A booming West Nashville neighborhood could receive another jolt of culinary energy, via a project in the works from one of the city's leading tastemaking companies.
According to multiple sources familiar with the project, Benjamin and Max Goldberg, the sibling duo behind Strategic Hospitality, are involved in plans for a restaurant at 4901 Centennial Blvd. That property, currently the site of a service station and garage, was purchased by a group of well-known real estate investors for $705,000 last summer.
Elliott Kyle, a member of that investment group, declined comment, as did Max Goldberg, co-owner of Strategic Hospitality. Sources said specific plans have not been finalized and many details remain unsettled, including how long it will take the group to convert the property into the type of trendy eatery for which the Goldbergs are known or when that process will begin.
The triangle-shaped lot sits about a block down from the intersection of Centennial Boulevard and 51st Avenue North, the main drags of the rapidly growing West Nashville neighborhood. Restaurateurs, brewers and retailers have flocked to The Nations in recent years, as have developers and homebuyers.
Several new restaurants and hangouts have popped up along 51st Avenue in recent years, leading some to compare the stretch to the early days of 12South's emergence. Farther down Centennial Boulevard, developer Southeast Venture is spearheading a project that will add hundreds of new residential units to the soaring neighborhood.
Just this week, developer Nathan Lyons announced plans to double the size of Stocking 51, already a massive mixed-use development that's been reshaping the neighborhood and which sits diagonally across the street from 4901 Centennial. (In an interview this week, Lyons disclosed his own investment in the service-station property, but said plans had not yet crystallized for the property. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday on the Goldbergs' involvement.)
While definite details aren't yet available about the concept or name of the Golbergs' planned restaurant, sources said chef Trevor Moran is expected to be involved. Moran, who did not respond to a request for comment, made a splash in Nashville while helming The Catbird Seat, one of the most upscale restaurants in the Strategic Hospitality portfolio (and in all of Nashville).
He left the high-end restaurant a little more than two years ago upon being recruited to return to Noma in Copenhagen, a job he ultimately did not take. In the years since, Moran has continued to work closely with Strategic Hospitality, including a stint crafting gourmet summertime favorites for the The Band Box in First Tennessee Park.
