Jeni’s Ice Creams among confirmed tenants for upcoming Brentwood mixed-use project

August 18, 2016

Nashville Business Journal
by Will Racke

Jeni’s Ice Creams will join a bevy of local and national retailers and restaurants in a $211 million Brentwood mixed-use development slated to open this fall.

H.G. Hill Realty Co. announced Thursday a list of confirmed retail tenants for its Hill Center Brentwood project, a long-awaited town center that when fully developed will comprise 450,000 square feet of office space and 150,000 square feet of retail and restaurant across 10 buildings.

According to a news release, phase one of the project consists of four buildings anchored by Nashville accounting firm LBMC, which will occupy about two-thirds of a 117,000 square-foot office building. As the Nashville Business Journal reported this spring, Merrill Lynch will take up the remainder of the office space in that building. Other office tenants with signed leases include TMPartners, which is the project’s architect, and First Tennessee Bank. Combined, those four companies will employ roughly 500 people in those offices.

Several other retail tenants are expected to open along with LBMC this fall, including facial spa Hand and Stone and women’s clothing store Dress Up. The initial phase of the development has a total of 158,000 square feet of office space and 66,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

“With our first phase 86 percent leased, we are pleased to bring a mix of national, regional and locally owned retail and dining options – including several that are new to the Nashville-area market – along with notable office tenants to Hill Center Brentwood,” H.G. Hill Realty Chairman and CEO Jimmy Granbery said in a statement.

We previously reported that restaurants Holler and Dash and Uncle Julio’s had already announced intentions to open locations in the Hill Center project. H.G. Hill confirmed that both restaurants are on track to move in later this year as a part of the phase one opening.

The Jeni’s store is slated to open in summer 2017. It will be the popular ice cream maker’s fifth Nashville-area location, and first outside of Nashville proper.

Hill Center Brentwood, which H.G. Hill has billed as a downtown for Brentwood, had toovercome pushback from local residents concerned with the project’s size, potential for traffic congestion and proposed condo units. The project broke ground last year after residential space was stripped from the development plan.

For a full listing of tenants and projected opening dates, visit the project’s website here.

Jeni’s Ice Creams among confirmed tenants for upcoming Brentwood mixed-use project

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