First Horizon Park
First Horizon Park, formerly known as First Tennessee Park, is a baseball park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The home of the Triple-A Nashville Sounds of the International League, it opened on April 17, 2015, and can seat up to 10,000 people. It replaced the Sounds' former home, Herschel Greer Stadium, where the team played from its founding in 1978 through 2014.
First Horizon Park at dusk | |
| Former names | First Tennessee Park (2015–2019) |
|---|---|
| Location | 19 Junior Gilliam Way Nashville, Tennessee United States |
| Coordinates | 36°10′22″N 86°47′05″W |
| Elevation | 405 ft (123 m) |
| Owner | Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County |
| Operator | Nashville Sounds Baseball Club |
| Capacity | 8,500 (fixed seating) 10,000 (plus berm seating) |
| Record attendance | 12,409 (July 16, 2022; Nashville Sounds vs. Memphis Redbirds) |
| Field size | Baseball: Left field: 330 ft (100 m) Left-center field: 386 ft (118 m) Center field: 403 ft (123 m) Right-center field: 388 ft (118 m) Right field: 310 ft (94 m) Soccer: 115 yd × 72 yd (105 m × 66 m) |
| Acreage | 10.8 acres (4.4 ha) |
| Surface | Latitude 36 Bermudagrass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | January 27, 2014 |
| Opened | April 17, 2015 |
| Construction cost | $91 million ($117 million in 2023 dollars) |
| Architect | Populous Hastings Architecture Associates |
| Project manager | Gobbell Hays Partners Capital Project Solutions |
| Structural engineer | Walter P. Moore |
| Services engineer | Smith Seckman Reid |
| General contractor | Barton Malow/Bell/Harmony, A Joint Venture |
| Tenants | |
| Nashville Sounds (PCL/AAAE/IL) 2015–present Nashville SC (USLC) 2018–2019 | |
The park was built on the site of the former Sulphur Dell, a minor league ballpark in use from 1885 to 1963. It is located between Third and Fifth Avenues on the east and west (home plate, the pitcher's mound, and second base are directly in line with Fourth Avenue to the stadium's north and south) and between Junior Gilliam Way and Harrison Street on the north and south. The Nashville skyline can be seen from the stadium to the south.
The design of the park incorporates elements of Nashville's baseball and musical heritage and the use of imagery inspired by Sulphur Dell, the city's former baseball players and teams, and country music. Its most distinctive feature is its guitar-shaped scoreboard—a successor to the original guitar scoreboard at Greer Stadium. The ballpark's wide concourse wraps entirely around the stadium and provides views of the field from every location.
Though primarily a venue for the Nashville Sounds, collegiate and high school baseball teams based in the area, such as the Vanderbilt Commodores and Belmont Bruins, have played some games at the ballpark. Nashville SC, a soccer team of the United Soccer League Championship, played its home matches at the facility from 2018 to 2019. It has also hosted other events, including celebrity softball games and various food and drink festivals.