, Grow with Google will lead a free, in-person workshop to help small businesses in Atlanta and the surrounding area build new skills to grow their businesses online. The workshop will provide practical use cases of the latest AI tools that you can use to help grow your business. If you’re just getting started using AI, this workshop will be perfect for you. If you’re already an AI wiz, you might still learn something useful.
• International business consulting firm EY has named its Entrepreneur of the Year Southeast winners, and four are based in Atlanta:
- Melanie Little, President & CEO, Colonial Pipeline
- Markus Scott, CEO, EyeQ Monitoring
- Jon Gosier, Founder and CEO, FilmHedge
- Erin Hanson, Founder and CEO, Guardian Sports