At Capitol View, Pokéworks is opening on September 18^th with  1,851 SQ FT. Their address is 416 11th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37203. They will offer a fresh take on Hawaiian-inspired poke bowls and burritos with a customizable menu and convenient online ordering options for pickup or delivery via web or loyalty app. The opening marks the popular concept’s third Tennessee location but the first in the Nashville area and will make its debut with a special “buy one, get one free” poke bowl or burrito offer valid all day in-store on Saturday, September 18 during business hours (11am -9pm).

“We are excited to open our doors in such a thriving and growing neighborhood as Capitol View and to bring our signature fresh take on Hawaiian poke bowls and burritos to Nashville. Our brand has always been committed to investing in the delivery and takeout elements of the guest experience, which is perfect for the fast-paced lifestyle of many in the Nashville community”

– Mike Wu, CEO at Pokéworks

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• Nashville Business Journal
• Nashville Post
• QSR Magazine
• Nashville Guru

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Capitol View Nashville

Capitol View is more than just a collection of buildings. Together with long-time partner Northwestern Mutual, Boyle is developing a 32-acre mixed-use urban district in the heart of Nashville.

• 1,100,000 square feet of office space, including the corporate offices of LifeWay and HCA Healthcare subsidiaries HealthTrust, Parallon and Sarah Cannon
• 130,000 square feet of specialty retail and restaurants
• 169-room Hampton Inn & Suites
• 378 upscale multi-family apartment units
• 2.5 acre urban activity park and community space
• jogging and bike trails connected to the Nashville Greenway system

Live your point of view in the heart of Nashville. Capitol View offers offices, retail shops, restaurants, upscale multi-family residential units, hotels and a 2.5-acre urban activity park that includes a dog park, playground, yoga lawn, and sand volleyball courts. The park is also a trailhead for the Nashville Greenway, connecting Capitol View to biking and running trails throughout Davidson County.

Condado Tacos is opening its first Tennessee location in Nashville on August 19th with a 4,276 SQ FT space at Capitol View. Their address is 418 11th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37203. They will be celebrating their Grand Opening with $5 signature margs, one FREE taco* per person, and for the first time — they’re giving away a Year of Yum (aka a whole lot of free tacos + exclusive Condado merch) to the first 100 people in line Grand Opening day!

“The entire Condado Tacos team is thrilled to be opening our first Tennessee location at Capitol View. We look forward to being part of the thriving Nashville community and sharing a new dining experience with the Capitol View district. The compelling mix of office and residential space made Capitol View an easy choice.”

– Scott Shotter, President of Condado Tacos

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• Nashville Post
• Tennessean.
• Nashville Business Journal
• Wannado.com

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ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT

Capitol View Nashville

Capitol View is more than just a collection of buildings. Together with long-time partner Northwestern Mutual, Boyle is developing a 32-acre mixed-use urban district in the heart of Nashville.

• 1,100,000 square feet of office space, including the corporate offices of LifeWay and HCA Healthcare subsidiaries HealthTrust, Parallon and Sarah Cannon
• 130,000 square feet of specialty retail and restaurants
• 169-room Hampton Inn & Suites
• 378 upscale multi-family apartment units
• 2.5 acre urban activity park and community space
• jogging and bike trails connected to the Nashville Greenway system

Live your point of view in the heart of Nashville. Capitol View offers offices, retail shops, restaurants, upscale multi-family residential units, hotels and a 2.5-acre urban activity park that includes a dog park, playground, yoga lawn, and sand volleyball courts. The park is also a trailhead for the Nashville Greenway, connecting Capitol View to biking and running trails throughout Davidson County.

Shake Shack will soon open its first location in Williamson County. This will mark the third location in Tennessee as Shake Shake currently has two locations in Nashville. The burger restaurant will open its newest location at the McEwen Northside development on Aspen Grove Drive in the Cool Springs area. The “Franklin Shack” will feature a custom mural painted by local Eastside Murals and a walk-up window for online pre-orders.

“We’re very excited to open our third Shack in Tennessee following the success of our Green Hills and Downtown Nashville openings. This location features special touches including a beautiful, custom mural and one of our amazing Shack Track walk-up windows for added convenience to our guest experience. We look forward to bringing Shake Shack to our fans in Williamson County!”

