About Gateway

Middle Tennessee Medical Center has started construction on the new medical center that will cost approximately $278 million along Medical Center Parkway. The 386 bed 600,000 square- foot facility will be located on 68 acres in the Gateway area. Opening of the new state-of-the-art facility will be the later part of 2010. The hospital is owned by Saint Thomas Health Services and Ascension Health.

The Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Centeris presently under construction and will open September 15, 2008.The facility is one of the largest of its kind in all of Middle Tennessee and will feature 10 stories with 283 suites and a conference center of 80,000 square feet which is third largest in the market behind only Gaylord Opryland. The property is owned and managed by John Q. Hammons Hotels & Resorts the nation’s leading independent builder, developer, owner and manager of upscale, full-service hotels, resorts and suites.

Cousins Properties and Faison Enterprises opened the Avenue Murfreesboro, an 810,000 square-foot open air life style retail center on Medical Center Parkway in the fall of 2007. The Avenue Murfreesboro is the centerpiece of 400 acres of new commercial development envisioned by landowner C. M. Gatton and developed by Stonegate Commercial along Medical Center Parkway. The Avenue contains 110 quality stores including Chico’s, Coldwater Creek, Hollister, Best Buy, Dick’s Sporting Goods and many others.

Murfreesboro City Manager Roger Haley saw a unique opportunity in 1998 to pull together various pieces of public and private land to form a large overall master plan that would address a number of public issues and provide for special private development.

The result is what we now call the Gateway Center that almost daily brings new and exciting developments to our city.