Nashville Yards unveiled a new front door to Music City on Oct. 28. A 1.3-acre public park now anchors the new 19-acre district that transformed a former railyard into a vibrant urban gateway.

The Ascension Saint Thomas Landing park features a dog run, pickleball courts, a putting green, seating areas, restrooms and food trucks. The park neighbors Amazon’s two-tower office campus, The Pinnacle music venue and luxury homes, restaurants and shopping.

“This is a social gathering place for Nashvillians, it’s a social gathering place for visitors to the city,” said Southwest Value Partners Managing Director and Partner Joe Bucher, who has worked on the design, vision and development strategy for the 19-acre Nashville Yards project for the past decade. He said the park is a crucial element of the overall master-planned community.

“Hopefully, you’ll come back many, many times and enjoy the extreme attention we, our team, and everyone here has put into this place to make it, in some ways, more complex than the beautiful towers we’ve built across the site,” Bucher said.

The park bears the name of Ascension Saint Thomas, which aims to promote healthy living in downtown Nashville by improving access to the outdoors, green space, areas to exercise and get health care.

“At the end of the day, you can get out of the office, get out of a building, and where health happens is not in the hospital and it’s not in the doctor’s office,” said the health system’s President and CEO Fahad Tahir. “It’s the way we live every single day.”

Ascension Saint Thomas recently opened a primary care clinic in the downtown neighborhood near the park and green space.

Where is the Nashville Yards public park?
The Ascension Saint Thomas Landing is located at the Nashville Yards development in the downtown Nashville area, just across the CSX railyard from The Gulch.

The park runs along the train tracks and connects Church Street to Broadway, with pedestrian access points at the Union Station Hotel, Pinnacle office building and Commerce Street. Parking is available on site.

Adding much-needed recreation space to the Nashville Yards area, the park is adjacent to the residential towers The Everett and The Emory, the Pinnacle office tower, a creative arts office building, the Grand Hyatt Hotel and the Union Station Hotel.

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