The owners of New York-based boutique hospitality brand Urban Cowboy Hotels will open a restaurant and bar in the downtown Arcade in 2024.
According to a release, the business will be called Urban Cowboy Public House.
The announcement comes as the Arcade's owner, an entity that includes local real estate industry veteran Rob Lowe and New York City-based Linfield Capital, moves closer to completing a major renovation of the historic structure. The owners paid $28 million for the building in April 2021.
Lease terms and the cost to get operational were not disclosed in the release.
Lyon Porter owns the Urban Cowboy Nashville boutique hotel in East Nashville. The release offers few details about the future restaurant and bar, but notes an emphasis on cocktails.
“We are absolutely thrilled about this opportunity and hope to create a truly unique hospitality offering downtown,” Porter, co-founder of both Urban Cowboy Hotels and Cowboy Creative and a local real estate broker, says in the release. “We are only a few blocks from Broadway, but a world away, and I’m so excited to go down the design rabbit hole in this historic building. We have multiple floors, bays and entrances within the space that allow for a myriad of different experiences and offerings under the same roof.”
The announcement comes as the owners of Manny’s House of Pizza — an Arcade institution — announced in late August they would close after a near-40-year run (read here).
The Arcade opened in 1902 and offers an address of 65 Arcade Alley. Spanning Fourth and Fifth avenues north and modeled after an Italian arcade, it was Nashville's first “shopping center,” having replaced what was called Overton Alley as the city’s retail commerce epicenter.
Elliott Kyle leads the Arcade leasing efforts for the owners and is joined by Elam Freeman of Ojas Partners and Joshua Strauss of Newmark.
“[Porter is] a magician at taking interesting historic space and implementing his amazing design," Kyle says in the release. “He knows how to create spaces that are fun, approachable and totally unique. The Arcade is a Nashville treasure and to have an iconic, local brand like the Cowboy there is a perfect fit.”
This article originally appeared in our sister publication, the Nashville Post.
