River Street restaurant space goes back out to bid
Plus Savannah Pride Center funding, a Forsyth Park award, and a June 3 author event.
Savannah will reopen a competitive process for the former Olympia Cafe location inside the historic Thomas Gamble Building on River Street. 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
Savannah presented ten thousand dollars to the Savannah Pride Center as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two groups. The gift comes through the PROUD Savannah Task Force and will support LGBTQIA+ individuals experiencing homelessness, LGBTQIA+ youth, and LGBTQIA+ older adults. The Pride Center plans to use the money equally for housing support, homelessness resources, and other programs.
Savannah Tech commencement gets a photo gallery
Savannah Technical College's 2026 commencement has a new local photo gallery dated May 28. The photo-led campus moment is a quick community note for families, graduates, and anyone tracking local school milestones after the ceremony. The gallery adds a small celebration point for the wider Savannah Tech community after graduation season.
Best of Savannah 2026 package is live
Connect Best of Savannah 2026 is live, with Chris McShane and Kaitlin Sells named on the May 22 package. The annual package is the local item to watch for restaurants, shops, services, and neighborhood favorites around town.
Mary Kay Andrews book talk is June 3
Friends & Fiction Live: Mary Kay Andrews Book Talk is Wednesday, June 3, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Otis S. Johnson Cultural Arts Center, 201 Montgomery Street. E. Shaver, Bookseller is presenting the event for the launch of Road Trip by Mary Kay Andrews, with Patti Callahan Henry, Kristin Harmel, Ron Block, and Meg Walker also named in the event details.