Houston Street Has Fifteen New Storefronts Coming. Three Have Actually Opened.

Is Perenn Grocery open yet? Depends who you ask, and when. The bakery's own website still reads "opening late summer 2026" even as September winds down, which puts it in the same holding pattern as four fashion retailers who signed leases on the same two blocks of Houston Street and have yet to cut a ribbon.

Wedgewood-Houston has spent the better part of two years absorbing announcements. AJ Capital Partners' Wedgewood Village, an 18-acre redevelopment of the old May Hosiery Mills campus, has been the source of most of them. One recent tally put the project's 2026 total at fifteen stores and restaurants either open or scheduled to open before the year is out. Fifteen is the kind of number that makes a neighborhood sound finished. Walk Houston Street today and it still isn't.

The Three That Actually Unlocked Their Doors

Three tenants have moved past the press release stage into daily operation, and all three landed inside or across from the same converted mill building.

Hermès opened its Wedgewood-Houston boutique in October 2025, a two-story, roughly 8,500-square-foot space built into the historic May Hosiery Mills structure at 510 Houston Street. Hermès America president Diane Mahady told WWD at the time that "it's in an old hosiery mill so it sort of speaks to the industrial past of Nashville."

Brunello Cucinelli followed on March 21, 2026, taking a 3,650-square-foot storefront at 505 Houston Street directly across from Hermès. That date held. No slippage, no re-announcement, just a boutique that opened when it said it would.

Momotaro took the longest road to the same result. Boka Restaurant Group first floated the Nashville concept back in 2022, and the modern Japanese restaurant didn't seat its first table at 519 Houston Street until Friday, June 5, 2026, nearly four years after the idea was public. Once open, it delivered on the specifics: a temaki hand roll program built for the Nashville location, seafood flown in multiple times a week from Tokyo's Toyosu Market, and a dry-aging program for bluefin tuna and kampachi that didn't exist at the original Chicago restaurant. The wait was real. So was what showed up at the end of it.

The Four Still Waiting On A Calendar

Four more retailers signed leases in the same stretch of Wedgewood Village, and all four are still described in terms of a season rather than a date.

Zimmermann committed to 2,186 square feet at 503 Houston Street, its first standalone Tennessee location, targeted for summer 2026. Staud signed for 1,742 square feet at 515 Houston Street, Suite 101, also summer. Malbon took 2,534 square feet at 501 Houston Street for its own summer target. Eberjey, the sleep and loungewear brand, aimed for spring 2026 at 1,209 Brown Street. As of late September, none of the four had a public grand-opening date attached to their name beyond the season first announced back in March and April.

Perenn Grocery sits in the same category. The O'Laskeys, who already run Perenn Franklin and Perenn Bakery in Berry Hill, planned their third Middle Tennessee concept for the corner of Martin and Humphreys inside Wedgewood Village. Their own site still lists "late summer 2026" as the opening window.

Here's how the timeline actually breaks down against what was promised:

Zimmermann, Staud, Malbon, Eberjey and Perenn Grocery are all still listed under their original seasonal targets, so it is worth confirming each one's hours as they announce opening days.

Meanwhile, The Neighborhood Kept Running Without A Press Release

While the big-name leases sat in limbo, smaller, locally owned businesses moved faster and mostly quietly.

Culture Club opened its flagship frozen Greek yogurt shop in Wedgewood-Houston and expanded to a second walk-up window downtown at Chief's on Broadway within weeks of that first opening. No multi-month "coming this summer" window, just a second location before most people finished trying the first.

Dozen Bakery has operated in the neighborhood long enough to become the kind of place people drive across the city for handmade breads, pastries, and sandwiches, with weekend crowds arriving early enough to beat the sellout. Humphrey's Street runs out of a converted house nearby, with all proceeds going toward programs for South Nashville youth, the sort of fixture that doesn't need a leasing announcement to matter to the people who already show up.

Art has its own rhythm here too. David Lusk Gallery and Zeitgeist anchor a district with more galleries per block than most of the city, and the first Saturday of every month brings a free Art Crawl running 6 to 9 p.m. across more than a dozen venues, no reservation required and no summer window to miss.

The Sock Factory Behind the Storefronts

The building anchoring all of this, May Hosiery Mills, spent the first half of the twentieth century as the largest sock factory in the South. Its hand-finished knit products reportedly ended up on Neil Armstrong's feet when he took his first steps on the moon, a detail AJ Capital's Kyle Allen has repeated enough that a sock illustration now serves as Wedgewood Village's logo. The building that now houses the Hermès boutique once made socks that went to the moon, a piece of history the Wedgewood Village logo keeps in view.

Planning Around A Neighborhood Still In Motion

If you're mapping out a Saturday on Houston Street right now, the safe bet is to check what's confirmed rather than trust the season attached to a leasing announcement. Momotaro, Hermès, and Brunello Cucinelli are open and operating on normal hours. Culture Club, Dozen Bakery, and the monthly Art Crawl don't require checking anything at all. Zimmermann, Staud, Malbon, Eberjey, Perenn Grocery, and The Truth are all still worth watching, just not worth building an evening around until one of them actually posts a date.

Wedgewood-Houston isn't behind schedule so much as it's running two schedules at once, one for the tenants who need a global rollout strategy to open a door, and one for the ones who just open it.

If you're the type who likes tracking a neighborhood block by block instead of waiting for the next press release, The Scott Zeller Team keeps an eye on what's actually happening on the ground in Wedgewood-Houston, not just what got announced.