New East Nashville hangout with bar, music, movies, food trucks coming

An open-air bar, retail, restaurant and entertainment spaces are all coming to Inglewood in one unique new venue for the growing East Nashville neighborhood.

Behind the new development underway at 3104 Gallatin Pike is Nathan Weinberg, co-founder of MW Real Estate, Retrograde Coffee and Ugly Mugs Coffee & Tea. Weinberg is partnering with Davey Rowe-Mabee, Steve Mabee, trained sommelier Kelly Boutwell and Pearl Diver partner Jamie White to execute the sprawling plans.

Weinberg, also an Inglewood resident, wants to create a central gathering space for the neighborhood, with planned amenities including a wine store, a cheese and charcuterie shop, plus more restaurant and retail spaces. There will also be a large lawn for events from outdoor movie nights to live music, with dedicated all-gender, family-friendly restrooms to help accommodate crowds.

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An open-air concept for an all-season two-story bar will anchor the one-third-acre property adjacent to the Goodwill Donation Express Center. The property will also have three or four bays that tenants can adapt to their needs whether they're opening a sandwich shop or a vintage clothing store.

The property, currently registered under the Lost and Found LLC, will also have four semi-permanent food truck bays, with food trucks rotating every few months.

The wine store will offer both retail bottles and wine to uncork and drink onsite.

Kelly Boutwell is the project partner leading the wine store, which she said will stock hundreds of wines from solid classics to crushable easy drinkers.

"Each wine will offer a glimpse into what's exciting in the world of wine with an aim towards sustainability and low intervention," she said via email. "We'll highlight emerging producers, varieties and regions, as well as rare, allocated and hard-to-find gems."

Her approach is "fine wine made accessible," she said.

Above all, this site is made to be an approachable place where the neighborhood can hang, Weinberg said.

"If you want to come have cheese and wine, great," he said. "If you want to have beer and oysters, that's probably on the ticket too. If you want a burger, sure go do it. And if you want to listen to music, great, come on these nights, and if you want to bring your kids to a movie, come on these nights. I think there's going to be a little something for everybody there."

Weinberg expects the project to be complete in the first quarter of 2025. Given the timeline, he was reluctant to reveal the identity of the proposed restaurant tenants.

"But they are folks who have established really good brands here locally, they're locals and their brand cachet brings a lot to the project," he said. "It's something that we're excited to be partnered with, and the nice thing is that there are breakfast concepts, lunch and dinner concepts, all together."

The property should have 25-30 dedicated parking spaces, with more side-street parking available in nearby neighborhoods. Weinberg admitted parking was sparse given the scope of the project, but he hopes people will find other ways to travel there, with improvements coming to sidewalks and public transit stops directly fronting the Lost and Found parcel as part of the city's proposed transit improvement plan.

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Weinberg is not through bringing amenities to Inglewood. He's planning a Retrograde Coffee concept near the intersection of Gallatin Pike and Malquin Drive. That cafe, which will have a drive-through and serve breakfast, is slated for completion in mid-2025.

He said such development is crucial to help people live and work in their own neighborhoods.

"It's important for people to have the ability to stay within their communities and to be able to patronize businesses (there), and then to be able to make good strong neighbors and bonds in the communities in which they've decided to reside," he said.

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