MUSIC CITY CENTER ECONOMIC IMPACT DOUBLES YEAR OVER YEAR

MUSIC CITY CENTER ECONOMIC IMPACT DOUBLES YEAR OVER YEAR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 8, 2015

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Music City Center announced this morning that the building has generated over $110 million in economic impact in the first three months of fiscal year 2016, which is double what was generated during the first three months of fiscal year 2015.

The Music City Center hosted 31 events with 41,696 attendees in September, generating 12,438 room nights for a total of $21 million in economic impact. Fiscal year to date the building has hosted 71 events with 187,314 attendees, generating $110.6 million in economic impact. Tax collections continue to outperform expectations and the Music City Center portion of tax collections was up 19.72 percent year over year for July.

"Our team continues to do an outstanding job juggling multiple, large events in the building at the same time and this has enabled us to produce these kind of economic impact numbers," said Charles Starks, President/CEO of the Music City Center. "During Mayor Barry's Inauguration in the Grand Ballroom, we had 15,000 guests in the building for other events and everything went very smoothly."

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About the Music City Center

The Music City Center, Nashville’s convention center, features a 353,143 square foot exhibit hall, the 57,500 square foot Karl F. Dean Grand Ballroom, and an 18,000 square foot Davidson Ballroom. The building includes an art collection featuring local and regional artists, a covered three-level parking garage with 1,800 spaces, and is LEED Gold certified. The Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame is also located inside the Music City Center at the corner of 6^th Avenue and Demonbreun.