Germantown property once used as a slaughterhouse and meat-packing facility could be reinvented

(Editor's note: This article has been updated to more accurately reflect the prospective development entity.)



An entity seemingly once connected to an Atlanta-based company that updated a former industrial property in the Georgia capital is seeking to buy Germantown’s ex-Neuhoff Packing Co. property and give it a new use.

According to multiple sources who have asked to go unnamed, the entity may have been once connected to Jamestown LP (the Post has not determined the specific tie) and has the multi-building site under contract.

Officials with the would-be development team could not be reached for comment.



A Jamestown official said the company is not involved in the project. Jamestown undertook Ponce City Market in Atlanta. Previously home to a Sears, Roebuck & Co. distribution center and billed as the largest brick building located in the Southeast, Ponce City Market stands 10 stories and spans 2.1 million square feet. Jamestown restored the building to offer office, retail and residential spaces.

The gritty and distinctive Neuhoff property straddles the west bank of the Cumberland River within the eastern fringe of Germantown and was once used as an animal slaughtering and meat-packing facility.

According to one of the sources, the prospective developer will use Nashville-based Smith Gee Studio as its architect for Neuhoff. The sources did not provide a closing date for the future transaction.

Multiple members of what is sometimes loosely called the McRedmond family have owned the nine-parcel Neuhoff property since 1992, according to Metro records. Various buildings sit on the site, the main addresses of which are in the 1300 block of Adams Street.

The property — considered in the early 2000s for a massive redevelopment that failed to materialized — is home to structures housing the Nashville Jazz Workshop and leather goods maker Peter Nappi, among others. It is located about five blocks to the east of the intersection of Fifth Avenue North and Madison Street, which many consider Germantown’s epicenter of sorts.

There exists minimal written history regarding Neuhoff Packing Co.'s operations, Post sister publication Nashville Scene writes. The original buildings comprising the ex-meat packing plant opened in 1906, with expansion of the site continuing until 1950, the Scene reports. Neuhoff Packing closed in 1977.



Germantown remains a focus of development. On parcels north of the McRedmond property and on the other side of Taylor Street work is underway on various buildings to compromise Hammer Mill.





