It's back: Paradise Park honky-tonk to return to Lower Broadway

Lizzy Alfs | The Tennessean

It’s been less than a year-and-a-half since honky-tonk goers mourned the loss of Paradise Park Trailer Resort, but Nashville restaurant group Strategic Hospitality is ready to revive the concept.

Paradise Park, which closed last year after 11 years to make room for Strategic’s massive Downtown Sporting Club at 411 Broadway, will reopen next month on a portion of the building’s first floor.

“When we conceptualized Downtown Sporting Club, we couldn’t envision how Paradise Park would work within the building,” said Benjamin Goldberg, Strategic Hospitality co-owner, in a statement. “After being here for a while now and seeing how the different spaces are being used, we see an opportunity to bring it back to its original home at 411 Broadway.”

Downtown Sporting Club will continue operating as a restaurant, coffee shop, sports bar with axe throwing lanes, hotel and garden rooftop. But a portion of the first floor will be split in two to house The Ribbon Room restaurant and Paradise Park, according to a media release.

The news comes after Strategic Hospitality introduced live music (Downtown Sporting Club opened without a live music component) and $6 pitchers of beer (a Paradise Park favorite) at their new venue. Those changes were a success, the release says.

“We always create spaces where we want to go,” Max Goldberg, co-owner of Strategic Hospitality, said in a statement. “We have had so much fun with all the elements of Downtown Sporting Club but Paradise Park holds a soft spot in our hearts for many reasons and was a part of some pretty amazing moments and memories. We are so excited for it to become part of the energy that already exists in the building. It’s time to bring back the trailer park, like a phoenix rising from the ashes!”

Paradise Park is under construction and expected to open in early December.

Known for being innovators in the Nashville dining scene, the Goldberg brothers decided to close Paradise Park when sales were booming. The Lower Broadway honky-tonk was on track to have one of its best years yet, but they decided to shutter the first-floor bar and pursue an ambitious overhaul of the four-story building after they purchased it with other investors.

The 43,000-square-foot building now home to Downtown Sporting Club, which debuted in April, is unlike anything else on Lower Broadway. The building is separated into unique spaces, which includes 12 ax throwing lanes on the second floor and a boutique hotel with 20 guest rooms on the third floor.

Strategic Hospitality also owns Merchants, The Patterson House, The Catbird Seat, Pinewood, The Band Box, Bastion, Henrietta Red and catering company The Party Line.

Learn more about Downtown Sporting Club and see inside the venue here.

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