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Revolving restaurants were already falling out of favor but then there was also an incident a few years ago in Atlanta where a boy was killed when he got stuck between a revolving wall and a stationary wall. Declining interest in the business model + lots of extra scrutiny and liability have made most of the remaining revolving restaurants close in recent years.

1001 Church is Amazon Tower 1. There is no way it will take that long to build & open with where they are at now unless there are some major logistical hurdles we don't know about with the construction of "Upper 10th St" or some other critical infrastructure like that. Now I could believe a Q1 2024 opening of the Four Seasons. It is supposed to be much taller, residential/hotel takes longer than office, and right now they barely have a foundation.

Assuming this is sarcasm my comment is about as relevant as your incorrect assertion that it was hung upside down. It is an aerial view. There is no "up" or "upside" to be "upside down".

Says who? North ≠ Up

Is there any parking for this other than the surface lot? Seems odd to not have any secure parking within the building. I worked for a bit at the federal courthouse in KC which was built in 1998. It has a completely separate "circulation system" for the judges and court personnel including a separate parking garage entrance, secure parking area, and separate elevators. One of the judges even mentioned how isolating it was compared to the overcrowded and bustling courthouse that they moved from which was built in 1939 where they had to use the public restrooms.

As far as population density goes, the new building will house more students than the two Carmichael Towers it is replacing so it is actually a net gain in that sense.

Agreed. Once Vandy owns a property (especially any land that is contiguous to the core campus) the chances of that property ever being sold (even if a sale would lead to its highest and best use) are slim to none. Vandy may ground lease it on a 100 year ground lease (see 2525 West End) but they will NOT sell it. A ground lease like that then begins to limit the type and quality of developments that are viable for the site and limits financing options.

Wikipedia is VERY easily edited. The issue is you need a verifiable source to cite or the mods will eventually delete it. As much as we all appreciate the hard work and skills of @PHofKS and the wonders of Google Earth. Unfortunately, this forum is not enough to cite for Wiki standards. Now if, say, the Post were to do an article even just speculating that there appears to be a height discrepancy... that could be cited on Wikipedia.

From what I have seen so far, this seems like it is going to be one of those rare buildings that ends up looking even better in person than in the renderings.

Vandy owns pretty much everything between this site and the law school. They have long planned an administration building(s) on the vast parking lot along 21st to get some of the non-student oriented departments and staff off of the main campus to open up space for student uses. Where did you see a master plan extending the campus to this property with open lawns, etc.? I used to work closely with Vandy's campus planning and open lawns were never part of the plan for this area. They have piecemeal landholdings all around the core campus but that doesn't mean that the "campus" (lawns, paths, etc.) is going to be extended there. Even if it is their intention now, I don't think an extension of the open lawn type of campus is appropriate for this area. I would envision more urban-oriented grad school buildings for the business school and law school (like Northwestern, NYU, etc.) to get them off of the main campus and improve accessibility for their students who all live off campus.

I get that artist renderings usually leave out or gloss over some of the surrounding buildings/properties, but what is with this lush green lawn that is not now, nor will it ever be there? That is not even close to the vibe of this part of town. Unsurprisingly, the architect specializes in campus architecture.

Based on some of the other stuff on KVB these days, that parcel will end up being a 30 story stucco-clad tower made up of 25 stories of parking garage with 5 floors of short term rental apartments on top. Or alternatively an octo-branded hotel made up of a Hilton, a Hampton Inn, a Hilton Garden Inn, a Conrad, a Canopy by Hilton, a Home2Suites, a Homewood Suites, and a Tru by Hilton.

Preleasing now for a Spring 2020 move in?! Are people really beating down the door to move in here? Also, I have a feeling a lot of the people moving in here will be Vandy grad students, in which case a Spring 2020 opening is not the best timing considering most student leases run August to July.

They leave a ramp as long as they can and then very carefully lift out any equipment left in the hole with a crane.

Yes; it will extend from Church to Grundy. That small parcel is the .34 acre site they just bought from Somera Road a few days ago. Development map still shows the old footprint.

I must have hit my head this morning because I am agreeing with @donNdonelson2 a lot today. 440 NEEDED this. Badly. It was designed as a "parkway" but it's not now (nor was it ever really) a parkway. It is an interstate loop. That median in the middle was a total waste of space (and for the past decade, more of an unkempt eyesore). I would have loved for the median to be replaced by some sort of mass transit (light rail, monorail, buses, peddle taverns, etc.) BUT the transit initiative unfortunately lost (for now). Also, however, that space didn't go away. It is still there. In fact, now it is better shape to take on one of those forms of transit if they ever happen. Especially since this project is (literally) bridging the gap over I-65 which would have been the most expensive part of putting transit in there. Also, the road was concrete which is much more expensive than asphalt but also lasts much longer without needing to be resurfaced. The concrete surface was waaaayyy past its useful life. We definitely got our money's worth out of it. Overall, if you view the 440 project as a temporary solution that is also putting critical infrastructure in place that could be easily used for future transit, it is a win-win. Can't everyone just get along!

