Inside 440 - Berry Hill, Midtown, Vanderbilt, 12S, WeHo, Fairgrounds, etc.

[smeagolsfree]

Demo permit pulled yesterday for 119 Acklen Park Drive.  Are these the Westmont Apartments?

Not sure if this demo is related to the newly named Acklen Park apartments or not. This is for a house right next to that site which is fully under construction.

[smeagolsfree]

OK, this one is thanks to Hey Hey. He let me know and I let William know. This is behind the pay wall and is one that I said you would like. Lennar is planning a 17 story mixed use tower at the NE corner of 19th & Chet Atkins. This will be right next to the Stonehenge project now under construction.

The site is currently zoned for 10 stories and would have to redone. They are planning 300 units.

Behind pay wall.

http://nashvillepost.com/news/2014/4/3/developer_eyes_17_story_mixed_use_building_for_midtown

[MLBrumby]

I have the perfect name for this one... Utility View Tower, for all the power lines and poles at that corner. 

[smeagolsfree]

I have the perfect name for this one... Utility View Tower, for all the power lines and poles at that corner.

That seems to be a problem all over Nashville. Right in front of 1212, there are power lines tarnishing the buildings looks. Metro really needs to get on the ball and move these to the rear of the buildings or underground.

[bwithers1]

That seems to be a problem all over Nashville. Right in front of 1212, there are power lines tarnishing the buildings looks. Metro really needs to get on the ball and move these to the rear of the buildings or underground.

Wrong.  Metro would have to pass the cost of doing that onto all of the NES electric bill payers.  Sorry, but as much as I hate to see above-ground power lines, I am not willing to quadruple my electric bill so that folks investing in shiny new luxury buildings can have clean site lines.  NES is perfectly willing to move utilities or put them underground, but the developers need to pay to have that done and roll that up into their proformas.  I suspect that the developers are making enough profits on these buildings as they are.  If removing the utility lines is such an amenity, let them pay for it and roll that into their pricing.

 

Now, I do believe that Metro needs to require that the larger new developments, and particularly new subdivisions, have underground utilities, but again, the developers need to put that cost into their bottom line, not onto my electric bill.

 

Having said that, getting NES to move a utilility pole is one thing.  It's pricey but doable.  But moving/removing the telephone lines, which tend to hang closer to the street, is another matter altogether.  Sometimes NES and the telephone utilities share a pole, and when NES moves their lines to a new pole or underground, the city is still waiting months and months for the telephone people to get their act together.

Edited April 3, 2014 by bwithers1

[UTgrad09]

What are these "telephone lines" you speak of? Is that some sort of ancient communication device? Like tying a string between two plastic cups?

[donNdonelson2]

Amen to that!!!  My modest townhome community (from the mid-1980s) has underground utilities that were installed by the developer.  If Frank Batson, as a homebuilder, could put the wires underground in 1983, I know that todays deep-pocketed developers could do so, if it were important to their bottom lines!

[captainwjm]

Amen to that!!!  My modest townhome community (from the mid-1980s) has underground utilities that were installed by the developer.  If Frank Batson, as a homebuilder, could put the wires underground in 1983, I know that todays deep-pocketed developers could do so, if it were important to their bottom lines!

I haven't surveyed every new development, but all that I am familiar with have underground lines on property they control.  The problem is the surrounding area, right?

[bwithers1]

Here is an article from William at the Post. I just hope the renderings are not what will be built there. That is another project, but I would much rather see something a little more classical looking.

http://nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2014/3/27/modernist_row_homes_targeted_for_midtown

OMFG!  Are they seriously going to be allowed to put front-loading garages in Midtown?  Let's just load up one of our most dense areas with surburban crap.  From a suburban developer who puts up suburban crap in Green Hills.  Because that is totally the same feel that people are going for in Midtown, right?  I am amazed that this is allowed in the UDO that was passed.  Shocked, stunned and amazed.  Nashville never, ever, ever ceases to amaze or disappoint me.

Edited April 3, 2014 by bwithers1

[Paramount747]

Brett, what does OMFG! mean?    J/K. I agree with you!

[Hey_Hey]

The way i read that article was that the picture was an example of two units in Melrose, not the renderings for this project. They may be very similar, but don't give up hope of something better just yet.

[bwithers1]

Brett, what does OMFG! mean?    J/K. I agree with you!

Thanks.  Even if this is not what gets built on Hayes Street - now that I read more closely I get that these are from Melrose - it just goes to show that this developer doesn't seem to get the city vibe at all.  No wonder 12South/Melrose is itching for an Overlay.  These folks may need to stay in the 'burbs.

The way i read that article was that the picture was an example of two units in Melrose, not the renderings for this project. They may be very similar, but don't give up hope of something better just yet.

Thanks for calming me down!  I need a cigarette and I'm allergic to them.

[smeagolsfree]

I know what the town homes look like and there will be no front loading garages.

[MLBrumby]

Thanks.  Even if this is not what gets built on Hayes Street - now that I read more closely I get that these are from Melrose - it just goes to show that this developer doesn't seem to get the city vibe at all.  No wonder 12South/Melrose is itching for an Overlay.  These folks may need to stay in the 'burbs.

Thanks for calming me down!  I need a cigarette and I'm allergic to them.

 

 

Aren't these the row houses on Hayes?  I don't think they look so bad (stucco though!!) In the rendering, it looks like the brick apartment building next door.

 

 http://nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2014/3/27/modernist_row_homes_targeted_for_midtown

Edited April 4, 2014 by MLBrumby

[titanhog]

That actually looks like a classroom building at a college.

[smeagolsfree]

I had the rendering but was waiting for the story to live. Thanks for posting. I don't think they look bad either. The key thing is that the garage entrance is going to be in the rear.

[smeagolsfree]

Actually they are brick as far as I know.

[calebbink]

That actually looks like a classroom building at a college.

Yeah these don't look like houses...more like an academic building...I'm interested to see how these work out.

[henburg]

The design for the rowhomes looks very nice, but nothing about it screams super luxury. 

[CenterHill]

Agree they don't look residential (doctor's office?), but the design works well on that street (maybe the proximity to all the medical offices). Yes, if you enlarge the image you can see they are brick. I'm ok with these.

[UTgrad09]

It's not ugly, but not pretty, either. The windows SCREAM commercial building, though.

 

A little color wouldn't hurt.

[MLBrumby]

Looking at the picture with my high-res monitor, it does appear to be brick.  Monochrome?!

[nashmoney]

Still doesn't look like it would be worth $799,000 per unit!

 

There are penthouse units in the Viridian, Encore, Terazzo, and other buildings that you could get for that price or less.

 

I guess there is a market for people who want to pay that amount for a three story townhome facing a parking garage.

 

I would rather have a view of the city, or a mansion in Franklin for that price....just saying.

[smeagolsfree]

Location location location

[Hey_Hey]

Still doesn't look like it would be worth $799,000 per unit!

 

There are penthouse units in the Viridian, Encore, Terazzo, and other buildings that you could get for that price or less.

 

I guess there is a market for people who want to pay that amount for a three story townhome facing a parking garage.

 

I would rather have a view of the city, or a mansion in Franklin for that price....just saying.

The only 3BR available in any of those buildings is $1.75 million in Terrazzo. Encore has a 2BR/3BA for $870,000. I used a 3br to compare because I assume that's what these new ones will have.