Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs

[markhollin]

^ ^ ^ Or it can become a great candidate for the Nashville Walls project and covered with one of the largest murals in the southeast.  : )

[markhollin]

Taken from Spring Street Bridge on western side looking south:

[MLBrumby]

Nice shot that does not get seen much.  

Not to detract from your photo because yours is better, I just had to post this one because it is (apparently) a photo with certain buildings drawn-in to an old aerial of downtown. I'm especially puzzled by the misplacement of what appears to be a mock-up of the Buckingham Gulch tower.  Anyway, this is from the Online Tennessean, and attached to an article about the Nashville Civic Design Center. http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/tnfit/2016/04/12/tnfit-gary-gaston-civic-design-center/82518458/

[PruneTracy]

7 hours ago, Philip said:

Eventually, a new development will sit up against that wall. Otherwise, it would at least have windows or something.

I don't think so. Their parking garage ramp is directly below it.

[Pyramid Scheme]

36 minutes ago, PruneTracy said:

I don't think so. Their parking garage ramp is directly below it.

Then maybe it'll be hidden away in a narrow alley.

[VSRJ]

3 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

Nice shot that does not get seen much.  

Not to detract from your photo because yours is better, I just had to post this one because it is (apparently) a photo with certain buildings drawn-in to an old aerial of downtown. I'm especially puzzled by the misplacement of what appears to be a mock-up of the Buckingham Gulch tower.  Anyway, this is from the Online Tennessean, and attached to an article about the Nashville Civic Design Center. http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/tnfit/2016/04/12/tnfit-gary-gaston-civic-design-center/82518458/

Am I losing my mind, or is that some sort of park built on top of a (submerged?) I-40? That would be amazing. I'm sure I've missed something.

[titanhog]

3 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

Nice shot that does not get seen much.  

Not to detract from your photo because yours is better, I just had to post this one because it is (apparently) a photo with certain buildings drawn-in to an old aerial of downtown. I'm especially puzzled by the misplacement of what appears to be a mock-up of the Buckingham Gulch tower.  Anyway, this is from the Online Tennessean, and attached to an article about the Nashville Civic Design Center. http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/tnfit/2016/04/12/tnfit-gary-gaston-civic-design-center/82518458/

Noticed they've capped I-40 between Division and Church St.  I like that.

[BnaBreaker]

4 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

Nice shot that does not get seen much.  

Not to detract from your photo because yours is better, I just had to post this one because it is (apparently) a photo with certain buildings drawn-in to an old aerial of downtown. I'm especially puzzled by the misplacement of what appears to be a mock-up of the Buckingham Gulch tower.  Anyway, this is from the Online Tennessean, and attached to an article about the Nashville Civic Design Center. http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/tnfit/2016/04/12/tnfit-gary-gaston-civic-design-center/82518458/

That is basically my dream Nashville project.  I want a cap over that section of 440 even more than I want light rail.  

[bigeasy]

Can we cap the rail yard while we are at it?

[titanhog]

Just now, bigeasy said:

Can we cap the rail yard while we are at it?

I was just thinking the same thing.

[VSRJ]

And Stix. Build a mountain over it. #CapNashville

[titanhog]

17 minutes ago, VSRJ said:

And Stix. Build a mountain over it. #CapNashville

And Lake Palmer.

[VSRJ]

Nashville 2050

[bhibbs]

 

[titanhog]

^^That's more like it!! 

[Pyramid Scheme]

The Ascend is so freaking cool.

[rookzie]

6 hours ago, bigeasy said:

Can we cap the rail yard while we are at it?

I know you guys are dreaming, but we'll all be deep-six'd before CSX agrees to sell air rights to cover up their Kayne, and maybe even what remains of the gulch, period.  Rights to bridges, and maybe even rights for air space limited to s few aerial structures, as they have done with Chicago's north approach to Union Station, and a little earlier with Randolph St Metra-South Shore station.  It even got done to Chicago's U-Sta. back in the mid-'60s with Mercantile Bank.

The reason NYC  has a few miles of tunneled track for Penn Sta. and Grand Central, is that these were done almost a century ago, are totally electrified (no diesel-electric), and are not freight yards.  The only way CSX might give in would be if Metro paid to reroute that vital link (NOT), or if Canadian Pacific revives its bid to take over CSX (now that it finally has backed down from a takeover of Norfolk Southern), and then CP might shut it down (NOT).

