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I love that there is finally a shopping center like this on this side of town. I’m a Target fanatic, so yay. Then there’s a Bath And Body Works, Books A Million, World Market (good foreign food and fun homewares), Ross, Marshalls, etc. Then, there’s the food. A Red Robin, which I don’t love, but it is new. There are new buildings popping up too so I expect a lot more businesses to come in.

The best way to describe this place is fragmented. There are little segments you can turn into every block/​light and it’s highlighted by stone signs accented with big guitars as decoration. How Music City, right? The place makes me wish I lived on the west side. Anytime I can go to Target, Books-​a-​Million, Old Navy, and World Market in the same place is pretty cool with me. I could be completely wrong, but on my last visit I saw some construction across from Target, and the buildings looked similar to the layout of the rest of the place, so more shops may be in their future. Time will tell. Point is if you live on the west side and enjoy bargains, here’s your stop.

It’s good to have something other than a Wal Mart on this side of town. Before this, I had to drive miles out of my way to get to a Costco and a Petsmart, two places I like to frequent. The brand spanking new Target has taken some of the pressure off the White Bridge Road Target, so it is much more pleasant to shop at both now.
There’s also a New York and Company that I don’t have to go into a mall to shop in! Yea! I hate going to the one in Cool Springs Mall. This one is much better laid out and not so picked over.
World Market is here, which is its only location other than way out in Hendersonville. It’s nice to have a strip mall with a little more class that most of the others near me.

I’m not usually on the West side of town, in the Charlotte Pike area, but really needed to go to Target and was already halfway there, so I thought I’d check out the new shopping center. I’m pretty impressed. That area is probably best described as «up and coming” – older neighborhoods that are being turned around by young professionals who can no longer afford the insane housing prices in, say Green Hills and West Meade, and even Sylvan Park. So, this new shopping center was much needed in an area that previously boasted only a Wal-​Mart and a big bowling alley, along with abandoned restaurants and stores.
The shopping center in itself is pleasing to the eye – modern, but not too over the top. Should still be cool in about twenty years – won’t be outdated quickly! As far as the stores in it, they are pretty standard «mid-​scale» mall dwellers – Target (my fave), Bath and Body Works, Old Navy, Books-​a-​Million and World Market, among many others.
Anyway, I’m glad this area is developing – and quickly. Now that I know there is a Target there, I will have one less reason to go to Brentwood! Yay!