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Developers propose to restore Excelsior Club as museum, restaurant and cultural hub; seek $1.5M from city
Summary
A development team seeking to revive the historic Excelsior Club on Beatties Ford Road asked the Jobs & Economic Development Committee on Sept. 2 for $1.5 million in ARPA funds to help fill a roughly $7.8 million project budget gap to rebuild the site as a living museum, performance venue, community kitchen and restaurant.
A private development team presented a proposal Sept. 2 to “rebirth” the Excelsior Club — a historically important social club on Beatties Ford Road — as a replicated historic building housing a living museum, performance space, community cooking and culinary training facilities, and a restaurant that the team said will prioritize second‑chance hiring and local artists.
Lead developer Sean Kennedy, joined by partner Tim Sinema, told the Jobs & Economic Development Committee the existing building is structurally unsound and their plan would demolish and replicate the historic Art Deco facade while creating new indoor and rooftop performance and community spaces. “We are reimagining the Excelsior, the rebirth of the Excelsior,” Kennedy said,…
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