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[RON-E]

ugh, no!

malls are bad enough, a downtown mall, even worse. i think they should cut their losses, let the cc fill it up with junk, and build some low rise (2 or 3 stories) structures there that front all the way up to the sidewalk. no parking in front, and consider it dense infill

[skybolt900]

Too bad they cannot rebuild the Corinthian Lodge that was torn down for nothing!

[jice]

Whatever gets built there.. I hope it improves the pedestrian situation.. that intersection is a little scary on foot.

[dmillsphoto]

Just because....

I think I saw a large catfish flip me off when I took this,,,



Yet the billboard remains.

[Nashville_maestro]

Oh man! What are they gonna do about all of that? Is this project still on the boards or has Palmer officially pulled the plug on it? Either way, he'll need to pull the plug on that oversized bathtub to drain the water (that doesn't look too far away from flooding the streets).

Lol that sign has been up so long that it's black and white from sun-fading.

[jice]

The Tennessean has a great picture of "Lake Palmer" today.. also included in this article is talk about the Double-A development in East Nash, 5th and Main, and a subdivision in Antioch

Delayed projects create eyesores, safety concerns

Palmer had this to say about WES:

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"I don't like it either," the developer of the West End Summit said of his sizable Midtown hole. "But what I'm trying to do is something nice for the city."

Palmer, whose $310 million project has not violated any codes, said he is working to find financing and could bring in an outside investor.

"Nothing has really changed," he said of the development, where construction stopped more than a year ago.

[timmay143]

Oh man, he keeps on teasing us like we really believe this is geting built anytime soon.  I would love to see this go up, as it would connect West End/Midtown/Gulch/Music Row/Downtown much better.  However, with the state of the condo market and the economy still recovering or in the dip I don't see this thing getting built soon.  Maybe the new CC will spur some development, but we can only hope it influences buildings like this and Sig to get built.

As much as I like to see this get built, I wish developers would focus on more affordable housing in the downtown area.  As we see with the struggling condo market, the area is now flooded and doing poorly.  We need to focus on "smaller" things we can do to improve the urban fabric.  Such as small steps to improve transport options, improving the neighborhoods and areas with parks, accessible walking areas, biking areas, improve street scapes (yay riverfront development and boo transmission lines), a good mix of commercial store fronts and affordable living areas, connectivity between neighborhoods, improved schools, etc.

Edited by timmay143, 15 June 2009 - 11:11 AM.

[dchunter]

timmay143, on Jun 15 2009, 12:05 PM, said:

... We need to focus on "smaller" things we can do to improve the urban fabric. ...

Like getting rid of the drunks, bums and panhandlers that hassle me every time I walk through downtown.  I donate money to a homeless shelter in Atlanta in hopes of luring them away from Nashville.

[GaTechGuy]

dchunter, on Jun 15 2009, 05:28 PM, said:

Like getting rid of the drunks, bums and panhandlers that hassle me every time I walk through downtown.  I donate money to a homeless shelter in Atlanta in hopes of luring them away from Nashville.

Haha... don't send them our way. We have enough here as it is. Here in Atlanta they have these meters on the downtown sidewalks that have signs that say something like: "Do not encourage panhandlers, if you'd like to make a donation to help homelessness please donate your spare change here." They've put them in the worst areas for panhandling. The meters securely collect the change and then it's doled out to local shelters. I think it's a good idea for any city to have these "panhandler meters." Anyway, this is off topic...

[samsonh]

timmay143, on Jun 15 2009, 01:05 PM, said:

Oh man, he keeps on teasing us like we really believe this is geting built anytime soon.  I would love to see this go up, as it would connect West End/Midtown/Gulch/Music Row/Downtown much better.  However, with the state of the condo market and the economy still recovering or in the dip I don't see this thing getting built soon.  Maybe the new CC will spur some development, but we can only hope it influences buildings like this and Sig to get built.

As much as I like to see this get built, I wish developers would focus on more affordable housing in the downtown area.  As we see with the struggling condo market, the area is now flooded and doing poorly. We need to focus on "smaller" things we can do to improve the urban fabric.  Such as small steps to improve transport options, improving the neighborhoods and areas with parks, accessible walking areas, biking areas, improve street scapes (yay riverfront development and boo transmission lines), a good mix of commercial store fronts and affordable living areas, connectivity between neighborhoods, improved schools, etc.

I hope you see how the bolded parts above will fix themselves without any help

[jice]

Check out this fairly new CMT billboard I saw the other day.. at the West End & Broadway split..





I borrowed the pic of it from Richard's blog site.. hope he doesnt mind!

[MTSUBlueraider86]

That's pretty funny. www.granthammond.com has a fake postcard called "Visit Lake Palmer Nashville..."

Its a shame this property has looked like this now for almost 4 years and its shameful the city has done nothing to make Mr. Palmer fill in the hole and make it look respectable. I thought they should turn this lot into satellite parking for Vanderbilt or Baptist Hospital and landscape it. A surface lot with landscaping would look so much better than this.

You could even arrange for the downtown circulator to pick people up from this lot for events downtown.

BR86

[East Side Urbanite]

MTSUBlueraider86, on 20 October 2010 - 07:46 PM, said:

That's pretty funny. www.granthammond.com has a fake postcard called "Visit Lake Palmer Nashville..."

Its a shame this property has looked like this now for almost 4 years and its shameful the city has done nothing to make Mr. Palmer fill in the hole and make it look respectable. I thought they should turn this lot into satellite parking for Vanderbilt or Baptist Hospital and landscape it. A surface lot with landscaping would look so much better than this.

You could even arrange for the downtown circulator to pick people up from this lot for events downtown.

BR86








Actually, I might disagree with the BR86 point that a surface lot with landscaping would look so much better than the big hole. I would say a surface lot would serve a function, but what would be essentially a used car lot would be as big an eyesore as a hole. In short, I detest visible surface parking lots -- with cars or without. I realize we need them, but ideally, they would all be concealed or discretely place.


WW/ESU

[timmay143]

Haha, I lol when I saw that sign!

[CandyAisles]

timmay143, on 03 November 2010 - 01:39 PM, said:

Haha, I lol when I saw that sign!

Here are some other ideas on what to do with it.

FAD post

[nashbill]

I've seen things like this happen in other cities. There is a hole in Charlotte that a Ritz Carlton (not the one downtown) with a Saks 5th Ave was going to be built. It has been a hole for quite some time.  I wonder if a city could get a "security deposit" for lack of a better word for projects like this.  Money returned after project completion. The money would be used to at least fill the hole up and plant grass.  Is something like that even legal?

[timmay143]

Haha, nice CA.  My favorite was the water slides!

[MTSUBlueraider86]

I do wonder how long the city will allow this to be undeveloped. I guess they have no choice but something has to be done to this dead area.

BR86

[smeagolsfree]

West End Summit not dead yet.
http://www.tennessea... developer says

[nashville_bound]

Funny John and I were discussing this project via phone just yesterday...

IMO this was a great article.

He was forthright in his opinions and stated the conditions under which construction would commence. He owns the land and has no reason to blow smoke unless it is to reassure the existing signers of a letter of intent.

Great news for this Christmas season...