1010 Church Street (60 story/750', 500 unit residential tower, 7 story/60,000 sq. ft. YMCA addition), $350 million

[Sean blackdog]

1 hour ago, MontanaGuy said:

 

Is that second tower crane? 

[MontanaGuy]

6 minutes ago, Sean blackdog said:

Is that second tower crane? 

If you look back on this thread you'll see a diagram that Bos2Nash posted that shows the location of the second tower crane but I don't think that's it, it's more towards the center to the left of the core as you're looking at the site from Church Street. 

[Tim29tn]

4 hours ago, Sean blackdog said:

Is that second tower crane? 

[MontanaGuy]

Wednesday afternoon, concrete is being poured in a few places in the YMCA area.  Also I'm wondering if the hole in the middle of the 5th photo at the bottom might be the next crane position but I'm just guessing.

Edited October 11, 2023 by MontanaGuy

[MontanaGuy]

From Thursday afternoon, new forms being set up in the YMCA area.  I noticed today that one of the big holes they've been digging on the second to last photo has been mostly filled up again with gravel.  I have no idea why but I'm sure a lot of you guys probably know what they're doing.   

[MontanaGuy]

Friday afternoon, new concrete forms are going up in the YMCA area again today.  They also have a new driveway into the other end of the site.

[MontanaGuy]

Saturday afternoon, trying to figure out what they're doing with the screen fence, they're piling up gravel on the inside of it so I guess it will become apparent in a few days what it's for but right now I don't have a clue.

[Luvemtall]

I’m just going to stick with my original idea and say that it is for a pool. Looks like with them bracing the inside, that concrete will be poured on the outside of the screen .

[markhollin]

Looking NE from intersection of Church Street Viaduct and Upper 10th Ave. North (Platform Way):

Looking east from 10th Ave. North, 1/8 block north of Church Street Viaduct:

[MontanaGuy]

From Monday afternoon.

[MontanaGuy]

From Tuesday afternoon, more concrete forms are being put in place next to the old YMCA building.

[MontanaGuy]

They've taken down the chain link fence on the YMCA end and put up this orange plastic screen but I took that first photo looking through it and it still came out OK.  I think that the third and fourth photos are likely the new crane location. 

[MontanaGuy]

Thursday afternoon, they've poured some concrete into the forms on photo 1.  

[MontanaGuy]

Friday afternoon.

[MontanaGuy]

Saturday afternoon, they're adding some more fencing along Church Street.

[markhollin]

Looking NE from intersection of Church Street Viaduct and Upper 10th Ave. North (Platform Way):

[Bos2Nash]

On 10/21/2023 at 2:36 PM, MontanaGuy said:

Saturday afternoon, they're adding some more fencing along Church Street.

Well I guess this confirms that they will NOT be leasing space from StreetLights for staging. Not a fan of our city's policy about shutting down lanes of traffic (vehicles/bicycles/pedestrians).  Can't tell by these photos, but by the look of the gates at either end on the sidewalk they will be shutting down the sidewalk and not doing more of the urban umbrella (?).

My guess is we will see a temporary crosswalk over to the south side of Church. This is going to create a cluster for pedestrian flow along Church Street (heading west) because Nashville Yards terminates the south sidewalk at the construction entrance on Upper 10th. 

[Luvemtall]

I do notice that there’s a separate walk gate opening, and barricades between the roadway and sidewalk. Wonder if they will leave the sidewalk open if there’s no delivery of materials at a specific time. 

[MontanaGuy]

Unfortunately they've closed the sidewalk on Church Street and the little bit on the corner that is accessible is covered with that orange mesh which makes it difficult to get a good photo.  

[MorganRehnberg]

I thought there was a new Metro law so that you couldn’t block sidewalks indefinitely? There’s not a wheelchair-accessible route on either side of Church now accept to be (sometimes the wrong way) in the bike lane. That seems pretty poor. 

[MontanaGuy]

From Tuesday afternoon, quite a bit of activity, I'm not sure what this big scaffolding is for so it should be interesting.  It's really a pain with that sidewalk blocked on such a busy street but I'm just glad to see this project picking up steam.

[Bos2Nash]

They may be setting this scaffolding in order to start setting forms for the first floor above the pool. It will need decently tall ceilings. You can see from the snip below that the pool space (triple height in one area) will actually come all the way up to the height of YMCA Way.

[MontanaGuy]

From Wednesday afternoon, I'll bet Bos2Nash is right about the scaffolding based on the diagram he posted.  I'm hoping that when the crane finally comes down from the Prime construction site that they'll reopen the sidewalk and the lane of traffic at the foot of the building.  That will make it a lot easier for cars as well as pedestrians on this busy street.  They repaved quite a bit of Church Street last night, that will also help with the traffic. 

Edited October 25, 2023 by MontanaGuy

[Armacing]

20 hours ago, MontanaGuy said:

Why are they filling in holes with gravel on the tower foundation part of this project?  Should we be worried that only the YMCA addition is currently under construction and the tower is on hold pending an improved economic/interest rate situation?

[nashscan]

6 minutes ago, Armacing said:

Why are they filling in holes with gravel on the tower foundation part of this project?  Should we be worried that only the YMCA addition is currently under construction and the tower is on hold pending an improved economic/interest rate situation?

I hope this project hasn't been graveled!