The Corner at Division Street Is Filling In: What’s Landing at Everette Downs
Every growing town has a corner that tells you where it is headed. In Mt. Juliet, that corner is increasingly the intersection of Division Street and Mt. Juliet Road — a piece of ground that until recently read as the edge of town and now reads as the middle of it.
The development going up there is called Everette Downs, and it has been filling in steadily since the fall.
Sprouts opened the door
The center's anchor arrived first. Sprouts Farmers Market opened on Oct. 17, 2025, and drew more than 600 people through the doors on its first morning — a turnout that said as much about Mt. Juliet's appetite for grocery options as it did about the brand. For a city that spent years watching residents drive toward Hermitage or Lebanon for a full weekly shop, an anchor grocer on the north side was the kind of arrival that reorganizes household routines.
An anchor tenant does something else, too: it makes the rest of a center leasable. Retailers and restaurant operators want to know that foot traffic already exists before they sign, and a busy grocery store is the most reliable proof of that available. Everette Downs has been signing tenants on the strength of it ever since.
The roster
Developer Bill Robinson set mid-2026 as the window in which most of the center's businesses would be open. That window is now here, and the announced lineup gives a clear picture of what the corner is becoming:
- Rock N' Roll Sushi — the sushi chain, brought in by new franchisees, with early 2026 named as its target
- Asian Co. — a restaurant spanning Asian, Thai and Japanese cooking
- The Back Nine Golf — an indoor golf simulation facility
- MyEyeDr. — the national optometry brand, taking the space next to Sprouts
- Noire The Nail Bar — a nail salon
- Degree Wellness — a self-care and wellness studio
- Sage Dental — dental care
A stand-alone Fifth Third Bank building is also planned for the site, tentatively targeted for early 2027.
Opening timelines in retail construction move, and they move often — permits, buildouts and supply chains all get a vote. Anyone planning a specific visit is well advised to check with an individual business before making the trip. But the composition of the roster is the more durable story here, and it is a telling one.
What the mix says about the city
Look at the list again and notice what it is not. There is no big-box apparel, no category-killer electronics store, no destination retail betting on shoppers driving in from three counties over. Almost every tenant is something a household uses on a repeating basis — dinner out, an eye exam, a manicure, a cleaning, a weeknight hour hitting golf balls indoors when it is too hot or too dark to be outside.
That is the profile of a neighborhood center built for people who already live within a few minutes of it. Which is precisely what has changed about this stretch of Mt. Juliet Road. The rooftops came first, as they always do, and the services follow them — indoor golf and a wellness studio being the modern version of what a generation ago would have been a hardware store and a barber shop.
It also fits a pattern playing out across the city. Mt. Juliet has been adding this kind of everyday commercial capacity in several directions at once, from the north side out toward Lebanon Road, and the effect over time is a town where fewer errands require leaving it.
Elsewhere on the entertainment side of that same growth curve: blacklight mini-golf and an arcade are on the way to Mt. Juliet as well.
More on where to eat around town in our Food & Drink coverage.
