After 31 years at 416A Broadway, Jack’s Bar-B-Que has officially sold its landmark Lower Broadway building to longtime neighbor and friend JesseLee Jones and his wife, Emily Ann Jones, owners of Robert’s Western World.

Founder Jack Cawthon is often credited with igniting the first wave of revitalization on Lower Broadway, and is said to have “opened the flood gates for neon.” Cawthon first opened a Broadway location in 1991 near Riverfront Park. In 1994, after being displaced by the construction of the Hard Rock Cafe, he relocated to 416A Broadway, where he helped shape the neon-lit character of Lower Broadway we know today.

Interestingly, the buildings at 416A and 416B were once connected by large archways. This sale reunites the properties into one historic Broadway address. Jack’s smo

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