Virgin Hotels Nashville rendering

Virgin Hotels has revealed a first look at plans for its Nashville building designs with local ownership and developer Dean Chase of Construction management firm D.F. Chase, Inc.

As previously reported, the hotel is expected to open in fall 2016 at the address of One Music Row.

Virgin Hotels Nashville will include 240 chambers and grand chamber suites, as well as 15 penthouse residential suites. The ground floor will include Virgin Hotels’ Commons Club, a hybrid bar/lounge, study and restaurant. A centerpiece bar, live entertainment venue and outside veranda will also be included.

Other amenities offered include a rooftop pool, which will offer an evolving food concept. Guests will also be able to access a gym and wellness center. Approximately 14,000 square feet of meeting space will be available for events.

“With Virgin Hotels Chicago now open and bustling, we’re thrilled to reveal our plans for our next property, Virgin Hotels Nashville,” says Raul Leal, CEO of Virgin Hotels. “Partnering with BLUR Workshop and interior design firm MarkZeff has enabled us to incorporate our musical heritage and playful tone of voice into this new building, bringing something entirely different to the Nashville hotel scene.”

Virgin Hotels Nashville rendering

Virgin Hotels Nashville rendering

Virgin Hotels Nashville rendering

The landscape of Music City continues to change as one of Nashville’s longstanding music venues will close in late February. According to 12th & Porter owner Keith Hayman, the music venue will hold its last event on Feb. 28.

The business is being sold to a party with “intentions to enhance the North Gulch” area of Nashville, according to Hayman. Details of the sale were not disclosed.

As the home of classic live recordings dating back to Townes Van Zandt’s Live and Obscure, recorded in April 1985, the stage at 12th and Porter has hosted some of the greatest touring artists and songwriters ever to play including such notables as Mickey Avalon, Keith Urban, Kings of Leon, Ke$ha, Safety Suit, Jon Bon Jovi, Run-DMC, Vince Gill, Richard Marx, Jonny Lang, Marc Broussard, John Hiatt, Beauty School Dropouts, OURS, Bob Schneider, Jayhawks, Tim Easton, Amy Ray, Ryan Adams, Will Hoge, King Crimson, Angie Aparo, Medeski Martin and Wood, The Features, Radney Foster, Allison Moorer, Glenn Tillbrook, Michelle Shocked, Trent Sumnar, Jim Lauderdale, Buddy and Julie Miller, John Prine, Reckless Kelly, Pinmonkey, Jay Farrar, Kenny Loggins, Ben Folds, Jill Sobule, Jewel, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, David Meade, Muzik Mafia, Family Force 5, the Katies, Silvertide, Florez, Sam Brooker, Tyler James, Chris Mann, Jody Raffoul, Crew, Michael Inge, Vic Chesnutt, Bushwalla, Anthony Smith, Black Label Society, Wichita Stallions, Auto Vaughn, Big Fella and Te’Arthur, Chris Mann, Cecil Adora, Submersed, LIGION, The Black Andy Roddick Show, Jonathon Richman, Tyler Cain, Chris Milam, Mista D, Jeffrey Steele, Luna Halo, Atomic Blonde, and countless others.

Hayman took over management of 12th & Porter in 2014, acquiring 100 percent management of the venue. He is also an owner of Music City Pizza.

Logan Mize Artist Visit

A native of small town Kansas, where his father was a butcher and his mother a schoolteacher, singer-songwriter Logan Mize was drawn to music at an early age, singing and learning different instruments.

The singer-songwriter has resided Nashville for nine years, and has been a writer for Big Yellow Dog Music for five years. In 2012, he released his second independent album, Nobody in Nashville (Big Yellow Dog Music), which caught the attention of label executive Jim Catino, who later signed on to co-produce Mize’s forthcoming major label debut on Sony Music Nashville imprint Arista Nashville.

Logan Mize Artist Visit

In recent years, Mize logged countless hours on the road, building an audience and homing his performance craft, before spending more time in Nashville and developing industry relationships. “I don’t know if there is one right way to do it, but I saw a lot of friends that stayed in town and didn’t go on the road, and they had a chance to move a little quicker,” said Mize. “I may have went out there and developed some chops, but I also didn’t develop in-town relationships as much. I didn’t start writing songs until I was 18, so it might have been a good thing that I was on the road for several years developing before coming back to Nashville and really making those connections.”

Mize recently visited the MusicRow office to preview several cuts from the upcoming album, including the gorgeous composition “Welcome to Prairieville,” which he calls a possible title cut on the project. The song’s arresting images depict the enduring charm of a slowly waning small town. He also offered his current single, the party-ready radio single “Can’t Get Away From A Good Time,” co-written by Mize, Blake Chaffin, and Kelly Archer.  

Arista Nashville artist Logan Mize with MusicRow staffers

“When I signed with Arista, it was really a new opportunity to spend a good amount of time recording these songs, and focusing on the details of the music,” said Mize. “With ‘Can’t Get Away From A Good Time,’ we were able to put a really cool groove on it, whereas when I first cut the song [prior to his Arista signing], it was real on top of the beat, more vanilla. I think it sounds more like a radio song now, and the album will have a much fuller sound.”