Well, two years after Ramble on Summer was announced by Mason Jambon, the mixed-use development is moving beyond the proposed, thinking-about, might-be-happening stage.

This week, the Bartlett Planning Commission recommended approval of the master plan for the mixed-used project at U.S. 70 and Yale Road and sent the development to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen for consideration.

The recommendation came on a night where the commission also blessed the latest section of Union Depot. That was just an extension of a project already under construction.

Ramble is a different matter.

As reporter Michael Waddell has documented, Jambon first presented the idea at 7157 U.S. 70 (Summer Avenue, if you will) in February 2024. Initially, the idea was a restaurant and an outdoor entertainment venue. When the concept plan was approved six months later, residential was added to the ide

Since then, very little about Ramble or when it would open was publicized. But Jambon long ago missed his initial hopes of opening in the summer of 2025. In fact, the time between Ramble on Summer’s announcement and this week’s approval was long enough that Jambon opened a restaurant — Ragin Cajun Seafood & Po Boys — across from Freeman Park in the interim.

Under the latest concept, Ramble will have commercial on the western side of the property, residential on the eastern side with a 6,200-square-foot restaurant in the middle. The residential will be 36 townhome lots.

Ramble on Summer and Union Depot have the distinction of being the first two of such mixed-use projects in Bartlett. And they are key factors in development of the U.S. 70 corridor from Stage Road heading northeast.

The consistent traffic on 70, the crossroads at Yale Road and the visibility of the former Bartlett Nursery site — not to mention the nursery’s clientele — draws interest to the project. Not to mention the potential entertainment value.

With the concept breaking through the Planning Commission review and headed to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, here’s hoping that the idea can move quickly from approval to completion. — Suburbs editor, Clay Bailey

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Ramble on Summer and the latest phase of Union Depot have received recommendations from the Bartlett Planning Commission.

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