New Black Wall Street Market — Local services in Stonecrest

I visited this black owned establishment on Friday, April 29, 2022. It is located at the old Target building near StoneCrest Mall. Upon entry the building was clean, spacious, and full of variety. There is a nice welcome desk in the front with volunteers who warmly greet you. There is Aaron’s Gourmet Market in the front which is a little grocery store. Throughout the main hallway there is ample seating for patrons to sit and dine on their food purchases. There are quite a variety of shops including a cigar shoppe, real estate business, New Black Wall Street store, clothing stores, a bakery/coffee shop, a travel agency, tax prep, body/beauty products, art work, and food establishments. The real estate business features a black woman real estate agent. I know the real estate market is tough right now and it’s great for potential home buyers to use a black agent to assist them. The New Black Wall Street clothing store features paraphernalia such as t-shirts and sweatshirts for sale. The various clothing stores I passed had beautiful clothing including African attire, church wear, and club wear. The bakery has an assortment of desserts/pastries which looked delicious and had volunteer greeters to welcome patrons. The various body/beauty product businesses appeared to sell natural products for skin care and beauty needs. I also spoke to a skincare business owner who stated they have waxing services in this building as well. Upon walking to the other side of the back, there are food merchants selling fried options including chicken, fish, and fries. There is also a Water Ice business providing free samples of their products. Not to mention there is also a Cajun food stand and a Vegan food stand as well. Each hallway of business has a different street name after prominent black figures including Madam C.J. Walker Blvd, A.G. Gaston Lane, and Choctaw St. This building has so many black owned businesses I couldn’t even keep track of all of them as I walked throughout. Everyone I encountered was nice and pleasant. Art Avenue is another section which has beautiful artwork, Mattie’s Tea Room, and an entire Art gallery. The artwork in Art Avenue features beautiful paintings. I witnessed an artist painting a second portrait of the black female who is the newest Supreme Court Justice. The Art Gallery is it’s own room and even has tables and chairs inside. I didn’t go into the gallery because I wanted to get a plate of food. Also one of the things I was looking forward to was the opening of Mattie’s Tea Room. I attempted to book a reservation here a while ago and was unable to do so. Since it is now open, they are accepting reservations at this time. I would love to visit this tea room another day to experience the high tea. I did explore Aaron’s Gourmet Market which featured Sankofa Soul Food Cafe serving hot food plates. Also Heal Today Company sells natural juices. There is seating inside as well. It does appear to be unfinished as well. The owners at Sankofa were nice so I ordered a hot plate of food. I ordered the salmon, black eyed peas, and greens. I also ordered the lemon cake. The lady at Heal Today was very nice and let me sample the ginger juice. The juice was spicy and refreshing. I purchased the Lulo juice and it was so refreshing and had a nice balance sweetness. The plate of food was decent and not bad. The lemon cake was also pretty good. I will explore the Tea Room in the future. I would recommend everyone in metro Atlanta visit if desired.

Update: I visited the Pink Lion Jazz Club on Saturday, July 2, 2022. The venue was beautiful and swanky like a modern jazz club! The food we ordered was the salmon which came with mashed potatoes, green beans. Also we ordered the Tuscan chicken pasta as well. For our drinks we got the Georgia Peach Long Island tea, and a Rum punch drink. The drinks were delicious! I originally ordered the grilled steak and veggies which was disgusting. They switched free of charge to the salmon. The food was decent. Angelica Reese performed and did a great job. I would...

Reviewing as a previous vendor. My first time vending at NBWSM was an ok experience. Prior to booking a pop up space, I confirmed via the NBWSM website that there was a high volume of weekly foot traffic at the market. Because of this confirmation, I paid the vending fee and I was super excited to get my brand in front of new customers. On the day of the pop up, I was greeted by a Manager and led to my space. The floors and walls to my space were very dirty and the art and logo from the previous business, was still on the wall, which didn't make sense as I rented the space for the day. Anywho, I cleaned as much as I could and setup my shop for the day. Once the market opened to the public, I anticipated heavy foot traffic. Given my brand is a sustainable women's fashion brand and we only offer slow fashion, we didn't get many visitors. Most of the shops here seem to be the typical black owned businesses (no shade), and the guy vending next to me told me businesses that sell certain types of products do very well at the market (he is a permanent vendor). With that being said, the target audience of NBWSM (at least on the day of my popup) seemed to be drawn to certain types of brands. So if you're offering outside of the box products, it may be a challenge to vend here. But if you're selling typical black products, I think you'll do well. As a young black millennial, I was hoping to bring more exposure to my unique brand here at the market. For me, I don't think I'll vend here again, unless there are more diverse brand offerings and NBWSM does a better job of marketing to/for all types of Black owned businesses. Black entrepreneurs are not a monolith and there's a lot of us offering innovative products and services. Anywho, 1 star goes to the cleaniliness of the market overall and 1 star to the very friendly fellow vendors who gave me a wealth of...

This was a place that I was excited to visit! I had heard so many reviews, positive and negative, but I like to check things out for myself to make my own review! I had family in from Alaska and they had heard of new Black Wall Street as well, so we made it a group trip! We visited the location on Thursday morning! On the website, it stated that it open at 11 o’clock so we decided to get there around 11:30 thinking everything will be fresh and ready to go for us! Upon arrival, the outside of the building was not very welcoming, the parking lot was empty and we became concerned immediately! The entrance of the building is absolutely beautiful! The person who put this together, took a lot of thought in the inside architecture! There were multiple shops with multiple business ideas, but there were only two people in their actual booth! The place was totally deserted!!!! we went to support black businesses, and we supported the one black business that was actually in their store when we came around! A lot of the locations on the inside sign saying they weren’t gonna open until later or that weekend or they’re not opening anymore. Everything is online! For people to hear about this great place and then come a great distance and not see the great things that are talked about was kind of heartbreaking! We would love to support black businesses. You just have to be open to receive the support! If you open at 11, you should be there at 9 o’clock setting up preparing for the day! I’m sure rent is not cheap in there so be there to make the money! As hard as times are right now if you have people willing to shop, you need to be there willing to cash them out!! I would like to go back on a weekend to see if there’s...