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I think we're no longer in the "need 2 cars per dwelling" phase of Nashville. Check out The Maslow in Wedgewood Houston. It's a 4-story condo building with 30+ units and ~1 parking spot/unit.

Damn shame. Walk to a park, to a daycare, to an elementary school, just off the 12th Ave bus route and bike lanes. And instead of offering that to a couple dozen families, now it'll be just 5. As long as this city is letting wealthy neighborhoods kneecap any form of density, sprawl and unaffordability will both continue to get worse and worse.

Azarat, the last picture here in Mark's latest post shows you the same view as that Google streetview - the building is the backside of the new Pinnacle building. https://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/topic/116956-nashville-yards-15-acres4-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/?do=findComment&comment=1853204

This is a really solid looking 5/1... Not too busy with over-articulating the facade or mixing too many materials... big windows... some setback variation off the corner. Really well-done.

Intercity rail stop at the Gulch/downtown. Metro / Light Rail to the airport (as part of M'boro Pike buildout). Streetcar (trolley/tram/etc) from the river through midtown, terminating near Vandy, connecting the Star, Lower Broad, light rail to the airport, the Gulch, the new midtown districts, the hospitals, and Vanderbilt.

John Henry Hale homes were built as if Nashville was a shrinking rust belt town. Land adjacent to downtown, built at less than 10 housing unit per acre (233 on ~32 ac)!? Ron's point on doing it this community the way that MDHA did Cayce is a good one, but I'd go a step further: Metro should partner with the private sector. In Germany, local governments hold design contests that for-profits, non-for-profits, even architecture schools and students participate in. Nashville could absolutely do that. If Metro partnered with for-profit developers, they could cross-subsidize the construction and operation of more affordable housing via market-rate apartments - Metro could give a developer relief on land cost in exchange for some number of low-income units, mixed with market-rate units, instead of concentrating poverty further. The examples in these pages show that these acres could be built at a 30 du/ac (dwelling units per acre) up to 100 du/ac without requiring expensive all-concrete construction, in built forms that would look right at home between the developments in Midtown and the Marathon Village area. If Metro enables 50 du/ac on the 32 acres, and 33% of units were affordable, MDHA would be managing double the current units they have today, while allowing another 1000 market rate units (all on a frequent transit line, walkable to a grocery store, accessible to all sorts of jobs/education/etc.).

Man this is a cool block of high-rises forming. What would it take to get Metro to rezone the parcels around its other malls (Rivergate, Hickory Hollow) to allow 15+ stories and meaningful density?

Music City airport can't fit a guitar case through their scanners... who is making these decisions?

Ford's BlueOval City plant in Stanton will probably slow or reverse some of that decline in the area between Memphis and Jackson along I-40, but wholly agreed that NW TN will continue to hollow out. Edit: oops, saw this comment's already been made.

Porter & Cahal will legitimately be one of the most walkable developments in Nashville by the time this is done. I adore having mixed-use developments set back in neighborhoods, but this one is also surrounded by a ton of cool stuff. Walkable to the Porter/Greenwood corner, to the elementary school, to the park, and it's along a bus line. It's within a mile from Stratford high school, a mile from Gallatin Pike (a top-3 bus route), will be walkable/bikeable to SLC's Diesel College redevelopment at Renraw (~1.2 miles), and it's a block off the Riverside Drive bike lanes.

28k isn't 6 lanes' worth... Gallatin Pike in Inglewood does 26k-28k (pre-pandemic) with 4 lanes. Lose a lane of traffic each direction from 12th, across the bridge, down to Lower Broad. Give room for these sidewalks to be 15' wide with raised, buffered cycle (& scooter) tracks like this one in Massachusetts.

Appreciate the thoughtful response here Brett. I'm just happy that these aren't buildings where the ground floor is entirely parking garage (like 909 Flats on Rosa Parks). Fully get that popping in random commercial units that will sit unused is worse than residential. One of the screenshots above has elevated, sheltered patios on the first floor overlooking the street - feels like that's a really strong use of ground-level residential. Other views are definitely less street-activated, but sounds from your reply that those are for valid reasons.

In practice, is there different outcomes for low-income residents when affordable housing is built throughout a development instead of off in a corner of the development?

Mostly affordable housing, with a substance recovery facility. From @Rlooper's NashvilleNowNext site:

Most of these still have significantly less street activation than I'd hope for - I get that some of these buildings are fronting busy roads (like Shelby) but these ground levels do very little to promote interaction between the buildings' users & the environment around them.

Is that still an option to build in the future?

This is adjacent to Southern Land Co's McFarlin development - will be a massive change to that area, adding ~1100 homes (Goodall in blue, SLC in red), with some decent density, but without much if any mixed-use, will drive a fair bit of traffic along Kidd Rd to Nolensville's commercial centers (path in yellow). If Nolensville is smart, there will be multiple pedestrian & cycle paths back through those existing neighborhoods to Nolensville Road (example paths in gray).

From TDOT https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tdot/congestion-studies/TDOT_CAPCompilation_MiddleTNAppendix_2022_08.pdf

Woah I really like this. Assuming they step up the sound insulation on the apartments, this would be a legitimately cool place to live.

We made that list by being #2 in "highest average yard square footage" ... which feels like winning the wrong way. I'd prefer to be on the list for large public park space, rather than large yards restricting the number of neighbors we can build homes for in our neighborhoods.

That pedestal sucks.

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2021/11/11/brookfield-psc-metro.html

Agreed with all your points. Town & county leaders don't want that level of growth, and really the area doesn't need it as long as Nashville has enough land to develop this form (midtown currently, East Bank next, then converting industrial land, either east along Lebanon Pike or in South Nashville inside 440 along Murfreesboro & Nolensville Pikes). Middle TN is more likely to get 15+ story buildings in transit-oriented development at our dead malls (Crossings, Rivergate) than we are to get them in ring counties. The other development pattern I would expect is converting office parks into mixed-use neighborhoods, like this in Carmel, IN, or the proposed East Works District on Carothers Parkway in Franklin. If Nashville sticks to 2016's NashvilleNext development plan, there's a lot of opportunity to build in the red and orange areas on this map.

Love this! Anybody seen the construction for the other battery plant in Kentucky off I-65 just south of E-town?

Paris? Rome? Frankfurt?