Wedgewood-Houston Nashville: New Openings for Fall 2026

Walk down Houston Street on a Friday night this September and you will pass three restaurant windows that did not exist a year ago, all lit the same way, all part of the same construction schedule. Turn onto Martin Street and you will find a nail salon, a bookstore, and a frozen yogurt shop that opened within months of each other, backed by the same development. Then cross a few blocks toward Chestnut, past the warehouses where painters and printmakers still keep their doors unlocked on the first Saturday of every month, the same way they have since 2013.

Two builds are happening in Wedgewood-Houston at once. One is being run by a small number of developers on a fixed timeline, with a name, a logo, and a leasing office. The other has been running for over a decade with no calendar beyond "first Saturday" and no owner beyond the artists who show up. This fall is the clearest look yet at how differently those two versions of the neighborhood move.

The corridor AJ Capital is finishing this year

The developer behind most of what is new on Houston Street is AJ Capital Partners, and the project has a name: Wedgewood Village, an 18-acre mixed-use plan that is delivering more than 1.6 million square feet of new and restored space across the neighborhood. The restaurant row at 515 and 523 Houston Street belongs to Chicago's Boka Restaurant Group, which has now opened all three of its announced Nashville concepts there: Momotaro, a modern Japanese fine-dining room from chef Gene Kato that first built its reputation in Chicago's Fulton Market; Alla Vita, an Italian spot from chef Lee Wolen known for handmade pasta and wood-fired pizza; and Middleman, a bar built around Tennessee's whiskey history.

A few doors down, Perenn, the bakery and café already known around Nashville for its bread program, is opening Perenn Grocery this year in partnership with local farms and butchers, described by the team behind it as the neighborhood's first grocery destination. AJ Capital has also opened residential space nearby under its Memoir brand, with Memoir May Hosiery arriving earlier this year inside the historic mill building. None of this is incidental. It is one plan, moving on one schedule, run by one ownership group that also happens to control the ground under Soho House, Pastis, and Hermès a block away.

AJ Capital is not the only outside money moving into the neighborhood right now. A short walk from the Boka restaurants, a separate partnership between Wedgewood Avenue, HY Ventures, and Atlas Real Estate Partners is building Westerly House, a mid-rise apartment building mixing 246 traditional and co-living units. Near Geodis Park, developer CA South is finishing a short-term-rental condo project called The Modernest WeHo. Different names, different buildings, same underlying story: institutional capital has decided Wedgewood-Houston is worth building at scale, all in the same eighteen months.

A room built for a different kind of night

The single largest addition to the neighborhood this fall is not a restaurant. It's a concert venue. The Truth, a joint venture between Live Nation and AJ Capital Partners, sits at 440 Chestnut Street and holds 4,400 people across a flexible three-story floor plan built for both seated and standing shows. That is a different order of scale than anything Wedgewood-Houston has hosted before. The neighborhood's music history runs through small rooms and recording studios, not rooms built to headline a national tour calendar.

The Truth's grand opening season runs almost nightly from early October through mid-December, and the first chapter of the lineup is already public:

Sting, Beck, GloRilla, and Jimmy Eat World round out the broader season without confirmed dates yet. Live Nation has projected the venue will generate roughly $74 million in annual economic activity and support more than 400 jobs once it's fully running, figures the company released alongside the lineup announcement. Inside, the room includes Harlan's, a mezzanine whiskey bar named for the late Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard, and a two-story indoor-outdoor space called the Vinyl Room built around the neighborhood's recording history. Whatever you think of a 4,400-seat venue landing in a neighborhood known for warehouse galleries, it is now the loudest new fact on the calendar, and it starts almost immediately.

What's landing on Martin Street

Not everything new here is scaled to a leasing office. A cluster of smaller, independently run businesses has opened within a few blocks of each other on Martin Street this year, most of them tied to the same Wedgewood Village footprint but built around individual owners rather than a corporate concept team.

• Culture Club, Nashville's first frozen Greek yogurt café, founded by brothers Bear and PJ Kaminer, with a toppings bar overseen by James Beard semifinalist pastry chef Noelle Marchetti, previously of The Joseph and Yolan.
• Eberjey, the lingerie and loungewear brand, opened its Nashville debut boutique at 1209 Brown Street.
• Bower, a nail salon co-founded by longtime Wedgewood Houston residents Andrea Fishkin and Amanda Soeder Gleaton, built around non-toxic polish and a curated, appointment-only menu.
• Bell Bird Books, the neighborhood's newest independent bookstore, opened by founder Mary Ann Weprin.

None of these needed a master plan to open. They needed a lease and an owner willing to bet on foot traffic that didn't exist here five years ago.

The Saturday that hasn't moved since 2013

For all the construction, the one fixture that hasn't changed shape is the WeHo Art Crawl. It still runs the first Saturday of every month, it's still free, and it's still self-guided, the same format it launched with in 2013. What has changed is the count. Early listings for the crawl describe roughly a dozen participating spaces; current listings from the neighborhood's own social calendar put the number over 20 galleries, studios, and creative spaces. Nobody built that growth with a leasing office. It happened stop by stop, as more artists and makers moved into the same warehouse blocks that predate all the new development.

The anchors are still the anchors. David Lusk Gallery and Radar 615 remain regular stops, alongside Fort Houston, the neighborhood's longtime co-working and maker space. A few blocks over, United Record Pressing has been cutting vinyl in Wedgewood-Houston since 1962, including the first Beatles 7-inch pressed in the United States. That kind of continuity doesn't show up in a press release, but it's the reason the crawl still feels like the same event it was over a decade ago, even as everything around it gets a new coat of paint.

What this means if you already live here

The practical version of all this: expect Chestnut Street to carry real concert traffic on show nights this fall, especially the run from October 3 through mid-month when The Truth has shows scheduled almost nightly. If you're planning a dinner at Momotaro or Alla Vita on a Friday or Saturday, book ahead. Both restaurants are new enough that early demand is still running high, and neither has the kind of long operating history that makes a walk-in easy.

None of that touches the first Saturday of the month. The Art Crawl runs on its own clock, free and unticketed, and the galleries that have hosted it for over a decade aren't rearranging their hours around a concert calendar two blocks away. Wedgewood-Houston this fall is really two neighborhoods sharing the same zip code: one being built on a construction schedule by developers with a plan, the other still being built the way it always has, one gallery and one Saturday at a time.

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