Yes, please! Parking fines should be proportionally punitive and a deterrent. As long as they are lower than the cost of the private parking people will continue to park as they please and the city will continue to lose revenue because right now the calculated risk tends to lean more in favor of not paying and risk the fine. It is not cost effective for parking enforcement to be all places at all times but the increased fine will hopefully help balance some of the equation and mean more revenue for the city (through either fines or people actually paying because it is no longer worth the risk) and/or increased parking enforcement patrol (meaning more spots available for those willing to pay) and/or increased private parking revenue bringing money into the private sector downtown.

They also apparently added lounges and terraces. The Titans added... tiny houses.

I have been quick to disparage a lot of the stucco-clad trash they are throwing up in SoBro (Margaritaville, Drury, Haven at the Gulch, etc.) so let me also give credit where credit is due... This building is BEAUTIFUL! Contemporary, yet classic. Where before there was literally just fast food surrounded by uninspired hospital architecture, these folks could have taken this building in any direction (so many of them wrong) and they have NAILED it! I will take 50 more of what these guys are doing on every surface parking lot in Midtown/West End!

The "tiny house" looking buildings in the end zones KILL me. I was hoping those would go when the LP building products naming rights ended. You can add all the intimidating music you want, but unfortunately it is still not an impressive stadium.

The club level especially at Arrowhead feels like the lobby of a Ritz with 50 foot tall fireplaces, custom artwork, etc. I remember walking into Arrowhead with my dad right after they had renovated it in 2010. My dad said "Well, after spending $400 million to renovate an EXISTING stadium, the urinals had better be GOLD!" Also, the KC renovation was $400 million in 2007-2010 dollars with very few structural changes and practically no changes to the seating bowl itself. Nashville would be looking at a price tag well north of that to make any substantial renovations to Nissan Stadium in 2019 dollars.

FedEx Field was built around the same time and is 1,000x worse. It is in the middle of nowhere in the Maryland suburbs and is not kept up at all. It still has trough urinals and the stadium's color scheme combines the Redskins' maroon & yellow with FedEx's purple, green, and orange (it is even worse than it sounds). Both stadiums are victims of the same weird 90s stadium era. In the 90s lots of teams were building new stadiums and moving out of stadiums from the 60s/70s that were beyond their useful life. Stadiums like Nissan and FedEx Field were built relatively cheaply, are very utilitarian, and have few frills. The 90s stadiums that didn't go the retro Camden Yards/Lucas Oil Stadium route now look very dated and barebones BUT they are also just new enough that a complete overhaul or teardown seems wasteful. Nissan Stadium, FedEx Field, and others like them lack both (i) the history and character of an older stadium (many of which have been massively renovated recently, e.g. Kansas City and Chicago) AND (ii) the wow factor of the statement stadiums and architectural marvels that have been built over the past couple of decades (e.g. LA, Minneapolis, Dallas, and Atlanta). With Nissan's prominent place downtown and how much it is used for non-NFL events (unlike many stadiums), Nashville really should have a statement stadium. Unfortunately, the tide has turned pretty hard against public funding around the country and we don't have Stan Kroenke to personally foot the $4 billion price tag.

THIS. You want to see how well Donelson or Mt. Juliet can do on their own with ONLY their precious tax dollars? I really wish we could let you try that experiment. There seems to be no basic understanding of how the high income earners and high GDP areas like downtown are subsidizing these outer-lying areas and not the other way around. Most of the downtown dwelling millennial set with those high income jobs don't have kids yet and many of them don't even have cars. So they are not even using the schools and roads that their disproportionate share of the local tax dollars are going toward paying for. And it is funny (sad really) to me that the areas primarily benefiting from this literal wealth redistribution cry "socialism" every time someone else gets something nicer than them or their taxes go up. On a national level just look at the top states RECEIVING federal funding vs. contributing here and then compare that to which states are fiscally conservative and quick to call everything socialist. If you want to be isolationist and see how far your narrow minded conservative tax policy gets you, then don't expect the rest of us to subsidize your bills and bail you out.

The condo prices seem to have started to come down dramatically from where they were originally set. Not sure if any of that has to do with the proposed Fairmont Hotel project potentially blocking views. Also, I pass by this building almost everyday and overall it just looks kind of cheap and out of place. The design looks like it belongs over by Vanderbilt (like the Homewood Suites on West End). And the finishes (both inside and out) leave much to be desired.

They started tearing down the Broadway facade of the old Tennessean building overnight last night: