Commerce Place Mixed Use Development is comprised of a first class office building, a 250 room convention hotel with ballroom and meeting rooms, restaurants, support retail and the parking associated with these uses. The development is located in the heart of the Nashville Central Business District.

The diagonal outdoor plaza serves to provide pedestrian access connection the State Capitol and government district with the heart of the financial district. The massing and shape of the uses was driven by the various user requirements as was the development of the exterior skin fenestration and materials.

The twenty-story office building serves as the Corporate Headquarters for Commerce Union Bank, Nashville, Tennessee. The design features a fully self contained office environment with kitchen, cafeteria, computer floors, boardroom, meeting and conference space for the building, Owner/User, tenants and guest with a landscaped plaza created to connect the office, hotel and retail uses and serves as a visual amenity to the projects user’s and the public. The structural frame is steel reinforced concrete and the skin is a chiseled face architectural concrete with bronze insulating glass is colored aluminum frames. The building HVAC system is designed with a centrifugal chiller utilizing variable air volume boxes for air distribution to various tenants. The building has approximately 430,000 gross square feet with approximately 400,000 usable square feet. The thirteen story, 250 room hotel has a ballroom, meeting rooms, two restaurants and support retail and is managed by Radisson.

Don Rutland was owner/developed of this project while employed with another firm.