There, Preston launched a successful career in real estate and got married, but when and his wife had children, he wanted them to grow up in his native Tennessee. As a young man, he moved to Colorado to continue his love affair with the outdoors. "He’ll add a vision behind it and that part, I’ve always admired and respected about him." Vacant businesses and a weak schoolĪ country boy from the start, Preston, 62, grew up splashing around in the rivers around Chattanooga. Aubrey is a special person," Marshall added. "He’s touched so many areas of that community. "With all the things changing all around us, I think Aubrey didn’t want it to fall into the hands of someone who didn’t understand it," Marshall said. It was Preston, after all, who recruited Marshall to buy Puckett's in Leiper's Fork back in 1998. Marshall, who now owns seven Puckett's Grocery and Restaurant locations statewide, said he too is happy that Preston will take ownership of the original location. View Gallery: The original Puckett's Grocery in Leiper's Fork through the years Locals believed that was a real possibility, and with good reason. "If someone does that or makes a little clothes store out of it, that'll kill Leiper's Fork." "We don’t want to see some big chain store buy it and ruin it," he said. That's where everybody likes to hang out," Davis said. "I sure am glad" Preston bought Puckett's, said Mike "Goose" Davis, 67, a lifelong Leiper's Fork resident who's considered the village's unofficial mayor. Nashville tourist: Nashville's increasingly raucous reputation rebuffed by tourism leaders The pending sale to Preston is a huge relief to locals, including Preston, who feared an outside buyer would snap up the valuable real estate and rebuild something else on the property.Īssembly Food Hall: Assembly Food Hall adds taqueria to 21-restaurant lineup at Fifth + Broadway "It’s not broken so we don’t plan to fix it," Preston said, "but it does need to be strengthened, and it has to have leadership to evolve it into the future in a positive way."
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