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

[markhollin]

Division Street Connector update.  I could've driven over it on Sunday---but would've been busted.  Definitely auto ready, but not open to the public yet.

Looking NE from the apex over the CSX tracks:

 

Looking SW from the apex over the CSX tracks:

 

Looking east up the hill just east of 8th AVe. South:

 

Looking west from the intersection of 6th Ae. South and Ash/Division:

 

Looking south from the 27th floor of The Westin Hotel:

[nashvylle]

22 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

The article says 12 to 14 stories and 120 to 200 rooms. Same as the Staybridge, same owner of the land.

This project would be great infill

[markhollin]

23 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

The article says 12 to 14 stories and 120 to 200 rooms. Same as the Staybridge, same owner of the land.

This article from The Tennessean says that the still-unnamed hotel will be 5 stories.  Will be very disappointed if that's the case.  Seems like an under-investment in land that is going to have skyrocketing value over the next several years.  I would certainly prefer if it were at least 12 stories facing the freeway.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/real-estate/2017/08/08/global-mall-owner-plans-5-story-dual-brand-hotel-near-nashvilles-gulch/549544001/

[Flatrock]

1 hour ago, markhollin said:

This article from The Tennessean says that the still-unnamed hotel will be 5 stories.

Maybe the author left off the '1' from 15 (stories).

[fieldmarshaldj]

14 minutes ago, Flatrock said:

Maybe the author left off the '1' from 15 (stories).

The "1" should follow the "5", not precede it.

[markhollin]

CF Real Estate Services plans to open creative center The Collective this fall at the 328-unit Olmsted Nashville, the apartment building that has taken shape in recent months at the corner of Fifth Avenue South and Peabody Street.

The Collective will be a two-floor, roughly 3,000-square-foot communal space open to the public, featuring live performances on stage, rotating art exhibits, space to work using the free WiFi or grab a coffee.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2017/08/10/sobro-developer-open-the-collective-arts-and-event-space/548748001/

 

[markhollin]

Updates on a couple of Germantown projects from The Nashville Post:

Mainland lands permits related to Germantown residential project

Nashville-based Mainland Cos. has landed three tree removal permits related to its soon-to-start 46-unit residential project in Germantown.

Nashville-based Division 2 Constructors LLC will handle the work.

As part of the project, Mainland will convert the historic Elliott School building last home to Centerstone to accommodate 23 residential units.

By October, Mainland hopes to start grading a roughly two-acre site bordered by Sixth and Seventh avenues on the east and west, respectively, and Madison Street on the south. The school building fronts Sixth on the south side of Madison. 

On that site, the first of three phases of townhomes could be completed within 12 months. The three phases will offer 21 townhomes total (instead of 54 residences, primarily condominium flats, as previously planned).

The new construction is expected to include a 1,000-square-foot retail space fronting the northwest corner of the intersection of Sixth and Madison and with two condo flat units sitting atop the retail space. 

And....

Memphis-based Premier Storage Investors is eyeing a spring 2018 opening for its four-story self-storage building now under construction in Germantown. The facility will be located at 1138 Second Ave. N. and sit on about 1.42 acres.

Craig Sneed, Premier vice president, said the building will offer approximately 70,000 square feet of rentable storage space “with plans for a future expansion on the site.”

The company has two other self-storage facilities in the Nashville market. The Germantown building will be the first located in an urban setting.

The property, for which Premier paid $4.45 million in 2016, was last home to masonry business WASCO.  Sneed said the company is not disclosing the cost to undertake the project. 

A rendering of this is a couple of posts above on this thread.

Here is the location of this self storage project at the center of this screen shot from Smeagolsfree's excellent development map:

Here is the location of the Mainland development at the center of this screen shot:

[markhollin]

Gateway Germantown (7 stories, 330 units, retail on ground level) update. Trees being taken out.

Looking north along Rosa Parks Blvd. from intersection with Garfield Ave:

Looking NW from intersection of Rosa Parks Blvd. and Garfield Ave:

[dmillsphoto]

We need more of this ^^^

[rookzie]

I take it that you really mean Garfield St. and Rosa Parks, rather than Delta.  Probably before you arrived down into Nashville long ago, Delta got cut off from intersecting 8th Ave (Rosa Parks), where the current Kroger property is now, some 3 blocks south of Garfield.  Delta used to intersect at a dangerous tapered intersection, just as with Houston at 4th, Tennessee- Kentucky- Michigan at Morrow, and Lindsley at Hermitage.  Good riddance.

