Longtime Elliston Place watering gap The Nook Bar will shut in late March after a 20-year run.
The closing is due largely to a future tower Nashville-based Giarranta has deliberate for the location. The event would require the razing of the constructing at 2200 Elliston Place during which The Nook Bar operates.
Owned by Sekvan Mohammed and his household, The Nook Bar is among the solely dive bars operational within the normal Midtown space and the one such enterprise remaining on the town’s Rock Block. It’s open 12 months a 12 months from 3 p.m. to three a.m.
The Nook Bar opened in 2004, with Mohammed having overseen the enterprise. Mohammed says the final day of operation is predicted to be March 23.
Blended-use constructing would substitute Elliston Place construction housing Nook Bar
Mohammed tells Scene sister publication the Nashville Put up he has loved a top quality working relationship together with his landlord, Cooke/Wilson Properties.
Mohammed additionally notes his normal supervisor, Torre Wyatt, has been with The Nook Bar because it the enterprise opened 20 years in the past. As well as, Danyelle Ferrigno has been employed for 14 years.
Initially from Kurdistan and having as soon as spent 4 years in a refugee tent camp, Mohammed (who arrived in Nashville in 1992 and later labored as an interpreter for the U.S. army) says he’s searching for a brand new location for The Nook Bar and would like to remain within the Midtown space.
Cooke/Wilson Properties couldn’t be reached for remark relating to the standing of the constructing’s different tenants, which embody Michelangelo’s Pizza, and a date when the constructing can be demolished.
Outdated-school bars that after operated within the normal Midtown space and have closed for the reason that Nineties embody The Gold Rush, Hurry Again and South Road.
Because the Put up reported in August 2024, the Metro Board of Zoning Appeals authorised Giarratana’s request for a particular exception from the peak setback and peak management airplane necessities associated to the aforementioned proposed tower.
As deliberate, the constructing will rise 17 flooring and supply a mix of 356 condo models and ground-level retail and restaurant house. The tackle is 2200-2204 Elliston Place. As well as, Giarratana is eyeing a five-story (with two ranges under grade), 578-space parking storage, to complement the tower, for an adjoining property positioned at 209 twenty second Ave. N.
This text was first printed by our sister publication, the Nashville Put up.
