Convention Center Hotel Site Comes Back Home

February 5, 2010 by admin · View 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 [...]

May Town Center Development Chatter Resumes

January 26, 2010 by admin · View Comments 

Today, Tennessean reporter Nate Rau, wrote an article explaining that Metro Council discussions of the decidedly utopian 500 acre West Nashville May Town Center development could be revived as early as March. Councilman Matthews, whose district includes the potential site, is considering putting the development proposal on a March public hearing agenda. The Councilman was [...]

9 Against, 29 in Favor of New Nashville Convention Center

January 19, 2010 by admin · View 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 Medical Trade Center Announced

December 1, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

The Market Center Management Company on Monday announced plans to build and operate a $250 million Nashville Medical Trade Center on the site of the city’s existing convention center that officials say could create 2,700 jobs.
Market Center Management officials plan to construct a 12-story tower above the existing convention center with more than 1.5 million [...]

Nashville Convention Center Gets Support & Resistance

October 24, 2009 by admin · View 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 Sues to Seize Convention Center Land

October 20, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

Thanks to the Tennessean for breaking the story about the metro Nashville eminent domain filings. On October 20th, 2009 in the article entitled “Nashville files suit to seize 7 properties for convention center“ Michael Cass writes:
“Metro government officials have taken the first steps toward seizing downtown property for a proposed convention center.
The Metro Development and [...]

Nashville Medical Trade Center Close to Reality

August 22, 2009 by admin · View 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 professionals [...]

Nashville Medical Trade Center Lands Consultant

August 13, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

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 [Nashville] and [...]

Convention Center Hotel to be Marriott Marquis

August 11, 2009 by admin · View 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 and Housing [...]

Music City Center Hotel Build Team Chosen

July 7, 2009 by admin · View 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 planned new [...]

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