MUSIC CITY CENTER REPORTS STRONG FIRST-QUARTER RESULTS

MUSIC CITY CENTER REPORTS STRONG FIRST-QUARTER RESULTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 6, 2016

Music City Center Generates over $112 million in Economic Impact in First Quarter of FY2017

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Convention Center Authority announced this morning that the Music City Center has generated over $112 million in direct economic impact for the city in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017.

The Music City Center hosted 70 events with 133,109 attendees in the first quarter, generating 73,435 room nights for a total of $112 million in economic impact. Tax collections continue to outperform expectations, and the Music City Center portion of tax collections was up 19.1 percent year over year for July 2016.

The Music City Center also announced the launch of a completely redesigned nashvillemusiccitycenter.com. The new site, designed by Net Tango, is built on Drupal featuring a mobile responsiveness design, an improved user interface and user experience for site-wide navigation and entirely new information architecture.

“Net Tango has been a great partner to the city of Nashville over the years, and their expertise in designing and implementing websites helped us build a site that is very user-friendly,” said Charles Starks, President/CEO of the Music City Center. “They did a great job creating a new website for our planners, exhibitors and visitors that is easy to navigate and find necessary information quickly.”

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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.