A Midtown property that formerly housed legendary recording studio The Tracking Room — in which Chet Atkins, U2 and Donna Summer, among others, once created music — has sold for $3.85 million.
According to a Davidson County Register of Deeds document, the new owner is Biorhythms Studios LLC. The Post was unable to determine details about the LLC. However, Nashville-based entertainment business management company FBMM represents the new owner in some manner, the document notes.
The seller was an LLC affiliated with Charlie Jigarjian and Jonathan Krasner, co-owners of New York-based 7G Realty, and local real estate investors Lance Bloom and Bert Mathews (both partners with Colliers Nashville). The four paid $3 million for the property in August 2021 (read here). The seller in that deal was country music industry veteran Dale Morris, who oversaw The Tracking Room.
Of note, Bloom, Jigarjian and Krasner in March 2021 paid $2.4 million for a since-razed commercial building then located adjacent to the Tennessee State University-Avon Williams Campus at 901 Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Blvd. (Charlotte Avenue).Via an LLC, local developer Tony Giarratana acquired the property in August 2022 for $4,925,000 and plans a residential tower for the site (read here).
The just-sold Midtown property’s current zoning allows for hotel, office and multifamily uses. The new owner could not be reached for comment regarding whether a renovation of the 9,300-square-foot building or demolition and redevelopment of the site is planned.
Morris acquired both the 0.4-acre property and The Tracking Room business from famed sound engineer Glenn Meadows for $300,000 in 1993.
Before ceasing operations, The Tracking Room touted itself as the largest recording studio in Nashville. Constructed in the mid-1990s by recording studio architect Tom Hidley, the space offers five isolation booths, including a reverb chamber called the “Stone Room” that was frequently used for percussion. Each room features doors designed by NASA to eliminate sound leakage.
In addition to the aforementioned artists, Carole King, Steve Earle, Kris Kristofferson, Olivia Newton John and Taylor Swift are among the musicians who recorded at the facility.
