Firehouse Subs Returns, HomeGoods Opens Oct 22 in Etown

Key Takeaways

• Splatter & Shatter giveaway winners: Belinda Camp (six-person Splatter paint room session) and Megan Hatfield Goodman (six-person Shatter rage room session), drawn at random from more than 750 entries
• Firehouse Subs returns to Etown this week, with different owners than last time, and a Radcliff location is aiming for November or December
• HomeGoods opens Thursday, October 22 at City Center, the former Towne Mall
• The Eriksen building on Mulberry and its triple fountain are gone
• City Center is getting a new fountain, and Buckle is coming in November

Summary

Nate Bryan opened his segment with the winners of the Splatter & Shatter giveaway, then ran through a busy week: Firehouse Subs coming back to Etown, HomeGoods opening at City Center, and more stores still on the way to the former Towne Mall.

He also marked the end of a landmark. The Eriksen building on Mulberry, for decades the home base of Eriksen Chiropractic, has been demolished, and the triple fountain out front went with it.

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Splatter & Shatter: the winners

Splatter & Shatter, the new paint and rage room in downtown Elizabethtown, opened last week. Nate said you park in the same lot you would use for HubHaus, Social Food Hall and Off The Clock. He got a tour, and he and Hardin Local teamed up with the owners on a giveaway that drew more than 750 entries.

The winners: Belinda Camp won a six-person session in the paint rooms, the Splatter side, and Megan Hatfield Goodman won a six-person session in the Rage Room, the Shatter side. Nate said the drawing was random and ran through Zeffy, his wife Courtney audited it, and he showed Phil the screenshots. To claim, the winners just go to Splatter & Shatter and give their names.

The hosts watched the collab video on air. In the Splatter room you load up a paint gun and aim at the wall, though Nate admitted his accuracy was not that great, and the finished piece takes a while to dry depending on how thick your paint is, but they let you keep it. Courtney ended up shooting Nate with the paint. In the Shatter room it was bottles, a printer and a bat. "I need to work on my swing. I haven't swung a bat in quite a while," Nate said.

He also wanted people to know they take protection seriously: there is a fence, and he wore boots, a protective mask and gloves. It wore him out after about 15 minutes. One rule for now: you cannot bring your own things to smash yet. "And they said yet," Nate noted. The hosts guessed part of the reason: things like old printer toner are toxic, and you do not want that in the air.

Nate's bigger point was about what is opening around here. "Not only are we getting more entertainment, date night, fun night things, but it's different things," he said. "It's not all the same thing over and over."

Firehouse Subs is back

Courtney is excited about this one. Firehouse Subs got pushed back a week, but it is coming back to Etown, near Publix. Nate said the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce has a ribbon cutting on Tuesday and the restaurant officially opens Monday after some brief delays. Nate said he used to get the Hook and Ladder. For anyone with concerns from last time, he said the owners are different.

Radcliff is getting one too, on Dixie in the blue building next to Pizza Hut. Nate thinks that one opens around December, with the owners shooting for November. "Hardin County is going from zero to two Firehouse Subs," he said.

HomeGoods opens October 22

The other big opening of the week is HomeGoods at City Center, the former Towne Mall, on the side next to Belk. It opens Thursday, October 22. Nate expects a huge crowd and said he will find out whether there are any giveaways.

The Eriksen building is gone

Then a little nostalgia. The Eriksen building on Mulberry, with its triple fountain out front, has been torn down this week, and the fountains were not kept. Nate said he has been told the buyer bought it at auction, along with the house behind it.

Grafton asked what the building was for anyone who does not know it. Nate explained it was Eriksen Chiropractic's home base, where the practice started and made its name. "When you thought chiropractic in Hardin County, that was the first thing at least to me that came to mind," he said.

He remembered Etown's two big fountains growing up: the Eriksen fountain on Mulberry and the one at the old Coke plant at the corner of the bypass and Dixie. In the last 10 to 15 years, both have gone.

City Center: a fountain and more stores

Grafton asked whether anything like that is coming to City Center. Yes, Nate said: City Center will get a fountain, between Visionworks and Bath & Body Works. The design has changed from the original rendering, from wide and horizontal to something more vertical, with levels and a waterfall splashdown. It is supposed to have lighting and music packages and brass horses. The last time he checked, it was not close to ready for water.

The new blue City Center sign and a directory sign by McDonald's are up, though Nate expects something more to come. It is no longer an indoor mall: every store has an exterior entrance now.

Still to come, per Nate: Buckle in November, Shoe Department Encore reopening after its remodel, a big box store, and several other openings including two restaurants and a coffee shop. "I do miss the mall," he said, "but I'm excited for the opportunity in the future to come."

Nate closed by noting that some businesses rescheduled events because of last weekend's weather, and he will have more next week.

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