After a number of months and not using a dwelling, homosexual bar Trax will arrange store in a brand new area in Wedgewood-Houston — and never removed from its earlier location.
The bar has been working out of the previous The Tea Room area at 1249 Martin St. informally for a couple of week, proprietor Steven Kiss tells Scene sister publication the Nashville Put up, with plans to rename the area slated for completion in January.
Trax closed its former location at 1501 Ensley Blvd. (also referred to as 303 Bianca Paige Approach) on the finish of June after greater than 15 years of operations, when the constructing proprietor terminated the enterprise’s lease. The bar is thought for its DJs and drag occasions.
The brand new Trax is situated in a mixed-use constructing, known as Six10 Merritt at The Finery, that’s positioned subsequent to the construction housing Diskin Cider.
“As soon as once more, we now have a lease as an alternative of proudly owning it however at the least we landed someplace,” Kiss says.
Kiss, who just isn’t disclosing the associated fee to have gotten operational, says the brand new Trax dwelling provides improved parking and extra kitchen area that may enable the bar to increase its menu.
“With the Nashville market, issues acquired snapped up. It hasn’t been straightforward,” he says. “We did a comfortable opening with very minimal promoting final Sunday and the response has been superb. It’s a unique location, completely different look, however with all people again collectively it’s nonetheless the identical really feel because the previous bar.”
The Tea Room was beforehand referred to as pH Nashville, a cocktail bar that opened in 2019. The bar introduced on Fb in October that it might be transitioning right into a particular occasions mannequin with the brand new title.
This text was first revealed by our sister publication, the Nashville Put up.
