Nine Mile Station

Nine Mile Station

It is the grandest view on Ponce! Nine Mile Station in Atlanta, GA, is a unique, rooftop, community style, restaurant dining experience with great food and amazing views. The massive Ponce City Market’s Food Hall has been the central feature of Atlanta’s food scene, standing adjacent to the carnival themed, Skyline Park, and the city’s Beltline trail. It is housed in what once was the Sears, Roebuck, & Co. retail store, warehouse, and regional offices from 1926-1987. The brick building still stands at ten stories high! Go ahead, count the floors and windows.

The 2,100,100 square foot building covers a 16 acre lot on midtown’s Ponce de Leon Avenue. It is listed on the National Register of historic places. The location became known as the Nine-Mile Circle Ride exposition, a streetcar line of the Atlanta Street Railway, an extension of an earlier horse & carriage line where “present hot evenings can be made bearable by spending an hour on the cars after tea… the trip carries one through the woods and meadows east of the city and the country breezes are delightfully exhilarating.” Here is a circular service loop mapped 100 years ago that any foundation could reproduce, as Sears Roebuck:
> captured the market of Southern farmers through the Sears Agricultural Foundation
> hosted a radio show broadcast featuring musicians and string bands
> held a farmer’s market at the back of the property
> hosted the first Clay Products Show
> established partnerships with local 4-H clubs and Future Farmers of America clubs
Wikipedia (2017, September, 18) Ponce City Market. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponce_City_Market
Wikipedia (2017, September, 18) Nine Mile Circle. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-Mile_Circle

Urban Community Life arrived at Nine Mile Station today to deliver weekly tomatoes, purple Hawaiin sweet potatoes, and okra for pickling to Sous Chef, Greg. Only one elevator was working today. so before we rose to the top level together, I had several minutes to ask him, “What is a Sous Chef?”

Urban Community Life Director, Rustin Sweeney

Nine Mile Station Sous Chef, Greg

A sous–chef de cuisine (French for “under-chef of the kitchen”) is a chef who is “the second in command in a kitchen; the person ranking next after the executive chef, Jonathan McDowell” Greg is responsible for VIP’s, for developing and maintaining job descriptions for wait staff and cooking crews, for dinner parties on their green, rooftop garden, and most important to uclife, signing invoices, pictured here with Rustin Sweeney.

Greg explained that 2/3 of their food service is accomplished seasonally on their breezy and stunning rooftop patio, which holds a guest list capacity of 1,300 just accomplished last weekend, and another reservation list of 600 his weekend. I think people across the promenade like to experience the unique, like this 24 foot, after dinner slide. Hello, Autumn Dinner Party Season.
~ §tacy §weeney