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They guys opening the old Echo Lounge space as the East Atlanta Icehouse have been busily at work, and their placeholder website says they’ll be opening in May. Good news for a space that used to be a big driver for EAV nightlife and has sat vacant for too long.

A Buzz topic this week started off with complaints about construction workers at the Icehouse parking on the sidewalk, meandered into speculation that their target audience is “Skin/Oi/Meathead” and that said crowd will terrorize EAV and wound up with talk about gay skinheads. Believe it or not, such topic wandering is not unusual at the Buzz.

On EAV Buzz: Echo now Ice House or Box or Irish Pub or Whatever

It’s been a long, hard road to turn the old Tucker Auto Electric building into yet another EAV restaurant/bar, but soon the doors will swing wide for the opening of The Midway Pub in East Atlanta. Apparently held back by the city permitting problems and other roadblocks that are all too familiar trying to do business in Atlanta, the outward signs of the pending opening have emerged over the past couple of weeks.

A giant patio, new trees planted (a “streetscape” requirement) and a new sidewalk poured, the Midway is quite a transformation from the old Tucker Auto Electric building that sat vacant for years.

Buzzer Hollywood stopped by to chat with the owners this week, and he came away impressed. Other Buzzers, reacting to the word “sandwiches” rumored to have been spoken by the Midway chef, cast typical Buzzer doubt over The Midway’s prospects.

And I’ll give a little advanced link love to the Midway, though their site is nothing more than a parked page as I’m writing this.

On EAV Buzz: The Midway … 10-9-8 …