New hotels in Downtown Nashville

Downtown Nashville is the grid of streets around Broadway and the Cumberland River, bounded on the north by the Tennessee State Capitol and on the south by Music City Center. It is where the Ryman Auditorium, Bridgestone Arena and the honky-tonks of Lower Broadway sit within a few blocks of each other, and where most of the city's visitors spend at least one night out. Nine hotels we track are open, confirmed or proposed inside it: five already operating, four still on paper.

The district is not one neighborhood. Second Avenue North and the Historic Core hold the oldest buildings, Printers Alley is a narrow lane of bars and former newspaper offices, Nashville Yards is a newer mixed-use development near Church Street and 9th Avenue North, and the Capitol District starts where James Robertson Parkway bends around the State Capitol. Each has a different noise level, which matters more here than anywhere else in Nashville.

What to do in downtown Nashville

For a weekend

Start on Lower Broadway and walk it from the river toward 5th Avenue. The honky-tonks stack live bands on street-level stages, and the sidewalks fill long before dark. The Ryman Auditorium, a former tabernacle that served as the Grand Ole Opry's home for decades and still books concerts most weeks, is two blocks off Broadway on 5th Avenue North. Bridgestone Arena, home of the Nashville Predators, stands on Broadway at the end of the strip.

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is on the south side of Broadway at 5th Avenue South, about a half mile from Tempo by Hilton, and is the one indoor visit that justifies an hour in the heat.

Printers Alley, one block north of Broadway between Third and Fourth Avenues North, once housed the city's newspaper and printing trade and later its nightclubs. Today it is a short, lit passage with a handful of bars and live-music rooms.

For a longer stay

A second day moves north. The Tennessee State Capitol, with the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park and its walkway along the history of the state, sits north of Broadway at the top of the grid, and Germantown's restaurants lie just beyond. South of Broadway, Music City Center is the convention hall that drives weekday hotel demand, with a cluster of chain towers around it.

East across the Cumberland, the pedestrian bridge to Nissan Stadium puts the river in front of you, and East Nashville is a short ride beyond. For a different evening, The Gulch is south-west of Broadway, and SoBro and Midtown & Music Row fill in the rest of the central map. The wider picture is on the Nashville page.

Where to stay in downtown Nashville

Printers Alley

Two hotels face the alley's streets. Noelle is at 200 Fourth Avenue North, in a 1929 Art Deco tower that began as the 250-room Noel Hotel and spent decades as offices before reopening in early 2018 with 224 rooms. Rockbridge Capital owns it and Makeready operates it. The restaurant is run by Richard Sandoval, and there is a rooftop bar. Rooms start around $190 a night, according to what we have found.

The Nash, Opal Collection has a more tangled history. The nine-story tower opened as the independent Bobby Hotel in April 2018. Ocean Properties bought it for about $50 million in December 2025 and, on March 1, 2026, reopened it under Marriott's Opal Collection banner with 144 rooms and the same building. Rates start near $210. It is the most recently opened hotel in downtown, if you count a reflagging as an opening, and one block from Lower Broadway.

Staying here means sleeping in the loudest part of the district. People who want to be able to walk to a late set and back accept that; people who want sleep ask for a high floor away from the alley.

Second Avenue and the Historic Core

Studio 154 opened in July 2022 at 154 Second Avenue North, on the third floor of an 1800s building that was damaged in the December 25, 2020 bombing a few doors away, at 166 Second Avenue North. Vastland Communities developed and runs it. The building dates to the mid-1800s, with 10-foot arched windows and 22-foot ceilings. Guests get app-based keyless entry and suites with balconies facing the river; the rooftop Skydeck looks toward Nissan Stadium. The company markets it as downtown's first boutique hotel of its kind, which is its own claim. Room counts differ between sources, between 16 and 33, so treat it as a small hotel rather than a block of 300 rooms. From about $235.

Fairlane Hotel is on Union Street in the Arts District, at 401 Union, in a 12-story bank tower from 1972 that had been the headquarters of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan. Oliver Hospitality converted it into 81 rooms in fall 2017, keeping terrazzo floors and travertine columns. It sits closer to downtown's offices than to its nightlife, a few blocks from Printers Alley, and prices start near $120, the lowest of our five open hotels.

Nashville Yards

Tempo by Hilton Nashville Downtown opened in February 2024 at 127 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard, less than a block from Broadway and next to the Nashville Yards site. It has 306 rooms across 16 floors. HRI Hospitality developed it, ESa designed the architecture and Wimberly Interiors the interiors, with Art Deco references to old downtown buildings. It was only the second Tempo to open anywhere, after the brand's Times Square debut in August 2023. Bridgestone Arena, Music City Center and the Ryman are each about a third of a mile away. From $135.