They need to wait and see if they can do volsfanwill's commuter rail concept for a reclaimed Union Station.  That too is a pipe dream, but I believe that a bit of creative repurposing would be long overdue.  Capping off the inner loop west would be premature, as it would further limit choice of few assets that now remain.  Capping is a good idea, but it's pipe.

Edited April 13, 2016 by rookzie

[titanhog]

9 minutes ago, rookzie said:

I know you guys are dreaming, but we'll all be deep-six'd before CSX agrees to sell air rights to cover up there Kayne, and maybe even what remains of the gulch, period.  Rights to bridges, and maybe even rights for air space limited to s few aerial structures, as they have done with Chicago's north approach to Union Station, and a little earlier with Randolph St Metra-South Shore station.  It even got done to Chicago's U-Sta. back in the mid-'60s with Mercantile Bank.

The reason NYC  has a few miles of tunneled track for Penn Sta. and Grand Central, is that these were done almost a century ago, are totally electrified (no diesel-electric), and are not freight yards.  The only way CSX might give in would be if Metro paid to reroute that vital link (NOT), or if Canadian Pacific revives its bid to take over CSX (now that it finally has backed down from a takeover of Norfolk Southern), and then CP might shut it down (NOT).

They need to wait and see if they can do volsfanwill's commuter rail concept for a reclaimed Union Station.  That too is a pipe dream, but I believe that a bit of creative repurposing would be long overdue.  Capping off the inner loop west would be premature, as it would further limit choice of few assets that now remain.  Capping is a good idea, but it's pipe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don't crush our rainbow, Rookzie! 

[rookzie]

34 minutes ago, titanhog said:

Don't crush our rainbow, Rookzie! 

You're right.  I need to learn to not get so serious sometimes.  Must be these damn meds makin' me rabid, of even like the Smeags and his Linda-Blair syndrome.  UTgrad already flaunted off his fantastic capping rendering last year or so. To be honest, some major capping should be formally discussed snd proposed.

[titanhog]

26 minutes ago, rookzie said:

You're right.  I need to learn to not get so serious sometimes.  Must be these damn meds makin' me rabid, of even like the Smeags and his Linda-Blair syndrome.  UTgrad already flaunted off his fantastic capping rendering last year or so. To be honest, some major capping should be formally discussed snd proposed.

I can't read the word "capping" without hearing some odd movie voice quote in my head saying "I'm gonna bust a cap in your _ _ _." 

[rookzie]

25 minutes ago, titanhog said:

I can't read the word "capping" without hearing some odd movie voice quote in my head saying "I'm gonna bust a cap in your _ _ _." 

Might even change my screen handle to "Bustuh Kapp" 

[UTgrad09]

1 hour ago, rookzie said:

You're right.  I need to learn to not get so serious sometimes.  Must be these damn meds makin' me rabid, of even like the Smeags and his Linda-Blair syndrome.  UTgrad already flaunted off his fantastic capping rendering last year or so. To be honest, some major capping should be formally discussed snd proposed.

Let's be honest, my rendering was very crude...but I would like to think the idea was fantastic. 

For those that didn't see it, imagine the same sort of cap in this latest rendering,  but with a Boulevard stretching from 12th Ave to Jefferson St. All of the interstate ramps were eliminated in favor of exits on each end of the cap. The roads would be 3-4 lanes, perhaps with a dedicated bus lane, and would be heavily landscaped or tree lined.

There would also be a mini-cap on the north end approaching Jefferson St.

[jmtunafish]

While watching a show on PBS tonight about 10 parks that changed America, I was awed by Seattle's Freeway Park.  After Interstate 5 was built through downtown Seattle, city leaders realized it was a colossal mistake.  So they had a park built on top of it right smack in the middle of downtown.  It's absolutely beautiful and adds much more value to downtown Seattle than a crummy freeway ever could.  If this is what you guys are talking about doing to I-40/65 through downtown Nashville, I'm all for it.

 

Edited April 13, 2016 by jmtunafish

[titanhog]

^^Pretty much...yes.

[markhollin]

Progress along Jefferson Street corridor:

10th and Jefferson Apartments, looking west along Jefferson:

 

10th and Jefferson Apartments looking southwest from Jefferson:

 

10th and Jefferson Apartments looking east from 10th and alley:

 

Glanton Law Offices building completed last year.  South side of Jefferson Street between 9th and 10th.

 

Glanton Law Offices building along Jefferson.  I like the curvature of the second and third floors.:

 

1821 Jefferson Street Apartments land prep.  South side of Jefferson near 12th Avenue. Meharry Hospital in the background to the south:

Edited April 13, 2016 by markhollin