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445 Park Commons Named Grand Winner at the 2026 MFE Awards

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:23:31 GMT

Nashville's largest privately developed mixed-income community earns national recognition — and a spot in the running for Community of the Year.

We are proud to share that 445 Park Commons has been selected as the grand winner in the Mixed-Income category of the 2026 MFE Awards, presented by Multifamily Executive magazine. The project is also a finalist for MFE's 2026 Community of the Year, which will be announced at an awards ceremony on Wednesday, November 4, during the Multifamily Executive Conference in Newport Beach, California.

This year's program drew more than 240 nominations nationwide, with judges selecting 26 winners across 14 categories. Congratulations to Smith Gee Studio, developer MarketStreet Enterprises and the full project team!

A Nashville project built for a range of incomes

Located at 445 Benton Avenue, adjacent to Geodis Park at Fairgrounds Nashville, the $123 million development was billed at groundbreaking as the largest privately developed mixed-use, mixed-income project in the city. The six-story building delivers 335 residences, including 120 units reserved for households earning 60 percent or less of the area median income and at least 40 additional units for households earning 80 percent or less.

Beyond housing, 445 Park Commons brings 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, a 7,500-square-foot micro-business incubator for makers and artisans, and a roughly 500-space parking structure to a corner of the Fairgrounds that is rapidly becoming one of Nashville's most active mixed-use districts.

The project was made possible through a partnership that included Metro Nashville, the Tennessee Housing Development Agency, the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency, the Metro Health and Educational Facilities Board, Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, and tax credit equity investor PNC Bank.

Hawkins Partners served as landscape architect for 445 Park Commons, shaping the outdoor spaces that connect residents to one another and to the surrounding neighborhood.

Recognition in the Mixed-Income category speaks to what happens when public agencies, private developers, and design partners align around a shared goal. Affordability and design quality belong together, and 445 Park Commons demonstrates that at a meaningful scale in our own city.

Congratulations to everyone who brought this project to life. We will be watching on November 4 to see whether 445 Park Commons takes home Community of the Year.

Hawkins Partners Announces Promotions of Nick Hollopeter and Lindsey Berringer

Wed, 27 May 2026 14:36:46 GMT

Nashville-based landscape architecture firm recognizes growing leadership within its team

NASHVILLE, TN — Wednesday, May 27, 2026 — Hawkins Partners, a Nashville-based landscape architecture and planning firm, is pleased to announce the promotions of Nick Hollopeter to Senior Associate and Lindsey Berringer to Associate.

"Nick and Lindsey exemplify what Hawkins Partners is built on — people who grow through the work, raise the bar for those around them, and show up fully every day. Nick has developed into a leader who can shape a project and mentor a colleague in the same breath, while Lindsey brings that same energy and commitment to everything she touches, from her work in the hospitality sector to the way she welcomes someone on their very first day. These promotions are well earned, and I couldn't be prouder to work alongside both of them."
- Will Marth, Partner at Hawkins Partners

Nick Hollopeter, Senior Associate

Nick Hollopeter joined Hawkins Partners in 2016 and has grown into one of the most well-rounded and dependable members of the team. Over the years, he has contributed to and led city-shaping projects across a wide range of sectors — from parks and urban office to multi-family, mixed-use, and hospitality — with standout work on Asurion, Amazon HQ, Gibson Residences, Mars Petcare, Frankie Pierce Park, Belle Meade Village, and the Edition Hotel, among others. In his new role as Senior Associate, he brings a sharp eye for detail and a natural ability to lead and mentor those around him. Beyond project work, Nick has made lasting contributions to the firm's IT systems, education initiatives, and onboarding processes. His work reflects Hawkins Partners' commitment to community-centered design and meaningful placemaking.

"It’s hard to believe it’s been nine years — time really does fly when you’re doing what you love! I’ve been so fortunate to work on projects that truly transform our communities, and doing it with a team I admire makes it even better. I’m excited to start this new chapter in my career and keep building on the great work we do together."
- Nick Hollopeter, Senior Associate, Hawkins Partners

Lindsey Berringer, Associate

Lindsey Berringer has been a member of Hawkins Partners since 2019, bringing with her experience from several years working with Raymond Jungles in Florida. Her promotion to Associate recognizes nearly seven years of contributions across a portfolio with a strong focus on hospitality and multi-family work, including Chamberlain House, The Starling, Luxury Full-Service Hotels, Front Row in Huntsville, multiple Modera projects across Nashville, and affordable housing work through Park 24 and The Opaline. She brings a collaborative and mentorship-driven approach to her work that aligns with the firm's mission to connect people to place — and has played a key role in shaping how Hawkins Partners hires and welcomes new team members.

