Grounds for excitement
A contractor’s crew removes the former Wendy’s restaurant from its site to make way for a new 7 Brew coffee and specialty drinks drive-through location on North Charles G. Seivers Boulevard last week. - G. Chambers Williams III
A contracting crew demolished the former Wendy’s restaurant at 2240 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. in just a few days last week to make way for a new 7 Brew coffee and drink shop location, according to Clinton city officials and representatives of the coffee company. Southern Brew Corp. on Sept. 29 obtained demolition and building permits for the 7 Brew drive-up shop, which was estimated to cost $1.2 million. CN Bailey & Co. Inc. was listed as the contractor on the building permit. “We’re excited to bring 7 Brew to the Clinton, Tennessee, community,” company spokesperson Taylor Davis told The Courier News via email. “Our Clinton location is currently slated to open in late winter 2026.” According to its website, the Arkansas-based 7 Brew chain offers a variety of coffee drinks, along with other beverages, such as energy drinks, “fizz sodas,” teas, lemonades, smoothies, and milkshakes.
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The former operators of Master Donut in Clinton plan to open the new Happy Donut shop in the former BK Kitchen Mongolian Grill location at 1115 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd., next to The UPS Store, sometime this month. - G. Chambers Williams III
Owners of a doughnut shop planned for a space between Little Caesars Pizza and the UPS Store in the Centre Plaza shopping center at 1115 Charles G. Seivers Blvd. have told neighbors that they intended to open as early as this week. They have already hung up a temporary banner above the building’s front calling the new shop “Happy Donut,” and a look inside through the front glass shows what’s apparently a front counter already in place for the business. There is a possible hitch in those plans, however. Clinton’s Codes Enforcement Department hung a notice on the front door of the shop last week telling the owners that they still need to obtain sign and occupancy permits from the city before they can open. City Building Official Matthew Widner said Monday that he still had not heard from the business owners, and that the city would not allow them to operate until the permits were obtained and the city had completed an inspection before occupancy. “We just need to do a life and environmental safety review,” Widner said. “It will be fairly easy. We’re all for new businesses in Clinton.
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Council earmarks $3.4M for projects
Clinton City Council has approved more than $3 million for upgrades and projects around the city. The council designated $3.4 million from the city’s unassigned fund balance for capital projects at its Sept. 28 meeting. City Manager Roger Houck told The Courier News the projects include funding to finish the downtown streetscape project, renovations to the Clinton Community Center and South Clinton Community Center, Americans with Disabilities Act upgrades at the Clinton Public Library, downtown drainage improvements, police vehicles, and body and in-car cameras for the Clinton Police Department. The Clinton Community Center will undergo renovations to its indoor pool, while the South Clinton Community Center will receive repairs to its gym floor and new entrance doors. Houck said the community center and library renovations would take place in spring 2027 .
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