Fans feared the restaurant was gentrified out, while the owners say they’re leaving on their own terms. The truth may be somewhere in the middle.
, Arnold wrote, “We’ve decided the timing is right for us to now step away for some rest and to begin a new journey. This was 100% our decision, on our terms.”
But real estate pressures were certainly a factor. After buying the property in 2012, Rose’s son Kahlil Arnold said that the pandemic, supply chain issues, and property taxes have all combined into an unsustainable environment for the restaurant. “When we bought the building in 2012, our property tax was $11,000. Then it went to $44,000, and now it’s $78,000 with another reassessment coming up in 2024,” he told the Nashville Scene.
No restaurant lasts forever, and certainly the goal is for any restauranteur to be able to decide to walk away rather than being forced to. Arnold’s fate seems to hang in between those two outcomes. Retirement after over 40 years in the business is probably what most people would want. Rose tells Chamberlain she is happy with the decision that they made as a family, and that the property was perhaps not best suited to a restaurant in the first place.
It feels like a trap, sometimes, to want to give business and attention to a restaurant while knowing that is precisely what will turn it into a destination, which is what developers will use to sell the area, touting the many “amenities” like these traditional, local restaurants. And while it seems that if the property taxes didn’t go up, Arnold would have been ready to retire anyway, we’ll never actually know those terms.Thanks for signing up!Oops. Something went wrong.
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