“I’m thankful to be part of a team that continually encourages growth, creativity, and collaboration. This is a reflection of the support and mentorship I’ve received along the way, and I’m excited to continue building meaningful work with such an incredible group of people at Hawkins Partners.”
- Lindsey Berringer, Associate, Hawkins Partners

Congratulations to Nick and Lindsey on these well-earned promotions. Their commitment to these new roles helps strengthen Hawkins Partners' capacity to deliver meaningful, design-forward work across the Southeast.

About Hawkins Partners:
Hawkins Partners is an award-winning landscape architecture and planning firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, with regional presence across the Southeast. Founded in 1986, the firm is known for community-oriented placemaking, green infrastructure, and public-realm design that connect people to place for forty years.

Nashville Takes Center Stage: Hawkins Partners Reflects on the 2026 ULI Spring Meeting & Resilience Summit

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:30:43 GMT

Last week, thousands of real estate, planning, and design professionals from across the country converged on Nashville for the 2026 ULI Spring Meeting and Resilience Summit. For Hawkins Partners, it was a rare opportunity to welcome our industry to our own backyard, and our team showed up in full force to share what makes Nashville such a compelling case study in growth, resilience, and community-centered design.

Rolling Out the Welcome Mat
The week began before Spring Meeting officially kicked off, when Hawkins Partners hosted the Women's Development Collaborative (WDC) in Nashville for a weekend of touring. Starting from our Five Points office, the group explored East Nashville on Sunday before continuing on to the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood on Monday, two areas that capture the layered history and rapid transformation happening across the city.

From there, the momentum carried straight into Spring Meeting itself. Attendees moved from site visits to sessions to receptions across Nashville throughout the week, and our team was proud to help guide many of those experiences firsthand.

Sharing Our Work, In Our City
A few highlights from the week:

Nathan Oliver and Will Marth helped lead a tour of West Riverfront Park and the Peabody Union/Tolly Barns greenway, two projects that show how public space can reconnect a city to its river.
Parker Hawkins hosted a tour titled "Housing the Unhoused: Innovative Solutions to Nashville's Most Underserved Community," spotlighting design approaches to one of the city's most pressing challenges.
Brian Phelps joined the panel of the Resilience Summit, "City of Nashville Resilience Panel”.

None of this comes together without a lot of coordination and goodwill. Thank you to ULI Nashville and the Urban Land Institute for organizing another outstanding Spring Meeting and Resilience Summit, to the Women's Development Collaborative for a wonderful weekend of touring, and to every attendee who brought curiosity and energy to our tours, sessions, and conversations throughout the week.

Nashville continues to grow, adapt, and reimagine itself, and we're grateful for the chance to show the rest of the industry why we love calling it home.

Hawkins Partners Joins the Design Team for Vanderbilt's Stevenson Center 6

Tue, 12 May 2026 14:43:01 GMT

Timeline

Groundbreaking is expected this summer, with completion targeted for 2028. Hawkins Partners is honored to help shape a place where scientific discovery and campus community come together.

Read the full story from City Now Next: Vanderbilt University Selects DLR Group to Design 10-Story Research Facility in Nashville

Hawkins Partners is proud to be part of the team bringing Vanderbilt University's new Stevenson Center 6 to life. The 200,000+ square-foot research facility will sit at the intersection of Central Campus and the Historic Core, replacing the mid-century Stevenson Center 6 with a building designed to unite three schools, the College of Arts and Science, the School of Engineering, and the School of Basic Sciences, under one roof.

A Building Inspired by Natural Systems

Vanderbilt selected DLR Group, working alongside Centric Architecture, to lead design for the 10-story facility. The design draws inspiration from natural systems, including mycelium networks and Vanderbilt's arboretum, emphasizing interconnectedness, renewal, and resilience. Hawkins Partners is contributing landscape design to help carry that vision through the site, weaving planting, natural daylight, and material connections to the surrounding arboretum campus into the building's design from the ground up. DLR Group

Design Through Leadership: Kim Hawkins on Thinking in Systems

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:17:51 GMT

Leading in landscape architecture has never meant having all the answers. It means being willing to ask better questions, and staying curious enough to keep learning as the field evolves.

