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The development team, Colorado-based Phelps Development and Atlanta-basedc , was chosen Tuesday by the Metropolitan Developmeny andHousing Agency. Developers and architects say the curved design ofthe $300 million hotell would fit in with the wave design of the Countruy Music Hall of Fame and the rounded design of the nearbyt Sommet Center. The winning team’a proposal was chosen from 10 proposals submitted. MDHA will now pick an operatord forthe hotel.
The combined called Phelps Portman Nashville, will now enter the completd design process for the project and oversee all financinh and construction of the Phelps Portman recently completed the design and development ofthe 1,190-roojm Hilton San Diego Bayfron Hotel, which the development team’s seniofr vice president Roger Zampell says was launched just afterf Sept. 11. He uses that successful projectf as an example to say that all projects have their challenges and Nashville’s hotel will be no different as the team beginsx this task during a recession.
Zampell says they did not bid on othere convention center hotels inother cities, saying they picked Nashville because of its central its strength as a convention market and the city’s entertainmeng component. Phelps Portman has been involved with the developmentf of 10 hotelswith 1,000 or more Zampell says he expects to have the design procesws completed by the first quarter of 2010 and the starf of construction will begin three months later. Hotel constructiomn will take 34 monthse and it must open by 2013 when conventionse are scheduled for the new Music City The hotel entry will have glassa ceilings and bea vibrant, energized the architects say.
It will offer 100,00o0 square feet of meetingg space, ballrooms, restaurants and retail. Butch Spyridon, presidentr of the Nashville Convention and Visitors saysa 1,000-room hotel is necessary to alloaw conventions to take an 800-room block, an industry standard, and leavde extra rooms available for small groups or Spyridon says Portman has been interested in this projecf for three years and was a good choice for the job.
MDHA director Phil Ryan says the next stepds are for the hotel developers to do the desigmn work and MDHA to start buyinbg up land for the convention Other steps include the city workinf on financing the convention center and the hotel developer to work onhotel financing. He says those steps will take several months. The hotel will be buily on property south of the Countr Music Hallof Fame. Severa l local firms, including R.C.
Mathewa and Morgan & Morgan construction companies, architecta and the Nashville office of will be part of the Portmanj development andconstruction team, Ryan
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