Rock Nashville opens 55-acre Whites Creek Pike campus consolidating rehearsal studios, vendors and touring production support

A purpose-built production hub comes online in North Nashville

Rock Nashville has opened a 55-acre live entertainment rehearsal and production campus on Whites Creek Pike, adding a large-scale, purpose-built facility designed to support touring shows, artists, and the companies that build concerts behind the scenes. The site is located less than 10 miles from downtown Nashville and is now welcoming productions for rehearsals, technical preparation and tour development.

The campus includes three primary buildings and totals about 610,000 square feet of space across rehearsal studios, production areas and vendor operations. Development partners for the project include Rock Lititz and Merus, with Soundcheck Studios positioned as an anchor tenant.

What the campus is built to do

Rock Nashville’s concept centers on co-locating the major pieces of tour preparation that are often spread across multiple facilities. Plans for the campus have emphasized full-scale rehearsal capability for large tours alongside smaller studios for band and production work, plus on-site support services that reduce the need to move equipment and crews around the region.

Published specifications and project descriptions outline a mix of large-format rehearsal spaces and multiple smaller studios intended to replicate venue conditions and streamline show buildouts.

• Two large rehearsal facilities designed for arena- and amphitheater-scale preparations
• More than a dozen rehearsal studios for band and production use
• Integrated vendor and support space for touring logistics and technical needs
• On-site services tied to touring operations, including backline and gear-support functions

Tenants and vendor ecosystem

The campus has been marketed as a multi-tenant production environment intended to host dozens of live-event businesses. Soundcheck Studios is slated to transition operations from its long-running Nashville location, and the broader tenant plan includes a mix of production vendors and support firms tied to audio, staging, transportation and related touring services. Campus materials also describe a vendor hub model meant to enable day-to-day collaboration across touring departments.

Timeline from groundbreaking to opening

Rock Nashville’s development path began with public announcements in spring 2024, followed by ceremonial groundbreaking events later that year. Early project communications targeted a 2025 opening window, with multiple trade and local-industry reports in 2025 pointing to a late-2025 launch. The campus has now opened as of January 2026.

The opening marks the operational start of a consolidated rehearsal-and-vendor campus model in Nashville, bringing large-format tour preparation into a single site with on-campus support companies.

Why it matters for Nashville’s live-event economy

Nashville has long been a music center, but a facility of this scale is aimed at the logistical side of touring: production rehearsals, staging builds, technical integration and vendor coordination. With a multi-tenant footprint planned for dozens of companies and daily on-site workforces, the campus is designed to increase the city’s capacity to host major tour rehearsals and related production activity within the region.