 – Andrew McCaughan, Chief Development Officer of Shake Shack.

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• Tennessean.
• Williamson Herald
• News Channel 5
• Williamson County Chamber of Commerces

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McEwen Northside

McEwen Northside is an inviting urban experience in the vibrant Cool Springs area of Franklin, Tennessee. The unique 45-acre mixed-use environment will include approximately 750,000 square feet of Class A office space, 100,000 square feet of restaurants and specialty retail, a 150-room business-class hotel, 580 luxury apartments, and upwards of 10 acres of beautifully designed green spaces to seamlessly connect the community.

McEwen Northside is located in the core of the compelling Cool Springs submarket and regional retail hub. Cool Springs, a business district within the City of Franklin, is considered one of the most desirable suburban locations in the state because of the strong business climate and wide range of restaurants and retail choices.

The Memphis Business Journal

By Susan Ellis

The Commercial Appeal

Construction could begin this year on residential and retail buildings at the Schilling Farms Water Tower District in Collierville.

On Dec. 14, the Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a preliminary site plan for 257 residential units in the northwest corner of Schilling Farms. Now Boyle Investment Co., the project’s developer, is preparing the final plans.

“We hope we’ll have the residential and retail component under construction in 2021,” said Les Binkley, vice president of Boyle Investment.

The first phase includes 28 buildings for the residential side of the 50-acre Water Tower District, which will include rental properties — 32 townhomes, seven three-story apartment buildings and duplexes. The residential side is located along Schilling Boulevard West between Poplar Avenue and Winchester Boulevard.

“We’ve done a pretty terrific job, I think, of mixing up the building types inside the neighborhood,” Binkley said. “It’s pretty special for a suburban project like this because we have so many different building types with elevator-served buildings, which is rare.”

In addition to elevators, Binkley pointed out the development will include private direct-access garages for some. He also said the community will have a walkable component not commonly seen around Collierville.

Along with residential areas, the first phase contains 40,000 square feet of retail space, 50,000 square feet of office space and the corporate headquarters for IMC Companies, an intermodal logistics provider, which is already under construction.

“I think as far as the retail component, we’re trying to add services to this section of Collierville and this area of Schilling Farms to have more services for corporate office tenants,” Binkley said. “That’s one big thing we try to do.”

Binkley said the phase one construction would last around two years.

Phase two plans, which Boyle has not submitted yet, will include more space for office and apartment buildings and a hotel or two if the market allows.

We have the zoning for it, and we would love to sell a site to a hotel company,” Binkley said. “Just obviously with the COVID pandemic and the stress on hotels we’re not really sure when or if that would occur.”

Binkley expects the market will embrace a development like the Water Tower District because of the walkability, elevator-served buildings and direct-access garages.

“Our project is laid out in a really urban walkable fashion, so all the buildings are pulled up close to the street, they all have front porches and there’s parallel on-street parking,” Binkley said. “It’s a very pleasant, non-typical suburban type of arrangement, and we’re excited for the next phase.”

The Daily Memphian

Collierville’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a preliminary site plan that includes duplexes, triplexes and townhomes at Schilling Farms.

The proposal was approved in a 5-1 vote. Alderman Billy Patton cast the lone vote of opposition, saying he wanted to see more retail or office space.

Boyle Investment Company’s newest component to its mixed-use development, easily seen from Poplar Avenue and Winchester Boulevard, includes 257 units in the first phase of the Water Tower District.

The Planning Commission recommended approval of the proposal in August.

“Schilling Farms is the premier mixed-used development in West Tennessee and the Mid-South region,” John Duncan, Collierville’s director of economic development, said. “The Water Tower District continues Boyle’s thoughtful elevation of the property.”

Schilling Farms’ outline plan was approved in 1991, but amended in 2009 to help allow for mixed-uses within buildings and to help create pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods.

The previously approved outline plan allows up to 1,725 units within the mixed-use development. If the board denied the proposal, they could face legal fees, as Monday’s proposal was in line with the outline plan.

Schilling Farms already has 1,180 multifamily units. With Monday’s approval, an additional 288 could be approved in the future for the mixed-use development.

