River North, 105-acre Cowan Street corridor, Phase One: five 4-7 stories, 650 residences, 85 K sq. ft. retail, 50 K sq. ft. office, mile long riverfront park; Phase Two: two 12 story office buildings, pedestrian bridge across river

[smeagolsfree]

Permits were recently pulled for the rest of the buildings in Phase 1. I would give it at least another 14 months before Phase one will start to look like it is nearing completion now that the office/ retail has started.

[Bos2Nash]

20 hours ago, Luvemtall said:

What becomes of these new roads and all the necessary infrastructure for RiverNorth that has been done, if the plan changes to have that new spine road that is in the East Bank plans? Do they hopefully just cut in a new intersection at the point that these roads converge? And is waiting on that plan the reason why other projects like the RMR and GBT haven’t moved forward? Regardless of if a new stadium is built or not, a completed plan on infrastructure is needed , so the EastBank transformation can progress full steam ahead. Oracle is expected to start construction within the next year, how does that all tie into this?

The simple answer is yes. The new roads being built (or rebuilt) will tie into the new Boulevard that Cowan will be turned into. 

I would imagine the RMR project is waiting on final design of the Boulevard. I would presume GBT is waiting on any announcement from Oracle's campus/waiting for Oracle to start building some things.

[markhollin]

River North Landings (1, 3, & 7 stories,  647 units, 80,700 sq. ft. of office, 44,000 sq. ft. of retail, internal garages) update: foundation walls and pillars rising for underground garage.

Looking SE across the river from Taylor St. where it dead ends into Cumberland River:

[PaulChinetti]

On 7/14/2022 at 1:12 PM, Nashvillain said:

Oh, cool. They must be doing protected bike lanes above the curb...

Bike lanes throughout!

[Nashvillain]

38 minutes ago, PaulChinetti said:

Bike lanes throughout!

Praise the gods! I was looking for plans of that development but couldn't find anything. I wonder what kind of bike lanes they're going to be. Painted bike gutters or real protected lanes? 

[Bos2Nash]

I might be a bit confused. We know there will be a continuious bike along the entire East Bank Boulevard, but I haven't seen any site plans with dedicated bike lanes yet. Looking at the Phase II Site plan, we can see that bikes will have access to a lane of traffic, but I am not seeing dedicated bike lanes. This is significant because dedicated bike lanes is a larger ROW dedication that these buildings have not been accounting for.

I am going to dig around for the Phase I drawings, but I'm not holding my breathe for protected bike lanes beyond the Boulevard.

EDIT:
Here is Phase I of the River North residential. Bikes will share the road.

[downtownresident]

12 minutes ago, Bos2Nash said:

I might be a bit confused. We know there will be a continuious bike along the entire East Bank Boulevard, but I haven't seen any site plans with dedicated bike lanes yet. Looking at the Phase II Site plan, we can see that bikes will have access to a lane of traffic, but I am not seeing dedicated bike lanes. This is significant because dedicated bike lanes is a larger ROW dedication that these buildings have not been accounting for.

I am going to dig around for the Phase I drawings, but I'm not holding my breathe for protected bike lanes beyond the Boulevard.

I think the dedicated bike lanes will be along River North Blvd and Cowan Street, with the shared lanes on the smaller streets. 

[Bos2Nash]

1 minute ago, downtownresident said:

I think the dedicated bike lanes will be along River North Blvd and Cowan Street, with the shared lanes on the smaller streets. 

I don't think River North Blvd will have dedicated lanes. I believe it will only be Cowan (which will also be part of the Boulevard)

[titanhog]

Gonna be sad if we can’t even get dedicated bike lanes when an entire community is building from scratch.

[Bos2Nash]

Getting dedicated bike lanes on every street would be wonderful, but even for someone like me who advocates for them in every design understands that they are not meant for every single street. Streets such as Oldham, Cowan Court, RiverNorth Boulevard should be designed for slower traffic. When we slow down traffic, it gets more comfortable for bikes to share the road. When we get bikes out to roads such as Jefferson, Cowan Street (East Bank Boulevard) we absolutely NEED these lanes. I would even say streets such as Cleveland, Douglas which are major cross connectors need dedicated lanes. We will have dedicated bike lanes and dedicated bus lanes along the Boulevard from north to south on the East Bank. The other roads on the east bank will be smaller - as they should be - and slower which in turn makes them safer for bikes to share the road. Additional connector streets that move in and out of the East Bank should have dedicated lanes, but smaller interneighborhood ones should rely on slower traffic in which multi modes can share lanes.

