The East Bend

The East Bend is a 47-acre riverfront redevelopment on Nashville's East Bank, transforming the former PSC Metals scrapyard south of Nissan Stadium into a new mixed-use neighborhood on the Cumberland River. The site was assembled by TEB LLC, an investment vehicle backed by more than fifty Nashville and Tennessee investors and organized through ARRT Global's SRE Fund I, with local investors David Byerley and Sam Lingo among the principals. Metro Council created a dedicated East Bend Subdistrict within the Downtown Code for the property, dividing it into twenty-two parcels with height limits stepping from eight stories at the neighborhood edges to forty stories nearest the river. The master plan is led by Gensler with landscape design by Hodgson Douglas and OJB Landscape Architecture and civil engineering by Pape-Dawson. Its framework is built around public access to the water: new parks and greenways, an extended riverfront promenade, streets raised above the floodplain, and bioretention systems planted with native species to manage stormwater. Early projections give the district capacity for more than 7,000 residential units, up to twelve hotels, at least two million square feet of office and medical office space, family entertainment venues, and hundreds of thousands of square feet of anchor, food and beverage, and locally owned retail, alongside what would be Nashville's first dedicated children's museum. The zoning package caps hotel development in favor of housing and writes in affordable-housing incentives intended to keep a share of the new homes reachable for Nashville residents rather than tilting the district toward tourism. Positioned between downtown and East Nashville and adjacent to the city's broader East Bank redevelopment, The East Bend is among the largest single urban infill opportunities in the American South, with a land basis of $245 million and a build-out horizon measured in decades.