[archilove]

I just recently discovered Germantown. I go there now to have a pleasant stroll on the brick sidewalks and enjoy the old houses, or maybe to drop in on the chocolate shop or visit the Church of the Assumption. There does seem to be a limited supply of older houses and a very high rate of new development, so I am concerned that if any more of the old places are torn down it will loose the character and charm that it presently has. It reminds me of an old cartoon I once saw where two developers were standing on a bluff overlooking a valley and one says to the other "this is beautiful, let's develop it."

[CenterHill]

10 minutes ago, archilove said:

I just recently discovered Germantown. I go there now to have a pleasant stroll on the brick sidewalks and enjoy the old houses, or maybe to drop in on the chocolate shop or visit the Church of the Assumption. There does seem to be a limited supply of older houses and a very high rate of new development, so I am concerned that if any more of the old places are torn down it will loose the character and charm that it presently has. It reminds me of an old cartoon I once saw where two developers were standing on a bluff overlooking a valley and one says to the other "this is beautiful, let's develop it."

I agree with you about the charm of Germantown.    Fortunately, Germantown is covered by an Historic Preservation Overlay, which limits the ability to modify historic structures.   You're right about the pace of redevelopment, which is even more pronounced in Salemtown, which is covered by a less restrictive Conservation Overlay.    However, there are (or I should say were, because they are disappearing at a rapid rate) numerous houses in Salemtown that would not be considered historic or contributing and are thus subject to being replaced with new construction as long as the new construction fits within the zoning guidelines.     

Unfortunately for both neighborhoods, fewer and fewer neighbors actually live there.    A large number of the houses have been purchased by investors and converted to short-term rentals.    

 

[markhollin]

An Atlanta-based developer hopes to break ground by October’s end on a two-building project that will interact with the Cumberland River Greenway near the historic Neuhoff property in Germantown. 

Vantage Realty Partners says it will tentatively to be called Van Buren and to sit on 1.8 acres. The project will be located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Van Buren and Adams streets. One block to the west is Bearded Iris Brewing and one block to the east is the Neuhoff complex.

Chris Carter, co-owner and co-founder with Gene Rice of Vantage, said the team will submit for permits in the next few days. Three existing non-descript metal structures will be demolished by month’s end. The site has an address of 85 Van Buren St.

Nashville-based Shed Fitness will be a tenant. Shed will share a building with an unnamed restaurant and another tenant yet to be determined, he added. That building will sit on the corner of Adams and Van Buren.

The other building will span 3,000 square feet and overlook the adjacent Cumberland River Greenway. It will not address a street and is being targeted for a restaurant.  

The third building in the Van Buren complex sits across Adams Street to the east (at this point, it is essentially a gravel private road) and catty-corner from the building in which Shed Fitness will operate sits an historic 2 story masonry building that Vantage will adaptively reuse. Chef Ford Fry, who is based in Atlanta, will operate two as-yet-to-be-named restaurants from that building. A loft office tenant, likely music industry oriented, is being sought for the remaining 7,000 square feet. This will interact closely with the new Hammer Mill residential complex (7 stories, 259 units) which is under construction.

The full story is behind the paywall at Nashville Post:

http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/article/20972189/october-starts-eyed-for-project-on-germantown-greenway
 

[CenterHill]

^ Thanks.   This was announced some time ago and I've been looking for some sign that the existing occupant of the property, January Environmental, an oil and waste recycling company, was in the process of vacating, but as recently as Tuesday I ran by there and the business still appears to be in operation.    Given the current use of the property, I would expect there may be some level of environmental remediation required before the new owner could obtain building permits.   Just speculating on that.    A prudent buyer would conduct a Phase I environmental survey before acquiring the property, so maybe they have and determined an October ground breaking is feasible.    We'll see.   

[smeagolsfree]

I expressed the same issue when William was writing the article. There is a lot of junk in the ground in that whole area.

[PaulChinetti]

Pastime in Germantown has some pretty amazing pictures on their walls. 

Broaddway circa 1889. 

Any of these building still standing? Is that the customs house in the far background on the left?

[rookzie]

Water towers have always fascinated me ─ even the "squatty" roof-mounted units ─ and just as masonry smokestacks and elevator silos, they provide a charming focal point for most redevelopments (perhaps).  That really must be an old rendering, since there is no aerial water tower on that site, and I don't think moving one or erecting one there will be happening.

