Out With The Old Nashville Convention Center, In With A $230M Skyscraper

This initial artist’s rendering shows the retail space at the corner, with the museum rising in black farther down Broadway. The tower sits farther back on the 5th Avenue side. Credit: Gresham Smith & Partners

Nashville officials have chosen a development team to replace the old downtown convention center with a skyscraper.

Lead developer Pat Emery has experience building, leasing and managing ten large office buildings in Cool Springs. He’ll be working in conjunction with Cushman and Wakefield/Cornerstone, a real estate firm that manages several downtown properties, including the so-called Batman Building.

The 230 million dollar plan calls for a tower that would include office space, retail, and a home for the National Museum of African American Music.

It would also create new conference facilities for The Renaissance Hotel, which adjoins the current convention hall space, as well some sort of pedestrian plaza at the corner of 5th and Broadway.

While the design is still in the conceptual phase, the finished structure could be up to 28 stories tall.