The East Nashville building home to Hawkers Asian Street Food and previously housing neighborhood watering hole Family Wash has been listed for sale for $4,499,000.
Located at 626 Main St. and sitting on 0.36 acres, the two-story mixed-use building offers 9,800 square feet. Its second floor accommodates co-working space provider Center 615 Loft (the main building for Center 615 is located across the street at 615 Main St.). A surface parking lot located adjacent to both the Hawkers building and the structure housing Bolton’s Spicy Chicken and Fish is part of the listing.
Via an LLC, local businessman Christian Paro owns the for-sale property, having paid $450,000 for it in 2014, according to Metro records. Paro paid $2.7 million in 2012 for the 615 Main St. property (from which Post parent company FW Publishing operates) across from the Hawkers building. Paro also owns the building home to Center 615 Bricks (having paid $395,000 for it in 2010). Those buildings are not part of the current listing.
The listing follows a residential building offering eight studio apartments and with an address of 910 Main St. having been offered for sale for $1,299,000 in mid-June (read here).
Of note, 626 Main St. is sandwiched by the structures housing Bolton’s and Greg’s Auto Repair, two of the east side’s longest-operational businesses.
According to Metro records, Greg Griggs owns the 0.18-acre property that the auto repair shop sits on at 634 Main St., having paid (with some other individuals) $50,000 for it in 1984. Local businessman Justin Leach paid $1 million for the property accommodating Bolton’s, located at 624 Main St., in March 2022 (read here).
Headquartered in Orlando, Fla., the parent company of Hawkers Asian Street Food has the restaurant concept take cues from the food centers and hawker stalls found in Southeast Asia. The company bills its restaurants as using recipes handed down from multiple generations, with offerings including dumplings, spicy curries and crisp pork belly, among other items (read more here).
Paro, who owns Five Points Alley Shops (read here) a few blocks to the east (and housing Pie Town Tacos East), has enlisted James Moore to handle the marketing and sale of the Main Street property.
Moore, owner of Nashville-based Blue Iris Real Estate, is also listing the aforementioned 910 Main St. apartment property.
“It is rare for a fully-renovated mixed-use building like 626 Main to come available for sale along Main Street in East Nashville,” Moore emailed the Post.
