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East Nashville restaurant Boston Commons reopens one year after tornado
An East Nashville restaurant hit hard by the March 2020 tornado has finally reopened nearly a year later.
and last updated 2021-03-03 09:56:20-05
EAST NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â An East Nashville restaurant hit hard by the March 2020 tornado has finally reopened nearly a year later.
Boston Commons has been around for years. But the restaurant on Woodland Street was closed for most of 2020 after it was hit by the tornado.
That morning started with a phone call. A manager was telling me that, Matt, this is bad, owner Matt Charette explained. You know, one of your buildings is completely destroyed. We ve got broken glass everywhere. We ve got people hurt.
It’s a beautiful, sunny day today in Nashville, one that also marks the 365-day deluge of devastation for Middle Tennessee including the city’s restaurants and bars over 40 of which were damaged or devastated by the March 3 tornado in 2020. And that was just the beginning.
No one needs a reminder of what it was like to live through the sounds of the midnight tornado that ripped through 50 miles of town one year ago, and certainly not of the heartbreaking loss of life and hundreds of homes, restaurants, and other businesses that came to light with the sunrise that March morning. Those are images that many find triggering, even more so after the year that unfolded in Nashville. The tornado was the natural tragedy that began the 2020-2021 year, which also included the coronavirus pandemic, a social justice reckoning and protests, a derecho, a Christmas morning bomb, and an ice storm that all furthered the overwhelming toll on the city’s once-bustling restaurant and tourism in
East Nashville, a Year After the Tornado Looking at some of the East Side restaurants and food businesses affected by the March 3 storm Tweet Share The steeple from The Church at Lockeland Springs in East Nashville was sitting on the ground near the church for nearly a year, one of many reminders of the March 3 tornado’s destruction. But a couple weeks ago, a crane lifted the steeple back up to its perch. And several weeks before that, the rehabbed neon sign at Weiss Liquors ripped from its longtime home by the tornado’s deadly winds lit up Main Street again. The steeple and the sign reach toward the sky over two different but historic establishments the church was built in the early 1900s, and the liquor store has been in its East Nashville location since the mid-’60s. They’re beacons of “normal” in a neighborhood ravaged by the storm almost a full year ago.