During Tuesday night’s (Feb 21) meeting, the Danville City Council passed all the items forwarded on the previous week by the Council’s Public Works Committee. This included the new lighting system for Danville Stadium; Heartland Properties’ plans for new business structures at 433 and 435 North Gilbert; and finally, Danville High School grad and NFL veteran Trent Sherfield’s plans for My Town Pizzeria, in the old Downtown Event Center at 38 North Vermilion.
Danville City Council begins Tuesday Night Feb 21st meeting while 2014 DHS graduate and NFL veteran Trent Sherfield patiently awaits vote on his My Town Pizzeria project for 38 North Vermilion.
Sherfield was present for the full City Council vote. The 2014 Danville High School grad says the whole motivation for this goes back to his college football playing days at Vanderbilt, when Slim & Husky’s in Nashville became he and his mom’s favorite spot. And the two of them have both been trying to make this happen for a while.
AUDIO: 38 North came up to me, and it had everything that we needed. It had the full kitchen; and we took a leap at it and we were able to get it. And so, the reason why it’s called My Town is so that the people in our city, in our community, have a place where they can come and say, “this is like a slice of home.”
Sherfield says My Town Pizzeria will have a menu all its own, but he is hoping to let the folks at Slim & Husky’s know that great memories of their place motivated him to do this.
AUDIO: I haven’t been able to talk to them just yet. I reached out to one of the owners; they haven’t got back to me just yet. But I don’t want to reinvent the wheel, right? I just want to make sure that I provide a good service. Not just great customer service, but unique customer service; to our citizens and to the people of our community.
Sherfield says he’d love to try and get things rolling at the end of May, right around the time he does a football camp in the area. As for his playing career, free agency begins March 13th; and that’s when Sherfield finds out if he plays for the Dolphins for a second year, or spends his sixth year in the NFL elsewhere.
