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About -- Facts

Architecture and Design

Twilight falls on the site, during a nighttime concrete pour


Workers on the largest concrete pour of the project, August 2010

• The total land area of the site is 16 acres and features a 65-foot difference in elevation from the northwest corner of the site to the southeast corner.
• The total square footage of the facility, including parking, is 2.1 million square feet. The actual building is 1.2 million square feet.
• The Music City Center is working to achieve LEED Silver – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – status, and a prominent feature of this will be the 175,000 square-foot green roof, designed to mimic the rolling hills of Tennessee.
• A 360,000 gallon rainwater collection tank will store rainwater from the roof which will then be used to irrigate outdoor landscaping and flush the hundreds of toilets in the building.
• The Music City Center is using 110,000 cubic yards of concrete - almost twice as much as the 56,000 cubic yards of concrete used to build LP Field.
• The building will contain 11,000 tons of steel and 12,000 tons of rebar.
• At its tallest point, the corner of 5th Avenue and Demonbreun Street, the building will be approximately 15 stories tall and will overlook the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• The building will have 13,500 light fixtures with 21,000 linear feet of track lighting, 1,100 doors, and more than a mile of operable partitions.
• Visitors can access different levels through 22 elevators and escalators.
• The Grand Ballroom will be approximately 57,500 square feet – the largest in the city - and the Junior Ballroom will be approximately 18,000 square feet.
• 60 meeting Rooms will occupy 90,000 square feet total.
• The project will include a three-level parking structure for about 1,800 cars.
• Semi-trucks will access the 32 loading docks from a spiral ramp off the extended Korean Veterans Boulevard.
• Sixth Avenue will be routed underneath the Music City Center.
• There will be 5,000 square feet of retail space available.
• The multifunction  Exhibit Hall will be 350,000 square feet, or approximately eight acres.
• The exhibit hall will include utility boxes every 30 feet, providing water, compressed air, and telecommunication equipment for state of the art services to exhibitors.
• More than 30 hang points descending from the ceiling of the exhibit hall will each allow a one-ton exhibit to be hung, all at the same time.
• 5,000 square feet of space is reserved for retail on the first floor.

Local Contractors and Companies

One of the goals of the Music City Center Construction project is provide jobs for local individuals and business opportunities for local companies. To date, more than 415 local vendors, contractors, and service providers have received work through the project thus far.

Aerial view of site in early May 2011, courtesy of Aerial Innovations