About 18 months after Luke Combs revealed plans to transform Nashville’s iconic Wildhorse Saloon from a nostalgic, boot-scootin’ Second Avenue mainstay into a massive, rebranded, and redesigned entertainment complex, the four-story, 67,000-square-foot venue opened its doors.
Friday night, Combs’ Category 10 welcomed some of the singer’s most passionate fans into the space for a VIP viewing and a private Combs concert.
“I said, ‘You gotta open up more than a bar,’” Combs’ manager Chris Kappy recounted to the crowd packed onto the dancefloor ahead of Combs’ set. “You gotta open up a sports club, an entertainment venue. You gotta open up the biggest thing in Nashville, and that’s exactly what this building is.”
Collin Reed, director of Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc., which owns Category 10, explained: “This is a multi-faceted entertainment place and is going to kick it up a notch.”
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