The Water Tower District won’t contain only multifamily residential units. The project will be completed in two phases. In addition to apartments, the first phase includes 50,000 square feet of office space and 40,000 square feet of retail. Completion of phase one is estimated by the end of 2021.

Patton said he understood the property owners had vested rights, but he would like to see more retail or office space. After the meeting, he noted the developers want the multi-family units to benefit profit, but did not want it “become a problem for the town of Collierville.” He noted multi-family units can put strain on the town’s schools and services, like police and fire.

The second phase will look for approval at a later date, but Boyle officials are hopeful to submit the request in 2021. The company will request about 200 more apartments, two hotels with 100 rooms each and another 150,000 square feet of office space. The developers expect it to be completed in 2028 if it can gain the necessary approvals.

The Daily Memphian

A Crumbl Cookies shop is coming to Williamsburg Village Shopping Center early next spring in the same new building where Torchy’s Tacos and Greys cheese shop will open.

Yes, the regular cookies are $3.48 each.

But consider not just the quality of the ingredients — like cracked eggs, real butter, cream cheese and heavy cream, Dawn Foods baking ingredients, and Guittard chocolate chips — but the size of the Crumbl cookie, said Sam Hiatt, one of the franchise partners for the Memphis-area.

“I would say our cookies are large. It’s hard for someone to eat all of it in one sitting. Ours are 4.5 inches in diameter,” said Hiatt, the operating partner who was born in Memphis but lives in Franklin, Tennessee. “So a lot of people cut it up.”

And there’s something Hiatt started to tell The Daily Memphian before stopping himself.

“There is a secret… wait, I can’t talk about that,” he said.

Pressed about the category of secret, Hiatt said it involves “the consistency of the cookie. It makes it more fluffy on the inside, or crumbly just like our name.

“Crumbl does a good job of cookies baked like we think everybody would want them: warm, and soft in the center and slightly crispy on the outside.

“I would say our cookies are large. It’s hard for someone to eat all of it in one sitting. Ours are 4.5 inches in diameter,” said Hiatt, the operating partner who was born in Memphis but lives in Franklin, Tennessee. “So a lot of people cut it up.”

And there’s something Hiatt started to tell The Daily Memphian before stopping himself.

“There is a secret… wait, I can’t talk about that,” he said.

Pressed about the category of secret, Hiatt said it involves “the consistency of the cookie. It makes it more fluffy on the inside, or crumbly just like our name.

“Crumbl does a good job of cookies baked like we think everybody would want them: warm, and soft in the center and slightly crispy on the outside.

All Crumbl Cookies shops offer the same six flavors each week. But two flavors — chocolate chip and chilled sugar cookie — are permanently on the menu while the other four rotate weekly from a pool of more than 100 flavors.

Also sold in the shops are ice cream and drinks.

The shop at 705 S. Mendenhall will have no inside seating, but two tables outside. The vast majority of orders are takeout and deliveries.

A substantial portion of sales are gifts that customers provide to their friends, loved ones and colleagues, Hiatt said.

“We love that you are buying for other people,” he said. “That’s usually what’s happening. People buy for a party or event or loved one. And there’s a sense of reward that comes with that, a good feeling that comes with that.”

Memphis-based Boyle Investment Co. developed Williamsburg Village about a half-century ago and recently started renovating and building new space there.

Crumbl will occupy 1,300 square feet in the center’s new building at the northwest corner of Mendenhall and Spottswood, said Jonathan Aur, the leasing broker for Boyle Investment Co.

The mix of food- and dining-related tenants Boyle has recruited for Williamsburg Village is “very cohesive,” Aur said.

Southall restaurant, The Hen House Wine Bar, Torchy’s Tacos and Greys cheese shop complement each other, he said.

Williamsburg Village lines both sides of South Mendenhall, and Boyle has already leased or pre-leased 90% of the five buildings comprising Phase I, or the west side.

That west side is composed of a line of five buildings totaling 22,000 square feet.

The Daily Memphian

By Jennifer Biggs

Some “damn good” tacos are coming to Memphis. If you’ve spent much time in Texas, particularly in the Austin area, you know what that means: Torchy’s is on the way. Your Trailer Park taco is coming and you can get it cheesy when you get it trashy.

