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We donated the land and paid for the streetscape improvements and other infrastructure upgrades.

In the downtown core roadway changes, infrastructure enhancements, sidewalks, connections to the downtown NES grid, combined sewer separation, etc. have often been paid for using Tax Increment Financing or through the Capital Improvement Budget. In this instance there was no TIF or CIB investment from Metro. We were required to give up the land for sidewalk expansion, new city street lighting and the roadway enhancement to comply with the major collector street plan.

Views from the first floor of guest rooms.

Check out the work of Boston Consulting Group on this topic. 3 links below. https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/reimagined-car-shared-autonomous-electric.aspx and

Thanks for the invitation. You meet monthly?

Cool time lapse video from the construction crane of the elevator mass concrete pour. Clicking link will automatically download a 26mb video file from the weekend. 2016.03.05_-_222_Elevator_Mass_Concrete_Pour_Time_Lapse.mp4

Guys, none of this was intended to be "design." Today was Concept Review, not Design Review. The images shown today were contextual massing images, not architectural renderings. That's it. Hang tight.

328 Performance Hall was at 328 4th Avenue South, what is now the right of way for Korean Veterans Blvd. It was condemned for the road constriction. The Hampton Inn is a part of the same parcel.

They have a site in Nashville that is on the planning commissions next agenda for a rezone.

Very complicated question. For a start see: http://www.nashville.gov/Planning-Department/Community-Planning-Design/Community-Plans/Downtown.aspx and then http://idesigninc.net/mdha/rollingMill.php.

Our firm owns the surface lot as well that fronts KVB at 2nd. I agree that it is better served with development. That said, there is no pressure. Our focus is on the surface lot at 1st and Demonbreun, across from the proposed SoBro.

Our firm owns the adjacent site, the diner is another property. The SoBro will sandwiched in between. Tony transferred the land for the SoBro last summer to Chicago based WMG Realty Holding Company, LLC a Magellan entity which includes Wanxing America Real Estate Group (http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130716/BUSINESS01/307160122/-1/NLETTER04/Giarratana--partners-seal-deal-to-pursue-32-story-SoBro-tower?source=nletter-breakingnews). Lowenberg is owned by Magellan (http://www.magellandevelopment.com/company/affiliates/architectural/). I expect a construction start very soon.

Summer 2015.

The site is controlled by the Management of the Hampton Inn, not our lease. I was surprised to see it as well. I have not stepped in the business.

Correct. Expect this to be designed with significant sustainability features incorporated. It's hard to articulate all of Frank's vision in a water color rendering!

Thanks for the kind words! I'd love to be the developer and owner of this building, but this is Frank May's project and vision. As neighbors and friends we are working together to bring a quality building to the neighborhood. We have been working with Frank for quite some time to make this building a reality. Our firm has been tasked with Leasing and Management of the building. Collectively we are also working to enhance the walkability of the neighborhood and the streetscape in general. Our collective goal is to really connect this area up to at least Peabody Street and bring together a strong mixed use neighborhood. This portion of 2nd Avenue is tough. If you recall, only a decade ago there was a trash burning plant across the street! It takes a long time and a lot of effort to heal those wounds. Frank is a retired architect who has been serving in a design architect capacity for this building. His good friend Mark Robin has been handling production of the design docs to execute Frank's vision. Frank is incredibly passionate about the neighborhood and I anticipate that this will turn out to be a real jewel when complete! This site is in the historic overlay. It is limited to 85'.

Anyone know the space between the buildings on 3rd St. Promenade listed above? 70-80' of right of way? Can anyone outline anything in the US or oversees that is successful with a 15-30' space between the buildings? I can think of a few places in Spain and Holland.

It is available for Lease. 6,700 +/- square feet. Debatable whether or not it is worthy of preservation or conversion to a parking lot. With all of the bar stuff stripped out, the building has high ceilings, gorgeous interior brick and a handsome wood ceiling. Some of the original wood columns remain. Conversion to a restuant could be intersting. The interior shell of the building could easily be adapted to a design similar to this: ... The floor plan is similar. It will not be another "club." This building and the corner of 3rd and Demonbreun are not a part of Tony's development. See the link for "Public" from AvroKo if link above is inactive.

It would be great to have a link to larger versions of the images. They are pretty hard to read on the screen with the size you have posted. Thanks.

