Notable changes in downtown Brevard this summer included the closing of Jaime’s Creole and Brasserie, but the space is soon to be replaced with The Ktchn, a new country cooking restaurant owned by the same folks who run Lola’s on Country Club Road.

With a planned opening date of late September, owner Bruce Stewart said the new restaurant will be a “simple, casual concept,” with plans to use the wood-fired pizza oven that is still there, as well as offer simple meat and vegetable dishes.

Next door to that space in what was the Market 36, the owners of Magpie Meat and Three are opening a tap and bottle room, with plans to focus on brew selections that can’t be found in Brevard currently. One of the owners, Lee Marchbanks, said that space should be open in October.

The Twice is Nice consignment shop has closed, but the owners of Lilly T’s are opening a second location downtown, named the Brevard Clothing Company, in the location of the former business Sports Spot.

Mantiques, the “genteel” space for the male antique shopper, opened last month where Rice Furniture was located. The building’s new owner, John Nichols, also purchased the former Wachovia bank on the corner of Main and Caldwell streets. Nichols said he wants to find a restaurant or brewery for the bank, and said that hiding behind the ceiling tiles and under the carpet are the original moldings and hardwoods throughout the building.

He said there are even tunnels under the floor from the basement over to Main Street. The three-story building has been vacant since 2007, when Wachovia, now Wells Fargo, built its new location on Asheville Highway. Nichols said that he is willing to subdivide the building if necessary and that he has enjoyed getting to know the business owners downtown.

“I’m glad to be spending so much time here after being in Charlotte for 30 years,” he said. “My goal for uptown is when people come to Asheville, Hendersonville, Lake Toxaway, Cashiers, Highlands and the Pickens area they feel like they are really missing out if they don’t spend a few days in Brevard. I want stores like D.D. Bullwinkle’s, O.P. Taylors and Mantiques, as well as others, to be world famous because they are so unique. People love to shop and walk around and they’re very tired of malls.”

Nichols said that the 7,900-square-foot space behind Mantiques, which was the former Rice Furniture design center, is being cleaned up and remodeled, but it is too soon to announce anything just yet.