Inner Loop - CBD, Downtown, East Bank, Germantown, Gulch, Rutledge

[nashmoney]

Novo out of Phoenix now holds the contract for the First Baptist Church site at 8th & Demonbreun for $18M. Hyatt Regency is expected brand...

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/real-estate/2014/10/first-baptist-church-reaches-new-deal-to-sell.html

 

After looking at their website and projects they have developed, I'm not impressed. All of their stuff is suburban Crap!

 

They better not plop a 4-5 story short interstate box hotel on that site.

 

http://novodevelops.com/experience/?filter=hospitality

[Bezoar]

After looking at their website and projects they have developed, I'm not impressed. All of their stuff is suburban Crap!

 

They better not plop a 4-5 story short interstate box hotel on that site.

 

http://novodevelops.com/experience/?filter=hospitality

 

Yuck, their other projects are super ugly.  A Hyatt Regency is a step up from a Drury Inn, so maybe the brand will make a difference in the design.  

Edited October 27, 2014 by Bezoar

[barakat]

Keep in mind that the hotel design would have be approved by at least a few metro agencies.  I'd expect something more like the Omni, as far as style and street activity, rather than a hotel airport.

[NashRugger]

And of course hotel flag doesn't equate to either spectacular or lackluster design either. 

[mirydi]

Yeah, I don't see spending almost $20M a piece of property to build something on the smaller scale, but still, most Hyatt Regency's are pretty atrocious IMO. 

 

Austin

 

 

Indianapolis

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Atlanta

 

 

 

Houston

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Los Angeles 

 

 

Lexington

 

 

Denver

 

 

 

 

Anybody ready to vomit yet, or should I continue. 

[nashmoney]

All of these just made me vomit. The first five of those pics look like they belong in Baghdad or Syria.

 

Hyatt must be the majority owner in a concrete business because all of their hotels are concrete bland 80's structures.

[NashRugger]

No, keep going since a few of those properties started as different brands anyways. There are multiple higher end hotels brands that have terrible structures, like Intercontinental Miami and Fairmont Dallas come to mind.

 

Plus several of those shown were built in the 70s and 80s. Granted the Hyatt in Denver is an atrocity, along with the one in San Antonio.

Edited October 27, 2014 by NashRugger

[dmillsphoto]

I made some... friendly edits... ahem. 

[HGMIII]

The Metro Historic Zoning Commissioners today approved Aerial's 6-unit cottage development on 4th Ave N in the Salemtown neighborhood http://www.nashville.gov/Portals/0/SiteContent/MHZC/docs/2014%20Meetings/10-%20October%2015/SR%201706-1708%204th%20Ave%20N%20-%20Oct.pdf.  This proposal is for two adjacent lots, each of which presently contains a one-story brick tri-plex.  State laws provide the property owner with the opportunity to replace all three units on each lot even though that number is above the base zoning, which would only permit two dwellings.  The Planning Commission and Council had already approved an SP for this project that would include up to six detached single-family homes. 

 

The MHZC disapproved the initial application when this project was first heard two months ago (the applicant was absent), then the Aerial team came back last month and asked for a re-hearing of the original proposal, which the Commissioners denied, and so the applicant came back with a revised plan this month.  Note that MHC staff were recommending approval based on comments from the Commissioners at the first hearing about the lack of an adequate courtyard in this "courtyard/cottage" development and also about the size and massing of the buildings, particularly the rear buildings, which were not originally subordinate in height/massing to the main structures fronting 4th Ave N.

 

At today's hearing, the Commissioners overturned the staff recommendation and approved the project citing the fact that Aerial's team had reduced the footprint, height and massing of the rear buildings and increased the size of the courtyard, although there really is not much room there still.  At least one representative from the Salemtown Neighborhood Association spoke in favor of this project as well.

 

I have to give the Aerial presenters compliments on finding comparable historic structures, which are actually few and far between in Salemtown, from which to base their measurements and to my surprise even providing historic context in that district for the ubiquitous Aerial double-decker porches on the rear units.

These cottages are already listed on MLS, Zillow, etc.

 

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1706A-4th-Ave-N-Nashville-TN-37208/2104693563_zpid/#hdp-photo-lightbox  

[MLBrumby]

I think I stayed at the one in LA before a long time ago.  If I remember correctly, it's the first building ever constructed in Century City... and that would make it around 50 years old.  

[FromParkAveToTN]

The Westin is supposed to start within a month... so we've got that going for us... which is nice...

