Innsbrook visionary brews up creative concoction for vacant retail space at Innsbrook Shoppes

Sidney Gunst has always been a visionary. He’s the developer who came up with the concept to develop a mixed use development ahead of its time combining work, life, and play into one space that would become the Innsbrook office park in the 1970s and ’80s.

Well, he’s still at it. Gunst, facing two vacant adjoining retail spaces in the Innsbrook Shoppes, is bringing something unique to the strip center, and Richmond BizSense has all the details:

[Gunst] decided to knock down a wall separating the former Sharky’s and Curry House spaces and build out a nearly 12,000-square-foot bar and restaurant, designed to have the feel of downtown breweries downtown while also catering to Innsbrook workers.

He’s calling the spot Atlas 42, inspired by a statue of Atlas he rescued from being thrown out at Stony Point, as well as Douglas Adams’ novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The statue is visible from the space’s large outdoor patio, which includes a bar.

Read on to learn more about the space, what he wants his patrons to bring to contribute to the bar’s interior walls, and the forthcoming lawn games right here.