Showroom Flex Pull Up Doors
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Light Trade, Industrial & Specialty — The Industrial-Door Use Set
Plumbing/HVAC showroom + office, electrical contractor with counter sales, appliance and kitchen/
bath showrooms, flooring and window/door companies, printing and sign shops, commercial/ghost
kitchens, tech repair, light indoor fabrication, AV/low-voltage, security, and fire protection system
companies, small accessory data centers, and secure asset storage (exotic/vintage vehicles,
precious metals, financial assets, art, and other high-value assets). The 223 Commerce industrialsize
doors make this category genuinely operable in the building — not just theoretically permitted.
B-2 Central Business District — Exceptionally Broad Permitted Use List
The property sits inside Kingsport’s B-2 Central Business District, the city’s most flexible and use permissive commercial zone. Permitted principal uses include — but are far from limited to — the
following, making the building suitable for a wide range of tenant mixes or owner-user concepts:
Retail & Shopping
Clothing and apparel boutiques, gift and card shops, bookstores, antique and consignment, jewelry, art
galleries and artist studios, home goods and furniture showrooms, florists, specialty food retailers
(butcher, bakery, cheese, chocolatier), wine and liquor stores, music and record shops, sporting goods
and bike shops, toy and hobby stores, pet supply, cigar/tobacco, novelty and souvenir shops. Golf cart
sales were explicitly approved by the Kingsport Board of Zoning Appeals in 2025 as a B-2 principal use.
Food & Drink
Sit-down, fast-casual, ethnic, and fine dining restaurants; cafés, coffee shops, tea houses; bakeries and
pastry shops; ice cream, gelato, and frozen yogurt; juice and smoothie bars; delis and sandwich shops;
bars, taverns, lounges, and wine bars. The code also expressly permits brewpubs and craft breweries (up to 10,000 SF of production area in commercial zones), craft wineries, and distilleries with tasting rooms — a natural fit given the in-place Ole Crow Tavern kitchen and King City Distillery operation. Cat cafés were approved by BZA for the Boops & Beans concept in 2024.
Owner Operator Ready | 11,250 SqFt
Building description
Kingsport's steady, measured growth is its qut advantage. Fast-growing markets like Nashville often
overbuild during boom cycles and pay for it in vacancy spikes. Kingsport doesn't carry that risk.
Commercial fundamentals here are unusually tight across every sector — Office at 4.0% vacancy,
Retail at 1.5%, and Multifamily at 5.6%, all outperforming national averages.
What makes this property a rare opportunity is the location: the historic core of downtown, where the
inventory is finite and effectively irreplaceable. You can't build more historic buildings, and the city
isn't adding new ones to the downtown center anytime soon.
Kingsport buying power per dollar of retail rent is 10% to 24% higher than Knoxville, Nashville,
and Asheville, NC.
This metric is critical: rent is ultimately funded by tenant revenue, which is directly tied to the
purchasing power of the surrounding population. In Kingsport, that relationship is more favorable.
223 Commerce Street is one of Downtown Kingsport’s most distinctive commercial assets —
approximately 11,250 square feet of flexible space.
The property sits inside Kingsport's Central Business District — a TIF District, PILOT District, federally
designated Qualified Opportunity Zone, and Tennessee Main Street area — making it eligible for the
City's Façade Grant, Redevelopment Grant, and Downtown Kingsport Loan programs. Qualified OZ
investors can also defer and reduce capital gains tax, then
Building highlights
B-2 Central Business District — Exceptionally Broad Permitted Use List
The property sits inside Kingsport’s B-2 Central Business District, the city’s most flexible and use permissive commercial zone. Permitted principal uses include — but are far from limited to — the
following, making the building suitable for a wide range of tenant mixes or owner-user concepts:
Retail & Shopping
Clothing and apparel boutiques, gift and card shops, bookstores, antique and consignment, jewelry, art
galleries and artist studios, home goods and furniture showrooms, florists, specialty food retailers
(butcher, bakery, cheese, chocolatier), wine and liquor stores, music and record shops, sporting goods
and bike shops, toy and hobby stores, pet supply, cigar/tobacco, novelty and souvenir shops. Golf cart
sales were explicitly approved by the Kingsport Board of Zoning Appeals in 2025 as a B-2 principal use.
Food & Drink
Sit-down, fast-casual, ethnic, and fine dining restaurants; cafés, coffee shops, tea houses; bakeries and
pastry shops; ice cream, gelato, and frozen yogurt; juice and smoothie bars; delis and sandwich shops;
bars, taverns, lounges, and wine bars. The code also expressly permits brewpubs and craft breweries (up to 10,000 SF of production area in commercial zones), craft wineries, and distilleries with tasting rooms — a natural fit given the in-place Ole Crow Tavern kitchen and King City Distillery operation. Cat cafés were approved by BZA for the Boops & Beans concept in 2024.
Light Trade, Industrial & Specialty — The Industrial-Door Use Set
Plumbing/HVAC showroom + office, electrical contractor with counter sales, appliance and kitchen/
bath showrooms, flooring and window/door companies, printing and sign shops, commercial/ghost
kitchens, tech repair, light indoor fabrication, AV/low-voltage, security, and fire protection system
companies, small accessory data centers, and secure asset storage (exotic/vintage vehicles,
precious metals, financial assets, art, and other high-value assets). The 223 Commerce industrialsize
doors make this category genuinely operable in the building — not just theoretically permitted.
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