Music City Center
Grand Opening
May 19-20, 2013
Hyatt
Place
MCC Truck Dock
Entrance
Korean Veterans Boulevard
opens April 17th
SoBro Construction
• 800 Room Omni Hotel
• Country Music Hall of Fame
Expansion
• 255 Room Hyatt Place
• 215 Room Hilton Garden Inn
Recent SoBro Openings
• The Southern Steak & Oyster
• Etch
• Honky Tonk Central
• M Restaurant & Bar
Nashville’s Current Status
• 11 million visitors a year
• $4 billion in visitor spending
• Visitor mix
1/3 leisure
1/3 meetings
1/3 business transient
• Nashville’s second largest
industry
Visitor Industry
• Second-leading industry
• One in five working adults in
Nashville is in a tourism-related
job
• Generates $1.6 billion in wages
NCC & MCC Comparison
• Currently compete for 20-25% of
bookings. MCC will compete for
70-75%.
• Current NCC 118,675 sf of
exhibit space. MCC over
350,000 sf of exhibit space.
Features
• 353,000 sf exhibit hall
• 75,500 sf of ballroom space
57,500 sf grand ballroom
18,000 sf junior ballroom
• 90,000 sf of meeting space – 60
meeting rooms
• 145,500 sf of pre-function space
Features
• 35,500 sf of terrace
19,000 sf on Fifth Avenue
16,500 sf on Eighth Avenue
• 32 loading docks
• 2,200 sf of retail space
• 900,000 sf parking garage with
1,800 parking spaces
Two Ballrooms
• Grand Ballroom
• 57,500 sf
• Largest ballroom in Tennessee
• Seats 4,000 for a banquet
• Built in stage (78 feet wide by 30
feet deep, with a front stage
opening of 58 feet)
• Davidson Ballroom
• 18,000 sf
Songwriters Hall of Fame
• Display in Sixth Avenue
Escalator Lobby
• Three 55-inch touch screens
• Information on Hall members and
memorabilia
• Names of 184 members
engraved in the Crab Orchard
stone steps leading up to the
exhibit
Art
• 8 Commissioned Pieces
• 81 Acquired Pieces
• $2.0 million