 

Is there a specific date when they are going to break wind on the Westin? This is going to be one of my favorite projects.

[dmillsphoto]

Is there a specific date when they are going to break wind on the Westin? This is going to be one of my favorite projects.

 

I've only heard "Early November." Wish I could say more.

[bwithers1]

These cottages are already listed on MLS, Zillow, etc.

 

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1706A-4th-Ave-N-Nashville-TN-37208/2104693563_zpid/#hdp-photo-lightbox

Yeah, about that . . . Aerial mentioned in their presentation that they had already pre-sold some of those units before the MHZC had approved them.  This particular one was a learning opportunity for Aerial, for Planning, and for Historic.  There is now a much better process in place for preliminary reviews of SPs in historic districts to ensure that Planning/the Council don't write a check that Historic can't cash.

 

Freddie O'Connell let me know that Aerial will review this project at tonight's Salemtown Neighborhood Association meeting, plus Dale & Associates is presenting on another 7-unit SP on 4th Ave N, and then there is a third SP that is going to be presented tonight.  I'm pretty sure that's not counting Clay Haynes's "No Dogs" building SP on 6th Ave N that was approved by Planning, and obviously it is not counting Salemtown Cottages, which is under construction. 

 

Salemtown is a busy little area!

Edited October 27, 2014 by bwithers1

[MidTenn1]

From the Tennessean..

 

 

Houston-based Transwestern no longer has the roughly 3.3 acres on Church Street across from Nashville Electric Service’s main offices under contract. Trent Germano, the real estate company’s Atlanta-based managing director of development for the Southeast, confirmed its contract had expired, but he declined to provide the reason. “We’re still interested in Nashville,” he said.

[titanhog]

I stayed in that Hyatt in Austin in 1983...so I know it's at least 31 years old.

[The ATX]

I stayed in that Hyatt in Austin in 1983...so I know it's at least 31 years old.

I stayed there in '82, so I know that it is at least 32 years old.  

[The ATX]

Hyatt Regency Hotels had their peak in popularity in the '70s & '80s.  That's why they all look like dated messes.  They have focused on Hyatt Place, Hyatt House brands among others since then. 

[fieldmarshaldj]

Just to let you folks know the construction date of those Hyatts as follows:

Austin Hyatt Regency - built 1981.

Indianapolis Hyatt - built 1974-1977.

Atlanta Hyatt - built 1967.

Houston Hyatt - built 1972.

Los Angeles Century Plaza - built 1965.

Lexington Hyatt - built 1976-1977.

Denver Hyatt - built 2003-2005.

[donNdonelson2]

Some of you may not know that Nashville's Sheraton downtown was originally constructed as a Hyatt Regency hotel.  Was rebranded as a Crowne Plaza before becoming the Sheraton.  Construction date around 1975, or so.

[CenterHill]

Hyatt Regency Hotels had their peak in popularity in the '70s & '80s.  That's why they all look like dated messes.  They have focused on Hyatt Place, Hyatt House brands among others since then. 

 

including the Park Hyatt brand.    

 

 

 

[bwithers1]

Hmmm.  Maybe now someone can still do an adaptive reuse of that building.

[bwithers1]

Yeah, the Park Hyatt in Chicago across from the Water Tower is georgeous and bears a striking resemblance to, well, an early draft of the Signature Tower. 

[samsonh]

Hmmm.  Maybe now someone can still do an adaptive reuse of that building.

 

Almost zero chance of that happening. Site is worth too much for the building to stay.

[Hey_Hey]

including the Park Hyatt brand.    

 

 

 

To be fair, Park Hyatt only takes up the first 25 floors of One57 in New York, and they likely had zero say in the design if the building as a whole. It is primarily a residential building with $100 million penthouses.

[MidTenn1]

From the Nashville Business Journal..

 

MarketStreet has made no secret of its intent to build more office buildings, and that the Turners and Melton are actively evaluating their options. As construction of Gulch Crossing progresses (the final beam is set to go in early next month), a few addresses are emerging as the likeliest locations of MarketStreet's next office building.

MarketStreet owns about 1.5 acres to the left, at 1201 Laurel St. and 1211 Laurel St. On the other side of Hensler's condo tower is where developer John Eakin is building a 15-story office building, named for its address, 1201 Demonbreun. All three back up against Interstate 40.

 

Another possible location in the MarketStreet portfolio is 200 12th Ave. S., which is directly across the street from Eakin's office building.

 

Locations;