Established Restaurant & Bar for Sale

Local Republic

An established independent restaurant and bar in the heart of historic downtown Lawrenceville — turnkey, fully equipped, and ready to continue or reimagine.

139 N Perry Street, Lawrenceville, GA Across from the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse Est. 2011

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The Opportunity at a Glance

A rare independent restaurant on a historic downtown square.

Local Republic is one of the most recognized independent restaurants in Gwinnett County — a chef-driven Southern gastropub with a serious craft-cocktail and draft program, set in a beautifully restored building on Lawrenceville's historic square. The business is offered for sale as a turnkey operation: continue the established brand, or launch your own concept in a fully built-out, fully equipped space.

What's included →

The main bar at Local Republic — full back bar, exposed brick, draft taps

Total Building Size

5,498 SF

Seating Capacity

180 seats (140 interior · 40 patio)

Established

2011 · 15 years in business

The Building

Late-1800s brick · fully restored

Location

Historic downtown square, across from the courthouse

Layout

Three levels · two bars · finished basement

Bar Program

Full bar & craft cocktails · 14-tap draft system

Offering

Asset sale · turnkey FF&E · brand transferable

The Offering

Turnkey today — or a blank canvas for your concept.

This is an asset sale of an established, going-concern restaurant — the furniture, fixtures, and equipment of a full-service operation, in place and ready to run from day one. The building itself is available on a long-term lease, not for sale.

Continue or reimagine. Operate as Local Republic — brand, recipes, and social presence can transfer — or open your own concept in the finished space.
Fully built out. A comprehensive restoration to the original brick — structural, MEP, and roof — across three finished levels, with two bars, a full kitchen, dining, and a licensed patio. No build-out, no permitting from scratch.
Skip the build. A comparable ground-up restaurant in 2026 is estimated at $1.1M–$3.0M and ~12 months of construction. Step into a proven, finished space and open almost immediately.
The space is leased, not sold. The building stays with ownership; the buyer takes a new long-term lease — no real-estate purchase required.
Established reputation. Award-winning, with a loyal local following and 15 years of goodwill in the market.
Prime walkable location. Steps from the Aurora Theatre, the Lawrenceville Lawn, and the county courthouse, with 1,200+ free public parking spaces nearby.

Asking price, financials, and lease terms are shared with qualified buyers under a brief confidentiality agreement.

Interior of Local Republic — exposed brick, red-steel staircase, dining

The Space & What Conveys

A finished, full-service space — built to last.

A late-1800s building taken back to its original brick and fully restored across three finished levels — including a basement built out for prep and storage and a 4-unit HVAC system (2017). Headline kitchen and bar equipment is noted below; a complete furniture, fixtures & equipment inventory is provided to qualified buyers.

16-ft commercial hood line

A 16-foot ventilated cook line and 3,000-gallon grease trap, built for a full-service scratch kitchen.

Walk-in cooler

Walk-in refrigeration plus line and bar cooling for a high-volume operation.

Two full bars

A main bar and secondary service bar, with a deep spirits back bar in place.

14-tap draft system

Multi-tower craft draft setup — a signature of the bar program.

Open kitchen & chef's table

An open-kitchen layout with chef's-table seating — a distinctive guest experience.

Toast POS system

Modern point-of-sale and back-of-house systems already in place.

Full FF&E inventory available to qualified buyers. A complete, itemized list of furniture, fixtures, and equipment is provided as part of the confidential information package.

Location & Market

The county seat's most walkable corner.

139 N Perry sits on the Lawrenceville historic square — the civic and cultural heart of Gwinnett County — steps from the Aurora Theatre and the Lawrenceville Lawn, in a trade area seeing a surge of residential and hospitality investment.

Parking

1,200+ free public spaces nearby

Daytime Population

+87.7% weekday swing

At the Center

Aurora Theatre · Lawrenceville Lawn · County courthouse

Skip the build. Replicating a comparable restaurant from the ground up in 2026 is estimated at $1.1M–$3.0M with a roughly 12-month construction timeline. This finished, fully-permitted space lets an operator bypass that cycle and open almost immediately.

Historic photograph of Perry Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Perry Street, Lawrenceville — then. Local Republic now anchors this same historic block.

The Story

Fifteen years in the making.

Local Republic was founded in 2011 by Ben Bailey and Chris Collin to bring Lawrenceville the kind of chef-driven food and craft-cocktail bar it didn't yet have. In 2017 it moved to its landmark home on Perry Street — directly across from the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse and around the corner from the acclaimed Aurora Theatre, a partnership the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has written about.

The building is part of the story. Its original brick structure dates to the late 1800s — the exact year lost when Gwinnett's early records burned with the county courthouse in 1871 — and a second floor was added in the early 1900s. Before Local Republic opened, it was taken back to that original brick and fully restored across three levels.

After fifteen years building Local Republic, the founders are offering this established business to the right operator — sold turnkey, ready for a new owner to carry the name forward, or to build something new on a foundation that is already proven.

★ Gwinnett Magazine People's Choice Featured in the AJC One of Gwinnett's most established independents