Music City CenterMusic City Center

Grand OpeningGrand Opening

May 19-20, 2013May 19-20, 2013

MCC Truck Dock Entrance

Hyatt Place

Hampton Inn

HiltonGarden

InnKorean 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 leisure1/3 meetings1/3 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

• 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

Two Ballrooms

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