Downtown Clarksville adding good Italian foodstuff, muscle autos and additional
As numerous Clarksville company and group leaders have promised for months, huge matters are coming to downtown Clarksville.
Another raise to that upward momentum for the most historic, but struggling portion of the city is uncovered this 7 days.
Investors verified Tuesday designs for a $4 million, three-story, privately-owned restaurant and bar facility that the proprietors say is partly spawned by Montgomery County’s new multipurpose functions centre.
At the corner of Second and College streets, and across University from the massive gap where the new MPEC, or arena, is to be developed, another pair who imagine in the future of downtown — Joe and Cathi Maynard — are planning to add their personal 18,700-sq.-foot composition that is to be called, “Shelby’s Trio.”
That “trio” is to be damaged down as follows:
• The first floor will be an American-themed eatery that highlights primarily 1970s muscle mass automobiles on display.
• The second flooring will function great Italian cuisine well prepared by a educated chef.
• The 3rd ground will have an indoor-outdoor, upscale rooftop bar.
Joe Maynard states he hopes to have his city constructing permit by late-February for a new downtown vacation spot that could open to prospects by December.
The Maynards have already grow to be main group supporters in other ways, including their properly-regarded contributions to Austin Peay State University.
Now, they want to join area government and other non-public investors in encouraging to direct downtown Clarksville again to prominence, they stated.
“Final yr, we decided to spend a lot more in the group and less in the inventory current market,” Joe Maynard told The Leaf-Chronicle Tuesday afternoon, “and we seriously want to assistance the downtown local community.
“The cafe has been my wife’s aspiration all over our 38 decades of relationship,” he claimed.
Sitting down on practically an acre at the top rated of the hill on School Road, the 3-tiered Shelby’s Trio will owe its small business name both equally to the Maynards’ grandson, and to the Shelby GT 500 basic vehicles that will be component of his display on the very first ground.
That floor, he’ll phone “Joe’s Garage Clarksville,” which will have the American-model eatery of tailor made burgers, scorching dogs, barbecue and brats, amid a showcase of GT, Chevelle, Cuda and other 500-as well as-horsepower automotive classics owned by the Maynards and other area contributors.
“On days where by there is very good temperature, we’ll even have cruise-ins,” Cathi Maynard explained.
Just take a single of two elevators to the second floor, and the temper modifications. There, good Italian cuisine is planned, to be organized by a educated chef.
They will simply call this restaurant, “Gatte Cucina.”
“This stage will characteristic a restaurant which is a tiny nicer, exactly where you would want to gown a small nicer. It is a minimal more exceptional, with a tiny less seating than on the initially flooring,” Joe Maynard stated.
On to the 3rd, or major ground, you will land in “Skyline 500 Bar,” which, as the identify indicates, will provide patrons a 360-degree check out of downtown, APSU, the arena and the Cumberland River — and the “500” element of the name goes back again to Joe Maynard’s adore of the GT muscle mass cars and trucks.
It will be an upscale bar also serving a light-weight menu. It will be fifty percent-indoors, fifty percent-outdoor with partial go over and heating in colder climate, and lounge-style home furniture.
The Maynards prepare to open the 1st-flooring restaurant all around 10 a.m. daily, though the second and third flooring will open day-to-day all over 4:30 p.m. and close by 11 p.m.
The great deal alone is expected to give home for parking up to 60 vehicles, and the ton and making will be wheelchair-available.
Lyle-Prepare dinner-Martin Architects of Clarksville is dealing with the building design and style. “It’s a massive facility — even larger than what I experienced at first prepared. We think what we are bringing to downtown is going to be a enormous attract. We will be incorporating about 250 cafe seats to the downtown location and we are going to be capable to quickly manage crowds of up to 500 folks at a time,” Joe Maynard said.
With the enterprise, he in fact won’t have to quit his working day job as the greater part proprietor of Echo Power Engineering. He’ll use his engineering know-how, in truth, to equip the complete making with a backup generator to assist its ability provide.
“This is intended to be a legacy location in Clarksville for our loved ones,” Joe Maynard stated. The pair have two sons and a daughter-in-law in the area, as well as a few grandchildren.
“We have bought into Clarksville fairly very seriously in the previous calendar year,” he explained. “Looking at the MPEC come about helped with inspiring the cafe aspect of it. And when you search at the grasp program for redevelopment of Next and College or university streets, you see something that is going to be a desired destination position not just for Clarksville, but people today during a broader area.”
Also spurred by the MPEC, the couple famous, are ideas from the regional Hand family members to do a makeover of the Riverview Inn as a Hilton resort, and deliver additional retail lease spaces involving the MPEC and that lodge.
“We are fatigued of seeing area men and women go to Nashville all the time for dining and leisure, when they could keep in this article,” Joe Maynard mentioned.
And the objective of getting included restaurant choices for downtown is not to contend with what is currently there, Cathi Maynard reported, but rather, greatly enhance it all.
“We are not competing with the other key restaurant proprietors in Clarksville. Our menu goods, for the most part, is not going to be the similar as theirs,” she said. “Our aim is to do anything to inspire people to help all corporations in the region.”
With extra development now all-but confirmed next-door to the MPEC, appear for a active and bustling spring and summer time in downtown Clarksville — highlighted by the appears of heavy machinery.
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