BROADWEST (former West End Summit), 36 story Conrad Hilton Hotel/condo tower, 22 story/510,000 sq. ft. office tower, 4 story/125,000 sq. ft. retail/office, 1 acre plaza, 2,500 car garage, $490 million

[BnaBreaker]

Lmao...down by the seaside!

[MidTenn1]

 

Edited December 17, 2015 by PHofKS

[farm_boy]

From SkyFive (WTVF, NewsChannel 5) yesterday

**  Maybe metro requested the lake to be drained due to concerns it may overflow ??? I doubt it
**  Maybe needs to be drained for tax assessment or property appraisal ???
**  Maybe collecting money from the "wishing well" ??? (I have personally thrown a few pennies in while wishing for 3 25-story towers)

[smeagolsfree]

The website for WES says new website coming soon.

[lucegoose]

Looong time reader/lurker, but had to make a rare post when I noticed this on Google maps this morning:

 

[rookzie]

3 hours ago, farm_boy said:

From SkyFive (WTVF, NewsChannel 5) yesterday

**  Maybe metro requested the lake to be drained due to concerns it may overflow ??? I doubt it
**  Maybe needs to be drained for tax assessment or property appraisal ???
**  Maybe collecting money from the "wishing well" ??? (I have personally thrown a few pennies in while wishing for 3 25-story towers)

Damn, that thing looks deep as Hell! (at least in this time view)  I knew people (perhaps we all did at one time) who used to love swimming in similarly sized quarry holes (e.g. Martha's hole in Martha of western Wilson Co.) ─ at night even ─ in some cases as deep as 100 feet or more.  With mention of that matter, in an effort to discourage ventures, that too could be a possible rationale in part for draining that thing. -==-

[smeagolsfree]

2 hours ago, lucegoose said:

Looong time reader/lurker, but had to make a rare post when I noticed this on Google maps this morning:

 

We need to see more of you then Goose. Welcome to the forum and join us at a meet along with all of you other lurkers and newbies. All are welcome.

[titanhog]

There will eventually come a time in the near future when this will become a "protected wetlands area" and we won't be allowed to build anything there.  Palmer needs to hurry before the Sierra Club catches wind...

[jmtunafish]

19 minutes ago, titanhog said:

There will eventually come a time in the near future when this will become a "protected wetlands area" and we won't be allowed to build anything there.  Palmer needs to hurry before the Sierra Club catches wind...

TRUE!

[tragenvol]

18 minutes ago, jmtunafish said:

TRUE!

JMTunafish's emphatic response regards a certain development in Cookeville delayed by a Sierra Club injunction.  Watch out...this could soon become an exceptional wetlands area.

[smeagolsfree]

There are probably a couple of new species of critters in there too, so here comes the EPA.

[Will]

16 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

There are probably a couple of new species of critters in there too, so here comes the EPA.

 

[Paramount747]

I am sure they will find Jimmy Hoffa or Osama Bin Laden in there somewhere. They buried Bin Laden at sea did they not?

[MidTenn1]

....or maybe.....

[bigeasy]

On 12/17/2015 at 9:48 AM, titanhog said:

There will eventually come a time in the near future when this will become a "protected wetlands area" and we won't be allowed to build anything there.  Palmer needs to hurry before the Sierra Club catches wind...

haha I think that would be hilarious if tons of people jokingly went there to picket the draining of the lake with signs like that. Shouldn't historic nashville be fighting to save this?

[titanhog]

17 minutes ago, bigeasy said:

haha I think that would be hilarious if tons of people jokingly went there to picket the draining of the lake with signs like that. Shouldn't historic nashville be fighting to save this?

I promise, there are people out there that if we called and told them a developer is about to drain a protected wetland area, they'd show up without even checking.  That would be epic! 

[NikOnder]

On 12/17/2015 at 8:21 AM, lucegoose said:

Looong time reader/lurker, but had to make a rare post when I noticed this on Google maps this morning:

 

I literally LOLed at this

[titanhog]

Hmmmm...

The newly filed permit gives a reason: "Necessary to assess the condition ... in order to begin the engineering for a planned structure to be built there."

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/2016/01/new-permit-explains-why-water-will-be-pumped-out.html

[Neigeville2]

10 minutes ago, titanhog said:

Hmmmm...

The newly filed permit gives a reason: "Necessary to assess the condition ... in order to begin the engineering for a planned structure to be built there."

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/2016/01/new-permit-explains-why-water-will-be-pumped-out.html

We can only hope he's learned his lesson about releasing details too soon.  I hope it's something  big.

[dmillsphoto]

25 minutes ago, Neigeville2 said:

We can only hope he's learned his lesson about releasing details too soon.  I hope it's something.

FTFY.

[titanhog]

1 hour ago, Neigeville2 said:

We can only hope he's learned his lesson about releasing details too soon.  I hope it's ANYTHING.

FIFYx2

[chris holman]

I think I aged 20 years with announcement on this site

[smeagolsfree]

20 hours ago, chris holman said:

I think I aged 20 years with announcement on this site

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, I think we all have. I will bet it's taken that off Alex Palmers life.

[titanhog]

It's for sure happening this time!! 

[chris holman]

We can hope ,I hope for a landmark  development