'Now stands' or 'now stand'

Should it be... "To the south now stand a car park and a cruise ship terminal"

OR

"To the sound now stands a car park and a cruise ship terminal"

Solution 1:

If the car park and the cruise ship terminal have nothing to do with one another,
then the NP a car park and a cruise ship terminal is plural, and stand is correct.

However, if they are being treated by the speaker as a single unit,
then that NP can be considered singular, and stands is correct.

The choice is the speaker's; but of course the addressee(s) may not always
make the same inferences and presuppositions that the speaker does.
This is a problem, but hardly a novel one.

Solution 2:

Since "a car park and a cruise ship terminal" are the subject of the sentence, and are plural, the correct spelling would be 'stand':

To the south now stand a car park and a cruise ship terminal.

Compare this to, for example, "to your right stand the two main buildings".

You can also use 'are standing', which might sound less strange.

^{(Notwithstanding the question of whether or not a car park can actually stand..)}