[Mid City (1501 Broadway, 8 acres on Broadway, 7 towers of 20-35 stories, 1.3 million sq. ft. office, 1,000 residential units, 150,000 sq. ft. commercial/retail)]

Not to mention the gravitational pull of a couple thousand residences, hundreds of jobs, and a bunch of commercial space. That stretch of I-40/65 is going to continue to be a nightmare though... if I'm Williamson County, it's time to start agitating for commuter rail from Franklin & Cool Springs into the Gulch.

 

[Nashville as MLB Expansion/Relocation Market]

On 2/23/2024 at 10:56 AM, PaulChinetti said:

Right past the 24/40 split on Murfreesboro pike. 

 

Somebody get Paul a cut of that sweet Mortenson money for site selection!

[Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs]

Still so much surface parking (and 5 story garages) that can be developed inside the downtown loop! Can't wait to see 2034's skyline

[More Accolades for Nashville]

2 hours ago, markhollin said:

The awarded projects include Peabody Plaza, a nine-story office building in downtown’s South Bank

Ah yes, the historic "South Bank" neighborhood 

[St. Regis Hotel & Residences (46 stories/611', 173 hotel rooms, 100 condos, 32 furnished residences, 25,000 sq. ft. retail/restaurant, 542 capacity internal garage)]

11 hours ago, FromParkAveToTN said:

Ugh!!! I don't think I want this. Tired of all these hotel developments.  

Yeah, no more hotels, especially not downtown right next to the convention center and tourist district!! Would way rather our visitors have to stay in Airbnbs in our neighborhoods.

(this is sarcasm)

[Inner Loop - CBD, Downtown, East Bank, Germantown, Gulch, Rutledge]

2 minutes ago, markhollin said:

Street vendors will now be barred from a larger area of Nashville's downtown entertainment district.

Metro Nashville's Transportation and Parking Commission approved an expanded map of restricted streets Monday, adding approximately 15 blocks to the vending exclusion zone after business owners complained that vendors had set up on too-narrow sidewalks outside of their establishments.

The new map prohibits street vending between Union Street and Peabody Street, along the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge and from Ninth Avenue to the Cumberland River.

"There's a potential plan long-term to define specific vending areas for people, but that is far down the pipe at this point," Downtown Councilmember Jacob Kupin said. "So given that it will take some time, and given that this (restricted) area already exists and looking at the disruption to the sidewalks as they currently exist, we felt this was the best way to address it."

More at The Tennessean here:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/davidson/2024/01/10/nashville-expands-downtown-area-prohibiting-street-vendors/72155566007/

This sounds more like a Right-of-Way allocation issue, where we need to allocate more space from cars and give it to pedestrians and vendors. This will just push complaints out to different areas.

[Davidson East: East Nashville, Inglewood, Madison, Donelson, Hermitage, Old Hickory]

56 minutes ago, Bos2Nash said:

I recently heard some pleasant news about this development. Waiting to see it come to fruition.

Mural? Bike-lanes? Permitting for ground-floor to be commercial for live-work units?

[Davidson East: East Nashville, Inglewood, Madison, Donelson, Hermitage, Old Hickory]

5 hours ago, markhollin said:

Envision Cayce, Cherry Oaks Apts. (4 stories, 149 units, parking garage) update.

Looking SE from South 6th St., 1/2 block north of Dew St:

Lookin NW from Dew St., 1/2 block east of South 6th St:

Looking NE from intersection of South 6th St. and Dew St:

Digging the balcony depth here!

[Paseo South Gulch (Phases 2 & 3: 30 & 16 stories w/ 390 residential units, 183 room hotel, 18,000 sq. ft. office, 14,000 sq. ft. retail; Phases 4 & 5: Another 30 story tower w/ 396 units, a 22 story office tower, 1,500 capacity internal garage)]

Any recent news on next phase? Are they permitted for the next tower or two yet?

[VeLa Pie Town/601 Lafayette (32 stories/360', 367 apartments, 4,795 sq. ft. restaurant, 396 capacity underground garage)]

Contrarian view: I like this building. It's not trying to be anything crazy, it's going to add significant height in an area that needs it, and should blend into a busy SoBro/Pietown skyline in a decade or so.

