Developer Tim Carter, Starwood Properties’ president, owns a 6,700-square-foot building and two adjacent parking lots on State Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fifth Street. In a hat company building that once stood on a portion of the site, talent scout Ralph Peer made the first commercially successful country music recordings of artists including the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and the Stonemans, which eventually led to Bristol’s claim to fame as the birthplace of country music.
Maybe somebody will buy it and relocate it to Pigeon Forge or Branson.
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