With new bars Pisces and Lore, Atlanta’s best pop-up party creators find permanent homes on Edgewood Avenue

T he darlings of Atlanta’s underground pop-up party scene have gone brick-and-mortar, and they’re taking on one of the city’s most popular nightlife districts: Edgewood Avenue.

In recent years, the street’s once-thriving bar and club scene has taken a hit. A handful of iconic spots, like Noni’s and Ammazza, shuttered, and a survey from the Atlanta Nightlife Impact Report found that almost half of the city’s nightlife patrons go out less than they used to . Nightlife still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic traffic levels, but customers also reported concerns about lack of parking, transit, safety, and healthy food options, as well as high costs for food and drink.

With their newly opened clubs, a handful of Atlanta’s well-known party producers aim to shift the fortunes of the struggli