Nashville Yards is also where the neighborhood's next chapter is being written. The roughly 15-acre district, built out by Southwest Value Partners, already includes an Amazon operations center, and the plans around it add a Union Station Hotel and a Grand Hyatt to the hotel stock. Tempo is the first lodging at its edge.

Signia by Hilton Nashville Yards is the larger project. HKS drew a 33-story tower of 817 rooms for the southwest corner of Church Street and 9th Avenue North, with two 17,000-square-foot ballrooms and five floors of meeting space. Metro's design review committee took up the concept plan in June 2026. No construction start or opening date has been announced. If built as drawn, it would pass the 800-room Omni as downtown's largest hotel.

Commerce Street and the south edge

Dolly Parton's SongTeller Hotel is at 211 Commerce Street, across from the AT&T building locals call the Batman building. It has 245 rooms and suites, a guitar-shaped entrance, two live-music rooms named Parton's Live and Jolene's, and a 20,000-square-foot museum, Dolly's Life of Many Colors, on the third floor. Local TV reported in August 2026 that reservations would start on September 14 and that the museum was set to open in October 2026. It had been announced for June 2026 earlier, so the schedule has moved. Our listing keeps the date open until a first night is confirmed.

The St. Regis Nashville, from developer Turnberry, is proposed for 805 Demonbreun Street, on the downtown edge nearer The Gulch and SoBro than Broadway. The plan calls for a 46-story tower with 179 hotel rooms and suites above residences, and Metro Planning approved the concept in mid-2024. As of May 2026, ground had not been broken. There is no opening date.

Capitol District

Moxy Nashville Capitol District, confirmed for September 2027, rises at 450 James Robertson Parkway facing the State Capitol. Smith Gee Studio and S9 Architecture designed the eight-story, 188-room building, The Gettys Group handles the interiors and Skanska is the contractor. It is the hotel part of The Bend at Capitol District, a mixed-use project of nearly 550,000 square feet. Marriott already runs another Moxy on Honky Tonk Row; this one is a different property, north of the action, a walk from Germantown and the Capitol, and a longer one from Broadway.

Which hotel in downtown Nashville for your trip

First-time visitors who want Broadway outside the door

Noelle and The Nash both put you within a block or two of Lower Broadway. Tempo is half a block from it, and the cheapest of the three if you are fine with a large brand hotel. Studio 154 is smaller than either, with high-ceilinged suites in an 1800s building and its own roof.

Travelers who care about the building

Fairlane's 1972 bank tower and Noelle's 1929 office tower are conversions with period detail left in place. The Nash is a reflag, so the story is more about ownership than architecture.

Visitors with a conference at Music City Center

Tempo is the practical pick in our list, with the convention hall a third of a mile away. The St. Regis and Signia, when and if they open, would add rooms at the high end and for large groups, respectively.

Fans of Dolly Parton

The SongTeller is the only hotel in town with a museum on the premises. Check current availability before you plan around it, since the schedule has already slipped once.

Travelers who would rather sleep than hear the street

Fairlane sits closer to downtown's offices than to its nightlife, and the future Moxy is at the Capitol end, away from Broadway.

Frequently asked questions

What is the newest hotel to open in downtown Nashville?

The Nash, Opal Collection, which reopened on March 1, 2026 on Printers Alley after Ocean Properties bought and reflagged the former Bobby Hotel. Dolly Parton's SongTeller Hotel on Commerce Street is next, but it has not confirmed an opening date.

Which downtown Nashville hotel is closest to the Ryman Auditorium?

Tempo by Hilton lists it at roughly a third of a mile. Noelle and The Nash, on Printers Alley, are a block or so from Broadway, and Studio 154 is a block from it on Second Avenue. All the open hotels are within walking distance.

Which downtown Nashville hotel is the biggest?

Of the hotels already open, Tempo by Hilton Nashville Downtown, with 306 rooms. Signia by Hilton Nashville Yards, with 817 planned rooms, would be larger than any hotel in downtown, but it has no construction date.

What hotels are opening in downtown Nashville next?

Moxy Nashville Capitol District is confirmed for September 2027. Dolly Parton's SongTeller Hotel, the St. Regis Nashville and Signia by Hilton Nashville Yards have no confirmed opening date.

Is downtown Nashville loud at night?

Yes, around Lower Broadway and Printers Alley, where live music runs late. Fairlane and the Capitol District sit further from it.