The Jack’s constructing is seen in white.
The Decrease Broadway constructing housing Jack’s Bar-B-Que has offered to the homeowners of Robert’s Western World for $15 million and presumably a per-foot document — with the venerable barbecue enterprise having now ceased operations and the honky-tonk to increase into its house. The 2-story construction at 416A Broadway has housed the restaurant for 31 years.
In line with Metro data, Jack Cawthon bought the property in April 1996 for $475,000.
A launch notes the brand new homeowners are husband and spouse JesseLee Jones and Emily Ann Jones, who personal Robert’s Western World. That enterprise operates in a constructing sitting adjoining to the Jack’s Bar-B-Que construction and providing an tackle of 416B Broadway. The Joneses plan to make use of the ex-Jack’s house in some method for RWW.
The Davidson County Register of Deeds web site famous the $15 million sale worth Tuesday. As well as, the Joneses have landed a mortgage, valued at $15.7 million, from Pinnacle Financial institution.
Scene sister publication the Nashville Submit was unable to find out the sq. footage of the Jack’s house, with advertising supplies noting the house might be about 5,000 sq. ft. At that measurement, the deal could be the equal of roughly $3,000 per sq. foot, which might be a document for such a Nashville transaction. The December 2024 sale of the close by Margaritaville constructing additionally was for about $3,000 per foot.
Of observe, the 416A and 416B Broadway buildings have been as soon as linked by massive archways.
With the sale and subsequent enterprise closure, Cawthon will concentrate on his Jack’s Bar-B-Que areas on Charlotte Avenue in Midtown and on West Trinity Lane north of downtown.
“Our Charlotte retailer will now function our downtown location, with the additional advantage of free parking,” says Cawthon, who is usually credited with serving to spur the primary wave of revitalization of Decrease Broadway within the early Nineteen Nineties. “We’re additionally excited to refocus on catering; we have been one in every of Nashville’s largest caterers within the Eighties, and we see massive potential in that market once more.”
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The discharge notes the restaurant’s people who smoke and the enduring flying pig exterior signal on the Broadway constructing might be relocated. Cawthon’s choice to promote adopted “pleasant conversations” with the Joneses concerning Robert’s deliberate revitalization and third-floor growth, which had been paused as a way to pursue the true property transaction.
Cawthon initially opened a Broadway location in 1991 close to Riverfront Park. In 1994, after being displaced by the development updates to the constructing housing Arduous Rock Cafe, he relocated to 416A Broadway, shopping for the property two years later.
The discharge notes the Joneses are dedicated to preserving and bettering their honky-tonk’s historical past, character and legacy, and can share renderings of the deliberate up to date house “within the coming months.”
Relatedly, Robert’s will proceed its relationship with Jack’s as the popular caterer for personal occasions. Followers can anticipate a brand new collaborative merchandise on the RWW Honky Tonk Grill menu that includes Jack’s signature brisket.
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“Emily and I are extremely grateful to Jack for his imaginative and prescient and tenacity,” JesseLee Jones says within the launch. “He paved the way in which for thus many people on Decrease Broadway. We’re honored he entrusted us with this legacy, and we’re excited to reunite 416A and 416B into one thing really historic for Nashville and for Robert’s.”
Cawthon says he and the Joneses are dedicated to “preserving the music and traditions” of Decrease Broadway.
“I couldn’t consider a greater historic Broadway establishment to entrust with the constructing,” he says. “I’m excited to see what Robert’s will do with an growth. The constructing will stay in good arms.”
Hawkins Hogan PLC supplied authorized steerage to the Joneses within the transaction. Lance Bloom, vice chair and associate with the Nashville workplace of Toronto-based Colliers, represented Cawthon.
This submit was initially printed by our sister publication, the Nashville Submit.
