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Welcome to Nashville and thanks for posting this, Gracie!.Very interesting. Maybe you could do some overlays from other major cities and post them.

Anyone know when the W will break ground? Wonder if they're having difficulty getting it financed.

Looks like UT (except for Kirkland Hall's tower).

Great photograph, Mark, and it won't be long before basketball fans will return to Nashville for the SEC Men's Basketball Tournament at Bridgestone Arena March 8-12, and by that time the Bridgestone tower, 505 CST, and 222 2nd Ave., will all be close to being topped out. In addition, the view of Westin and the 33-story Sobro condo tower, and the ascent of the JW Marriott, when viewed from the park in front of the Hilton, will be very impressive. Plus, several hotels, new bars and new restaurants have opened since the last big college basketball tournament was here April 2014, when the NCAA held the Women's Final Four at Bridgestone Arena. The Tennessean ran an article quoting several visitors to Nashville including UConn coach Geno Auriemma: Auriemma said Huskies fans let him know from the first day they arrived how much they enjoyed the experience, "I could probably count 50 people who traveled down here with us that don't want to go home," he said. "They said they want to move down here. The setting was just great. It's not overwhelming, not a place you're going to get lost in. You don't have to travel around for a half-hour or 40 minutes to go find stuff. It's all right there, and the people have been absolutely amazing, as you knew they would. This town has a great reputation." As we all know, Downtown Nashville is the perfect venue for basketball, hockey and similar events, and I'm looking proudly forward to another great fan experience in March at the 2017 SEC Tournament.

Could not agree more.

Ugh. I see it, and it appears the design was inspired by Judge Dredd, the dystopian movie Stallone was in back in '95.

Very interesting...

Because you haven't raised the capital needed to build it.

You have a clean windshield.

Me either! People who visited downtown Nashville in 2014 and who don't return until '18 or '19, will be stunned. I travel to major cities every week, Boston, Miami, San Diego, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Charlotte, etc. I'm in Philly today, NYC tomorrow, and in none of the cities to which I've traveled in the past 18 to 24 months have I seen this much S.F. under construction that is concentrated in such a small area as we have in Nashville.

It looks like 30 to me, too. Does 30 equal 300 feet in this case?

Oh, no need to apologize...it's just that the thought occurred to me that the large out-of-town California investment group that purchased the Baptist property may have contracted Deloitte to advise them in the development of that property.

Is Deloitte's "big project" a downtown Nashville project?

Birmingham may be a better fit for you. Nothing going on down there.

Me too, Flatrock. I think that's a good idea.

It's my sense that when developers, who have been building projects in much larger cities, visit Nashville they see what amounts to a plethora of what essentially are relatively inexpensive "pad ready" sites in Sobro and Midtown that are not encumbered with an encyclopedia of development hurdles, and that do not have an army of unions to appease and palms to grease (e.g. Chicago, Boston and NYC). Couple this with all the other positives about Nashville that have been enumerated on this site, and the relatively low development costs, then I believe we should not be surprised by these most recently announced projects by out-of-town developers. I think the challenge for developers is to convince out-of-town private investors and lenders, who are used to considering projects in NYC, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and LA, to become comfortable in betting on Nashville. One advantage for them (and Nashville) is that Nashville represents a way to diversify a real estate investment portfolio for large plan sponsor such as those in New York, Pennsylvania and California whose allocations to commercial real estate projects have historically gone elsewhere.

I'm an Airline Transport Pilot and I don't either. Ostensibly, I think it has something to do with single-engine climb performance (on a multi-engine plane) after takeoff from Runway 31 at BNA, but when you take-off on Runway 13L or 13R at Dallas Love Field you have more buildings that are taller than those in downtown Nashville that could be in the flight path. If the FAA hasn't restricted building heights in Dallas, then why do they do it in Nashville? It seems like a double standard to me.

From the perspective of a motorist passing by on the inner loop, it will appear to be about 500' tall.

Paramount: 60% Michael Hayes 24 story: 90% Virgin Hotel: 20% WES: 0% Buckingham Gulch Tower: 80% Former Con Ctr Site: 60% Lifeway Redevelopment (anything over 350'): 0%