[CLOSURE ALERT] McCormick & Schmick's Sleeps With the Fishes in Dunwoody

McCormick & Schmick's has closed its location in Dunwoody near Perimeter Mall.  The restaurant, which closed quietly and without advance notice on Monday, had been open since mid-2000.  The chain's downtown location at CNN Center, which opened in late 2002, remains opens.  

McCormick & Schmick's closure in Dunwoody follows the closure of neighboring restaurant Brio Tuscan Grille this past September.  Brio itself had replaced Il Fornaio, an Italian restaurant and original tenant in the project.  P.F. Chang's is now the last remaining restaurant in the three restaurant development.  

Self-made billionaire Tilman Fertitta, through his company Landry's, Inc., owns McCormick & Schmick's as well as over three dozen other restaurants, hotels and casinos around the country.  In Atlanta, Landry's other concepts include the remaining McCormick's downtown, Morton's The Steakhouse, also downtown, The Oceanaire Seafood Room in Midtown and  Joe's Crab Shack in Kennesaw, Morrow and Savannah.

Fertitta purchased the Morton's chain in December 2011 after which he closed the Buckhead outpost near Lenox Square in early February 2012.  The space was vacant for over five years before being leased to Sage Woodfire Tavern last year.  After months of renovation, the restaurant is expected to open by mid-February.  

Landry's operations outside of Georgia include Rainforest Cafe, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company and Golden Nugget Hotels & Casinos, among other hospitality businesses.  In addition to Fertitta's hospitality businesses, he is also the star of the CNBC reality show Billion Dollar Buyer and last fall purchased the Houston Rockets NBA team for $2.2 billion.  

Are you surprised that McCormick & Schmick's closed its Dunwoody location?  What would you like to see open in place of McCormick & Schmick's (or Brio) in Dunwoody?  Where is your favorite place for seafood in metro Atlanta?

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