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The city of Nashville and its Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency is wasting no time on getting started the new downtown Music City Center. The agency recently selected Colorado-based Phelps Development and Atlanta-based Portman Holdings as the development team for the center's 1,000-room convention hotel, according to the Nashville Business Journal.

Located adjacent to the Music City Center convention center, the 40-story hotel will be downtown's largest. The $300 million property will boast a curved design and feature glass ceilings in the entryway. It will also have 100,000 square feet of meeting space, ballrooms, restaurants and retail.

The hotel is expected to open by 2013. The convention center already has two large associations booked beginning in 2013: the American Choral Directors Association and the American Trucking Association.