Nashville Music City Center

The Music City Center is Nashville's convention center located in the heart of downtown. The 2.1 million square foot facility opened in 2013 and was built so that Nashville could host large, city-wide conventions in the downtown area. The mission of the Music City Center is to create significant economic benefit for the citizens of the greater Nashville region by attracting local and national events while focusing on community inclusion, sustainability and exceptional customer service delivered by our talented team members. In 2004, Metro Nashville released a study recommending the construction of additional convention space in Nashville, either through expansion of the existing Nashville Convention Center or development of a new downtown convention center. The Music City Center Committee was formed to study both possibilities, and in February 2006, presented a report demonstrating the best option would be to build a new convention center - one large enough to accommodate 75 percent of the nation's convention and visitor market. The project gained momentum after Karl Dean was elected Mayor in September 2007. Dean announced early on that one of his priorities was seeing the construction of a new downtown convention center come to fruition. The Music City Center Coalition was formed by business leaders, grassroots community activists, and many Nashville residents to support the project.