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The development team, Colorado-based Phelps Development and Atlanta-based , was chosen Tuesday by the Metropolitajn Development andHousing Agency. Developers and architects say the curved design ofthe $300 million hotel woule fit in with the wave design of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the rounded design of the nearby Sommet Center. The winning team’a proposal was chosen from 10 proposals MDHA will now pick an operatofr forthe hotel. The combined team, calledr Phelps Portman Nashville, will now enter the completde design process for the project and oversee all financiny and construction ofthe hotel.
Phelps Portman recently completed the desig n and development ofthe 1,190-room Hilton San Diego Bayfron t Hotel, which the development team’s senior vice president Roger Zampell says was launched just aftef Sept. 11. He uses that successful projecrt as an example to say that all projects have thei r challengesand Nashville’s hotel will be no differentf as the team begins this task durinh a recession. Zampell says they did not bid on othefr convention center hotels in other saying they picked Nashville becauswe of itscentral location, its strength as a convention market and the city’x entertainment component.
Phelps Portman has been involved with the developmentr of 10 hotelswith 1,0090 or more rooms. Zampel says he expects to have the design proces completed by the first quarter of 2010 and the start of construction will begin threemonths later. Hotel construction will take 34 monthw and it must open by 2013 when conventionds are scheduled for the new Music City The hotel entry will have glass ceilinges and bea vibrant, energizer space, the architects say.
It will offef 100,000 square feet of meeting space, ballrooms, restaurants and Butch Spyridon, president of the Nashville Conventionm andVisitors Bureau, says a 1,000-room hotel is necessar y to allow conventions to take an 800-room block, an industr standard, and leave extra rooms availables for small groups or Spyridon says Portman has been interested in this projecr for three years and was a good choicee for the job. MDHA director Phil Ryan says the next stepds are for the hotel developers to do the designb work and MDHA to start buying up land for the convention center.
Other steps include the city working on financint the convention center and the hotekl developer to work onhotelo financing. He says those steps will take several The hotel will be buil on property south of the Country Music Hall of Severallocal firms, including R.C. Mathew and Morgan & Morgan constructioh companies, architects and the Nashville officre of will be part of the Portman development and construction Ryan says.
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