First look: Predators getting locker room upgrades and Bridgestone Arena renovations

Joey Garrison
The Tennessean

Fresh off the franchise's first trip to the NHL's Stanley Cup Final, the Predators are getting locker room upgrades at Bridgestone Arena.

The arena is also in store for renovations to three concessions areas on its 300-level upper bowl. In all, it will provide 14 additional "points of sale" where customers can buy food and beverages.

A rendering of upcoming renovations to Bridgestone Arena's locker rooms for the Nashville Predators

The team's front office unveiled renderings of the updated locker room look at a Metro Nashville Sports Authority meeting Thursday. It marks the first update to Bridgestone Arena's locker rooms since 2010.

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Renovations, a two-year project that began this summer at the city-owned arena, include new LED ribbon boards that will allow shots of players to be played above their lockers, a digital white board for coaches, and a more clean, curved look than the past.

"It's a much more team unified room," said Kyle Clayton, the Predators' senior director of operations. "It's just updating where we were in 2010."

The locker renovations are to paid for by the team.

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In addition, Predators officials updated the sports authority on four other arena projects to be privately funded by the team, arena and the stadium's concessionaire Delaware North.They are:

  • New event, hospitality and lounge space that will be an extension of the Lexus Lounge 
  • An expanded concession/bar area on the 300 level tentatively called Honky Hop Haus
  • A new frozen drink bar on the 300 level where a grab-and-go food area used to be
  • A new grab-and-go area called Music City Market, to be located at the site of former storage space, also on the 300 level
A rendering of future hospitality space coming to Bridgestone Arena next to the Lexis Lounge
A rendering of a new Honky Hop Haus bar planned for the 300-level of Briddgestone Arena
A frozen drink bar planned for the 300-level of Bridgestone Arena
A planned grab-and-go concessions area on the 300-level of Bridgestone Arena called Music City Market

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