Optimist art

Hammermill Building

An LLC affiliated with Nashville-based Hall Capital has paid $12 million for the Germantown property home to restaurant Optimist and located near the Cumberland River.

The site offers a former warehouse that the seller, an LLC affiliated with Atlanta-based Vantage Realty Partners, purchased in November 2016 for $1 million, Metro records show, and rehabbed. The address of the structure, sometimes called the Hammermill Building, is 1400 Adams St.