Erik Moses attended his first NASCAR race in 2019 as an XFL executive looking to poach marketing ideas during a trip to Dover International Raceway. One year later, Dover poached Moses and sent him to Tennessee to reopen Nashville Superspeedway.

2. Gibson Garage opens June 9 with concert - Friday, June 4, 2021

Gibson, the iconic, American instrument brand based in Nashville, is debuting the Gibson Garage, which it bills as the “ultimate guitar experience.”

The 8,000-square-foot shop will officially open to the public June 9 at historic Cummins Station, located on 209 10th Avenue South.

3. Over the Cumberland, around the world - Friday, March 19, 2021

Josef Newgarden has a very simple explanation for why Nashville seemingly has become the center of the motor sports universe.

Or more fittingly, as Newgarden suggests, on center stage in Music City.

4. Mother Nature saves 2020 - Friday, November 6, 2020

Tourism officials love gaudy economic-impact numbers. Tennessee’s most recent report on travel doesn’t disappoint, offering up record-breaking figures that are the envy of many other states. Unfortunately, the report is for calendar year 2019.

5. Nashville included in NASCAR 2021 schedule shakeup - Friday, September 25, 2020

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR promised radical changes to the 2021 schedule and delivered Wednesday with six road courses, the first dirt race for the Cup Series since 1970 and new stops in Nashville and Austin, Texas.

6. Newgarden hot for IndyCar to race on hometown track, too - Friday, July 3, 2020

Josef Newgarden, the two-time (and reigning) NTT IndyCar Series champion, is anxious to race again at what he considers his hometown track.

Newgarden, 29, went to high school in Hendersonville (Pope John Paul II) before moving to Indiana to pursue his open-wheel racing career, then moved to North Carolina when he joined Team Penske in order to be closer to company headquarters. When Newgarden and longtime girlfriend Ashley Welch got married in October, they decided to move back to Nashville.

7. Days of slumber - Friday, July 3, 2020

What goes around comes around. That karma-like phrase, popularized in the 1970s, will take on new meaning for area auto racing fans next June when the NASCAR Cup Series returns to the Nashville market for the first time in 37 years.

8. NASCAR plans to race its way through the South in June - Friday, May 15, 2020

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It will be a summer in the South for NASCAR: The stock car series announced Thursday it will stick to Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Florida and Alabama for June races — all of them without fans.

9. Penske buys Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IndyCar Series - Friday, November 1, 2019

Roger Penske was a car-loving, 14-year-old who regularly listened to the Indianapolis 500 on the radio when his father landed tickets to the 1951 race. They made the trek from Cleveland, and when Penske saw the cars zipping around Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 200 mph he fell instantly in love.

10. Top Middle Tennessee commercial sales for January 2018 - Friday, February 23, 2018

Top commercial real estate sales, January 2018, for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

11. Finding Nashville while searching for America - Friday, September 1, 2017

Merle Haggard likely is playing in the head of the man I spot, tiny dogs dancing at his feet, as he puffs on a thick stogie atop an asphalt knoll in the middle of Nashville.

“Down every road, there’s always one more city,” a line from Hag’s “I’m A Lonesome Fugitive” is the motto of the man, his mate for life (and road buddy) and their two dogs.

12. International corridor continues to develop - Friday, June 10, 2016

When Renata Soto talks about the evolution surrounding Casa Azafrán, she can’t help but mention the variety of cuisine in South Nashville.

“I don’t know who started this, but there’s a saying here on Nolensville Road that people come here for the cars or the tires and they stay for the food,” Soto says.

13. Top January 2015 commercial real estate transactions - Friday, February 27, 2015

Top January 2015 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

14. Borchetta to receive Music Business Association honor - Friday, January 16, 2015

Big Machine Label Group President and CEO Scott Borchetta will receive the Music Business Association’s (Music Biz) Presidential Award for Outstanding Executive Achievement during the Music Biz 2015 Awards Luncheon on May 14.

15. Coming to a car near you: auto technology at CES - Friday, January 9, 2015

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Self-driving cars garner much of the attention, but in reality, we're years away from tooling around in something like Knight Rider's KITT. Coming sooner to a car near you: smartphone apps on dash displays, cruise control that adapts to cars around it, remote engine starting and more.

16. Top November 2014 commercial real estate transactions - Friday, January 2, 2015

Top November 2014 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

17. Top Midstate commercial real estate transactions for 2013 - Friday, January 24, 2014

Top 2013 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

18. Top Midstate commercial real estate transactions for Nov. 2013 - Friday, December 20, 2013

Top November  2013 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

19. Top Midstate commercial real estate transactions for August 2013 - Friday, September 27, 2013

Top August 2013 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

20. Bad hub breakup? Follow Nashville’s lead - Friday, June 28, 2013

Memphis, Nashville feels your pain. When Delta announced earlier this month it would no longer use Memphis International Airport as a hub – cutting 230 jobs in the process – it brought back bad memories for the Music City, dark memories of 1996.

21. Top Midstate Commercial real estate transactions for April 2013 - Friday, May 24, 2013

Top April 2013 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.

22. Top Midstate commercial real estate transactions for March 2013 - Friday, April 19, 2013

Top March 2013 commercial real estate transactions for Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner counties, as compiled by Chandler Reports.