Nashville's new hotels: Gulch towers, old banks and a 2029 pipeline

Between July 2021 and September 2026, Nashville added a long run of branded hotels, almost all of them new towers within a mile of Broadway. The guide tracks another nine that have not opened, and the earliest opening date any of them gives is 2027. Two of those nine, a St. Regis and a Signia by Hilton, have no opening date at all.

The city's hotel story has two halves that rarely meet. One is the tower wave, financed by national brands and aimed at the same stretch of honky-tonks. The other is a handful of small hotels in old buildings that opened on their own terms, years before or after the towers, and have almost nothing in common with them.

2021 and 2022: brands arrive in the Gulch and SoBro

W Nashville opened on October 6, 2021, in the Gulch, a 14-story mirrored tower with 346 rooms and six street-level entrances. Interiors are by Rockwell Group, with HKS handling the building's planning, and the rooms draw on iron, steel, reclaimed wood and leather. In early 2026 it added three restaurants and bars from José Andrés Group, the chef's first Nashville venture. Rates start at $300.

A few months earlier, in July 2021, Hyatt Centric Downtown Nashville had opened in SoBro, two blocks from Broadway, with 252 rooms in a joint venture between Hyatt and the local developer C.B. Ragland Company. It is the cheaper of the early towers, from $170.

The luxury names followed in 2022. The Conrad Nashville opened in June on West End Avenue with 234 rooms and a rooftop pool, and 1 Hotel Nashville in July, the brand's eighth property worldwide, with a Bamford Wellness Spa. In November, Four Seasons Hotel Nashville opened inside a 40-story, 542-foot tower in SoBro, designed by SCB and developed by AECON Capital and The Congress Group. The hotel occupies floors five to fourteen. The 144 private residences take the floors above, and a 380-car garage sits behind. Its designers describe the form as drawing on an acoustic guitar. It is the priciest hotel the guide lists in the city, from $450 a night.

Four Seasons is the pattern in miniature: a hotel of 235 rooms carrying a condominium tower on its back. The projects still to come follow the same formula, which matters for how many rooms will actually be bookable.

Mid-tier follows the money

Hilton and Hyatt did the next round at lower price points. Tempo by Hilton opened downtown in February 2024, half a block from Broadway, with 306 rooms from $135. Caption by Hyatt arrived in December 2024 in the Gulch (210 rooms, from $150), and Canopy by Hilton in June 2025, a 181-room new build with skyline-view suites. Motto by Hilton, a 13-story micro-room hotel on 3rd Avenue with 260 rooms, opened in 2025.

The Printing House Nashville, a Tapestry Collection hotel, opened on September 8, 2025 at Third Avenue South and Peabody Street. It is on the South Bank, which the city is still rezoning alongside a new Titans stadium, and it is described as one of the first hospitality openings to bet on the district before the surrounding blocks are built. The facade is textured concrete patterned after letterpress plates. It has 187 rooms, including 12 deluxe suites and a private seven-room floor.

The old buildings

The Fairlane and Noelle belong to an earlier moment, but both came out of downtown office towers. The Fairlane Hotel opened in fall 2017 in a 1972 bank tower at 401 Union Street, formerly the headquarters of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan. It has 81 rooms, with terrazzo floors, travertine columns and walnut-paneled showers kept from the original fit-out.

Noelle is older still in origin. The building opened in 1930 as the 250-room Noel Hotel, became offices, and was bought in 2014 by Rockbridge Capital with the aim of putting a hotel back. It reopened in early 2018 with 224 rooms, a Richard Sandoval restaurant and a rooftop bar. Fewer rooms than the original, then, and larger ones.

The Chloe Nashville is the smallest. It opened in January 2026 in Hillsboro Village, with 19 rooms in two connected cottages from 1918 and 1920 that once housed the record labels Asylum and Spirit Music. The wings keep those names. It is the first hotel outside Louisiana for the New Orleans group LeBlanc + Smith, and rooms start at $330.

Not every recent opening is a new building. The Nash, Opal Collection reopened on March 1, 2026 on Printers Alley after Ocean Properties bought the 144-room Bobby Hotel for about $50 million in December 2025. The hotel never closed, and the look stayed the same; the flag and the loyalty program changed. Sports Illustrated Resorts Nashville Music Row is a 2016 apartment tower that had already been a short-term rental building before Travel + Leisure Co. relaunched it in spring 2026 with Wyndham Trademark Collection signage.

The one that slipped: Dolly Parton's SongTeller

Dolly Parton's SongTeller Hotel was announced for June 2026. That date passed without an opening. Guest reservations began on September 14, and the hotel and its museum opened together on September 29, 2026, at 211 Commerce Street. The building has 245 rooms and suites, a guitar-shaped entrance, two music venues (Parton's Live and Jolene's) and a 20,000-square-foot museum, Dolly's Life of Many Colors, on the third floor.

No rate is published yet.

2027: the next towers

Four hotels give 2027 as their target. Pendry Nashville will anchor Paseo South Gulch with 180 rooms and 146 branded residences, designed by ESa with interiors by Post Company. The Hoxton Nashville, the brand's fifth in the United States, is an eight-story new build with 204 rooms at 616 Ewing Avenue, in Pie Town, a warehouse district that is nothing like Broadway. Nobu Hotel and Restaurant Nashville will have 120 rooms in a Foster + Partners tower on the East Bank, inside Oracle's riverfront campus.

Moxy Nashville Capitol District is the one with a month attached: September 2027, with 188 rooms at 450 James Robertson Parkway as part of The Bend at Capitol District. It is the city's second Moxy, and unrelated to the one on Honky Tonk Row.

The Modernest Gulch View is a different case. It is a condominium building of 131 units that owners can put into a managed rental program run by Hay Creek Hotels. It topped out by March 2026, and the first target of December 2026 has moved to around April 2027.

2028 and beyond: financing, permits, a second attempt

The Nashville EDITION, a 28-story Gulch tower with 261 rooms and 84 residences, secured $371.5 million in construction financing in February 2026. Some coverage cites $400 million; the discrepancy is unresolved. The target is 2028, with no month and no restaurant named.

The Ritz-Carlton story is the messiest. Marriott announced a 46-story SOM tower in SoBro in 2021, with 242 keys and 165 residences. It collapsed in 2024 amid lawsuits against the developer and a foreclosure sale. In 2025 the brand relaunched a few blocks away, in the Gulch, with a 182-room hotel designed by bKL Architecture and a target of around 2029. Ground had not been broken as of August 2026.

Turnberry's St. Regis, 46 stories and 651 feet at 805 Demonbreun Street, would be the tallest hotel in the city. Metro Planning approved the concept plan in mid-2024, and construction had not started as of May 2026, against a target of 2025. The Signia by Hilton at Nashville Yards, 33 stories and 817 rooms, cleared its first design review in June 2026; it would pass the 800-room Omni as the largest downtown hotel. It has no start date.

Read together, the 2027 list is realistic and the later one is conditional. Four hotels with a site, a developer and a year can be expected. The three that depend on financing or a second approval cannot yet be planned around.