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[archilove]

23 hours ago, PillowTalk4 said:

Amazed that remnants of the signage for the Nashville Sporting Goods Co. is still there.   At one point that was the primary retail store in Nashville to buy all types of sporting equipment.  Are there plans for that building?  It would be nice to keep that section of Rosa Parks Blvd intact to provide a break from the modern towers going up in that area.

The building I would miss most is the three story brick next to Sporting Goods. It has style, especially on the inside, is 19th century, and has a great history. For some time it has been an upscale restaurant and if you ever eat in there you will fall in love with it. It was called The Townhouse Tea Room and currently is called The Standard.

[jjbradleyBrooklyn]

45 minutes ago, archilove said:

The building I would miss most is the three story brick next to Sporting Goods. It has style, especially on the inside, is 19th century, and has a great history. For some time it has been an upscale restaurant and if you ever eat in there you will fall in love with it. It was called The Townhouse Tea Room and currently is called The Standard.

Hoping Nashville has some sort of landmark process for buildings that are of strong historical value. If not, these will probably be razed for the highest bidder--sooner or later. Here in NYC, this issue is a constant. There is a tremendously huge amount of properties designated as landmark buildings, and can't be touched, but there are so so many that are not protected--and are constantly under threat of destruction. 

[Baronakim]

3 hours ago, bigeasy said:

@PostRuralrendering is popping up everywhere on my FB timeline! And this is from people not into development. One of the postings was on my Franklin neighborhood FB page

I added this  to several non UP posts to clarify to many now commenting the context of the graphic.   I thought folks should be aware that it is only a part of the whole development picture of Nashville.  Too many IMO would think this is a complete synopsis.  Therefore I added "This is ONLY illustrating the proposals in the core and down Broadway/ West End/ Church westward. This shows very little to nothing of the East Bank/ Germantown/ 4th Avenue S.proposed highrises. This graphic was made by PostRural, a friend on the Urban Planet Nashville site. There is at least as much red and teal NOT shown as there IS shown in these photos. Here is a typical new proposal on the hiil near the Fern Street overpass off Dickerson Pike. LOTS more like this proposed over there that are not shown on PostRural's graphic. This is just the tip of the iceburg folks."  Perhaps as a service to folks not on our forum, y'all could add a similar disclamer.  Congrats PostRural for creating a very informative post.

 

[bigeasy]

Someone on neighborhood page "fixed" one of the photos for a better future rendering lol

 

 

 

[donNdonelson2]

5 hours ago, archilove said:

The building I would miss most is the three story brick next to Sporting Goods. It has style, especially on the inside, is 19th century, and has a great history. For some time it has been an upscale restaurant and if you ever eat in there you will fall in love with it. It was called The Townhouse Tea Room and currently is called The Standard.

The building you speak of is the last remaining 19th century three story townhouse in downtown Nashville. I’ve been told that the first indoor bowling lanes in Nashville were in the basement of the ballroom addition at the rear of the original residential structure.

[PostRural]

14 hours ago, bigeasy said:

@PostRuralrendering is popping up everywhere on my FB timeline! And this is from people not into development. One of the postings was on my Franklin neighborhood FB page

 

13 hours ago, markhollin said:

Indeed...congrats PostRural.  I posted 4 of the proposed skyline renderings in a tweet on the Urban Planet Twitter feed a few days ago, and it is up to 153,000 views.   : )

 

13 hours ago, colemangaines said:

I've also seen it on Reddit, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Great publicity both for the city and for the board!

I did not expect all that to happen. Very Cool! Good on Mark to reach out and ask to post it on Twitter. I noticed the UrbanPlanner Twitter followers grew by over 50% this week! Kind of Crazy. I don't post a ton because I don't really have much to say. I'm just a guy who enjoys architecture and development and wants to learn more about it. There's a lot of knowledge and information on this board and I feel lucky to have access to that information. I'm sure the people that have those connections didn't get them over night. And because that information is shared I can have fun creating 3D maps. So thanks to everyone for sharing info here so I can learn and enjoy. Glad I could at least provide something, for once instead of just take free info. 

