By the end of the month two downtown Franklin stores will close and a new restaurant will begin the process of taking their place.
334 Main Street, current home of HeyDay gift store and Inspirations on Main, will be home to one of Fresh Hospitality’s many brands, according to records filed with the city of Franklin.
Fresh Hospitality is the parent company for 18 restaurant brands, such as The Grilled Cheeserie, Biscuit Love, which is opening a new location in downtown Franklin, I Love Juice Bar, Martin’s BBQ, Panini Petes, Taziki’s, Big Bad Breakfast, Cochon Butcher, Tellini’s Italiano, Little Donkey, Saigon Noodle House and more. The company has recently been expanding its presence south of Nashville. Earlier this week, plans for an I Love Juice Bar went before the Spring Hill planning commission for a McLemore Avenue location and earlier this month, Martin’s BBQ announced a Spring Hill location.
HeyDay and Inspirations on Main will be closed by the end of April. Fresh Hospitality, through Fresh Capital, LLC, has already begun filing paperwork with the city of Franklin to make changes to the building to operate as a restaurant. In January, Fresh Capital received approval from the Franklin Historic Zoning Commission to put in walk-in coolers and dumpsters in an enclosure behind the property.
We reached out to Fresh Hospitality to ask which restaurant they plan to open, but as of the writing of this article, we did not hear back. Building permits have not been filed yet with the city of Franklin for 334 Main Street.
Fresh Capital, LLC, represents Fresh Hospitality, as Fresh Hospitality partner Mike Tidwell is named as its agent on paperwork filed with the Tennessee Secretary of State’s corporate entity listings. Remick Moore, the architect for the 334 Main Street project according to paperwork filed with Franklin, also, confirmed he was working for Fresh Hospitality on the project.
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Just what Franklin needs in the Historic Downtown, a chain restaurant. If the City continues to let operators come into town and close the local merchants and individual shops, we will all wake up in a couple of years and wonder why downtown looks and feels like everywhere/anywhere else. While Franklin could use another great restaurant in Downtown, not at the expense of the local flavor. Look how many we have lost the past 4 years. I am pro development, but not at any cost!
I totally agree. I’ve seen it change just in the 7 years I’ve been here. Sad, really.
It is an absolute shame what they are allowing to happen in the historic downtown Franklin corridor.