River Street restaurant space goes back out to bid
Plus Savannah Pride Center funding, a Forsyth Park award, and a June 3 author event.
River Street restaurant space goes back out to bid
The former Olympia Cafe location is unoccupied while the Gamble Building is renovated.
The City of Savannah says it will reopen a competitive process for the former Olympia Cafe location inside the historic Thomas Gamble Building on River Street. The city says the former lease ended at the close of 2025, Olympia Cafe was awarded a new lease on Oct. 9, 2025, and the business later told the city it would not move forward because of internal business matters. A new solicitation is expected in the coming months and will ask qualified businesses for concept, experience, design vision, financial capacity, and operating plans.
Savannah Pride Center receives city funding
The new MOU supports housing and services for LGBTQIA+ residents.
The City of Savannah says it presented ten thousand dollars to the Savannah Pride Center as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two groups. The release says the gift comes through the PROUD Savannah Task Force and will support LGBTQIA+ individuals experiencing homelessness, LGBTQIA+ youth, and LGBTQIA+ older adults. It also says the Pride Center plans to use the money equally for housing support, homelessness resources, and other programs.
Savannah Tech commencement photos are posted
Connect Savannah lists a May 28 media item from the ceremony.
Connect Savannah posted a Savannah Technical College Commencement 2026 media item by Kaitlin Sells dated May 28. The listing includes a ceremony photo, headline, byline, publication date, and story link. The Savannah Tech commencement gallery is live and current on the local publication site, presented as a photo-led campus moment.
Best of Savannah 2026 package is live
Connect Savannah lists its annual Best of Savannah media item.
Connect Savannah also posted Connect Best of Savannah 2026, with Chris McShane and Kaitlin Sells named as bylines and a May 22 publication date. The annual package is the local publication item to watch for restaurants, shops, services, and neighborhood favorites around town. The listing gives readers the package title, authors, date, and direct link.
Mary Kay Andrews book talk is June 3
E. Shaver, Bookseller presents Friends & Fiction Live downtown.
Savannah Master Calendar lists Friends & Fiction Live: Mary Kay Andrews Book Talk for Wednesday, June 3, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Otis S. Johnson Cultural Arts Center, 201 Montgomery Street. The listing says E. Shaver, Bookseller presents the event for the launch of Road Trip by Mary Kay Andrews and names Patti Callahan Henry, Kristin Harmel, Ron Block, and Meg Walker in the event text.