The city-owned Nashville Convention Center site, which for three years has been eyed as a location for a medical trade center, is also a location of interest for a new House of Blues, according to the Tennessean.

The convention center on Lower Broadway would become vacant in about a year, after the new Music City Center convention hall opens, the paper reports. The present building offers a variety of potential reuses, but redevelopment plans have been dogged by missed construction timelines and has secured only a handful of leases, according to the Nashville Business Journal.

Dallas-based developer Market Center Management told the Journal it is close to beginning construction on the 1.5 million-square-foot medical space, including the addition of eight floors atop the building for year-round showrooms for medical product manufacturers and distributors, and trade shows.

The addition of a House of Blues to the complex would not necessarily conflict with a medical trade center and related business as neighbors, according to local observers.

“If you had (House of Blues) on the base and had the med mart on the upper floors, I don’t see any reason that would prohibit them from working together. I really don’t,” developer Mark Bloom told the Journal.

And a Nashville House of Blues, wherever one might be located, would be welcomed with open arms by Music City’s music pros.

“I’d love to see House of blues come here,” Mary Ann McCready, former chairman of the Mayor’s Music Council and a longtime entertainment business manager, told the Journal. “(It) would bring in a whole covey of artists that wouldn’t normally come here.”

And CAA’s Rod Essig chimed in as well, telling the Journal such a venue would be similar to the Ryman Auditorium in that it would be able to book a bevy of “eclectic” artists. “That would be incredible,” he said.

For its part, House of Blues – a Live Nation company – is being coy.

“House of Blues is interested in expanding into a number of great music markets, including Nashville,” a House of Blues rep told Pollstar. “We are pursuing a number of ideas in many of these markets.”