Wes Harris, State Farm Insurance Agent – home, auto, life & banking – 319 Vann Drive, sponsors Strictly Business, a weekly column that takes a look at a few of this week’s business highlights.
Wendy’s reopens at 873 Vann Drive
The renovation is complete, and Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, has reopened at 873 Vann Drive.
Restaurant hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Sunday.
Drive Thru hours are 10 a.m to 2 a.m., Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 1 a.m., Sundays.
Restaurant Holdings LLC sold 873 Vann Drive to WRG Realty LLC, for $2,232,143, in 2018.
Woodcreek Apartments on Hollywood Drive sold
Woodcreek Apartments, 1000 Hollywood Drive, have been sold.
Nashville businessmen Jordan Buie and Kirtley Whittington purchased the 12-unit complex from OLAF LLC for $175,000.
Each of the one-bedroom units will be renovated.
Construction continues on DDS Dentures + Implant Solutions in Park Place East
An opening date has not been announced, but DDS Dentures + Implant Solutions is locating at 233 Parkstone Place in Park Place East near the West Tennessee Healthcare SportsPlex.
Brasfield Construction Company is building the 4,674-square-foot facility on .84 acres of land, next to a new Arby’s restaurant, which is expected to open late spring or early summer.
Construction on new Arby’s near SportsPlex picks up
A break in the weather has allowed construction to pick up on a new Arby’s restaurant at 219 Parkstone Place in Park Place East.
Buffalo Construction Company from Louisville, Kentucky is building the 2,400-square-foot restaurant on .73 acres, which is scheduled to open in late spring or early summer.
Arby’s has two locations in Jackson – 601 Old Hickory Blvd., and 208 Stonebrook Place.
Bobrick Mid-Continent expanding manufacturing facility in Jackson-Madison County Industrial Park
In less than one week, a second industy in Jackson, has announced it is expanding.
Officials with Bobrick Mid-Continent said the company will add 40,000-square-feet to its existing facility at 100 Bobrick Drive in Jackson-Madison County Industrial Park.
The expansion will make room for high volume accessory products as well as its three brands of toilet partitions – Bobrick, Privada and Thrislington.
“Our decision to deepen our roots at Bobrick Mid-Continent is a reflection of our success in Jackson and Madison County,” said Matthew Louchheim, vice president corporate development, general manager, Toilet Partition Group, “We would not be here today – 30 years after our initial decision to set-up operations in the Jackson area – without everyone’s dedication and encouragement.”
Construction began on the 100,000-square-foot building Bobrick now calls home in 1999, having relocated from a facility the company leased directly behind its existing facility.
“More recently, over the past eight years, Bobrick sales and profitability have grown as we have launched new products, spent millions on machinery and equipment, and supported the training of our talented and driven workforce,” Louchheim said, “Unfortunately, our growth cannot continue at its current pace on the same physical footprint – to increase sales and expand our team, we must also build.”
Louchheim said the cost of the expansion is $6 million.
The expansion will increase the number of people on the payroll from 123 to 148.
“Bobrick is just another example of companies investing in Jackson, and continuing to invest because the workforce here is fantastic, and as they grow, companies like Bobrick grow,” said Kyle Spurgeon, Jackson Chamber president/CEO, “They have opportunities to invest in other parts of the country, but you see them continuing to choose here because of workforce, location and one of the most important things that often gets overlooked are relationships that we’ve built through the Chamber, Jackson Energy Authority, City, County, state, TVA, all those folks working together to build relationships, because you do business with people you know, like and trust and that’s why you see us spending so much time with the corporate leadership of companies like Bobrick.”
On March 14, Toyota Bodine announced a $50.1 million investment to expand its existing facility at 301 James Lawrence Road an additional 65,000-square-feet.
Empire Theatres set opening date
It’s official. Empire Theatres, a new eight-screen movie theatre in The Columns II on Vann Drive opens to the public April 12.
The ‘Great Movie Give Away,’ will be held April 10.NOTE: NEWS/TALK 101.5 FM will participate in the GREAT MOVIE GIVEAWAY.
Listeners can win free tickets to the opening of the theatre.
VIP Night – Invitation Only – will be held April 11.
All seats will be reserved seating. When you order a ticket – even days in advance – you select exactly which seat you want in the auditorium you want to sit in.
At the concession stand, Empire Theatres will offer an expanded menu not generally found in most theaters.
Empire Theatres will offer pub style concessions – french fries, pizzas, Orville Redenbacher Popcorn, chicken strips, mozzarella sticks, soft pretzels, Coke products and local craft beers.
All seats at the new theatre will recline, but the “Empire Theatre X-perience” will be the only auditorium in the Jackson area to offer recliners with armrests that will raise between two recliners to allow more space between the customers.
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