[fieldmarshaldj]

2 hours ago, PaulChinetti said:

Pastime in Germantown has some pretty amazing pictures on their walls. 

Broaddway circa 1889. 

Any of these building still standing? Is that the customs house in the far background on the left?

Yes, some of those buildings are still standing along Lower Broad. The tower in the distance is the steeple of First Baptist Church, which would be obliterating the view of the Customs House. I believe this view is from 2nd looking west...

The view today:

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1618264,-86.7751772,3a,75y,243.41h,94.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQbYMs-ewi_TnOxedzZ5RSg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

 

[markhollin]

Immediately to the east of the this new Van Buren development announced yesterday is the Hammer Mill (7 stories, 259 units with some retail).  The central parking garage has gone up very quickly in the last two weeks.

Looking SE from intersection of Adams and Van Buren:
 

[markhollin]

The Mockingbird Diner opens next Monday in north Gulch next to Chauhan's at 121A 12th Ave. N.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2017/08/11/inside-mockingbird-nashvilles-unique-new-diner/549747001/

 

[CenterHill]

I'd say a good number of those Lower Broad buildings are still standing between the river and 5th.    

The building I'd most like to see undergo a thorough and loving restoration is the Cotton Eyed Joe building (far right in the picture and in the link FMDJ posted) at the foot of 2nd/Broadway.    Much of the front facade has been altered over the years with windows removed and bricked in.      It could be such a grand statement on Lower Broad, but it would probably require a change of ownership to someone with the right mindset who wouldn't pull a Trail West middle of the night demolition to avoid the complexities of working with an historic structure.    

[PaulChinetti]

That is quite the building @CenterHill and I've never really noticed that it's so large, which lends to your point. It could be something spectacular. 

[markhollin]

The Metro Planning Commission on Thursday voted to disapprove specific plan rezoning for a long-planned Germantown project.

Previous votes on the proposed project — The Livery at 5th & Monroe — had been deferred seven times. The Metro Council can override the planning commission vote with a two-thirds approval for the project. Metro Planning Department staff recommended approval of the SP mixed-use rezoning.

The project has met with some opposition despite the Historic Germantown Neighborhood Board of Directors having voted in favor.

Developer Jim Creason, owner of Nashville-based Trust Development, said he plans to move forward with the project, whether the council overrules the commission to allow the SP zoning or he sticks with mixed-use neighborhood (MUN) zoning. If the latter, The Livery will offer residences in addition to its events space, he said.

Full story here (currently behind the paywall):

http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/article/20972356/the-livery
 

[markhollin]

The long-rumored Holiday Inn Express in MetroCenter seems to finally be moving forward. From today's Nashville Post:

Omega Hotel Group will go before the Metro Planning Commission on Thursday, Sept. 28, related to a Holiday Inn Express and Suites hotel project targeted for MetroCenter.

Specifically, the company will ask Metro to approve the abandonment of a portion of Fourth Avenue North to allow for what would be the Madison, Alabama-based hotel development company’s first project in Nashville.

An entity affiliated with OHG acquired the property in February 2016.

If built, the hotel would sit at the point at which Dominican Drive becomes Third Avenue North and into which Clay Street T-intersects.

The company has not yet submitted an image to Metro, according to an OHG official.

Omega has enlisted Nashville-based Ragan-Smith & Associates for land planning efforts.

[Jim Creason]

47 minutes ago, markhollin said:

The Metro Planning Commission on Thursday voted to disapprove specific plan rezoning for a long-planned Germantown project.

Previous votes on the proposed project — The Livery at 5th & Monroe — had been deferred seven times. The Metro Council can override the planning commission vote with a two-thirds approval for the project. Metro Planning Department staff recommended approval of the SP mixed-use rezoning.

The project has met with some opposition despite the Historic Germantown Neighborhood Board of Directors having voted in favor.

Developer Jim Creason, owner of Nashville-based Trust Development, said he plans to move forward with the project, whether the council overrules the commission to allow the SP zoning or he sticks with mixed-use neighborhood (MUN) zoning. If the latter, The Livery will offer residences in addition to its events space, he said.

Full story here (currently behind the paywall):

http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/article/20972356/the-livery
 

I have really tried to bring something to this corner that limits the intensity of what a major and intense restaurant and bar will obvioulsy generate. The all brick and steel building with the amount of masonry detail is not an inexpensive gesture for me to be able to make for this location. Residents love the building design but cant make the connection that you can't spend as much on a quality project without an appropriate tenant. Stay tuned everyone for some interesting next steps.