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  1. jjbradleyBrooklyn
    I was wondering the same thing. I thought I remembered reading the developer said they hoped to break ground before end of this year on tower #2. This particular first tower has turned out really sleek--so modern and attractive. Love this architectural addition to this area. Excited to see them all built.
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    VERY exciting project! Love the infill and the height. Design is super nice too. Modern but not too jarring. Wish they would start construction fast on these.
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    Dusting the old Ritz Carlton topic off the dormant shelf, and bringing it back for an update. What are current thoughts and speculations about what is going on at this site/going on with the Ritz Carlton interest in Nashville, in general? Since this development team most likely won't bring this across the finish line, what's the Ritz' Nashville future?
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    It is a 60 story, 750 foot high tower. I live in New York City, and they are always building new skyscrapers. They can work on the foundational aspect of such tall skyscrapers for months on end, without it seemingly being very noticeable that progress is being made, to those who pass by and who aren't working on the project. To judge this project by saying "it hasn't budged in days" is to not understand what goes into construction of such a tall building. They are working pretty briskly on this, and it is making fast progress. Especially since they really only began foundation work in winter this year, 2023, and now it is only June, 4 months later. Since Giarratana is behind this project, and since it is an all-residential building, it will be built. I'd expect us to see actual steel at street level in the fall of this year. Super exciting to watch this one rise!
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    I think Jacksonville's is toy-like looking, and a bit ho-hum, honestly. The Titan's is far more progressive and sleek looking, and looks like a modern building that fits into the city. And doesn't look like a giant inflatable toy ring sitting in a parking lot. LOL These stadium designs like Jacksonville's are a bit comical, if you ask me, sticking out like an ugly sore thumb.
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    Bummer news! And very surprising. Also, worth noting, Hard Rock Cafe is closing the Denver, CO location as well--the only Hard Rock Cafe in Colorado. I bet the pandemic must've weakened them overall, and now they are looking at their underperforming locations, perhaps? I bet another list of locations will close unfortunately, in the upcoming months.
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    For another pro team (from the top 4) to land in Memphis, I think their future best bet would be NFL. For NHL, they tend to pursue markets with a strong, built-in hockey environment with high schools and colleges. Also, since Nashville already has a super successful team, this likelihood is tiny, in terms of chances. For MLB, there is already a list of cities practically drooling over gaining an MLB team ahead of Memphis, so the chances of this happening are also super low, unfortunately. For NFL, I could see this possibly happening, although the odds would be low. Memphis was already almost selected for an expansion team back in the 1990s, but they lost out by just a bit, unfortunately. I'd like to see a 2nd team in Tennessee, and a Memphis team could for sure get a ton of support. If Memphis landed an NFL team, it would most likely be from a team moving, and Memphis offering a sweet deal.
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    This comment is untrue. An afterthought to developers? Developing real estate in the form of commercial, residential, hotel, etc is a business -- and can be a huge money maker. As long as there is money to be made, and the demand to build there, Nashville will continue to grow and develop very well. Nashville's future is very bright, and it will only continue to get better.
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    It's been moving up faster now since the base and garage portion were built out. I think it's almost up to floor 17 and making steady progress. Looks like they are now building up one new floor every 2 weeks, roughly.
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    Amazon 3 was a proposed commercial office tower--100% office. They have not built it due to the uneasy, weakened economic outlook. I think it will most likely come back and be built in another type of usage, like mixed office/residential/hotel, OR be built as an all office once the economy is more certain and a tenant is signed on/lined up. I'd guess we won't see this one starting construction though for at least 2-3 years-ish. As for this skyscraper, 1010 Church Street, it is all residential, and the demand for downtown Nashville residential is red hot. The developer is Tony Giarratana, and he has a huge successful track record in Nashville with building residential skyscrapers. This one will be built, and I'd expect "steel in the sky" to start happening by late summer/early fall.
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    Is this site just an equipment "staging area" for other construction sites nearby, as well as the infrastructure improvement project equipment staging spot? I don't think this development would be built at this point, at least with its "office plans." Unless they signed a tenant to occupy about 30-40% of the building, or unless they reconfigured the tower to be hotel/residential, I'd doubt its going up in its planned form, at all.
