Lenny's Bar, by Emergetrends' best estimate the most-beloved scuzzball dive bar/rock club in all of Atlanta is being forced out the decrepit, lopsided, smelly space it's occupied for over 50 years thanks to the City of Atlanta's runaway gentrification and soaring property values.

A widely written-about story, the changing face of Atlanta is not necessarily a bad thing. As money floods into the city, new buildings are springing up and disused warehouses are being converted into palatial lofts of the sort New Yorkers drool over. With more and more upwardly-mobile young residents making urban Atlanta home, there is an explosive creative scene in the making, with small clothing lines like EMERGE's very own Black Black rubbing shoulders with a whole new generation of hipster kids, DJs, party promoters, artists and creative entrepreneurs who call Atlanta home thanks to it's comparatively cheap rents, easy pace of living and Southern hospitality. At the same time, films like ATL and the continued chart success of Crunk and Snap music have made Atlanta a bonafide cultural hotbed for all things hip-hop related.

So it's a bittersweet thing, then, that "CBGBs of Atlanta" has been displaced, just like the NYC original. While the city of Atlanta will gain a vast new park area right across from the bar's historic home at 307 Memorial Ave SE, what sort of live-work lofts or apartments are planned for the shotgun shack and gravel lot that is Lenny's is anyones guess. What is for sure is that Lenny's dedicated staff of tattoo-covered rockers have found a new home just down the road a ways, inside what used to serve as a church. The club's booker and sound-man Bean said he's still trying to figure out how to best use the left-behind pews as he tries to bring the beer-soaked atmosphere and thrift-shop salvaged soundsystem of the OG Lenny's back to life in its new home.

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