A fresh permit filed this week hints that 1711 Division St., the longtime home of The Patterson House, could be back in the bar business soon. The filing lists real estate professional Jane Chera as both the applicant and owner of the property. The Patterson House itself relocated to the Gulch in 2025, leaving the Division Street space up for grabs.
Permit Filing Points to a Bar
As reported by What Now Nashville, the permit application identifies a bar use for the Division Street address but does not yet name a specific concept or brand. The filing lists Jane Chera as the applicant, and documents reviewed by The Nashville Business Journal show both a beer-board permit and a business registration for an entity called Designed Hospitality LLC. Together, those filings suggest the owner or an affiliated operator may be getting ready to bring the space back to life, though the public paperwork stops short of offering concrete details.
Who Owns the Building
The owner listed on the permit is tied to local brokerage The Chera Company. The firm’s public profile includes Jane Chera among its team members and notes activity in Midtown commercial real estate, which lines up with the applicant information on the Division Street filing.
A Midtown Mainstay Moved in 2025
The Division Street spot is best known as the original home of The Patterson House, which left Midtown and reopened in the Gulch in 2025. Coverage at the time from outlets including Axios Nashville documented the move, and The Patterson House’s own site lists the new Gulch address atop the Bill Voorhees building. Once that relocation was complete, the former Midtown location became a prime target for new concepts and potential redevelopment.
A beer-board application usually signals that a concept will seek on-site sales approval through Metro’s licensing process, which is handled by the Metropolitan Beer Permit Board. The board’s meeting minutes lay out how approvals and transfers work and list similar filings for other Nashville venues in recent months, offering a rough guide to timing. For now, the permit does not name an operator or an opening date, and local reporters have reached out to the parties on the application seeking more information…