New Nissan Stadium is impossible to miss these days. If you’re in downtown Nashville looking out at the city from a height, or simply driving on the interstate around the east side of town, the engineering marvel that’s taking shape right next to existing Nissan Stadium is coming together rapidly.
The Titans get the keys to their new digs next February, and they gave us our third media tour of the progress that’s been made eleven months out from opening. Here’s what we saw and heard out there.
Sights and updates from New Nissan Stadium
Let’s start with the view. Here’s a panoramic video of the bowl from the concourse of the 300 level.
It’s pretty astonishing already! The scale is starting to come into view, but once we get more visual context of size (hash marks on a painted field, individual seats on the risers, etc.) we’ll have a true feel for the size of this room.
But even then, I think you’re liable to be surprised by how “small” it feels. And this is part of the point! While capacity isn’t shrinking too terribly much from the old stadium (60,000 vs 69,000), the stacked/intimate layout of the bowl is very intentional. This is the first takeaway that Titans fans will feel immediately when they enter this new stadium: I really do not know if there’s a bad seat in the house. You feel so much closer to the action in the upper deck.
It’s got the feel of a modern stadium sightline (much like Geodis Park where Nashville SC plays), which makes me personally feel like I could buy the cheapest ticket to merely get in the door to an event and think it was well worth my money and time. Frankly, current Nissan Stadium sightlines are the polar opposite. The worst seats in that building are a view from Jupiter.
As you can see in this next video, the big step looming over the entire project is installing the roof. The cable lattice structure has been woven and laid out limply across the entire bowl.
Hydraulic cranks will pull them tight around September or October, and the clear ETFE roofing material (they call each square an ETFE “pillow”) will be secured in place. This will be the final step toward officially enclosing the indoor venue.
Here is a video of the walk through the 300 level concourse.
That giant white wall you see in the background will be used to showcase Tennessee high school football, including girls flag football programs. Next, here’s a video of the walk through the 100 level concourse.
On previous tours, most of the walls didn’t exist. You could see straight through much of the concrete and steel structure. Now that most of the framing and some of the drywalling has taken place, you get a real feel for the size and shape of these public spaces. And that is the second immediate takeaway fans will feel when they arrive: these concourses are big and beautiful!
Gone will be the days of walking into the concourse and feeling like you’re in a one-way concrete dungeon. These are spacious and thoughtfully laid out. It’s clear they’ll have the feel of a nice mall or a modern airport, to paint a picture. And those familiar with current Nissan Stadium know how gargantuan that upgrade will be.
Here are some renderings of the finished product from the work site. I like the redacted eighth image, which was crudely cut off the board. It goes to show how these plans are still evolving as things march on.
Here are some fun facts for you about the new place compared to the old:
- Current Nissan Stadium has 4 escalators and 6 elevators. New Nissan Stadium will have 44 escalators and 27 elevators.
- Frictionless markets will be all over the place. Gone are the days of standing in line and missing your event for concessions. Amazon technology allows you to walk through the turnstile of a market, take what you want from the shelves or windows, and then simply walk out.
- The current stadium team store is around 4,000 square feet. The new one will be 11,000 square feet, with three satellite stores around the stadium that are nearly the size of the current store by themselves.
Here’s our first glimpse at the new Titans locker room, which has been framed out in the bowels of the building.
It’s going to be 50% larger than the current locker room, which is big enough to fit the full offseason 90-man roster. The current stadium requires half the team to use a secondary locker room before it’s cut down to the gameday roster. There are also dedicated offensive and defensive meeting rooms, league-leading female staff facilities, significant family room upgrades, and 68 fixed lockers that are “big Jeff sized” (1.5x wider than before).
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This story was originally published by A to Z Sports on Mar 24, 2026, where it first appeared in the NFL section. Add A to Z Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.