Food Hall News
Food hall news for Wednesday, Oct. 7: Underground Atlanta lines up food hall operators, Madison approves Bradley Street Market and Founders adds a sixth kitchen
Underground Atlanta’s owner has letters of intent with four local operators for a six-stall food hall, Madison, Ala., approves a warehouse food hall called Bradley Street Market, Founders Food Hall in Mount Vernon, Ohio, signs Urban Gourmet and two local vendors leave Salt Lake City’s HallPass.
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Underground Atlanta has letters of intent with four local operators for its six-stall food hall
Underground Atlanta food hall (planned)
Underground Atlanta’s owner, Lalani Ventures, said Sept. 30 that it has signed letters of intent with four local operators for a six-stall food hall it’s building at the corner of Alabama and Pryor streets, in a former Foot Locker space, Urbanize Atlanta reported. The food hall is now under construction and is scheduled to open sometime next year. The company says the downtown district is 65 percent occupied, up from 5 percent when it bought the property in 2020, and it’s working toward 90 percent. Lalani Ventures says it has spent more than $50 million on Underground’s revival so far.
Why it matters Here a small food hall is one piece of a larger plan to refill a downtown district, and four of its six stalls already have signed letters of intent while the space is still being built.
Sources: Urbanize Atlanta, Sept. 30, 2026; downtownATL, Oct. 1, 2026Browse our Georgia guide - 2DevelopmentMadison, Ala.
Madison, Ala., approves plans to turn two historic warehouses into Bradley Street Market, with a food hall
Bradley Street Market (planned)
Madison’s Historic Preservation Commission approved a Certificate of Appropriateness for Bradley Street Market at 14 Bradley St. during its September meetings, 256 Today and WAFF reported Oct. 6. Developer JMATT 3X LLC plans to renovate two former agricultural warehouses totaling about 20,365 square feet on roughly 1.3 acres into a food hall with nine to 11 small retail and quick-service restaurant spaces, plus a flex hall for offices, retail vendors and indoor and outdoor gathering space. Nashville-based Moody Nolan is the design firm, and the plans keep the warehouses’ brick, corrugated metal panels, flooring and barn doors. Brenda Matthews, vice chair of the Main Street Madison District, told WAFF she expects the newly approved downtown projects to be active and usable within 12 to 18 months.
Why it matters Historic review is an early hurdle for halls planned inside old buildings, and this one has now cleared it in a downtown that local leaders say has few restaurants and little office space.
Sources: 256 Today, Oct. 6, 2026; WAFF, Oct. 6, 2026Browse our Alabama guide - 3LeasingMount Vernon, Ohio
Founders Food Hall, owned by a county land bank, signs Urban Gourmet as its sixth kitchen
Founders Food Hall
Urban Gourmet, a Columbus restaurant known for burgers, pasta bowls and sandwiches, will open its second location at Founders Food Hall in downtown Mount Vernon, following its original location at East Market Food Hall in Columbus, Your Ohio News reported Oct. 6. It plans to open in October as the hall’s sixth kitchen. Founders, at 18 E. Vine St. in the former Mount Vernon News building, currently has five kitchens and a bar, and its website describes an eight-kitchen hall. The hall is owned by the Knox County Land Bank, whose president, Sam Filkins, called Urban Gourmet a proven concept, and it’s also adding music bingo, paint-and-sip events, duckpin bowling and live music.
Why it matters A publicly owned hall in a small city is filling its open kitchens partly by recruiting a vendor that already runs a stall in a big-city food hall nearby.
Sources: Your Ohio News, Oct. 6, 2026; Founders Food Hall, accessed Oct. 7, 2026Browse our Ohio guide - 4Vendor exitSalt Lake City
Two local vendors leave Salt Lake City’s HallPass as the hall adds Nice BBQ and Capriotti’s
HallPass
Gastronomic SLC reported Oct. 1 that Hog & Tradition, a barbecue counter, has left HallPass, the food hall and sports bar at The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City, for its own restaurant in West Valley City. Owner Geoff Patmides told the outlet that his other HallPass concept, The Local Greek, has also left and will continue as a virtual brand run out of the new location. Gastronomic SLC said HallPass, which is operated by Nice Hospitality Group, has added a new barbecue vendor called Nice BBQ, and that the sandwich chain Capriotti’s has opened in the hall too. The outlet noted the hall has seen quite a few changes over the past 18 months.
Why it matters When a homegrown vendor moves on to its own restaurant, the operator has to refill the stall, and here the replacements are a new barbecue counter and a sandwich chain.
Sources: Gastronomic SLC, Oct. 1, 2026; HallPass, accessed Oct. 7, 2026See it in our Utah guide
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