Lizzy Alfs

lalfs@tennessean.com

Calling all beer lovers: a restaurant and bar with 48 taps for local and regional craft brews is coming to East Nashville.

Construction is underway for local restaurateur Doug Crow’s Noble’s Kitchen and Beer Hall at 974 Main St. on a portion of the Hunters Custom Automotive campus that two local personal injury lawyers purchased in 2015.

Once completed, the two-story beer hall will be roughly 6,000 square feet with a second floor covered deck, said Jim Higgins, who purchased the site at 974 and 978 Main St. with Rick Piliponis of The Higgins Firm PLLC for $1.2 million.

“I think it’s just a great location. You’re kind of right on that Main Street corridor, you’re next to Five Points, it has parking and it’s just surrounded by a lot of activity in East Nashville. We just wanted to be a part of that,” Higgins said.

The property is located less than two blocks from the Five Points neighborhood, across South 10th Street from Marche Artisan Foods and across Main Street from the Hunters Custom Automotive buildings with the flashy red and yellow sign and red garage doors.

Noble’s Kitchen and Beer Hall will have a full kitchen with a menu offering fresh made and locally sourced food. The goal is to serve good food at reasonable prices and to make it a comfortable neighborhood joint, Higgins said.

Although it's not a brewery, the beer hall will join a growing number of craft brewers on Nashville's east side. Just since November 2015, Smith & Lentz Brewing Company, Southern Grist Brewing and East Nashville Beer Works have opened in East Nashville. Meanwhile, Fat Bottom Brewing closed in the neighborhood on Oct. 1 to prepare for a major expansion to The Nations on Nashville's west side.

The goal is to open Noble's Kitchen and Beer Hall in January.

Noble’s Kitchen and Beer Hall is the first of what’s likely to be more change at the intersection of South 10th and Main streets. Fast-growing Nashville restaurant group Fresh Hospitality recently purchased the flashy Hunters Custom Automotive buildings at 969 and 975 Main St. — across the street from the soon-to-be beer hall — with plans to redevelop the site into a multi-concept space for several fast-casual restaurants in addition to retail uses.

Hunters Custom Automotive owner John L. Freund listed the entire Hunters campus for sale in 2015 for $6.5 million.

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