“Damn Good” is the bold motto that the company calls a mantra, keeping with its fun and funky, “keep Austin weird” food-truck roots. Torchy’s started as one small truck on South First in Austin and founder Mike Rypka’s marketing campaign was handing out food around town on his red Vespa.

It’s grown to more than 80 locations since 2006, expanding first through Texas then in 2016, outside the state to Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana.

Next stop, 711 S. Mendenhall in Williamsburg Village Shopping Center, coming late spring or early summer 2021.

Matthew Miller, who spent 16 years with Bonefish and a couple with Hopdoddy at Poplar and Perkins, joined Torchy’s as the managing partner for Memphis in January. The plan was to have a location open here around July, but COVID delayed it.

The silver lining is that the space on South Mendenhall became available while they were waiting. The Boyle project is quickly turning the block on Mendenhall just south of the railroad tracks at Poplar into a foodie haven. Southall Café opened in September, and soon Greys cheese shop will, to be followed later by the Hen House Memphis wine bar. All are on the west side of the street with Torchy’s site.

Across the street, Magnolia & May recently opened, joining longtimers The Half Shell, Gus’s Fried Chicken, Gibson’s Donuts and Garibaldi’s Pizza, relatively new to the block.

Miller, who has been working at the Baton Rouge Torchy’s location for several months, said Torchy’s Memphis will have 76 indoor table seats, 20 at the bar and 22 outside. A drive-thru is possible, though not a certainty.

“We don’t really have any parking room here (in Baton Rouge), so we use a text system,” he said. “People text when they get here, go to the pick-up lane and we take their order out to them. We might do that in Memphis, too.”

Scott Hudler, Torchy’s chief marketing officer, said that Rypka and his original partners sold a minority interest in the company to growth equity firm General Atlantic in 2017, but maintain the majority interest and creative control.

“Mike was a classically trained chef before he started Torchy’s,” Hudler said. “His idea was to elevate the street taco, but the food trailer was just in a terrible location.

“So he’d literally go to stoplights and hand out food to people in their cars and they would say ‘Man, that’s damn good.’ That just grew to kind of become a rallying call in the organization, and now it’s our mission statement: Be damn good. That’s everything, from the people we hire to the locations to the bar to, of course, the food.”

It’s not really Mexican food and it’s not really Tex-Mex. The tacos are fun and filling. Appropriate for today but around for years, there’s the Democrat, made with barbacoa and avocado on a corn tortilla, and the Republican, with grilled jalapeno sausage and cheese on a flour tortilla.

A best seller is the Trailer Park, with fried chicken, green chiles, pico de gallo, lettuce, cheddar-jack cheese and poblano sauce. ‘Get it trashy’ means hold the lettuce and add green chile queso, the quintessential Torchy’s menu item.

“It’s incredibly addictive. It’s our signature dish with a recipe that is closely guarded. They won’t even tell me what’s in it,” Hudler said. “You can add diablo sauce, you can get it hillbilly style (adding chorizo), so you get to customize it. Sitting down with a group of family or friends and our green chile queso is part of the experience.”

The Commercial Appeal

If you like all things cheese, then you will be excited about this news. Memphis is about to get a new boutique cheese shop.

Jackie Mau and Kurt Mullican just signed the lease on a 1,200-square-foot space for their new venture, Greys Fine Cheese and Entertaining. The cheese shop will be located at 703 S. Mendenhall in a new building in the Williamsburg Village Shopping Center.

Mau and Mullican launched a cheese board business earlier this year. Greys is known not only for its beautifully assembled artisan cheese boards, but also the education component of the business. The duo hosts monthly cheese workshops.

The new shop will have a retail component that focuses not only on cheeses from around the world, but artisan cheeses made in America as well. Mau and Mullican have traveled to creameries across the country developing relationships with the craftsmen who create these unique specialty cheeses.

“We will bring the best in France and Italy, but also will focus on artisanal and farmstead creameries in America,” said Mullican, noting that while large chains like Whole Foods and Kroger’s Murray’s Cheese departments have excellent selections, they have limited access to smaller creameries. “Many of these creameries do not have access to large distribution. It will take some work to get them,” he added.

The retail side of the shop will also include everything you might need to accompany your cheese. Artisan crackers, fresh breads, honeys and jams are just a few of the offerings that will be available.