[markhollin]

7 hours ago, PostRural said:

I did not expect all that to happen. Very Cool! Good on Mark to reach out and ask to post it on Twitter. I noticed the UrbanPlanner Twitter followers grew by over 50% this week! Kind of Crazy. I don't post a ton because I don't really have much to say. I'm just a guy who enjoys architecture and development and wants to learn more about it. There's a lot of knowledge and information on this board and I feel lucky to have access to that information. I'm sure the people that have those connections didn't get them over night. And because that information is shared I can have fun creating 3D maps. So thanks to everyone for sharing info here so I can learn and enjoy. Glad I could at least provide something, for once instead of just take free info. 

Keep up the great work!  Looking forward to more of your creations.  : )

Courtesy of Music City Aerial:

[rolly]

22 hours ago, bigeasy said:

Someone on neighborhood page "fixed" one of the photos for a better future rendering lol

 

 

 

Is that a parking lot or a road?

[East Side Urbanite]

On 7/21/2022 at 5:03 AM, markhollin said:

TBT: West End Methodist Church at Broadway and 16th Ave. (circa 1890) around 1935. It was torn down in 1940 to make way for a car dealership.  Church relocated to new structure at 2200 West End Ave. which still active and stands today.
 

To think Nashville once offered a church of this grandness. This is a fine example of why I sometimes am envious of the Cincinnatis and Pittsburghs of this great country. Those cities offer such churches. Nashville doesn't. Sad.

[markhollin]

Looking NW from Encore:

[markhollin]

Noelle Hotel rooftop looking SE:

[markhollin]

Courtesy of musiccityproverb:
 

[markhollin]

Looking SW from I-24 at Spring St. off ramp. Have never seen Snodgrass Tower reflect sunlight that way before. 

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Nashville Current:

[smeagolsfree]

Well UP made the news!!!!!

Rendering shows Nashville skyline to look different in years to come (msn.com)

 

Way to go Jason!!!

[PostRural]

1 hour ago, smeagolsfree said:

Well UP made the news!!!!!

Rendering shows Nashville skyline to look different in years to come (msn.com)

 

Way to go Jason!!!

Thanks Smeags!

I mentioned and credited UrbanPlanet several times in the interview for doing tons of work to gather all this information and making it easy to find in one place. Unfortunately, it was all cut.

Thanks again for all the work you do here. 

[smeagolsfree]

It was mentioned in the article. 

I don't do a lot on here anymore. You guys run the show.

Thanks to Mark for posting the rendering!!! Thanks to you for the work you did!!

[markhollin]

TBT: Skyline from south, Jan 3, 1989:
 

[donNdonelson2]

Storms moving in from the southwest made for a dramatic image, as captured by one of Fox17’s webcams at 3:51pm. All of downtown enveloped in a deep, dark shadow providing for a silhouette of the skyline against the light of the northern sky.

Dramatically beautiful.

[titanhog]

Screenshot from Fox 17…you can see the new paint scheme on the UBS tower…as well as the AT&T building.  Also…looking at those old red brick buildings in front of the WKDF sign, the ones along the river…it would be awesome if someone built something similar looking from the outside in that big “gapped tooth” parking lot, but with new amenities on the inside.

 

[MLBrumby]

18 minutes ago, titanhog said:

Screenshot from Fox 17…you can see the new paint scheme on the UBS tower…as well as the AT&T building.  Also…looking at those old red brick buildings in front of the WKDF sign, the ones along the river…it would be awesome if someone built something similar looking from the outside in that big “gapped tooth” parking lot, but with new amenities on the inside.

 

That’s where I dream of a new maxwell house hotel of about 5-7 stories. Thoroughly ultra modern amenities and Italianate  and resembling the original on the outsides with perhaps sweeping verandas on the river side. 

[nashscan]

22 hours ago, markhollin said:

TBT: Skyline from south, Jan 3, 1989:
 

Something about this 1989 skyline.  The skyscrapers look like titans among the numerous smaller buildings below.   The old guard.  

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Hunterstorch:

[citywatcher]

1 hour ago, nashscan said:

Something about this 1989 skyline.  The skyscrapers look like titans among the numerous smaller buildings below.   The old guard.  

I wish the Dominion tower would use the lights that once graced the top of it...

[nashville born]

As much as I long for one or two towers to eclipse the height mark of Batman, it's still one of my favorite towers period.