A Field That Used to Work in Silos

Twenty years ago, a holistic view of design wasn't the standard. Hydrological systems, ecological health, climate resilience, and social infrastructure were often considered in isolation, if they were considered at all. A stormwater engineer solved for water. A planting designer solved for aesthetics. A social planner solved for community access. These conversations rarely happened in the same room, let alone around the same table.

Kim Hawkins, FASLA and founding principal at Hawkins Partners, has watched that shift firsthand over her decades in the field. As she describes it, ongoing learning and implementation keep revealing how these systems overlap, from the smallest ecological details up through the human communities that depend on them. The line between "natural systems" and "human systems" has largely disappeared from how the firm approaches a site.

Looking Deeper Into Ecological Systems

That shift shows up clearly in the level of detail landscape architects now bring to ecological systems. Kim describes looking beyond plant material and its immediate life cycle, considering instead how it functions within a broader system and contributes to long-term sustainability. It's no longer enough to ask whether a plant will survive in a given site. The better question is how that plant supports the pollinators, soil health, and water cycles around it, years into the future.

That longer view means paying close attention to keystone species and assisted migration, planning not just for today's climate but for what a site will need 40 or 80 years from now. It's a level of long-range thinking Kim says wasn't common in the field two decades ago, when most projects were designed around present-day conditions rather than a shifting future.

Systems Thinking as a Leadership Skill

Today, landscape architects are uniquely positioned to understand how building systems, land, social infrastructure, and environmental health connect, and to bring those elements together in a coherent way. That position comes with responsibility. Few other disciplines sit at the intersection of engineering, ecology, and community life the way landscape architecture does, which means the profession has a growing role to play in how cities plan for a changing climate.

Leading in this field means staying curious enough to keep asking what comes next, rather than settling for what has always worked.

This wraps our World Landscape Architecture Month series for 2026. Thank you for following along as we explored what makes landscape architecture essential to how we live, work, and connect, through action, practice, learning, impact, and leadership.

Kim Hawkins Featured in Urban Land Magazine's Second Avenue Retrospective

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:39:43 GMT

Five years after a bombing damaged more than 65 buildings along Second Avenue North, Urban Land magazine is revisiting the story of the corridor's recovery, and Hawkins Partners founding principal Kim Hawkins is part of the story.

At the time of the 2020 bombing, Kim was serving as Chair of ULI Nashville. In the days that followed, then-Mayor John Cooper reached out directly, wanting the Urban Land Institute involved in rebuilding Second Avenue from the start. That outreach led to a virtual Advisory Services Panel, convened within three months of the bombing, where national planning experts worked alongside Nashville leaders to shape a path forward for the corridor.

In the feature, Kim reflects on that moment and what it meant for the city and the institute to move forward together.

“We were all still very much shell-shocked, and I thought that was incredible recognition and showed how strong our alliance is, between ULI and the city…It let us immediately start thinking about what are the ways that we might be able to jump into this.”

Read the full story on Urban Land's website: After the Second Avenue Bombing – Urban Land Magazine

Design Through Impact: Urban Trees as Public Health Infrastructure

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:16:35 GMT

If green space is infrastructure that helps keep people healthy, urban trees deserve to be treated as a determinant of public health in their own right. That's the conclusion of "Urban Trees and Human Health," a study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health that analyzed 201 studies spanning epidemiology, medicine, environmental science, and psychology.

Reducing Harm

The first major impact trees have on our cities is protective. Trees filter air pollutants, buffer UV radiation, and cool the urban heat island effect that makes dense cities measurably hotter than surrounding areas. These protections matter most in the communities least equipped to adapt to their absence: neighborhoods with less tree canopy tend to run hotter, breathe dirtier air, and have fewer resources to offset those conditions through air conditioning or medical care. Tree canopy, in this sense, functions as a form of environmental equity as much as environmental design.

Restoring Capacities

The second major impact is restorative. Exposure to trees measurably reduces psychological stress and improves mental health outcomes, and in some clinical settings, it even accelerates physical recovery. The research found that neighborhoods with 25% more tree canopy show meaningful drops in depression, anxiety, and stress scores compared to neighborhoods with less canopy. That's a significant shift in mental health outcomes tied to something as simple as the number of trees on a block.