Yes it's overparked. The glass canopy is cool though.

[Nashville Yards, 15 acres/4 million sq. ft./ $1 billion, Phase I: Grand Hyatt Hotel (25 stories), Phase II: Amazon (26 & 22 stories), Phase III: AEG District (4 K theater, 34 & 35 story apts); Phase IV: Pinnacle Tower (35 stories), Amazon 3 (43)]

4 hours ago, markhollin said:

Swimming pool in a wind tunnel there

[Davidson West: Bellevue, Bordeaux, Green Hills, MetroCenter, Nations, N Nashville]

37 minutes ago, chc3 said:

That area’s transition from a squalor zone to an attractively dense residential is amazing.

Love to see industrial land close to the city glowing up to dense residential.

Hoping the city's got some long-term vision here for mixed uses and multiple transportation modes though, because throwing up a bunch of townhomes doesn't guarantee a complete neighborhood.

Shoutout to the new 71 Trinity bus route (going to go from North Nashville, out to Buena Vista Pike, down the length of Trinity to Gallatin Pike), but also gonna need some sidewalk upgrades from this:

[Bridgestone Arena: further development of property]

7 hours ago, markhollin said:

Bridgestone Arena closes out 2023 ranking in the top five U.S. arenas for ticket sales and attendance according to Pollstar and Billboard’s reports and earned a nomination for the Country Music Association (CMA) Touring Award in the Venue of the Year category.

With 880,660 tickets sold and $78,515,989.80 in total gross revenue (inclusive solely of show and concert tickets), Bridgestone Arena ranks fourth in the U.S. for ticket sales in Pollstar’s Fourth Quarter Report. Bridgestone Arena ranks behind Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.), Kia Forum (Inglewood, Calif.) and Dickies Arena (Fort Worth, Texas) in ticket sales.

In Billboard’s Year-in Touring Bulletin, Bridgestone Arena ranks third in the U.S. for total attendance with 690,000 attendees and $62 million in revenue behind Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.) and Kia Forum (Inglewood, Calif.). 

Since the doors first opened in 1996, Bridgestone arena has hosted more than 27 million guests. Bridgestone Arena now has 16 consecutive and 19 overall nominations for the Pollstar Magazine Arena Year of the Award, winning the award in 2014, 2017 and 2023.

More here:

https://www.nhl.com/predators/news/bridgestone-arena-ranks-in-the-top-five-u-s-arenas-and-earns-cma-touring-award-nomination

Pretty incredible that the arena in our midsized metro sells tickets in the stratosphere of the DFW metroplex, ranking ahead of arenas in top 10 metro areas like Chicago, DC, Philadelphia, Houston, and Atlanta.

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

6 hours ago, Nathan_in_DC said:

I can't imagine a plausible scenario where CSX would share trackage with a commuter rail for any real distance, especially if there are more than a few RTs each day. The timetable integration would be nearly impossible, and the inevitable delays caused by track sharing would render the commuter line unusable from a reliability standpoint.

For WeGo to ever work well they need to double track most (if not all) the system, electrify it, purchase more rolling stock, and update all stations with dual platforms. Ideally they would also move the downtown station somewhere to integrate with a wider network and increase the size of the terminal to accommodate multiple trains simultaneously.

Agreed, I think double-tracking is the bare minimum CSX would require. Quick googling suggests widening a railroad bed and double-tracking is cheaper per-mile than adding another lane of interstate.

[Inner Loop - CBD, Downtown, East Bank, Germantown, Gulch, Rutledge]

21 hours ago, markhollin said:

A couple of Germantown projects by Mainland Company are getting underway soon. Both have secured permits for tree removal:

1) 622 Jefferson sits on the NE corner of 7th Ave. North and Jefferson and will be 3-5 stories with 10 condos, as well as 3 stories with 6 row houses.  There will be a shared courtyard in the center area. Manuel Zeitlin Architects is in charge of the design.

2) 5th & Monroe Townhomes will be 3 stories with 5 units. Zeitland is the architect on this as well.

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/real-estate-notes-three-tower-project-effort-advances/article_237bc744-984a-11ee-b54e-63a4a8e8783f.html

Knew immediately that first picture was Zeitlin before even reading it. Distinctive style, those guys.

