The SoBro | 32 stories 345 ft | 3rd & Demonbreun

[Paramount747]

Thanks! I don't have to walk downtown tonight to look! This may start moving faster once they get a floor or two above ground.

[Paramount747]

Still see this being finished  December 2016

[Paramount747]

Rebar for caissons are now above street level. This could increase the speed of construction now. Over the next few weeks, this will start to tower over the street!.

[NashRugger]

Foundation pour underway right now.

[chris holman]

Yeah i drove by the site tonight it's finally started to rise!!!

[MLBrumby]

Cool!!! Pics please, for those of us who do not have an "office in the ATT tower". 

[volsfanwill]

I'm going to be looking to move come october, do yall think this will be done by then, and that Tony will let me live there at around $900 a month?

[FromParkAveToTN]

Cool!!! Pics please, for those of us who do not have an "office in the ATT tower". 

I literally laughed out loud.

[chris holman]

New rendering ,From the Chicago architects website http://www.magellandevelopment.com/portfolio/nashville-tennessee/

Edited June 17, 2015 by chris holman

[dmillsphoto]

[bhibbs]

thats going to be so imposing driving down Demonbreun towards 1st

[Vrtigo]

I don't know why exactly, but that rendering suddenly makes this building look very "South Beach".

 

I'll take it!

[NikOnder]

Has there been any news on the status of the diner? 

[Nashville Cliff]

What's with the giant, dead wall on the SoBro?

[chris holman]

That is a huge dead wall but I thought the diner took up about 6 floors of that side of the building,

[NashRugger]

What's with the giant, dead wall on the SoBro?

That's a placeholder for the diner. we're looking from the north-northwest towards the building. That corner is 2nd & Demonbreun. 

[MLBrumby]

Okay... I was thinking that this rendering was switched around from the actual way (reverse angle) it will sit on the property.  From previous drawings, I thought the top of the "S" would point toward Second Avenue and the bottom tip pointing toward Third Avenue, with the diner "wrapped" inside the lower loop of the "S".  This would have the narrow sides pointing toward the river and the west and the wide sides facing north/south.  

 

So if I understand the actual orientation, the "S" will be backward, with the tip of the "S" point north (toward Demonbreun) and the bottom of the backward "S" pointing south (toward KVB). So if correct, then there will be a wide side toward the river.  So in this rendering the street going from right to left is Demonbreun, right?

 

Also, I recall early renderings having lattice (openings) screens in front of the ten-level parking garage.  

 

Edited to correct adjacent streets. 

Edited June 17, 2015 by MLBrumby

[NashRugger]

Yep, because this building only touches one street corner, 2nd and Demonbreun.

[chris holman]

from today

[NikOnder]

Alright, we're above ground! 

[Nathan_in_DC]

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from today

 

The amount that this is going to stitch together the urban fabric here is going to be incredible. One less open, dead, parking lot to one more vibrant building that is a step closer to creating a canyon down 3rd and Demonbreun. 

 

That picture really just shows how dense this area is becoming!

[smeagolsfree]

Speaking of urban fabric, I am in Denver right now and this city is amazing. I thought Austin was way ahead of us but Denver is light years. Buried utilities, a light rail system, walkable neighborhoods, and they kept their historic buildings. That started in the 70's when they were about to tie down unsinkable Molly Browns house. Now you can tell the work they did then paid big dividends now.

John also called me last night and said we have about two years left onSoBro according to workers on site.

[CenterHill]

Huh? Tennessean print edition today has a large photo captioned "The Diner Rises" and shows a worker atop what I think is one of The SoBro concrete columns. The caption claims he is working on the 6-story diner. I was down there the other day and didn't see any activity at the Diner other than SoBro workers taking their lunch in the shade of the diner's one block wall. Has work resumed on the Diner or could the Tennessean possibly be mistaken?

[PruneTracy]

Huh? Tennessean print edition today has a large photo captioned "The Diner Rises" and shows a worker atop what I think is one of The SoBro concrete columns. The caption claims he is working on the 6-story diner. I was down there the other day and didn't see any activity at the Diner other than SoBro workers taking their lunch in the shade of the diner's one block wall. Has work resumed on the Diner or could the Tennessean possibly be mistaken?

 

The look from Google Street View implies it's active. The corner foundation is in. Of course, that was two months ago...

[smeagolsfree]

There were workers there today.