A cheese bar will also be part of the shop.

“The concept behind the cheese bar is like sushi,” said Mullican. “The menu will rotate and include a flight of three or five cheeses with a pairing.”

Each bite will be a well-designed cheese experience. An example Mullican shared was pairing an ash-ripened Robiola cheese with a four-fruit preserve and black lava salt.

Mau said they plan to serve wine and beer as part of the tasting experience.

Greys will also continue to offer cheese boards for home entertaining.

Educational classes will be held at both the shop and at collaboration events with Memphis restaurants.

 “We want to be your cheese destination,” Mau said. “Whether for a cheese board or to have Kurt cut a cheese to order or for the pairings.”

The shop is set to open Valentine’s week 2021.

Until the shop opens, cheese boards can be ordered online at greyshd.com. Cheese workshops and tastings also will continue. The next cheese workshop is scheduled for Oct. 23 at Studio 688, and a five-course cheese tasting with cocktails is scheduled for Oct. 29 at SOB East restaurant.

The Daily Memphian

By Jennifer Biggs

Southall Café opened Sept. 8 after an extensive renovation to the former Tobacco Corner space at Mendenhall and Poplar, just south of the railroad tracks in Williamsburg Village.

Some good advice: Order the chicken sandwich.

We went for a soft opening and then again for lunch on opening day, both times sampling a bit of this, a bite of that. It’s open for breakfast and lunch only for now, but co-owner Mark Pender intends to eventually open for dinner.

Chef Jesus Ramon came to Southall with experience from Bishop and El Mero Taco, and the menu reflects the creativity and freshness abundant at both those places.

First up, there are three salads: The Mendenhall salad, broad salad and a watermelon salad (Pender grows the watermelons on his farm in Missouri). I ordered the broad salad ($8), a zesty and virtuous bowl of arugula, fresh mozzarella, briny olives, broad beans (though they were lima beans instead of fava beans at the soft opening), and something brand new to me: Milpa sprouts.

I’ll tell you what they are because, well, it’s my job. But it would be fun to let you taste them and see if you can guess the familiar flavor, something I love about sprouts in general: They always taste, at least a bit, of what they will grow to be. In this case, the sweet and slightly spicy sprouts are corn sprouts. I had to ask, then — of course — I felt I should’ve been able to guess it. You can taste it.

We split the salad with an entrée of shrimp and grits — a bargain at $12 with five big shrimp, mushrooms and sautéed peppers in a spicy broth over stone-ground grits and an order of paté.

The Hidalgo paté ($12) is rustic, a coarse mix of pork, fat and spices, and it’s wrapped in a squash blossom, served with pickled jicama, tomatoes, a tiny salad of arugula and milpa sprouts with a chunk of crusty bread.

But the chicken sandwich ($10): It’s such a simple thing but when it’s done right, such a pleasure. They’ve got the touch at Southall, so watch out, Popeye’s. The big chicken breast is breaded and fried super crisp, serve with chipotle mayonnaise, arugula and pickles on a buttered and grilled bun. That’s it — and it’s great. You get your choice of a side.

Merge Memphis ($12) is a breakfast with a bit of most things: Two eggs, sausage, bacon, potato hash and toast. The sausage is a blend that contains chorizo, and I’m not sure that’s my thing for breakfast sausage. Maybe a choice of sage, too? The hash with diced potatoes, onion and yellow pepper was excellent.

I haven’t had dessert, but pastry chef Donald Stockard said he plans to have a good selection every day by next week; he’s also making cinnamon rolls fresh daily.

There’s a full bar; the liquor license was approved late on opening day, and they should be able to serve beer as well by next week. A covered patio that seats 64 people at full capacity will be complete in the next few days, perfect for the cooler weather and for those of us who want to keep eating outdoors as long as we can.

Southall Café, 683 S. Mendenhall, is open 6:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Call 901-646-5698.

The Daily Memphian

By Abigail Warren

The Collierville Planning Commission endorsed 256 additional multifamily units at Schilling Farms between Poplar and Winchester.

The positive recommendation for a new neighborhood – the Water Tower District – includes 16.29 acres already zoned for mixed-use and multifamily. The development will include town homes, duplexes, triplexes and flats and range from one to three bedrooms.

