RonCamp

I believe that's the W Hotel and Residences in the Gulch.

https://www.flynashville.com/about/Pages/master-plan-2012-update.aspx https://www.flynashville.com/about/Documents/Long%20Term%20Strategic%20Business%20Plan.pdf There may be more, but that's what I've seen on their website.

Also saw this posted this morning: https://www.flynashville.com/parking/Pages/BNAExpressPark.aspx I am assuming it's a way to relieve stress on the closer-in parking lots by offering cheap, "premium" parking at a remote lot. Anyone know anything else about it?

Thanks for the intel!

Not to change topics, but... Southwest demoted BNA-Seattle service to seasonal yesterday. Anyone know more? http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2016/05/19/southwest-adds-five-new-nonstop-routes/84593718/

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article77332437.html RDU-Paris is now up and running. Hopefully we can get an international route of our own (that isn't Canada or the Caribbean) soon!

For the record only the 2nd picture is of the NYC location. I believe the other two are Vegas.

No disagreements here on your comments. At the end of the day I guess I always think in terms of price psf, which is why I was surprised by the micro unit proforma rents. But we'll see what the market will bear!

Agreed - its a great area. But the rents for these micro apartments, if true, seem too high considering studios in Pine Street start at $1499 per month. Though the apartments are similar in size, the Pine Street building includes gym, pool, and a location with many more walkable amenities.

IIRC the reason for the hurried timing was that Embrey (developer from San Antonio that currently is building the Carrillon next to the ballpark) actually owned a good chuck of where the outfield now stands. Construction was relatively imminent. So if they were going to get the deal done with the land they had, they had to do a land swap with Embrey quickly or it wouldn't happen at all.

If light and air is the concern as mentioned in one of the above posts... don't worry, the 4 lane wide urban interstate designed for twice the appropriate speed and no crosswalks (also known as Wedgewood) should provide plenty, regardless of the building height or setback.

This is disappointing. Midtown needs a real grocery store... not a gourmet market, not another overpriced Turnip Truck, but a grocery store. This was our best opportunity for a while. I hope they announce something else, but I'm afraid this is it. Ugh.

I agree that all the development around the ballpark, including the multifamily in general and specifically the Carillon, should be lined with street-level retail. It's an absolute shame Metro doesn't require this. I can also tell you why developers often don't do it. Developers like Embrey (doing the Carillon) are usually merchant developers; i.e. they want to build it, lease it up, and sell it for a profit as quickly as possible. Financing is tougher to get for mixed-use projects, and mixing uses reduces the number of buyers for your exit. So groups like that often choose not to include retail unless they are forced to.

Agreed. Thankfully I have TSA Pre-Check so I largely bypass the problems, but I've seen more unusually long lines at security in the last 2-3 months than I have in the two years prior. It's gotten so jammed up a couple times recently that the agents checking boarding passes will hold the lines there in order to ensure the central area with X-ray machines doesn't overfill.

My understanding is that the tower currently under construction is going to be packed as full as it can be... with much higher densities than they originally planned for. The changes (upwards) in density have been made since the design process, and in some cases since the construction, started.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-02/at-jacksonville-jaguars-stadium-its-party-time-win-or-lose

Looks like the lefthand side of the Roundhouse is right up against that stone wall that's between Icon and Pine Street Flats - is that right? I think that wall is one of the only remnants of the era pictured here. And thanks for posting old pics like these. I absolutely love seeing them and learning more about our area's history.

I've heard multiple people confirm it's a W... but I am also hearing it is a different architect based out of NYC. Though the group I've heard may be only doing interiors. Looking forward to this one.

Interestingly enough this tower was designed by a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright and has a pretty unique architectural history to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaden_Tower

Put aside any discussion of bias or larger takeaways from the article for a moment. The statement quoted above is not universally true. Not by a long shot. A more accurate version of this statement might be: In the average American city, where the amount investment in roadway infrastructure is a large multiple of the investment in transit infrastructure, single occupancy vehicle (SOV) travel is therefore usually faster and more convenient than transit I'd argue that, if the USA decided that transit investment was as important as investment in highways and other roadways that encourage SOV travel, and realigned its funding structures to reflect as much, the speed and convenience advantage that SOV travel often has over transit travel, particularly during non-peak travel times, would in many cases be reduced or disappear entirely (or perhaps in some cases be inverted). I want to be clear and say I have absolutely nothing against single occupancy vehicle travel. But we have to keep in mind that we have the transportation system that we do because roads are (and have been) heavily subsidized by the government - and are not the only way to travel. SOV travel spreads us out, reduces chance interaction with neighbors, makes us more overweight, causes more deaths than travel by other means, and contributes (as someone noted above) to untold hours of lost productivity and economic output. And, as anyone who sits on I-40 or I-24 or whatever on an afternoon knows, commuting in traffic just sucks. The fact is that by applying the same litmus tests we apply to transit in the US as it is currently funded, structured and implemented, we'd never build highways or roads. Roads "lose" enormous amounts of money(they cost much more to build and maintain than user fees, i.e. the gas taxes, raise). Please do note that, on the flip side, transit *will not solve* our traffic problems either. Universal allegiance to any one method of transportation is a recipe for disaster in the long term and is why we find ourselves in a traffic quagmire as things currently stand.

Chris, I think I saw you taking pics at the Music Row Roundabout as I was walking yesterday afternoon... sorry I didn't stop to say hello but was running late. Love your shots as always. Thanks for posting.

I'm 100% in support of Scenario #1. However I see a "West End Streetcar" and "Germantown Streetcar" - that will be a disaster unless it has dedicated ROW. Hope someone, somewhere doing the planning knows that! Same goes for the BRT out Hillsboro and West End.

Movement is taking place inside. It's going to be an incredible project - with at least one additional, very exciting component that has yet to be announced publicly.

Skull's Rainbow Room in Printer's Alley often has live jazz also.

Quoting you above not necessarily in direct response to your post but to continue the discussion about this concept. Frankly, I love it - 100+ rooms catering to millennial travelers at discounted rates makes sense - and my guess would be that 95% of those travelers wouldn't have any problem Ubering from the airport and walking/bike sharing/pedal taverning around town without ever setting foot in a rental car. The rare traveler who has one can find a surface lot or public garage. DTC doesn't require parking so he can do 11 floors of rooms... and maybe even some on the ground floor. It's the Nashville version of Pod Hotel. Awesome.