Seth Parker presents, fresh off the press
Nashville Airport Retail
The photo session
People merge the construction into one name; it’s two. BNA Vision ran $1.5 billion from 2017 to February 2024 and delivered the Grand Lobby — 200,000 square feet, 24 security lanes. New Horizon — singular — is the $3 billion sequel, running 2022 to 2029. Corgan has been master architect over the whole program since 2016; Fentress Architects designed the Grand Lobby, the arrivals facility, and Concourse D; Hensel Phelps built them.
The Credits
from the recordLiner Notes
the record, in fullTwo Programs, One Airport
The Stores
The name missing from most write-ups is Fraport — the concessions developer running roughly 108,000 square feet of shops and restaurants on street pricing, meaning the airport shop charges what the same shop charges downtown. The Country Music Hall of Fame store sells Hatch Show Print posters, which — look at the page you’re reading — I count as the airport doing something right. Natalie’s Candy Jar is the self-serve candy shop. Whiskey Trailhead pours in-store tastings and takes its cue from the Tennessee Whiskey Trail. I photographed the architecture and the storefronts for the authority that owns the place — retail with boarding passes walking through it.