According to recent permits, the local favorite and OG Nashville hot chicken inventor, Prince’s Hot Chicken will join the growing list of restaurants to open at the forthcoming Tanger Factory Outlets Center in Antioch this fall.
The site is expected to finish construction efforts by the fall of 2023, likely in September or October, though an exact date is unknown. Tanger Factory Outlets will have an address of 4060 Cane Ridge Pkwy, near the I-24 in the Century Farms development in Antioch, a nearby Nashville suburb.
Prince’s will become one of 70 retailers and restaurants at the new outlet shopping center, including some locally loved restaurants like Red Bicycle and Just Love Coffee Cafe. More restaurants are expected to be announced as Tanger’s opening date approaches.
The Tanger Factory Outlet Mall in Antioch has been years in the making and has garnered a lot of attention around its construction. Tanger faced multiple building delays due to the Covid-19 virus in 2020, finally broke ground in May 2022, and has recently announced that September is officially its targeted opening goal, as reported by local news outlet WKRN.
Prince’s owner and great-niece of founder Thornton Prince, André Prince Jeffries, sits at the helm of each Prince’s location. Her longtime business partner and former employee Mario Hambrick, who also owns the future Prince’s North Nashville building, assists Jeffries with the operations of her restaurants.
It’s said that Prince’s Hot Chicken is the original creator of the hot chicken we’ve all come to know and love today. In 1945, the scorned wife of Thorton Prince wanted to get back at her husband after a night of alleged infidelity by adding spice to his dinner, yet the plan backfired because the chicken was too delicious for Prince to care about the heat, states the Prince’s website.
The menu at Prince’s is expected to offer their fan-favorite chicken sandwich, wings, tenders, and a variety of side dishes like baked beans, coleslaw, potato salad, mac and cheese, and seasoned fries.
What Now Nashville reached out to Jeffries and Hambrick for comment, but did not immediately hear a response.
