At the corner of Sam Ridley Parkway and Highway 41, Smyrna's newest district has two restaurants serving customers and a grocery store with an opening date. The amphitheater, dog park, playground and walking trail in the renderings don't have a date yet. Equitable Property Company and Chapman Capital are building a $400 million, 44-acre project here. As of this month, the parts that are open are the everyday stops.
The order matters if you live a few minutes away. For the next stretch, Sewart's Landing works as a place to eat and, soon, to buy groceries. The walkable town-center version of it is still on the drawing board.
What is actually open this month
The Murfreesboro Pulse reported on October 1 that Jonathan's Grille and City Barbeque were the first businesses open at Sewart's Landing. Here is where every named tenant stands as of this week.
| Business | Where | Status |
|---|---|---|
| City Barbeque | 110 W. Sam Ridley Parkway | Open; grand opening Aug. 24, 2026 |
| Jonathan's Grille | 160 W. Sam Ridley Parkway | Open by early October 2026 |
| Sprouts Farmers Market | 2015 Pilot Pl. | Listed to open Nov. 13, 2026 |
| Harvey's NY Bagels, Teriyaki Madness, Dave's Hot Chicken, Paris Baguette, Club Pilates, Brew Y'all | Sewart's Landing | Announced Oct. 2026, no opening dates |
| Wawa, Wilson Bank & Trust, Keke's Breakfast Cafe, Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa, Scissors & Scotch, Encore Nails | Sewart's Landing | Expected tenants, no opening dates |
City Barbeque came first. Rutherford Source reported its hours as 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday. It offers a patio, a drive-through, dine-in, carryout, delivery and catering.
Jonathan's Grille is a family-owned chain based in Nashville. When it opened in Murfreesboro in 2017, Rutherford Source described that location as its first in Rutherford County. The chain's locations page now lists Smyrna next to Murfreesboro, Mt. Juliet, Spring Hill, Hendersonville, Gallatin, Brentwood and other Middle Tennessee locations.
November 13 is when the district starts to work
The developers call Sprouts the grocery anchor, and anchor is the right word. On Sprouts' Tennessee store directory, Store #577 in Smyrna is listed as "Opening November 13, 2026." The address is 2015 Pilot Pl., and the store's location is given as Sam Ridley Pkwy. & Motlow College Blvd. That date is about three weeks away. The Pulse's October report only said "November."
Restaurants draw occasional visits, while a grocery store brings people back every week, and that weekly traffic is what makes the pending coffee shop, bagel bakery and fitness studio worth building out. The tenants already announced fit that pattern. They're morning stops like Harvey's NY Bagels, Paris Baguette and Brew Y'all, a coffee concept from Mobile, Alabama. They're also standing appointments, like Club Pilates, Hand & Stone and Scissors & Scotch. All of them depend on people already being on site for something routine.
The Sprouts address also shows how the site is laid out. Smyrna Planning Commission minutes describe the main entrance coming off W. Sam Ridley Parkway. Primary access to two outparcels is from Allan Sewart Way and Pilot Place. Sprouts sits on Pilot Place, so drivers headed to the grocery store can use a side street and stay out of the main Sam Ridley entrance.
The waiting list is longer than the open list
Only two businesses are open and one more has a date. Twelve others are named with no date. When the Pulse covered Sewart's Landing in August, it said many units were expected to open in 2027, with other buildings still under development in the years after that. Nothing since then has tied a date to Wawa, Keke's Breakfast Cafe, Dave's Hot Chicken or anyone else on the list.
The October announcement added six tenants without moving any opening dates up. So the tenant list will keep growing faster than the number of open doors. When a new name shows up in a local business column, treat it as a signed lease and expect the opening later.
The full plan is large. The Pulse lists nearly 280,000 square feet of retail and dining, 268 residential units and two hotels with 240 rooms between them. It also includes medical office space. The developer's project site puts office and medical space at up to 400,000 square feet. The two open restaurants make up a small share of that.
The gathering place is the final phase
Equitable Property Company President Land Deleot described the goal in the Pulse's October report:
"Our vision has been to create a true gathering place for Smyrna—a walkable district where people can shop for groceries, grab coffee, work out, meet friends for dinner and take care of everyday needs all in one place."
Each item in that sentence is a business, and the businesses are arriving in the order he listed them. The pieces that would turn those errands into a district are the amphitheater, the walking trail, the dog park and the playground. All four sit in the 12 acres of planned green space, and none has a delivery date. When Rutherford Source covered the 2024 groundbreaking, the plan already called for a pedestrian-focused street grid, streetscapes and a walking trail around the site. In August 2025, the same outlet described the green space as almost 10 acres. The green space got bigger on paper between 2025 and 2026, and it is still the piece without a schedule.
If you live nearby, that means the amphitheater concerts and dog park mornings people imagine for this site are still a few seasons out, even after Sprouts opens.
Why the side street is called Allan Sewart Way
The developer's site calls the tract the historic grounds of the former Sewart Air Force Base. According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers history, the base opened as Smyrna Army Flying School in 1942. It was deactivated in 1947, came back as Sewart Air Force Base in August 1948 and stayed open until July 1970. The former base is now Smyrna Airport. A local memorial history says the base was named for Allan J. Sewart Jr., a Tennessean, and dedicated in his honor on March 25, 1950. That page dates the base's active years a little differently, from 1941 to 1971, and says the last C-130 left on May 31, 1971.
The land had a public owner before it had tenants. WKRN reported that the Town of Smyrna owned the roughly 45-acre site when it chose the developer. So the access road leading to the new Sprouts carries the name of the Tennessean the base honored.
The base history also has a spot on the town calendar this fall. Smyrna's Veterans Day Ceremony is set for Wednesday, November 11, 2026, from 11 a.m. to noon at the Kuss Memorial at Lee Victory Park. That's two days before Sprouts is listed to open on the old base grounds.
If you're curious how a grocery anchor and a growing tenant list could affect the value of a home near Sam Ridley Parkway, I'm glad to go over what's open, what's planned and what the recent sales show. Brad Fowler keeps track of Smyrna one opening at a time. Let's Connect.
