Strategically ALIGNED
A few days after Benjamin and Max Goldberg announced they would be closing Paradise Park, their dive-y trailer park-themed bar on Broadway, in mid 2018, a group of passionate, heartbroken locals started a Facebook page called Keep Paradise Park Alive! A NewsChannel 5 segment announced that locals were distraught. A petition was circulated to “help save the bar,” with its $6 pitchers of Natty Light, stage fashioned out of an El Camino, and beer-soaked Astroturf.
“These guys are morons,” one Facebook post ranted in response to the news that the space would become a four-story cocktail bar.
“We did a terrible job telling the real story,” Benjamin says. “They viewed it as we were buying the building and shutting down this beloved institution that we didn’t give a shit about. None of which was true,” he says. “People would come to us and say, ‘You came in and bought Paradise Park and ruined it.’ Well, we’re the same guys who created it.”
To eat in Nashville is to know Strategic’s core lineup: The Catbird Seat, their high-end, high-priced tasting menu spot; Bastion, the Wedgewood-Houston nacho den, bar, and hidden dining room; and
