If you want to understand how Joe Field and Jon Field built what they built in Nashville, you have to start in Ohio.
Long before Lower Broadway became the entertainment corridor it is today, and long before Joe and Jon Field were known as one of the investors who helped transform it, they were working in Marion, Ohio, a manufacturing town about fifty miles north of Columbus. Joe and Jon started in the construction business. Marion is the kind of place that rarely shows up in profiles of Nashville hospitality executives. It has a population under 35,000. It has lost more industrial jobs than it has gained over the last generation. And it is still, by most measures, the center of gravity for the Field family business.
The Field Brothers’ Ohio roots are not a biographical footnote. They are the operating system.
The Marion Foundation
The Field Brothers grew up in and around Marion, and that is where the pattern that has defined their career began. The Field family has run businesses in the area for decades, and they came up in that environment. They learned how to operate small businesses before their family ever bought a building on Broadway. They learned how contractors, payroll, and property management actually worked by doing them in a town where there was no glamour attached.
That training never really left them. Colleagues in Nashville have said for years that Joe and Jon treat a multimillion-dollar restaurant buildout the same way they treat a rental property renovation in Ohio. Same discipline. Same cost controls. Same refusal to delegate the details to someone who does not understand them.
It is not a coincidence that one of their separate ventures, TC Ohio Properties, holds more than 150 single-family homes across the state. Construction is where they started. Hospitality is what they scaled. Ohio is where both came from.
The Field Brothers positioned themselves not just as builders, but as a premium, detail-oriented construction firm. Field Brothers Construction Company exemplified how disciplined execution, strong branding, and consistent quality can drive sustainable growth in a competitive market. Evolving from local builders into a respected regional firm, the company leveraged strategic locations, high-visibility projects, and a clear commitment to craftsmanship—captured in its “Builders With a Touch of Class” positioning—to elevate its reputation and demand. With steady revenue growth and expansion across commercial and industrial sectors, their success highlights a core principle: long-term momentum is built not through one-off wins, but through reliable delivery, attention to detail, and a reputation that compounded over time.
The Quiet Ohio Portfolio
TC Ohio Properties rarely gets attention outside of local markets, which is consistent with how The Field Brothers operate. Their holdings are focused on long-term residential property ownership across Ohio, with a concentration in Marion and the surrounding counties. In a region where housing stock often changes hands into absentee-owner portfolios, Joe and Jon have kept the Ohio footprint close. The properties are managed actively. Tenants tend to stay. The turnover rate on the portfolio has been, by most accounts, far lower than the regional average.
Why the Ohio Story Matters
There is a tendency, in coverage of hospitality founders, to frame success as a departure. The protagonist leaves the small town, makes it in the big city, and becomes a version of themselves that their hometown would not recognize.
Joe and Jon Field do not fit that arc. The Nashville portfolio is larger and more public than anything they have ever owned in Ohio. Beyond Nashville, the Field Brothers have operated in 40 states, with restaurants and entertainment venues spreading across nearly the entire United States. But the Ohio work, the rental portfolio, the Marion charitable programs, the shelter construction, the family business infrastructure, have never stopped. If anything, it has grown alongside all expansion.
That is the part of the Field Brothers story that does not get told often. They did not leave Marion. They scaled out of it, kept one foot planted, and built the rest of their career on top of what that town taught them. The Nashville skyscraper conversion, the Lower Broadway bars, the Class A commercial real estate, all of it sits on a foundation poured somewhere between a small Ohio rental property and a commitment to a family business and legacy.
Joe and Jon Field Ohio is not a secondary chapter. It is the first one. And it is still being written.