[Nashvillain]

1 hour ago, titanhog said:

Gonna be sad if we can’t even get dedicated bike lanes when an entire community is building from scratch.

It recently happened at Capitol View, so I wouldn't be surprised, but my pessimism knows no bounds 

[Bos2Nash]

28 minutes ago, Nashvillain said:

It recently happened at Capitol View, so I wouldn't be surprised, but my pessimism knows no bounds 

Capital View is an interesting one. 11th Ave has the Greenway running along it from 12th Ave up until the Asurion building. The bike path/greenway then deviates to the east and runs behind the buildings of Capital View and basically terminates at Frankie Pierce Park. This is one of my biggest complaints about our Greenway system. It is essentially looked as a paved path and that's it. No connection to local business so there are no benefits from an economic standpoint and as we all know, if there is no economic benefit, why should the city build them (not my stance, but a very common arguement). 

Instead, the "greenway" should have run down 11th Ave to at least Nelson Merry Street to connect the biking to the businesses. Doing it now would require a shared lane with traffic (11th is pretty big and fast through Capital View) or taking space away from private vehicles, which really isn't going to happen (lets not rehash the Neuoff thread here).

With RiverNorth, we are seeing that Oldham street will be two way traffic with bikes sharing the road, depending on how the residential developments turn out and the GBT developments these roads can either be welcoming, or could be a disaster. Metro has a model to lay out the guidelines and have the private developers follow them, ie Planning, because Planning looks at the city as a whole and is trying to consider the whole environment rather than just one parcel (which is all the developers care about). There will be dedicated bike space from Cleveland all way down to the hypothetical bridge crossing into the railyard district as we have seen in East bank documents that have been released. getting more multi-modal infrastructure will come down to the final outcome of the Study and the eventual UDO that is put in place for the East Bank.

[markhollin]

Looking west from I-24 inner belt at Spring St. exit:

[nashville born]

IMO, full scale developments like these  that include infrastructure from scratch. offer a great opportunity to incorporate the Dutch transportation model, or at least pieces of it.

[Sean blackdog]

Last Sunday evening. 

[markhollin]

Permits worth a combined $23.5 million have been secured for ongoing construction of The Landings.
 

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/permit-patrol-8-august-2022/article_e9d96022-1506-11ed-9ebc-3bcaad52f9f1.html

[BeaveStirs]

Does anyone have the inside scoop on what happened with the foundations at river north?

[smeagolsfree]

I was over there yesterday. The foundation and pilings are almost out of the ground. More permits were pulled this month.

 

[Sean blackdog]

Today this morning. 

[markhollin]

River North Landings update: pillars rising; foundational walls being set.

Looking NW from Cowan Ct., 2/3 block west of Cowan St:
 

Looking west from Cowan Ct., 2/3 block west of Cowan St:

Looking SW from Cowan Ct., 2/3 block west of Cowan St:

[yontu2]

5 hours ago, markhollin said:

River North Landings update: pillars rising; foundational walls being set.

Looking NW from Cowan Ct., 2/3 block west of Cowan St:
 

Looking west from Cowan Ct., 2/3 block west of Cowan St:

Looking SW from Cowan Ct., 2/3 block west of Cowan St:

I hope they're planning the ground floors of those buildings in a way that accounts for the likelihood of flooding.

[markhollin]

River North Landings street grid starting to take shape, including several roundabouts.
 

[markhollin]

This isn't part of River North, but since it is surrounded by elements of that development, I thought I would put it here:

A River North industrial property located adjacent to both the Cumberland River and Topgolf — and near the future Oracle campus — has sold for $19.4 million.Home to cement supplier Cemex, the 4.33-acre property offers a main address of  21 Oldham St.

According to a Davidson County Register of Deeds document, the new owner is an LLC affiliated with Dallas-based Eagle Materials Inc., which deals with cement, concrete and wallboards. The seller was an LLC associated with Florida-based Cemex and that paid (via an affiliated LLC) about $688,600 for the property in 1998.

Sad to say that it looks like this is going to remain an industrial site for the time being. 

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/industrial-property-near-future-oracle-campus-sells/article_871ac446-35f2-11ed-98bd-a32cf6e9d8ee.html
 

[KJHburg]

this is really going to be an exciting area to watch especially with the Oracle campus to be built next door. 

I think that Top Golf is in a great location  so close to main convention and downtown hotels.  And their location is getting better and better. 

[lmc123]

There's some decent vertical movement at the Landings