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DaviDson County • DiCkson County • Cheatham County • Williamson County PUBLICORDS REC NOW IDE INS West OCT OBER 8 - 14 , 2010 www.westviewonline.comview V OL. 34, NO. 39 Craftsman who’s been repairing watches since mid-1940s is bowing out BALE OUT GREEN CONSTRUCTION technique will be on display Saturday during a hands-on workshop near Sevier Park. End of Page 32 an era Page 8 PRICELESS SOUVENIR WHITE BLUFF pizzeria owners bring home more than T-shirts and trinkets from trip to Italy. Page 7 BIG CHILL DESPITE DEEP TIES to 104.5 The Zone and on-air personality George Plaster, Preds have a new radio home. Page 2 INSIDE Editorial News From… Sections Vet’s View ....................................3 Fairview .....................................10 Health and Fitness ......................6 Dave Ramsey ..............................4 White Bluff ................................15 Newsmakers ...............................9 Nashville Nostalgia ......................4 Public Notices ...........................11 Karlen Evins .................................4 Business Services .....................16 Community Calendar ..................5 © 2010 Westview Newspaper, LLC • 8120 Sawyer Brown Rd. • Nashville, TN 37221 • 615.646.6131 • westviewonline.com Page 2 www.westviewonline.com OCTOBER 8 -14, 2010 Applebee’s can’t wait for mall, making move By Judy Sarles Correspondent One Bellevue business is opting out of the waiting game for a revitalized Bellevue Center mall. Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar is moving from its current location across from the mall to another Bellevue location just a few miles away. Peterson Construction has begun building the 6,300-square-foot Applebee’s at 8100 High- way 100 in the Shoppes on the Harpeth retail center at a cost of $1.5 million. The restaurant is scheduled to open between mid-November and Dec. 1. Applebee’s anticipates the move will result in much higher traffic at the restaurant. “We’re just very excited to move and get a new location,” says Amanda Baugh, the restaurant’s general manager. “This area with the mall closed, there’s not many people who want to eat over here. The Mitchell move over there will definitely be an increase in revenue.” Metro Councilmember Bo Mitchell isn’t wor- ried that other businesses close to the nearly vacant Bellevue Center mall will also decide to move. He says local real estate developer GBT Realty Corp.’s recent report on progress on plans for the mall’s redevelopment and an an- nouncement in coming weeks about retail and New mall in 2013 restaurant tenants for the mall should provide encouragement for existing businesses in the mall area. “I think the excitement’s going to grow and Restaurants, people are going to want to be here instead of moving away,” Mitchell notes. library might GBT hopes to have the revitalized Bellevue Center property completed by 2013. arrive earlier A couple of building permits (one for a kitch- en and bath store and one for a real estate of- fice) pulled in August for the Highway 70 cor- By Bill Lewis Correspondent ridor indicate businesses are still attracted to that area. Along with Applebee’s, businesses The transformation of Bellevue also are showing interest in the Highway 100 Center Mall into an outdoor shop- corridor. A martial arts studio and a walk-in ping center won’t be complete until clinic are opening there. early 2013, developers say, but the Roughly 100 employees work at the Bel- community may not have to wait levue Applebee’s. The restaurant is part of that long for new restaurants and for The Woodland Group’s franchise operation the new public library that will be in Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. included in the project. There will be 19 restaurants within the region Submitted renderings “It may be entirely possible for when a Glasgow, Ky., unit opens in about six Renderings of outside mall space (top) and interior of new library branch. some steps of the mall’s rebuilding weeks. The existing Bellevue restaurant is the to be done ahead of that schedule,” only Applebee’s that The Woodland Group says at-large Metro Councilman plans to close this year. The franchisee plans to Charlie Tygard, who has had con- open additional Applebee’s, which along with an existing department store building on the mix of stores (at the new versations with the developers. the relocated Bellevue restaurant will have a ing. Remodeling that space should shopping center). It may become The companies redeveloping the much more modern appearance than the cur- not take as long as tearing down the more of a destination shopping cen- mall, Chicago-based Inland Western rent Bellevue Applebee’s. rest of the mall and building a