Building Capacities

The third major impact is developmental. Canopy coverage correlates with better birth outcomes, more physically active communities, and healthier long-term weight status across populations. Trees encourage people to spend more time outside, which in turn supports physical activity, and that relationship compounds over a lifetime into measurable public health outcomes at the population level.

What This Means for Design

Taken together, this research makes a strong case: urban tree planning should be funded and prioritized as a public health intervention, not treated as an aesthetic afterthought or a line item to cut when budgets tighten. The data connects tree canopy directly to physical health, mental health, and long-term community wellbeing, outcomes that matter as much to a city's health department as to its parks department.

Landscape architects play a key role in that shift. Translating research like this into design decisions, and design decisions into policy, means advocating for canopy coverage in every project, from small streetscapes to large public parks, and making the public health case as clearly as the aesthetic one. That's landscape architecture in action through impact.

Public Square Joins Nashville Sites' Curated History Tours

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:32:09 GMT

Public Square, the civic green space Hawkins Partners designed above Nashville's Metro Courthouse, is now part of Nashville Sites' growing catalog of curated local history tours. The new "City Hall & Public Square" experience launches today, April 19, and explores the civic and democratic history of one of downtown Nashville's most significant gathering spaces.

Designing a Park With History Built In

Completed in 2008 as part of a major Metro Courthouse renovation, Public Square sits atop an approximately 6-acre rooftop park designed to support both a parking structure below and a working civic space above. Hawkins Partners designed the park to interpret the site's layered history through landscape, weaving a civic lawn, a WWII commemorative grove, a vendor plaza, and a series of water features into a single connected public space.

Sustainability was built into the project from the start. A 57,000-gallon rain-harvesting system captures water for the park's native plant irrigation, reducing the site's demand on the city's water supply while supporting the plantings that give the park its year-round character. The project went on to receive an Award of Excellence from the ASLA Tennessee Chapter, recognition of both its design and its environmental performance.

A Living Civic Space

Nearly two decades later, Public Square continues to do exactly what it was designed to do: serve as a gathering place for civic events, community celebrations, and everyday downtown life. That ongoing use is part of what makes it a fitting subject for Nashville Sites, whose tours connect visitors and locals alike to the stories behind the city's most meaningful places.

Celebrate the Launch

Nashville Sites' "City Hall & City Square" tour is free and available now on the Nashville Sites website. The public is invited to celebrate the tour's launch today, April 19, at 3:00 p.m. on the steps of the Historic Courthouse and City Hall.

Hawkins Partners is proud to see Public Square's story reach a new audience, and even prouder that, nearly twenty years on, the space still brings people together the way it was designed to.

Design Through Learning: How Our Team Found Their Way Into Landscape Architecture

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:15:00 GMT

There's no single pathway into landscape architecture. For World Landscape Architecture Month, we asked a few members of #TeamHawkins how they found their way into the field, and their answers reflect just how many directions can lead to the same profession.

One Shared Destination

Four different starting points, one shared destination: designing spaces that connect people to community through place. Whatever the entry point, whether graphic design, a childhood spent outdoors, a persistent question, or a career change, each path led to the same work of shaping how people live, gather, and move through the world. That's landscape architecture in action through learning.

Starting With a Creative Instinct

For some, the pull started with a creative instinct that hadn't yet found its outlet. Liz Greer, Designer II, arrived by way of graphic design. She was already comfortable thinking about composition, color, and visual hierarchy, but landscape architecture opened up a dimension of design she hadn't expected: one built in three dimensions, shaped by seasons, and experienced by people moving through space rather than looking at a page. Pursuing her MLA felt like the natural next step once she saw that connection.

Starting Outside, Long Before Design Entered the Picture

For others, the path started outside, well before design became part of the plan. Chase Hoytink, Designer I, grew up with a love of plants and the outdoors that had nothing to do with a career path at first. She found her direction at Auburn University, home to the only BLA program in Alabama. That program exposed her to the range and diversity of southern landscapes, from coastal ecosystems to Piedmont forests, and that exposure sparked a love for the field that continues to shape her work today.

Following a Question That Won't Let Go

Sometimes the pull comes from a question that won't let go. Zach Unruh, Designer II, was drawn in by a persistent curiosity about the built environment, the kind of question most people notice but few chase down: why do some spaces simply work better than others? Learning how landscape architects shape that experience, through circulation, scale, materials, and planting, gave him a framework for a question he'd been asking his whole life, and sealed the decision for him.