Les Binkley, Boyle Investment Company vice-president, acknowledged this is “one of the most complicated residential developments” the company has done and thanked Nancy Boatwright, assistant town planner, for her assistance during the application process.

He acknowledged the “intricate” design of the neighborhood. Buildings will look unique, not repetitive. Elevator apartment buildings are rare in the suburban market and the project proposes several.

He said the projected can “capture” all ages adding “richness” to neighborhoods.

Due to prior reviews of the entire Schilling Farms project, the development could have up to 289 more multifamily units if the mayor and aldermen approve this neighborhood proposal. The entire project is allowed to have up to 1,725 units, and 1,180 were previously approved and built.

Boyle will seek retail as part of this project at a later date, Binkley said. This phase includes 2,193 square feet of nonresidential space for the leasing office and neighborhood amenities.

Alderman John Worley pointed out the mayor and aldermen are not “aggressively seeking apartments.” He said there were entitlements given to this long ago – before most commissioners and aldermen were in their position.

Commission Chairman Greg Cotton acknowledged the project already was granted the total number of apartments in the outline plan.

“You may not agree with the number of apartments, but they are what they are,” Cotton said, noting there needed to be solid reasoning if they were to turn it down.

Worley said if they rejected the plan, there would likely be a lawsuit, to which Rusty Bloodworth, Boyle executive vice-president, nodded his head.

No residents appeared before the commission to address the project.

One component of the commission’s review included traffic impacts. A traffic study submitted with the application said minor delays could be created near the site including at Schilling Farms Boulevard W and Poplar Avenue.

Jaime Groce, town planner, said the project will likely appear before the Board of Mayor and Aldermen in September. They may ask for the company to make improvements along Poplar at that time.

IMC Companies is making its headquarters home at Schilling Farms. Binkley said his company would like more large businesses to make their home in the development, and a project like the Water Tower District helps encourage their move to Collierville.

The Daily Memphian

By Abigail Warren

Boyle Investment Company is seeking approval of town homes, triplexes, duplexes and flats at Schilling Farms in Collierville.

The town’s Planning Commission is scheduled to review the proposal for the development’s northwest portion at its meeting Thursday. Schilling Farms, a 443-acre mixed-use development, is easily seen along Poplar Avenue and Winchester Boulevard.

“The Boyle Schilling Farms Community is the premier mixed-use development in West Tennessee and one of the nicest ongoing real-estate projects in the Mid-South,” John Duncan, director of economic development in Collierville, said. “Schilling Farms is a key differentiator for us as we continue to promote our community for expansion and relocation.”

This project, known as “The Water Tower District,” will add 256 rental units in town, creating additional living options in Collierville. The neighborhood will encompass a water tower located in the area since the 1950s, when it was farmland. The tower won’t be functional but is a “marker referencing the past,” according to Les Binkley, Boyle Investment Company vice-president.

Collierville has 2,592 stand-alone apartments. The 2040 Land Use Plan says that number should not exceed 3,532 – excluding the Downtown area that could see more. When that plan was developed, town leaders knew of potential multi-family units at Schilling Farms.

The zoning allows multi-family, and previous approvals allow up to 1,725 units. The development already has 1,180.

The Water Tower district will add 109 one-bedroom units, 93 with two bedrooms and 54 with three.

The proposed differing building styles meet town guidelines.

“There’s nothing like it,” according to Rusty Bloodworth, Boyle Investment Company’s executive vice president. “It’s by far the most complex predominantly residential community that’s almost ever been done (in the area).”

He said the only concept in the area slightly similar is Harbor Town along the Mississippi River with its various living options.

Duncan said the neighborhood “continues Boyle’s commitment to Collierville.”

Boyle aims to make the neighborhood walkable, with common open space as a distinct feature of the area.

The property has some old oak trees that Boyle plans to keep. They hope the neighborhood feels secluded away from bustling Poplar Avenue.

Developers also want some nonresidential development on the west side of the property just south of Poplar Avenue.

Schilling Farms has been two decades in the making. Boyle still has land zoned for offices. Binkley hopes another group like IMC Companies will make Schilling Farms its headquarters home.