Nashville Yards adds five new names to its retail tenant list

Orangetheory and fast-casual dining concept Crisp & Green are among the new retail tenants to sign leases at Nashville Yards, the massive Music City project that bills itself as “the next generation of urban development.”

Crisp & Green, the salad, grain bowl, and smoothie franchise started by fitness guru Steele Smiley, will be joined by The Urban Juicer and Eatery in the 180,000-sq.-ft. retail portion of the multi-block development located between I-40 and the center of the city.

Starbucks and Pinnacle Bank are the two other new tenants joining the project’s lead tenant Amazon, which will open a 20-story headquarters at the Yards.

“We are developing Nashville Yards with an emphasis on healthy living,” said Cary Mack, managing partner of Southwest Value Partners, owner and developer of the 18-acre project. “With that in mind, we have worked carefully and deliberately to identify these five very high-quality companies.”

Smiley, who sold his Steele Fitness business to Snap Fitness in 2014, has about a dozen Crisp & Green locations operating and some 30 in development. This year he began franchising a introduced a fast-casual burger concept called Stalk & Spade.