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    Thanks so much for posting this amazing update, @smeagolsfree! So exciting to see so so much development still progressing in 2023. My guess is that the omission of the Ritz Carlton, means that its development team is indeed on very shaky ground. I think their last update was they had until June 2023 to land financing. That hotel site needs a proven, experienced development team to get it going. The one in there now is in over its head, hate to say.
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    Right--that's exactly what I was thinking. The Beaman, Reed and Dairy developments have not even begun, and those 3 alone should add another 10-12+ high rises and skyscrapers at least--to the area right across I-40.
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    The upper floor shots of this Prima tower are amazing! But you notice pretty much immediately the large surface parking lots and huge development tracts of the long-delayed and stalled Circle projects. Man, I hope development there gets going soon. So many other areas in downtown, the gulch, sobro, pietown, midtown, etc have fast movement and have "shovels in the ground." This section of town seems to be the lone outlier for lack of quick development. Hoping that changes soon.
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    I'd imagine the StreetLights lot may be a holding lot for equipment, for the rise of Tony G's tower. I could see StreetLights not starting construction until 2025 or so, with an opening date around 2027. Ride out this slower economic patch and give yourself another 4 years for market conditions to get much healthier again, overall. But with this said, I don't see a big slowdown for Nashville's downtown residential demand either, at least for the next several years.
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    Great boutique brand addition for Nashville. Looks like they are only in a few US markets currently. Will also be nice infill for that part of the Gulch. Love to see the increasing density!
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    Completely agree with this plan! The Ritz would be a superb addition to this part of Nashville, and with a taller skyscraper, they could still have views with higher floors--if they took up the taller half of the building. The current developers behind the Ritz is probably stalled out. Don't they have until June to get financing, or roughly in that timeframe? Anyway, yeah, with the YMCA tower, the Streetlights residential tower and all of the other Giarratana towers and the NY development, this area is red hot and will be the new focal point of activity for downtown. This corner building is a PRIME location and now is the time to get it started and under construction. The delay is starting to become puzzling.
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    I was thinking the same thing. I bet they will both be rising up at similar times. Steel in the sky for the YMCA Tower by late summer this year, and I would imagine this Street Lights development could get underway by late 2023/early 2024 as well. Love to see that electrical, eyesore type grid gone.
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    Just read that this one just got sliced down by almost half, in terms of height. A disappointment. I happened to like the aesthetics of this tower. https://www.connectcre.com/stories/plans-for-austins-80-story-tower-cut-in-half/
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    They just started blasting and digging a couple weeks ago. I'd give it a bit more time for the hole to go deeper. I know we are all impatiently awaiting this steel to rise (I am lol), but these skyscrapers this height and greater, take a bit more time. Hoping that once this 750 foot one tops out and finishes, that other developers plan a few in the 600-800 foot range for Nashville, too. (or taller, if they can get approval)
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    Fascinating comparison! Downtowns in most cities have regressed from then, in a lot of ways. But also advanced in many ways. Downtowns being the "destination for everything" has certainly changed in modern times.
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    AH, ok, appreciate the detail! It seems this developer has bitten off a lot more than they can manage to chew. This site in Nashville is so ideal and prime, and it needs a big brand caliber development team. A small glimmer of hope is still there that this development team can pull it through. But in this shaky economic and financial business environment rest of this year, this project seems even less sure of getting off the ground -- at least with this particular company. I think June or so was the extension for that team to announce financing. So there's about 10 weeks left to see what happens.
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    The 901 MLK is such a sleek looking building. Love the slender shape, and at 370 feet, just the right height for that location, imo. I'd like to see him build a 500 footer in midtown.
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    Love this infill. What a super project. Would like to see a bit better height for either tower, though. Just to elevate the standard 250 - 400 foot-ish heights that Nashville tends to build this past several years. But fantastic development and overall aesthetics. Love it!
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    Now that we are starting Q2, has anyone heard any rumblings about whether or not the Ritz is fizzling out, or if this developer can actually get the money financed, to get this thing going... Such a prime hotel, a prime project plan and a prime location.
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