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[BnaBreaker]

You're the man Smeags!

Edited December 14, 2013 by BnaBreaker

[UTgrad09]

Thanks Ron!

 

The ones I couldn't figure out were 1515 Demonbreun, Midtown Hills Precinct, and The Next Door.

[Paramount747]

Great pictures! Thanks for posting!

[MidTenn1]

_{A screen cap from the Bravo TV show, The Tankards. (Number two rated cable TV show).}

 

_{This view shows all of the Nashville urban core from Mid town to SoBro and more.}

 

_{This shows how Nashville's skyline is much more than a cluster of high rises downtown. It is a 40 block long east/west skyline and stretching 10 blocks north and south.}

[RandomHero]

_{A screen cap from the Bravo TV show, The Tankards. (Number two rated cable TV show).}

 

_{This view shows all of the Nashville urban core from Mid town to SoBro and more.}

 

_{This shows how Nashville's skyline is much more than a cluster of high rises downtown. It is a 40 block long east/west skyline and stretching 10 blocks north and south.}

 

Great shot. What in the world is a Tankard?

[ariesjow]

That's an awesome angle of Nashville! I wish it was a higher quality photo instead of a TV screen shot. 

 

The reality show is actually called Thicker Than Water:The Tankards and I believe they are based in Murfreesboro. According to his wiki, Ben Tankard is a former pro basketball player turned gospel/jazz musician. I know many are not a fan of these reality shows about Nashville, but at least this one isn't inspired by the country music industry and shows a different side of metro Nashville. 

Edited January 7, 2014 by ariesjow

[UTgrad09]

Some crappy drive by/stopped in traffic pics:

 

The Melrose

 

8th Ave with 2300 in the distance, and the car dealership where the new ~350 unit apartment proposal in the midground, and a commercial strip that I could see getting redeveloped as the 8th Ave corridor gets hot.

 

Closeup of the car dealership site.

 

12th and Laurel (floor 21 if I count correctly?)

 

Railroad underpasses on the North Gulch site.

 

North Gulch "triangle" looking towards the snuff factory.

 

Closeup of the factory.

 

 

5th and Garfield

 

5th and Hume

 

Luxus

 

12th and Laurel from Church St. Imagine if a nice park or plaza covered the tangled mess of the interstate right there.

[MLBrumby]

I really like the Luxus.  Thanks for the pics.  I never saw that snuff factory close enough to notice how nice and Deco its lines are.  It's actually a handsome building.  I'm guessing 1940s industrial?  

 

I fear that Boyle is going to botch the NorGu (hmmm, maybe not!) site.  That tunnel looks like it could be somewhere in Hickman county on a forgotten country road (ok, without the sidewalks perhaps).  I hope I'm wrong, but I won't be surprised to see low-rise suburgatory with cheap materials. 

Edited January 11, 2014 by MLBrumby

[CenterHill]

Thanks for the pics.

Wish they'd go ahead and finish the corner unit at 5th and Garfield, put landscaping in, etc.

Luxus is looking great. Gives some serious gravitas to that corner.

[smeagolsfree]

Thanks for the pix Kevin. I walk a lot in the north gulch and have been in the rr tunnel. They are very cool. A lot will happen in 2014 for sure.

On a related note at the NW Mutual site, there was more core drilling equipment there yesterday.

[bigeasy]

Please forgive my ignorance and withhold the laughs. I should probably go back to Urbanplanet 101, but what exactly is core drilling? I always read it on here and until now I never realized that I don't actually know the purpose behind it.

Edited January 12, 2014 by bigeasy

[nashvillwill]

^^^well, I'm no expert on the subject, but this is what I've always understood about it. A "core drill" is a technique of drilling with a hollow bit on a planned construction site. The resulting "core sample" is a cylindrical shaped sample of the actual earth and geological conditions of the site. Taking multiple cores from a site gives a real world picture of the varying densities of earth and bedrock at the site. This helps engineers to plan structural design and excavation techniques.

There are probably other things it helps to determine, which I'm not aware of, like water table line, environmentally sensitive zones and the chance of historical significance (although I'm sure the later is not the point of core samples).

[volsfanwill]

NorGu,   haha that really got me laughing 

[NashRugger]

I really like the Luxus.  Thanks for the pics.  I never saw that snuff factory close enough to notice how nice and Deco its lines are.  It's actually a handsome building.  I'm guessing 1940s industrial?  

 

I fear that Boyle is going to botch the NorGu (hmmm, maybe not!) site.  That tunnel looks like it could be somewhere in Hickman county on a forgotten country road (ok, without the sidewalks perhaps).  I hope I'm wrong, but I won't be surprised to see low-rise suburgatory with cheap materials. 

Oh no, NorGu ain't going to happen like fetch in the movie "Mean Girls."

[nashvillwill]

For your viewing pleasure...

 

CRANES!!!

 

 

 

 

In the foreground is the tower base for Gulch Crossings

behind that is 1212

beyond that is 1505 Demombreun

 

Lots of site work going on at Gulch Crossings. This will happen quick.

 

[FrankNash]

By my count their could be as many as 13 cranes by the first of 2015! 1515,1212,Gulch crossing,HCA and North Gulch,SoBro,Westin,Hilton Garden Inn,Buckingham and maybe one or two in Germantown. Right?

[Paramount747]

NIce pic! Thanks for posting!

[dmillsphoto]

By my count their could be as many as 13 cranes by the first of 2015! 1515,1212,Gulch crossing,HCA and North Gulch,SoBro,Westin,Hilton Garden Inn,Buckingham and maybe one or two in Germantown. Right?

 

1212 Will be down within a month, more than likely. But yes... there is certainly potential to have quite a few cranes, and larger projects like Buckingham & 1515 will probably require two, maybe even three at a time.

[East Side Urbanite]

 

For your viewing pleasure...

 

CRANES!!!

 

 

 

 

In the foreground is the tower base for Gulch Crossings

behind that is 1212

beyond that is 1505 Demombreun

 

Lots of site work going on at Gulch Crossings. This will happen quick.

 

Nice photo, NVWill

 

WW

[TMcKay9]

Ready for service!

 

[bigeasy]

I haven't been downtown in probably 2 months, and after seeing that photo 1212 sure dominates the area!! I didn't realize that had that many floors completed.

[BnaBreaker]

Final take by treyandre, on Flickr

 

Downtown Nashville Music Center Center by Chrissie H., on Flickr

[MidTenn1]

Took a walk downtown today across the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge (soon to be re-named John Seigenthaler Bridge?) on a beautiful spring day….

 

 

A lot of people were enjoying the weather…

 

 

Looking up Broadway through the ‘Ghost Ballet’ which I’ve warmed up to considerably as public art….

 

 

The Hyatt, Encore, Pinnacle staircase. Hopefully to be broken up soon with the 33 story SoBro…

 

 

Reflections in the façade of the Pinnacle Tower….

 

 

 

Looking up the 2^nd Avenue part of the downtown entertainment district which stretches from Hooters to Joes Crab Shack. There’s some sort of story in that.

 

 

The Bridge…

 

 

[bwithers1]

Does anyone know what is going on Rosa Parks right across from Crest Cadillac in MetroCenter?  When I bought my car from Crest Honda last fall, there was construction going on at that site.  I went in for an oil change this morning and there is still construction going on.  Apparently not much progress has been made.

[smeagolsfree]

Whatever it is, it has been under construction for about 8 months. Work seemingly started and then stop and then started again and is going painfully slow.