The Five Points building last home to a Family Dollar store is slated to house a sports bar called Brewster’s Bar and Grille.
Dhruv Patel, a local businessman, is overseeing the effort. He and some silent partners own a Brewster’s in Portland, Tenn. The restaurant menu focuses on standard pub food and craft beer. Patel says Brewster’s will offer a dancefloor, the occasional live band, some billiards tournaments and karaoke.
“We’re providing more than a typical bar scene, with lots of entertainment options,” Patel says.
The building — constructed in 1986, spanning about 6,750 square feet and located at 1000 Woodland St. — will be given both interior and exterior upgrades. A December opening is eyed.
The Brewster’s in Portland is part of a Comfort Inn & Suites that is owned by Patel’s Jeet Hospitality. The East Nashville Brewster’s will be owned by Yellowstone Inc., a sister business to Jeet.
“We’ve gotten a strong response in Portland,” says Patel. “Our customers like the bar, so we thought, ‘Let’s take the concept to a bigger scale,’ and decided on East Nashville.”
Patel says the architect is Carthage, Tenn.-based ABC Designs 14. A general contractor will soon be named.
Patel and his business partners are not disclosing the cost to get operational or terms of the lease with Magnolia Capital Investments, which bought the property in October 2018 for $2 million. Of note, that acquisition followed Magnolia Capital’s then-recent $12.6 million purchase of the Green Hills building last home to Nashville-based prison management company CoreCivic Inc.
Ben Bonner, president of Nashville-based Magnolia, says his company is pleased to have landed a successful sports bar concept.
“We believe this will be beneficial to the neighborhood,” Bonner says.
Austin Benedict and John Maxwell, brokers with the Nashville office of CBRE, represented Magnolia in the 2018 acquisition and in finalizing the lease with Patel and his team.
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