Cordish’s next entertainment district: Nashville Live!
The company that built Kansas City Live! and Bally Sports Live! and Ballpark Village in St. Louis has recently broken ground on Nashville Live!
Baltimore-based Cordish Companies is turning the George Jones Building in downtown Nashville into a 50,000-sq.-ft. multi-level entertainment and dining center that will feature a Draftkings Sports & Social and a PBR Cowboy Bar.
As with its projects in Kanasas City and St Louis, the Nashville location will be located near major sports venues. Nashville Live!’s future home on 2nd Avenue North is just two blocks from Bridgestone Arena, home of the NHL’s Nashville Predators. And patrons will be able to cross a pedestrian bridge over the Cumberland River to see the NFL’s Tennessee Titans play at Nissan Stadium.
“With five levels of new-to-market brands including DraftKings and PBR, two of the most exciting names in sports and entertainment, we are creating a premier dining, entertainment, music, and sports experience for downtown,” said Cordish Companies principal Reed Cordish.
Game days will be celebrated at the property with live fan-cams, musical performances, and lighting effects. DraftKings, in its second partnership with Cordish, figures to be the most popular pre-game haunt to place bets and watch games live on its wide-screen TV walls.
The Professional Bull Riders association’s PBR Cowboy Bar, which has partnered with Cordish on a location at the Fenton mixed-use development in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, will feature live country-western entertainment. It, too, has a sporting connection: The Nashville Stampede, one of eight teams in a newly formed bull-riding league.
On top of Nashville Live! will be the AVA Rooftop Bar, a space that will serve a light-bite Mediterranean-inspired menu and host special events, celebrations, and private parties.
Nashville Live!, is part of the city’s effort to revitalize the section of its downtown where Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a bomb in a recreational vehicle on 2nd Avenue on Christmas Day in 2020, injuring eight people and damaging several buildings in the area.
Cordish plans to open its new project before the end of 2023.