The popular Mast General Store has bought a downtown Chattanooga site for $3,795,000.
It will be the second store in Tennessee for the company that originated in an old general store at Valle Crucis, N.C. There is also a Mast General Store at Knoxville.
Other stores are at Asheville, Boone, Columbia, Greenville, Hendersonville, Roanoke, Waynesville and Winston-Salem.
Rhythm and Blues formerly operated at 221 Market. After it closed, the Real Good Smokehouse was there briefly.
The purchase is from Broad Street Land Co. Llc.