No, not at this time.

Perhaps it would be two 20 story buildings atop a 4-7 level above grade garage and 1 level of ground level retail/lobby/loading/service, so each tower could be closer to 350-400' tall, each just a bit shorter than the Pinnacle, but with the elevation change might appear close in height to the Pinnacle. 150-200' taller than the Encore and 200-250' taller than the CC building itself. The planning department, with the proposed Form Based Code they will push later in 2009, is considering a cap on SoBro buildings of 30 stories (no floor to floor height cap, just number of floors). Special bonuses are available for LEED or affordable housing. It will be very interesting to see the proposed designs mid-spring.

It would be great to see the MTC going with the proposed redevelopment of the East Bank of the Cumberland. The proposed Riverfront Master Plan had many of the same features as the MTC. Maybe not as much park space, but definitely the ability to have corporate campuses (sharing parking with the Titans), retail, residential and high density mixed use development. Together, these could encompass $8B in new development, perhaps happening in concert. They could be linked via water shuttle, interstate, and hopefully some sort of rail or BRT over the bridge to MTC. Here are a few projects that are comparable in scale and attempted market share. They could be competition for the same corporate tenants. It's interesting to see how other cities are approaching this type of development. Most do not compare to the potential of MTC or the proposed downtown Riverfront Master Plan and redevelopment. http://www.stapletondenver.com/Redefining-...n-Overview.aspx http://www.trinityrivervision.org/TRVWeb/A..._Overviews.aspx http://hoffmantowncenter.com/about.html http://www.dullestowncenter.com/ppdtcpp.html http://www.sfcyonkers.com/plan/index.htm Here is an interesting article on Town Center Development and design: http://www.co.dane.wi.us/PLANDEV/community...resentation.pdf

I really have not heard much about the site since August, 2007, just before the last election. I cannot claim to be "in the know" on the site at this time. I have not heard any rumors or new proposals in the last 10 months. Outside of grass cutting crews, I have not even seen people walking around the site trying to envision new ideas. There is still tremendous community support for the plan that was put together a few years ago. It would be great to see it come alive again. Pulling out a crystal ball, I would hope that the Riverfront Master Plan is updated in the future and incorporated with a greater Convention Center area (perhaps river to 12th, Peabody to Demonbreun) and Rolling Mill Hill Master Plan. I believe that the Convention Center development could be a great catalyst for increased retail in the neighborhood and better connectivity to the river. In the context of redeveloping our city, many of the new buildings built today are build to last. The Schermerhorn Symphony Center for example was purposefully designed to have greater than a 300 year useful life. The Thermal Site should receive considerably more attention than it has in the last 12 months as Rolling Mill Hill continues to redevelop and the Convention Center plans gel. I do not think there should be a sense of urgency or a rush to redevelop the site with a new plan. Plans will come together organically over the next couple of years as the city continues to grow in this direction. Also, we do have a new Council and Mayoral Administration that have had bigger issues to deal with since coming into office last fall. In that context, it really has not been all that long since there have been no concrete plans for the site, especially when you think about how long a decision will ultimately impact the City in the form of what is actually built there. I continue to believe that the site is well suited for mixed use development with green space, an attraction of some sort (baseball or a music venue/park for sure) and a greenway connecting RMH to downtown. If the Riverfront Master Plan is implemented, there might even be access to the river from the proposed Demonbreun Pier and Walk on Water. On the baseball front, I believe that in the next 4-15 years, Nashville will have a new downtown ballpark or Greer will see significant renovations. I'm just not sure who will own Nashville's franchise or how the change will be structured. We may even loose baseball here for a few years to actually see it happen, but in the not too distant future, baseball will be played in a better home than Greer as it exists today. It's just too good of a market for minor league baseball for us not to have better facilities.

No, there were no tourism/MCC dollars allocated to the stadium counstruction. In the simplest of terms, it was privately financed. The Sounds were to finance with their lenders half of the total value of the stadium construction, SBER was to construct significant development around the stadium which would generate a big increase in property taxes. SBER, instead of using the available TIF generated from these developments to subsidize their portion of the development, was to contribute its TIF allocation to the stadium construction. Nationally, there are examples of both publicly subsidized and privately financed AAA stadiums.