A local development firm is planning a major hospitality project at the longtime home of the Barbershop Harmony Society in Nashville. The property, located near Broadway at 110 Seventh Ave. N., is being positioned for a high-rise hotel development that would significantly increase the site’s intensity of use compared with its current function as a nonprofit headquarters.
The development, led by Sanders Carter, envisions a more-than-200-room hotel on the site, with the concept described as a potential 30-story tower. Sanders Carter is identified as the development arm of Pinnacle Construction, signaling that the project is being advanced by a team with an established construction platform behind it. While plans are still being refined, available details point to a hotel program organized around upscale lodging and event-driven amenities.
According to coverage by the Nashville Business Journal, the project is expected to deliver approximately 250 to 275 upscale hotel rooms. In addition to guestrooms, the plans call for multiple food and beverage concepts, ballroom and meeting space, and penthouse-level amenity space. These elements suggest a hotel positioned to capture both leisure and group demand, benefiting from proximity to Broadway and the broader downtown entertainment district.
The site is currently occupied by a 37,000-square-foot building that has served as the Barbershop Harmony Society’s headquarters for two decades. The structure is easily recognized by the silver barber poles that line its facade, a visual hallmark that has contributed to the property’s local identity. The nonprofit, which is dedicated to promoting and preserving barbershop music as an art form, acquired the building in 2006 for $1.45 million and has maintained its operations there since that time.
As part of the new hotel plan, most of the existing Barbershop Harmony Society building is expected to be demolished. However, the developer intends to preserve and restore the iconic facade, integrating it into the new high-rise development. This approach would allow the project to retain a visible connection to the site’s history and architectural character, even as the balance of the property is transformed into a modern hospitality asset.
Further details on the project’s development timeline, construction schedule, brand affiliation, and capital structure have not yet been disclosed. Similarly, the Barbershop Harmony Society’s future location and any potential transaction terms related to its current headquarters site have not been addressed in available reporting. For now, the proposed high-rise signals a planned intensification of use at a well-known address near one of Nashville’s most active entertainment corridors.