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

On 12/8/2023 at 9:30 PM, MidTenn1 said:

It looks like from Mark's maps, that the Nashville to Chattanooga line will follow the current CSX line starting at Cowan, TN. where it goes through a low point in the Cumberland Plateau where the peak elevation is about 1,350' as compared to 1,900' just north at Monteagle. However, the tracks go under the 1,350' high point ridge through a 2,000' long tunnel with a track elevation of about 1,100'. Cowan is roughly a thousand feet elevation so the grade up the plateau is not too steep. That's if CSX will cooperate.

Amtrak routes almost always run on existing freight railway routes (outside of the northeast corridor); they're required to share with Amtrak. The two studied routes (Atlanta to Nashville and Memphis to Nashville) would run most of their routes along CSX rails.

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

Murfreesboro to Bellevue via the Gulch, run hourly 5am-10pm, with every half hour during rush hours. (spacing out stops every 5-10 miles, with Metro upzoning the area around each stop to look like Belle Meade Plaza or Green Hills.

When this unlocks massive traffic improvement in Rutherford County, Williamson & Sumner Counties will jump on board to fund a Spring Hill-to-Gallatin 2nd line.

 

[125 11th Ave. North, (30 stories, 362', 393 residential units, 17,000 sq. ft. retail, internal garage of 425 spaces)]

Do the more recent permits here indicate that this one is more likely to be Flank's next project vs. the Edition hotel?

[East Bank – I-24 to the Cumberland/I-24 Overpass up to Jefferson – 338 Acres, Nissan Stadium, "Imagine East Bank"]

Maaaan if we're not building residential or hotel above a future TPAC, we're wasting valuable space that could serve either to generate tax revenue (for that costly East Bank infrastructure) or badly needed affordable housing.

[Nashville as MLB Expansion/Relocation Market]

Plenty of room for a stadium & some neighborhood over there on the east bank.

Questions for another East Bank stadium are all about the $$$: $2B in land value? $1B in remediation? $2B for stadium?

Can't imagine the city and state put up more than $0.5B total, compared to the $1.25B of government aid for the Titans.

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[Davidson East: East Nashville, Inglewood, Madison, Donelson, Hermitage, Old Hickory]

5 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:

The Nashville special... a large residential building that gives the superficial appearance of being urban, but in reality, is basically just a large blank wall separated from the main street by a large grass strip which can only be entered into from a tiny door that fronts a parking lot in the back.  In other words, it isn't designed to be walked to, it is designed to be driven to.  Ugh. 

I think this is as much about city responsibility for building streetscapes that people (and developers) will want to interact with. Dickerson's 5-lane stroad ain't that today, and probably won't turn into that in the next 5 years.

If we want developers to build street-facing buildings like you've described, we gotta legalize that density on minor roads (think Wedgewood Houston) or make the major roads a lot more pleasant (not sure if Nashville is doing this anywhere yet...?).

[Reed District: 8 towers ranging from 8 to 44 stories (500'?), 1.5 million sq. ft. office space; 1,000 residential units; 150K sq. ft. retail space; 250 room hotel on 12 acres at NE corner of Broadway and 16th Ave. North]

1 hour ago, Rick Dalton said:

May start to see some more action soon. 10 year treasury rate is down 75bps from the highs and investors expect the Fed to start cutting rates early next year. I doubt they cut, but the rapid increase of rates to cool inflation is likely over since inflation has moved down to 3%. 

Off topic but rent metrics in the inflation calculation are absolutely going to continue to come down over the next 12 months.

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

1 hour ago, smeagolsfree said:

What a holy waste of land! Only 68 homes on 600 acres.

That has to be a function of Franklin / Williamson County growth boundaries, right? That close to downtown Franklin, half a mile from Westhaven, most developers would be density-maxing!

[Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs]

12 hours ago, chris holman said:

 

What did the East Bank look like in the 80s and early 90s?

[1711 Broadway (20 stories, 245', 396 units, 5,900 sq. ft. retail, 396 capacity internal garage)]

Paging captain doom and gloom to tell us how this project's forward progress is a bad thing