Dive Brief:
- Pendry Hotels & Resorts will break ground “immediately” on a 326-key luxury hotel and residences in Nashville, Tennessee, expected to open in 2027, the Irvine, California-based hotel company announced Friday.
- The property will feature 180 guest rooms and 146 residences in Nashville’s growing Paseo South Gulch district, as well as 10,000 square feet of meetings and events space.
- Nashville is projected to open 2,849 rooms in 2025 — the second highest number of rooms in the country, following New York City, according to CoStar data released last month.
Dive Insight:
Pendy Hotels & Resorts partnered with Nashville- and New York-based real estate investment and development firms SomeraRoad and Trestle Studios on Pendry Nashville.
Local architecture firm Earl Swensson Associates and New York interior design studio Post Company will design the hotel with an eye to “southern sophistication,” per the announcement. Design elements will include fireplaces, Italian marbles, warm woods and burnished brass.
Amenities will include a ground-floor restaurant and lobby bar, a rooftop pool with a restaurant and bar, an indoor and outdoor fitness center, a library that doubles as a meeting space, a junior ballroom with a show kitchen and a ballroom with a private outdoor terrace, according to the announcement.
Pendry’s residents will have access to the hotel’s amenities and services, as well as an exclusive pool, a dining room, a billiards room, security, parking and more.
Nashville’s robust hotel pipeline follows strong travel fundamentals and hotel performance in the market, STR Senior Director of Analytics Isaac Collazo said last month.
Both Choice Hotels International and Hilton opened lifestyle hotels in the city last year, with the 159-room Cambria Nashville Midtown Hotel and the 306-room Tempo by Hilton Nashville Downtown.
In May of last year, Cvent named Grand Hyatt Nashville its top meetings hotel in North America, leading 250 ranked properties.
There are currently five open Pendry hotels in Baltimore; Chicago; New York City; Newport Beach, California; and Peapack, New Jersey, according to Pendry’s website.
