Nashville Yards today revealed new leadership as the $1 billion development nears completion.
Christian Parker, former president of the Music City Grand Prix, will lead the operations team at the 19-acre downtown development, serving as chief operating officer, according to a news release.
Parker will oversee day-to-day operations, direct strategy, tenant engagement, programming and activations across the project.
It is not common to see executive teams for single developments, but Nashville Yards is of a different scale than most in Music City.
Southwest Value Partners is leading the massive development that sits at the gateway of downtown. In the next six months, more than 4 million square feet of construction is set to complete and open to the public.
In addition to the already-opened Grand Hyatt hotel, the historic Union Station hotel and two Amazon towers, another five buildings are set to open by early next year, including the 35-story future Pinnacle tower, the CAA creative office building, The Pinnacle music venue and two residential towers.
The campus will have more than 4,000 parking spaces, as well as an expansive outdoor park and plaza dubbed the Ascension Saint Thomas Landing.
Steve Lewis, a 36-year veteran of the Metro Nashville Police Department, and Rocky Ryan are also joining the executive team, serving as director of security and vice president of operations, respectively.
“Our work at Nashville Yards must result in a consistently outstanding experience — both aesthetically and operationally — secure, state of the art, productive, exciting and healthy throughout,” Cary Mack, managing partner of Southwest Value Partners, said in the release. “Chris, Steve and Rocky are focused on all of these things and more as we begin to come fully online in significant ways later this year and early 2025.”
Lewis will oversee campus-wide security at Nashville Yards from its new onsite security center, which will be located in downtown’s historic Frost Building. Ryan will be responsible for site-wide logistics, parking operations and programming management.
Nashville Yards has seen a lot of leasing traction in the past few months.
In February, professional services firm PwC revealed it was following fellow current Pinnacle at Symphony Place tenants Pinnacle Financial Partners and law firm Bass, Berry & Sims PLC in the move to the downtown development.
The development has also announced the addition of Italian restaurant Culaccino, led by a Franklin-based restaurateur, and an Ascension Saint Thomas clinic, which are set to open next year.
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Read the press release here.