Now open
US Cellular ready for customers in Clinton Shopping Center
The new US Cellular store has opened in the Clinton Shopping Center on North Charles G. Seivers Boulevard next to Sonic Drive-In. Assistant Manager Berina Edmond, left, and retail consultant Dani Wright are staffing the store fulltime. (photo:G Chambers Williams III )
The center also has the new Penn Station East Coast Subs and Fifth Nail Lounge, and soon a new pizza restaurant.
Assistant Manager Berina Edmond said the US Cellular store at 2220 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. opened just before Thanksgiving, and held its grand opening celebration this past Saturday (Dec. 9).
Edmond and sales consultant Dani Wright are the fulltime employees in the store.
It is an authorized retailer for US Cellular, and is operated by Knoxville-based ProComm Services, owned by Forrest Stover.
US Cellular offers pre- and post-paid cellphone plans, and operates on its own towers and roams on towers of AT&T, where necessary.
The US Cellular store was announced as one of the core tenants of the new center in June 2022, and plans initially were to have it open by the end of 2022.
But delays in construction delayed it until this November.
“This has been a long process,” said Edmond, who transferred to the Clinton store from US Cellular in Halls.
The store is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Edmond said. It is closed on Sunday.
In August, Fifth Nail Lounge opened, following the opening of Penn Station Subs in early March.
Work is still underway on a $700,000 project to build the interior of an upscale, dine-in pizza restaurant with table service at the east end of the center, the most-ambitious project in the four-unit center is the pizza restaurant.
Although no official name has been announced yet, the building permit issued by the city May 11 lists the business as “Burleson Brands Pizza,” which is owned by longtime Knoxville restaurateur Randy Burleson.
There have been reports that it might be called Universal Pizza Company.
Restaurants operated in the Knoxville area by Burleson include Aubrey’s, Stefano’s Pizza, and Bluetick Tavern.
Christopoulos & Kennedy Construction of Knoxville is building the interior of the pizza restaurant, which will have 3,178 square feet of space.
Construction Manager Thomas Perry said earlier that the work should be finished by late summer, but that work has not been completed yet, and no opening date has been announced.
As for the overall center, the city in May 2022 issued a building permit for the nearly $1 million, 7,000-square-foot shell building at the site.
Contractor was listed as Creative Structures, Inc. The site is less than a mile from Interstate 75, Exit 122. It will have 75 parking spaces, according to documents on the Oliver Smith Realty website.
The 1.2-acre site was owned until recently by LKM Properties, the holding company for Weigel’s convenience stores properties.
Clinton City Manager Roger Houck said that Weigel’s had plans earlier to put a second Clinton store on that site, but gave up on the idea when the Tennessee Department of Transportation declined Weigel’s request for a cut through the median on Seivers Boulevard.