new ter,” says Tygard. Real Estate Trust Inc. and Brent- “We’ll have a whole new look, Baugh says. outdoor shopping center. That would be wood-based GBT Realty Corp., an- It’s very updated, kind of up-to-the-minute Opening the library and new good news for busi- ticipate being ready for construction amenities-wise. We kind of have that older ’80s restaurants early would draw more nesses around the by mid-2011 and completing mall look right now. This will have a lot more clean people to the area and encourage mall, which has been and the library by early 2013. lines, and it will be a lot more modern. The bar businesses to remain in the High- nearly vacant since Tygard hopes new restaurants is kind of separate from the restaurant.” way 70 business district instead 2008. Sears is the could open on out-parcels while Mitchell was asked if he thinks Applebee’s of moving south to the emerging Tygard only remaining de- construction of the shopping center will regret its decision to move once Bellevue business district on Highway 100, partment store in the moves forward, if there is sufficient Center is operating again as an active mall. where much of Bellevue’s recent mall. Catholic Charities is using an market demand. The new Bellevue “No,” he replied. “I think the location they’re residential growth has been focused, outbuilding as a flood relief center. public library could also open early, selecting is a vibrant area as well, so I think he says. he says, since it will occupy space in they’ll be successful there. They would be suc- “There will be a synergy, depend- CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 OT C OBER 8 -14, 2010 www.westviewonline.com Page 3 Operation Stand Down McKay Used Books selects 18th year of aid for Bellevue for 30,000 sq. ft. store vets in transition By Judy Sarles “It’s just been approved by a real estate broker with World Correspondent the Planning Commission right Realty in Franklin, which repre- Operation Stand morial service. Some now,” says Metro Council mem- sents McKay. Down first came on local entertainment Another chapter is about to ber Bo Mitchell. “I went by and He says McKay’s preference is Nashville’s scene in was provided for be written in Bellevue’s ever- spoke with (Principal) Cagle at for a restaurant and a retailer to oc- 1993. that first Saturday changing retail saga. Gower Elementary School be- cupy the outparcels. Mitchell and When the city failed night. And the next McKay Used Books, a ware- fore it went to the Planning Com- Jones discussed the importance to get a VA program day, Sunday noon, house-sized used bookstore, is mission just to ask him what he of having the space filled by busi- to assist homeless Vet’s Operation Stand moving from its leased space on thought. I don’t want to do any- nesses that would be appropriate veterans called “Vet View Down disbanded till Charlotte Avenue near White thing that would upset what he’s neighbors for Gower Elementary. Center,” two Viet- By JOHN FURGESS the following year. Bridge Road to its own facility got going on at Gower. He was A restaurant would be welcome, nam veterans stepped And that was 17 in Bellevue. Construction is ex- highly in favor of it.” Mitchell says. “Folks could drop forward to establish years ago. pected to begin on two parcels McKay Used Books was found- off their kids at Gower and jump a program to assist homeless Today, Operation Stand late this year or early in 2011. ed in North Carolina in 1978. on the interstate to go to work. It’d veterans called Basecamp. Down is a year-round pro- The store will be located near There are three McKay stores, all be nice to have something con- John Deering spent more than gram. It is directed by retired Gower Elementary School on in Tennessee. Besides the Nash- venient there so you could grab five years as a U.S. Marine in National Guard Lt. Col. Bill 5.93 acres at the northeast corner ville store, which opened in 2007, something and go.” a Hanoi POW camp, and Jerry Burleigh with the able assis- of Old Hickory Boulevard and In- there are locations in Knoxville The used bookstore will open Washington was a ROTC- tance of Mary Ross. A host of terstate 40. The property, which and Chattanooga. McKay offers in late 2011 or early 2012. The trained graduate of MTSU. individuals and agencies are McKay is developing, is vacant. used books, audio books, music, Bellevue location and the Char- Both were personal friends of now planning Operation Stand The bookstore will encompass movies and video games for sale lotte Avenue store will both be Vet’s View. Down No. 18, and it’s set for about 30,000 square feet of the or trade credit. operational at the same time for a Jerry had visited San Diego Oct.

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