Convention Center Hotel Site Comes Back Home

February 5, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments 

According to the Nashville Business Journal, A Davidson County Circuit Court judge has ruled that the MDHA has the right to take a 5.7-acre parcel from Tower Investments for the Music City Center convention hall project. Clearly, this is a massive legal victory for the new convention center as the Tower Investments parcel of land [...]

9 Against, 29 in Favor of New Nashville Convention Center

January 19, 2010 by admin · 5 Comments 

The Metro Nashville City Council has voted 29 to 9 to move forward with funding the new $585 million downtown Nashville convention center also known as the Music City Center. The financing package approved by council tonight allows for a maximum of $650 million. That covers both the price of the project and financing costs such as [...]

Nashville Convention Center Gets Support & Resistance

October 24, 2009 by admin · 11 Comments 

It’s clear to me that the new Nashville convention center is going to be built and all of the pubic opinions trust upon us by the media is simply entertaining noise. Of course, this is only my educated opinion and not the collective  opinion of the entire city. Well, when I read headlines like, “Nashville [...]

Nashville Medical Trade Center Close to Reality

August 22, 2009 by admin · 3 Comments 

This article entitled “Medical trade center closes in on downtown location” appeared in the Nashville Business Journal on August the 21th, 2009. The author is Jenny Burns: “Market Center Management Company is in negotiations for a downtown location to bring its mammoth medical trade center to Nashville, a move that developers say will bring thousands of health care [...]

Nashville Medical Trade Center Lands Consultant

August 13, 2009 by admin · 1 Comment 

This article entitled “Nashville medical trade center hires adviser with Vanderbilt ties” appeared in the Tennessean on August the 13th, 2009. The author is Getahn Ward: A Dallas-based company with plans for a medical trade center in Nashville has hired the former head of a Vanderbilt-linked think tank as a senior adviser. David Osborn will be based here [...]

Convention Center Hotel to be Marriott Marquis

August 11, 2009 by admin · 8 Comments 

This article entitled “Marriott picked for Nashville’s convention center hotel” appeared in the Nashville Business Journal on August the 11th, 2009. The author is Jenny Burns: “Hotel developers said Tuesday the 40-story hotel that will accompany Nashville’s proposed convention center will be a Marriott Marquis hotel, one of four in the country. The Metropolitan Development [...]

Music City Center Hotel Build Team Chosen

July 7, 2009 by admin · 19 Comments 

Phelps Portman Nashville, LLC Selected to Develop, Design and Build 1,000-room Convention Center Headquarters Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.   NASHVILLE, Tenn. and ATLANTA, June 19 /PRNewswire/ – The Nashville Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) announced that it has selected Phelps Portman Nashville, LLC to develop, design and construct a 1,000-room hotel adjacent to the [...]

New Nashville Convention Center Already Booking

July 6, 2009 by admin · 4 Comments 

This article entitled “2 large groups book Music City Center” appeared in the Nashville Business Journal on June the 18th, 2009. The Journal reports:   “Two large associations representing 40,300 booked room nights in all have signed on to hold their conventions at the yet unbuilt Music City Center.   The American Trucking Association will [...]

Medical Trade Center May Come to Nashville

May 18, 2009 by admin · 3 Comments 

This article entitled “Dallas company plans huge medical trade center in Nashville” appeared in the Tennessean on May the 18th, 2009. The author is Naomi Snyder: “A subsidiary the real estate conglomerate owned by the Trammell Crow family plans a medical trade center in Nashville that would rival the size of the planned Nashville convention [...]

Music City Convention Center Update

January 17, 2008 by admin · 2 Comments 

The Mayor of Nashville met with the Metro Council today to present the new EXPANDED plans for the new Nashville convention center (be sure to watch the video of the newscast as well). The new plan includes more restaurants, more shops, a green roof, and a downtown movie theatre. The new convention center will take [...]