Changing Direction to Find a Better Answer

And sometimes the path means leaving one discipline to find a better answer in another. Luis Venegas, Landscape Architect, came from a civil engineering background but kept running into a question his coursework couldn't fully resolve: what truly makes a city livable? Landscape architecture let him bridge his technical training in grading, drainage, and infrastructure with the more artistic and empathetic side of design, the side concerned with how people actually experience a place day to day.

Design Through Practice: Why Hawkins Partners Travels Together Every Year

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:13:08 GMT

Once a year, the entire Hawkins Partners team gets on a plane together. The destination changes year to year, but the purpose behind the trip doesn't: curiosity, not conferences.

Learning by Walking

There's no substitute for experiencing a place on foot. The team walks unfamiliar buildings and open spaces, paying attention to details that don't come through in a photograph or a case study: how a plaza catches afternoon light, how a street handles foot traffic during rush hour, how a small park manages to feel busy and peaceful at the same time.

These observations focus on how other communities solve problems, allocate resources, and shape the way people gather and move through public life. Every city offers a different answer to those questions, shaped by its own climate, culture, and history. Seeing those answers firsthand, rather than reading about them, changes how the team thinks about design back home.

Bringing Ideas Home

None of this stays abstract once the trip ends. Ideas that surface during these trips come home with the team and shape the way Hawkins Partners approaches projects in Nashville and beyond. A clever grading solution spotted on a walk through one city might resurface months later in a stormwater strategy for a Nashville park. A planting palette admired in another region might inform how the team approaches resilience and native species selection at home.

This annual trip is one of the ways Hawkins Partners stays sharp as landscape architects, designers, and managers. Design skills don't stay sharp through repetition alone. They stay sharp through exposure to new problems and new solutions, and travel is one of the most direct ways to get that exposure.

Growing Together as Designer-Citizens

The trip is also about the team itself. Traveling together gives colleagues the chance to see a city, and each other, outside the usual rhythm of the office. Conversations that might not happen at a desk happen naturally on a long walk through an unfamiliar neighborhood.

This is one of the ways the team grows together as designer-citizens, learning as much from each other on these trips as from the cities themselves. Junior designers see how senior team members read a space. Senior team members get reminded, through a colleague's fresh eyes, of details they might otherwise walk past.

Design isn't only shaped by what happens at a desk or in a client meeting. It's shaped by curiosity, by travel, and by the willingness to keep learning from the world around us. That's landscape architecture in action through practice.

Design Through Action: How West Riverfront Park Came to Life

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:11:33 GMT

West Riverfront Park didn't start as a park. It started as a question, posed in a 2013 master plan: what should 12 acres of forgotten waterfront become for a city growing fast and needing to grow well?

Reading the Site Before Designing It

Hawkins Partners found the answer in the Cumberland River itself. The site's carved limestone bluffs, its sinuous bends, and its long industrial history all became raw material for design, rather than obstacles to design around. Before a single concept was drawn, the team studied how the river had shaped this stretch of land over generations, and how the land in turn had shaped the industries and communities that grew up along its banks.

That research shows up in the finished park. Every curve in the park's paths and every coursed stone wall traces back to a vision imagined long before construction began. Nothing about the site's current form is incidental. The design translates the river's own geometry into a public space people can walk, sit in, and gather around.

From Industrial Waterfront to Public Gathering Space

Today, that vision has become one of Nashville's most active public spaces. The 6,500-person Ascend Amphitheater anchors the park, drawing concertgoers and community events throughout the year and giving Nashville's riverfront a cultural identity it hadn't had before.

A mile-long promenade runs the length of the park, and it does more than connect one end to the other. The promenade integrates flood protection directly into the visitor experience, so the infrastructure that keeps the park safe during high water also becomes part of what makes it enjoyable to walk on an ordinary afternoon. Flood walls, often treated as purely functional infrastructure, were designed here as part of the park's identity.

Where the Front Street wharf once bustled with loading docks and industrial shipping, families now explore slide gardens and climbing nets built for play. That shift, from working waterfront to public playground, captures what the original master plan set out to do: honor the site's history while giving it an entirely new purpose.

