Fire & Stone Italian Pizza to Open in Historic Woodstock Train Depot

WOODSTOCK, GA – After a year-long closing due to new road alignment, Woodstock’s historic train depot will re-open with an exciting new restaurant, announced Cheri Morris of Morris & Fellows, master developer of Woodstock Downtown and Woodstock City Center. Fire & Stone Italian Pizza, a family-owned restaurant serving authentic pizza and Italian dishes, will begin serving customers in late spring/early summer 2025. According to Morris, the eatery is exactly the type of family-friendly casual dining concept desired for the iconic Woodstock landmark, located at 251 East Main St.

“The historic Woodstock Train Depot has been a local landmark for over a century, and the building’s transition from a working depot to a popular dining location symbolized Woodstock’s rebirth from a sleepy railroad town to a vital, energized small city,” said Morris. “Thanks to the city’s visionary leadership and thoughtful planning, today’s residents and visitors come to Woodstock for boutique shopping, dining, employment and a variety of housing options. A key goal of the city’s master plan was to retain Woodstock’s charm as it transformed. During this process, the historic train depot was carefully preserved, and it has become the fulcrum point between the extraordinarily successful Woodstock Downtown revitalization and the new Woodstock City Center project now underway. This one-of-a-kind historic property deserves a restaurant that can use its energy and I believe we have found that with Fire & Stone Italian Pizza,” she said.

Fire & Stone Italian Pizza has been serving customers for over three decades, offering fresh Italian fare created from cherished family recipes. The new location will feature a show kitchen and imported Italian pizza ovens in the dining area so patrons can watch the pizzas as they are hand-crafted and baked to order. Diners will enjoy both indoor and outdoor seating on a new deck overlooking Depot Square – a new park in front of the train depot, and can top off a meal with fresh gelato served through the window of the Depot’s adjacent caboose.

“Both Woodstock Downtown and Woodstock City Center represent a generational opportunity to add retail, office, hotel, and critically-important parking and infrastructure to one of the most popular downtown destinations in Georgia," said Woodstock Mayor Michael Caldwell. "The addition of Fire & Stone Italian Pizza in the historic Train Depot is a perfect fit for our city’s continued redevelopment.”

About Woodstock, Ga.

Established over a century ago as a railroad and manufacturing town, today Woodstock is Cherokee County’s fastest-growing city. Thanks to the foresight of city leadership and involved citizens, over the past two decades Woodstock has been reinvigorating its downtown district into a thriving, walkable mixed-use community, with new housing, exciting restaurants, outdoor gathering areas, offices, boutique shopping and plenty of pocket parks and greenspaces. Great care was given to preserve the historic character of the city by renovating and repurposing historic structures and designing new buildings that seamlessly blend into the overall architecture of the downtown area. Easily accessible via Interstate 575 and Highway 92, Woodstock has grown 70 percent over the past decade, with development of Woodstock City Center now underway in the heart of downtown. The city has won numerous awards and accolades for its redevelopment, including the prestigious CNU (Congress for the New Urbanism) Charter Award and Georgia Municipal Association’s Live, Work, Play City Award. www.woodstockga.gov

About Morris & Fellows

Morris & Fellows, founded in 1982, develops upscale retail-based mixed-use communities structured as public/private partnerships with their host cities. The Atlanta-based company is known for its development of Woodstock Downtown and Alpharetta City Center, both of which catalyzed transformational revitalizations of the cities’ historic downtowns. Morris & Fellows’ development projects have been awarded the “Development of Excellence” by the Urban Land Institute and the Atlanta Regional Commission, received the CNU International Charter Award for Best Neighborhood-Scale District, named “America’s Best Smart Growth Community” by the National Homebuilders Association, and “America’s Neighborhood” by Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. www.morrisandfellows.com