Music City Center

Yep.

I remember when they broke ground for the Music City Center.

Absolutely, yeah.

And we actually had a convention center.

Former Republican Governor Bill Haslam is urging caution about how unused money from Nashville's downtown tourist taxes gets spent.

The money was initially earmarked for the Music City Center, but has been collecting in a reserve fund.

Haslam is on the state-appointed board that is charged with distributing it.

That board is currently crafting an application that downtown businesses can use to request a portion of the funding.

in January 91 and moved to Nashville.

And this very location is where I used to park my car and take the walk up the hill way before there was a Music City Center, way before there was a Bridgestone Arena.

So it's been fun to watch the transformation of our city.

So I've been here for 35 years and I've been able to have a couple of different jobs.

And talking to folks there, apparently it's getting more conferences, et cetera.

Beautiful conference center, the Music City Center.

We were there.

In fact, I'm back there next month for Amazon Business Reshape, Andy.

Yeah.

You know, when I walked into the Music City Center, all these women were, you know, there's gonna be 1,000-plus people there, and they were just...

They had all the, the stuff that you'd see at a conference, all the brochures and stuff that you get in the swag bag, and they were just all organizing it.

And I said, "Look at you guys." And, and they said, "Well, you know, we're working hard." I said, "Well, you're the people that make this happen."

It's not a cheap renovation.

It's a $75 million renovation that is coming out of the $300 million we moved from the Music City Center over to the East Bank Authority to build out infrastructure, which the city is on the hook for.

And so it is a big chunk of change.

We're not at 300 anymore.

I know the Opry does, and we've been a part of it, too, when I took my show on the road for CMA Week the last few years.

Go to the Music City Center, broadcast live from there, interview everybody from A to Z.

And then we went over to that event.

I'm sure you've heard of Sunday Morning Country that they do during – cma week and it kind of wraps up uh the week there too and it's just a christian music gospel music being spread over there too and so maybe uh that's a that's a really cool thing and maybe i'll make some calls to get rachel purcell into this uh sunday morning