TKJones

OK, good to hear. I initially missed the caption about that rough render being from 2014 too. Fingers crossed they do this well - there is definitely opportunity to.

I don't know, as a neighborhood resident and someone who is into the bar scene probably more than most on here, I'm pretty apprehensive about the impact of just bulldozing what is essentially an entire entertainment district, let alone one serving as the primary connector for downtown/midtown. Vibes & 3000Bar are awful and dangerous, no question. The greenroom side of Tin Roof gets trashy and overcrowded on the weekends, sure. Any density beats that travesty of a surface lot currently in the back, plus I'd absolutely kill for a pedestrian-friendly grocery store right there. But on the other hand: Tailgate is an A+ location for a local patio brewery, and is as family-friendly a spot as you'll find anywhere in the central city (plus selfishly they're my alumni bar during football season and their pizza is way better than it has any right to be). TR, Live Oak and Dawghouse are all important music venues for local writer's rounds during the week. Just Love/Little Chicago are well-liked and unproblematic. Tacos and tequila is a newly-renovated spot that literally just opened. That's quite a decent little chunk of Nashville left to replace, and these super gentrified mixed use projects too often attract trendy-on-paper, yet ultimately bland and overpriced retail tenants that are only "safe" because they never get popular enough to be anything else. It could be an improvement if executed well, but without any info re retail yet, we may end up just kicking the problem behavior a few blocks down division where it won't be spread as thin once you account for an (at best temporarily) gutted Demonbreun hill.

Can't say enough about how nice this one looks in person IMO, especially for the area. The white exterior contrast in particular is striking and the unique shape actually fits its height so well that it might be the first major project in a while where I'm not actively disappointed the design isn't at least 10 floors taller (looking at you one22one)

I'm still shocked they gave that one up, unless it was outside their control. Location was practically a landmark and seemingly always slammed with customers.

Of course probably the strangest looking, most isolated high-rise would be one to get hit with a delay. Gonna withhold judgement on the finished product for now, but that exterior in its current state is legit hideous.

I'm a big fan of these having small, non-elongated footprints so that they look less boxy and more like proper towers at that height. Most of our stubby skyline perception is from buildings that just seem "big" more so than tall, even if they are decent height. My office window view is the narrow side of Broadwest Conrad and so whenever I drive down west end I always get caught off guard and a little underwhelmed that the 10th(?) tallest building in town isn't even twice as tall as it is wide.

Is anyone who “liked” this post actually excited by the news? If so, why? Sure, it’d be one thing if The Cadence was some crumbling eyesore where this renovation would bring much-needed aesthetic redevelopment or any new urban density whatsoever to the site. But in reality it’s a perfectly nice 2014 building that hundreds of permanent midtown residents will no longer be able to call home less than a year from now - all for an out-of-state management company to serve tourists who already have other options a mere block away in almost any direction. I totally understand that this is a cash grab which has nothing to do with city planning, but it’s still a shame we’re not celebrating a new hotel in the abandoned surface lot directly north of here instead of yet another unnecessary business transaction that will ultimately benefit precisely no one who actually lives here.

There's a spot next to 9round that's always been empty if I'm not mistaken. But true, this whole area is a work in progress. I give them a ton of credit for planning for long-term growth.

Jittery Joe's coffee (beneath 650 lincoln apt) has closed down. Nothing devastating, but you would have hoped USC's first attempt at modern mixed-use could have been more popular. Two of the five retail spots are now currently unoccupied over a year later.

My thoughts exactly after having walked through, unfortunately. It's definitely a nice redevelopment, don't get me wrong, but the whole thing just seems way too non-functional to justify taking up nearly an entire city block. If they wanted it to feel like a small park like the article says, then why not just build one of those instead of planting some small trees and a few hundred square feet of sod in the middle of a big stone parking lot? Also, what's with the giant slabs just sitting there? Am I missing something on this one?

I completely agree even as a huge mexican food lover. You also gotta wonder if any of these taco spots are going to start running each other out of business since this will put salud, chipotle, tin lizzys, sure fire, barbaritos, cantina 76, moe's, monterrey's, tio's (others?) all more or less within walking distance of each other. Does anyone have an actual source on the apple plans? It would be huge to get something no matter what, but building under what is essentially a dorm seems like an odd choice for them even though it hits an ideal demographic. It would be very interesting to see what kind of non-USC draw an apple store could bring in being the first of the new campus-foot-traffic driven retail spots to have big time consumer appeal for non-students.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Finlay's bad reputation (at least from my observations) isn't because of its poor physical condition. Putting big money into renovations won't necessarily change the fact (or the perception) that the park has been completely taken over by homeless people. With a struggling bull street commons and a need to keep momentum and move toward connectivity for main street/vista, making this a priority just doesn't seem like the right move at the moment. I like Finlay probably more than most, and a reasonable amount of maintenance and reconstruction makes sense right now, but potentially spending eight figures on it would be wasteful. Hopefully not too long from now once downtown's appeal continues to improve, the demand and the money will actually be there to support a quality renovation.

Their website says it opens on April 11, 2017 rather than fall 2016 like the original announcement . Wonder if there is any particular reason for the 6 month-ish delay.

Nice. You wouldn't guess that this place is nearly done judging by the outside so that's good to hear. The Knox Abbott Monterrey's already moved across the street though, plus the vista Monterrey's is only like six or seven blocks from here so it's most likely going to be something else.

A friend of mine works at Heathwood (the private school right behind this spot) and I'm pretty sure I remember her telling me that it is going to be some type of truck stop. They aren't thrilled but it makes sense given the i77/Bluff Road intersection.