Tap Room, final phase of The Brewery, to launch
Partnership applies for a $13M building permit
Tennessee Brewery developers expect to begin construction this summer on the mixed-use project’s final phase, the Tap Room.
495 TN Partners, which saved the historic brewery from demolition, has applied for a nearly $13 million building permit for a vacant lot at 496 Tennessee, the southeast corner of Butler and Tennessee.
A development group led by Billy Orgel, Jay Lindy and Adam Slovis last year won approval for tax incentives for the Tap Room, 121 apartments and 1,600 square feet of commercial space.
Developers said the phase was ahead of schedule because of strong interest in the Brewery rehabilitation, new apartments dubbed the Wash House and the Bottle Shop, a parking garage with apartments upstairs.
Shapiro & Co. is project architect for the Tap Room, and Patton & Taylor Enterprises is contractor.
The project should be completed by the second or third quarter of 2019, Lindy said.
It will complete a more than $40 million investment yielding about 275 apartments plus commercial and office space. It began in 2014 with the group’s decision to save the Tennessee Brewery, a 128-year-old landmark that sat vacant and deteriorating for decades.
The historic building, with 46 apartments and 13,000 square feet of office/ commercial space, is leasing well, Lindy said. Orgel's Tower Ventures, a communications tower developer, will move its offices into The Brewery in June, Lindy added.