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

[PruneTracy]

56 minutes ago, markhollin said:

John Matheson told me this morning that he was a the site the other day chatting with some of the crew.  They relayed that the excavation is going to be deep all the way to West End Ave.  Hence, there is still a tremendous amount of rock that needs to be blasted and removed. It may take another 10-12 months just to get the hole squared-out.  Sure appears that this will be the largest underground garage in Nashville.  

Math checks out for a 2,500-space garage. That would be about 375,000 cubic yards of total excavation from the pre-Palmer ground level.

[MLBrumby]

Is that 40' deep? Four levels of parking? 

[Mr_Bond]

6 hours ago, markhollin said:

John Matheson told me this morning that he was a the site the other day chatting with some of the crew.  They relayed that the excavation is going to be deep all the way to West End Ave.  Hence, there is still a tremendous amount of rock that needs to be blasted and removed. It may take another 10-12 months just to get the hole squared-out.  Sure appears that this will be the largest underground garage in Nashville.  

Sure am glad the owner has deep pockets.

Some of you who maintain a spreadsheet or two of all the projects in Nashville could share a schedule of estimated completion dates.  That would give us a quick picture of when bodies start filling buildings, and we could compare that to our estimate of the next downturn in the market.  Not sure which thread that would go in.  Just an idea.

[mattbhadley]

As of yesterday, they put up new signage on the fencing and closed off the south bound lane of traffic on 16th Ave N between West End and Hayes. 

[LA_TN]

Throw back Thursday 

[wmaddbb2018]

This is the Nashville version for Alex Palmer of “The Mistake by the Lake”.

[chris holman]

[titanhog]

4 hours ago, LA_TN said:

Throw back Thursday 

Oh...what could have been...

 

Edited November 1, 2018 by titanhog

[chris holman]

Work at the site  was active today

[Binbin98]

If this project is already beginning to start site work and construction, when will the official groundbreaking be? Do they know the tenants yet? What about the hotel brand/flag that will be in the tower? This is all happening so fast lol

[smeagolsfree]

From what I have heard there will be no oficial groundbreaking. 

[MLBrumby]

12 years ago! 

 Just no end to the Palmer jokes.

[titanhog]

2 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

From what I have heard there will be no oficial groundbreaking. 

Yeah...I think Elvis left that building a LONG time ago. 

[donNdonelson2]

“Thank you, thank you very much.”

[archilove]

On 11/1/2018 at 12:48 PM, titanhog said:

Oh...what could have been...

 

Monterosso, Italy?

[smeagolsfree]

Went by the site the other day and the hole is getting massive.

[tokiorose]

Concrete will start in February.

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[e-dub]

On 8/20/2018 at 2:17 PM, smeagolsfree said:

What is neat is it shows Nashville Yards plus the Endeavor project. Maybe some of these folks know something we don't with all the new office buildings.

Just saying and I don't think it would happen, but Amazon needs about 5 million sq. ft. This building is 500 K, Nashville Yards is about 2 million, and they could easily put another 2 million on the TN site and it looks as if Highwoods is going to start to tear the TN building down sooner rather than later.

You called it?

[archilove]

On 11/8/2018 at 4:57 PM, archilove said:

Monterosso, Italy?

No kidding. The foreground looks like a stretch of beach in Monterosso, Italy as seen from the Porta Roca Hotel.

[titanhog]

26 minutes ago, archilove said:

No kidding. The foreground looks like a stretch of beach in Monterosso, Italy as seen from the Porta Roca Hotel.

It probably is.  Just Googled an image and photoshopped it in.  Not exactly sure where it's from.

[markhollin]

Blasting has loosened many huge slabs of limestone.

Looking SE from 17th Ave. North, 1/2 block north of West End Ave:

Looking east from 17th Ave. North, 1/2 block north of West End Ave:




Looking NE from 17th Ave. North, 1/2 block north of West End Ave:

[smeagolsfree]

Palmers big ole hole just got bigger.

[timmay143]

Poor guy.  What a slap in the face.  He didn't even finish the digging for someone else!  He could have "maybe" hung his hat on that accomplishment....

[Mr_Bond]

1 hour ago, timmay143 said:

Poor guy.  What a slap in the face.  He didn't even finish the digging for someone else!  He could have "maybe" hung his hat on that accomplishment....

His big accomplishment was creating a lake where water-type Pokeman can be found in Pokemon Go.

[timmay143]

2 minutes ago, Mr_Bond said:

His big accomplishment was creating a lake where water-type Pokeman can be found in Pokemon Go.

Whew...thought he was going to escape with no notable accomplishments.  Thank you Pokémon Go!