Downtown Nashville’s venerable The Arcade is slated for a small honky-tonk to open in early 2025 and to be operated by the staff recognized for its varied native neighborhood bars, together with East Nashville’s Pearl Diver.
To be known as Buddy’s, the hospitality enterprise will function from about 900 sq. toes of area inside the 1902-opened construction.
Jamie White (the guitarist for Nashville’s The Pink Spiders), Corey Ladd, Shaun Folad and Micah Copeland will personal Buddy,’s which is being billed as a “tiny-tonk.”
Along with Pearl Diver, White and the opposite three enterprise companions variously personal Fortunate’s 3 Star, GoodTimes Full Service, Tiger Bar and Roy’s Tavern.
Buddy Spicher in an undated picture
White says Buddy’s will cater to musicians, service business staff, locals and vacationers who “recognize Nashville’s historical past.” The bar will supply a curated playlist of traditional nation tunes, with Nashville residents to obtain a reduction on purchases. Buddy’s is just not anticipated to supply reside music.
The title Buddy’s honors 86-year-old fiddle grasp Buddy Spicher, Ladd’s grandfather.
“Buddy’s pays tribute not solely to him but in addition to the numerous musicians who’ve formed Nashville’s famend music scene through the years,” White says, noting Spicher has collaborated with Johnny Money, Dolly Parton, Charlie Daniels, Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline, Conway Twitty, Pam Tillis, Roy Orbison and George Jones, amongst others.
White says Buddy’s can be distinctive in that will probably be a Nashville honky-tonk named after an instrumentalist fairly than a singer.
By way of a pandemic and a change in possession, shopkeepers within the iconic downtown shopping center proceed to hold on
“Our purpose is to shine a light-weight on the musicians who type the spine of the music we maintain expensive,” he says.
The possession staff is just not disclosing both the fee to get operational or phrases of its lease.
An entity that features native actual property business veteran Rob Lowe and New York Metropolis-based Linfield Capital owns The Arcade, having paid $28 million for the constructing in April 2021.
The Arcade presents an tackle of 65 Arcade Alley. Spanning Fourth and Fifth avenues north and modeled after an Italian arcade, it was Nashville’s first “buying middle,” having changed what was known as Overton Alley as town’s retail commerce epicenter.
Elliott Kyle, a dealer with Nashville-based Equitable Property Firm, represented the 2 events within the lease transaction.
This text was first revealed by our sister publication, the Nashville Put up.
