5th & Broadway | 501 Commerce | NMAAM | 34 story apt, 26 story office, + 183,000 sq. ft. of Retail

[titanhog]

17 minutes ago, markhollin said:

 

^^Whoever designed these to not fit together perfectly as part of the design really messed up.  Really bad looking.

[Native]

7 hours ago, titanhog said:

^^Whoever designed these to not fit together perfectly as part of the design really messed up.  Really bad looking.

Got a solution.  Place huge digital screens on all sides of the garage to cover the misfitting panels.   Cooper has a coniption fit and has to be replaced by Shulman who loves digital screens.  Problem solved.

[titanhog]

43 minutes ago, Native said:

Got a solution.  Place huge digital screens on all sides of the garage to cover the misfitting panels.   Cooper has a coniption fit and has to be replaced by Shulman who loves digital screens.  Problem solved.

Yeah...when this building's renders were first shown...that was my thought.  Huge digital screens would look awesome.

[DDIG]

8 hours ago, titanhog said:

^^Whoever designed these to not fit together perfectly as part of the design really messed up.  Really bad looking.

It seems like if the panels simply fit without the holes it would look exponentially better.

[Sean blackdog]

Today this evening. 

[CityHeart]

Broadway facing video board activated and it looks damn good!!

[nashvylle]

Pretty great timing for the NMAAM to open up soon. 

[sqw475]

The apple store on the corner is going to look sick. 

[markhollin]

Alliance Bernstein's move into the 5th & Broadway office tower has been moved back due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks now like it will be March or April of 2021 when they open in the top 7 floors of the building.  They are still planning on hiring an additional 200 people above the 1,050 originally announced, but this will be a bit slower as well due to HR teams having to work remotely during this time. 

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/finance/article/21137999/pandemic-pushes-back-ab-hq-move

[Nash_12South]

23 minutes ago, markhollin said:

Alliance Bernstein's move into the 5th & Broadway office tower has been moved back due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks now like it will be March or April of 2021 when they open in the top 7 floors of the building.  They are still planning on hiring an additional 200 people above the 1,050 originally announced, but this will be a bit slower as well due to HR teams having to work remotely during this time. 

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/finance/article/21137999/pandemic-pushes-back-ab-hq-move

Speaking to an employee this weekend, they are hearing it may actually be May 2021 for move in.

[Native]

Construction elevator has come down.

 

[titanhog]

^^The garage cover looks ok from a distance.  I guess, up close, we can squint and it will look ok. 

[markhollin]

Looking south from 6th Ave. North. 1/2 block north of Commerce St:

Looking SE from intersection of Commerce St. and 6th Ave. North:

Looking NW from intersection of Broadway and 5th Ave:

[DDIG]

Seems to me like there will be a banner or LED board or something facing the Renaissance right? White part appears to have some sort of hooks sticking out for an installation? Or am I looking at it wrong?

[titanhog]

43 minutes ago, DDIG said:

Seems to me like there will be a banner or LED board or something facing the Renaissance right? White part appears to have some sort of hooks sticking out for an installation? Or am I looking at it wrong?

I hope you're correct.  I was thinking maybe it was some ventilation holes...but I think you're right...those are some kind of hooks.  Fingers crossed!

[Mike G]

I believe I'm in the minority here, but the offset shapes of the different colored screens are growing on me. The way the light and shadow play on them offer an interesting effect in the daytime, and I imagine as the garage is lit up at night with its permanent lighting, I think it could glow or be translucent at night from afar, yet not look like stacks of cars up close. I'm cautiously optimistic.

[titanhog]

4 hours ago, Mike G said:

I believe I'm in the minority here, but the offset shapes of the different colored screens are growing on me. The way the light and shadow play on them offer an interesting effect in the daytime, and I imagine as the garage is lit up at night with its permanent lighting, I think it could glow or be translucent at night from afar, yet not look like stacks of cars up close. I'm cautiously optimistic.

The only issue with them is the exhausts hole overlaps that look bad up close.  The overall look is pretty cool...other than those.

[nashvylle]

@smeagolsfree or anyone else, do you know if there is any effort to build a hotel on the broadway side of Bridgestone Arena? Looking at this screenshot from 5th & Broadway, it really would add another element to Broadway and the Arena. 
 

 

[markhollin]

8 hours ago, nashvylle said:

@smeagolsfree or anyone else, do you know if there is any effort to build a hotel on the broadway side of Bridgestone Arena? Looking at this screenshot from 5th & Broadway, it really would add another element to Broadway and the Arena. 
 

 

The Predators still have a long-range concept to build  a 20+ story hotel that would wrap the arena in an L shape on the SE corner of Broadway and 6th Ave.  South. Their plans for constant upgrading of the arena site are being rolled-out in phases.  The next several years are supposed to feature an entirely revamped press row area and then the addition of approximately 2,000 seats above the south end balcony.  Then there are the revisions being dreamt for the garage space on the south end (new admin offices above the garage, ground level retail, etc. ). My guess is the hotel portion may be one of the last elements, coming later in the decade. 

This screenshot from Smeagolsfree's excellent development map shows the possible hotel location highlighted in gray:

 

[MidTenn1]

An old card I made with the renderings that were presented at the time....

Edited June 26, 2020 by PHofKS

[Native]

Windows are going in where the construction elevator was.  The green deck looks like it is finished.

 

[MLBrumby]

Looks like the accordion panels wrapping the garage have been fixed. No? 

[downtownresident]

29 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

Looks like the accordion panels wrapping the garage have been fixed. No? 

They’re still off center a bit. The look much better from afar than up close. 

[Native]

4 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

Looks like the accordion panels wrapping the garage have been fixed. No? 

The small gaps are still there because (inexplicably) the different colors had different shapes.  But downtownresident is right, they do look better from a distance.   Our group is probably the only demographic that cares about it.

[BnaBreaker]

52 minutes ago, Native said:

The small gaps are still there because (inexplicably) the different colors had different shapes.  But downtownresident is right, they do look better from a distance.   Our group is probably the only demographic that cares about it.

Quoted and bolded for truth.   That is not to say that there shouldn't be people around that concern themselves with these sorts of things, but I definitely think we are in the extreme minority.  haha

For example sometimes as soon as I'm done ranting about how close a building is built to the sidewalk, I'll almost immediately chide myself in my head for wasting energy on such a thing, because I can almost guarantee you that 99.9% of people don't even notice it in their day-to-day lives.

Ahh well... such is the blessing and the curse that is being an urban design/architecture nerd.