Southwest Value Partners, owner and developer of Nashville Yards, announced today three significant leadership additions to its executive team at Nashville Yards. Christian Parker, a seasoned marketing, operations and entertainment executive, will serve as Chief Operating Officer of Nashville Yards; Lieutenant Steve Lewis (ret.), a 36-year veteran of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, will serve as Director of Security; and Rocky Ryan, an expert logistics and operations manager, will serve as Vice President of Operations.
“Our work at Nashville Yards must result in a consistently outstanding experience – both aesthetically and operationally – secure, state of the art, productive, exciting and healthy throughout.” said Cary Mack, Managing Partner, Southwest Value Partners. “Chris, Steve and Rocky are focused on all of these things and more as we begin to come fully online in significant ways later this year and early 2025.”
In the next six months Nashville Yards will begin to bring online over 4 million square feet of Class A+ construction currently in process. The following will join the Grand Hyatt Nashville, The Union Station Nashville Yards, and the Class A+ Amazon office towers Anne and Juno:
- The Pinnacle Tower, a 35 story Class A+ office tower anchored by Pinnacle Financial Partners, Bass Berry & Sims and PricewaterhouseCoopers;
- CAA Creative Office, an 11-story Class A+ creative office building anchored by CAA (Creative Artists Agency), AEG Presents, Messina Touring Group, EVO Cinemas, ICONIX Fitness, Ocean Prime, and Fogo de Chão, among others;
- The Pinnacle, a 4,500-capacity state-of-the-art music and event venue;
- The Everett and The Emory, two 30+ story Class A+ residential towers;
- Over 4,000 parking spaces; and
- Seven acres of healthily programmed open and green space, including the Ascension St. Thomas Landing, an activated open space with experiences like urban farming, pop-up retail and community events sitting just west of, and adjacent to, the Grand Hyatt Nashville and Pinnacle Tower.
The Executive Team
As Chief Operating Officer, Parker will oversee day-to-day operations and direct strategy, marketing, tenant engagement, sponsor-related revenue, programming and activations across the site. Prior to joining Southwest Value Partners, Parker served as the President of the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix, and as Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for the Nashville Predators/ Bridgestone Arena.
Lewis will oversee campus-wide security at Nashville Yards, including a newly constructed in site state-of-the-art security command center, and interface with all applicable law enforcement agencies. Lewis spent the last seven years supervising the Emergency Contingency Section of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department’s Special Operations Division and has been directly involved in security planning and operations for almost every major event in Nashville during the last 25 years, including the annual CMA Fest; New Year’s Eve and 4th of July celebrations; and milestone events like the 2019 NFL Draft.
As Vice President of Operations at Nashville Yards, Ryan will be responsible for site-wide logistics, parking operations, and programming management. He brings decades of unique operational, event, and hospitality experience to the role, most recently serving as Director of Operations for Scott Borchetta Racing/ Industries, overseeing the racing entities, special events, retail activations, and multi state property management.
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