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Originally Posted by TonyAnderson
So why another convention center?
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The current one is outdated and much too small for conventions to use, namely the size conventions that the city is trying to atract. It has also been in the city's long-term plans for many years now and this will be Mayor Dean's legacy project. The previous mayor, Purcell, tried to get this going but couldn't get enough support, but that changed in the past 2 years and now has come to fruition.
The current convention center only offers a total of 118,675 sq. ft. of exhibit space, and the ballroom is not very large either. There is an excellent, approved project that will reuse the current space, the Nashville Medical Mart.
Nashville Medical Mart:
A map showing the sites of the MCC and the Medical Mart, as well as the lot of the anchor hotel for the convention center and even the proposed downtown baseball stadium.
The two neon green boxes are two completed projects in SoBro. The one catty-cornered to the hotel site is the Encore Condminiums. The other, large box is the Pinnacle at Symphony Place office tower.