Landscape Architecture in Action

West Riverfront Park is a clear example of landscape architecture in action: a discipline that takes a site's history, its water, its stone, its industrial past, and turns all of it into a place people actively want to be.

This article kicks off our series for World Landscape Architecture Month, exploring what makes landscape architecture essential to the way we live, work, and connect. Check back each week throughout April as we dig into more of what shapes this field, from practice to learning to leadership.

Project: West Riverfront Park | Location: Nashville, TN | Completed: 2015 | Photography: Matthew Carbone, Bob Schatz, Aerial Innovations

Project: West Riverfront Park

Location: Nashville, TN

Completed: 2015

Kim Hawkins Named in Nashville Post's 2026 "In Charge" List

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:28:06 GMT

Hawkins Partners founding principal Kim Hawkins has been named to Nashville Post's 2026 "In Charge" list, an annual recognition of the people shaping Nashville's growth across real estate, development, and design. Kim was honored in the publication's Real Estate category, alongside a small group of leaders the Post credits with keeping the city moving forward.

A Firm Rooted in Nashville's Story

Kim founded Hawkins Partners in 1986, at a time when Nashville looked very different than it does today. Since then, she has led the firm alongside her husband Gary Hawkins, now principal emeritus, and senior partner Brian Phelps, building a practice known for shaping some of the city's most recognizable places. Hawkins Partners' portfolio includes work on Nashville Yards, Geodis Park, and Fifth + Broadway, projects that have played a defining role in the city's downtown transformation over the past decade.

This isn't Kim's first time on the list. She was previously recognized in Nashville Post's In Charge rankings in 2017 and 2018, a reflection of her sustained influence in the local development and civic planning community over the years.

Beyond the Firm

Kim's impact reaches well beyond Hawkins Partners' project work. She has served in leadership roles with the Urban Land Institute, including as the first president of its Tennessee chapter, and has contributed her expertise to organizations including the Nashville Airport Authority, the Land Trust of Tennessee, and the Civic Design Center, which she helped found under its original name, the Urban Design Forum. That civic involvement has helped shape the way Nashville approaches growth, open space, and community design at a citywide level.

Congratulations, Kim

The entire Hawkins Partners team congratulates Kim on this well-earned recognition. Her vision continues to guide the firm's work and, in no small part, the city she has helped build for nearly four decades.

Geodis Park Is Headed to the 2028 Olympics

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:25:09 GMT

Nashville is going Olympic. Geodis Park has been selected as one of the venues for the LA28 Olympic Football Tournaments, part of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Hawkins Partners is proud to have played a role in bringing this stadium to life, and even prouder to see it take center stage on a global scale.

A World Stage for Nashville

Geodis Park joins six other venues across the country hosting Olympic soccer, with the tournament's final matches set for the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. On the Olympic stage, the stadium will be known as Nashville Stadium, following the same naming convention as the other host venues. LA28 officials framed the expanded venue list as a way to bring the Games closer to fans nationwide, noting that bringing matches to stadiums across the country lets more fans experience the Olympic spirit firsthand. WSMV

The selection is a significant moment for Nashville's sports scene, placing the city alongside New York, Columbus, St. Louis, San Jose, and San Diego as a host market for one of the world's largest sporting events.

Designing a Stadium for the World's Largest Soccer Fanbase

Geodis Park sits on Nashville's historic fairgrounds, directly adjacent to the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood, on a site that formerly hosted the Nashville Fairgrounds before that use relocated to an improved expo building on the same property. Serving as the home stadium for Nashville SC, the venue is recognized as the largest dedicated soccer stadium in North America.

Hawkins Partners collaborated with Populous Architects and a wide range of design disciplines to bring the project to life, leading site design and related architectural site elements. That work included developing a vivid plant palette, one distinct enough to give the stadium its own identity while still complementing the scale and energy of a major sporting venue.

Recognized Before the World Was Watching

Completed in 2022, Geodis Park earned a 2023 Excellence in Development award from ULI Nashville well before the Olympic announcement, recognition of the design and planning work that went into the stadium and its surrounding site. Now, with the eyes of the world set to turn toward Nashville in 2028, that same site design will help host matches on one of the biggest stages in global sports.

Hawkins Partners is ready. We can't wait to see what this venue, and this city, bring to the world stage.

Location: Nashville, TN

Project Completion: 2022

Award: 2023 Excellence in Development, ULI Nashville