Inner Loop - CBD, Downtown, East Bank, Germantown, Gulch, Rutledge

[RonCamp]

Details on the Thompson Gulch construction timeline:

 

First Week of March-Fence /Permanent Road Closure on part of Pine Street
March 2015 – Erect Tower Crane
April 2015 – Road closure for utility work
August 2015 – Erect Material Hoist
October 2015 – Structure Top Out
November 2015 – Remove Tower Crane
February 2016 – Complete Exterior Skin on Tower
July 2016 – Substantial Completion
Projected Fall 2016 Opening

 

Unclear if "permanent road closure on part of Pine Street" means permanent forever, or permanent through the end of the construction project.  I hope the latter.  

[smeagolsfree]

Details on the Thompson Gulch construction timeline:

 

First Week of March-Fence /Permanent Road Closure on part of Pine Street

March 2015 – Erect Tower Crane

April 2015 – Road closure for utility work

August 2015 – Erect Material Hoist

October 2015 – Structure Top Out

November 2015 – Remove Tower Crane

February 2016 – Complete Exterior Skin on Tower

July 2016 – Substantial Completion

Projected Fall 2016 Opening

 

Unclear if "permanent road closure on part of Pine Street" means permanent forever, or permanent through the end of the construction project.  I hope the latter.  

I think just through the construction. This is going to play havoc with the downtown circuit bus for sure. Its whack-a-bus time again.

 

Thanks for posting!

[whatwhat]

We went there as a party of four for new years and even though they were running a limited menu they got three of the four orders wrong, or waitress seemed to be a bit of crack head, she even accidentally stuck her finger in one of our drinks when placing it on the table.  The food was only so so and service was unacceptable when you are spending over $500 for dinner.  We joked on the way there that we could just eat a CookOut because one in our party hadn't tried it, it turns out we'd have been better off doing that.   My friend who's idea it was to go there was so embarrassed he picked up the tab for the table.  

 

Awesome building though, really cool old school vibe, it made me want to like the place but I doubt I'll ever go back.  

[FromParkAveToTN]

I should be able to see the construction from my office in the AT&T building. I think I'm going to reserve a room for the opening weekend in this hotel.

[bigeasy]

Awesome! I really wish there was a way for companies to submit 3D designs to Google Maps. Would be cool to see what they would look like on Google Street View from different angles

[Vrtigo]

Awesome! I really wish there was a way for companies to submit 3D designs to Google Maps. Would be cool to see what they would look like on Google Street View from different angles

 

As it turns out, you can do exactly that! 

 

http://www.google.com/earth/learn/3dbuildings.html

[titanhog]

Wonder if this will have any effect on JWM building the office component with their hotel?

[BnaBreaker]

Wonder if this will have any effect on JWM building the office component with their hotel?

 

Oh I hope not...if this thing causes the demise of that stunningly gorgeous proposal...well...

 

[smeagolsfree]

Printers Alley hotel seeks height variance for 10 stories. This was in BZA agenda that I gave to WW.

 

This is better than hoped for here if approved. I know the plan and it should be cool.

 

https://www.nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2015/3/3/developer_seeks_approval_for_10_story_boutique_hotel

[smeagolsfree]

It is actually going to be apartments as reported first. The Tennessean is wrong.

[rookzie]

Unfortunately, if the reviews of the restaurant are to be believed, much of the blame for the loss of the building could be placed on the restaurant itself: looks like it's been pretty terrible for a long, long time. If this was a beloved institution that still served top-notch food and didn't crap on their customers, the odds are you'd have a bit of an uproar it its loss.

 

As it is though, it's only us historical and architecture buffs that are annoyed by it.

 

I think that that's why I consider the late Mario Ferrari a visionary, when he opened that thing as a restaurant back in 1979, just before I moved away from the 'ville shortly afterwards.  Even though he unloaded it, I give Mario credit for starting high-end cuisine joints which had been found primarily in mid-town. Typically he would open a business and sell it except for his namesake restaurant.  I think he himself had somewhat been intrigued with the carved limestone cattle heads on the rounded southeast corner of that structure, which surprisingly survived even back then, when Germantown was just warming up to rehab.

Basically the remains of a vast industrial wasteland, the Union Stock Yard office bldg, had been among a maze of RR tracks, the remains of the old Sulphur Dell stadium (razed in 1969), the produce center (where RR refrigerator cars would be staged along with the large ice blocks and tongs, before today's diesel-mechanical refrigeration became the norm), and the Nash Gas Co,, which had one of those giant framed floating balancing tanks known as a "gasometer" or "gasholder", which stood about a couple of hundred feet or higher.  Basically is was a gigantic open-bottom steel vessel that would float on water and would slowly rise or lower based on the amount of natural gas stored within the tank from a pumping source.  This thing would serve the entire city of Nashv'l.  That thing alone always had been an eyesore, even though it used to fascinate me to go downtown and see high low or how high that tank level might be at any point in time.

As I can recall, Mario's then "new"  Stock Yard Restaurant transcended all that filth by becoming perhaps the very first trendy attraction in the No.Capitol area, while much of everything else wholesale or non-consumer related industry was being dismantled.  Other than the restaurant itself, one of the few other vestiges remaining are those Riverfront Apartments-turned-condos nearby, which also had been built front the remains of the Nashv'l Gas Co. equipment sheds.  Little doubt that if Mario had held on to the Stock Yard, it likely would not be on the cutting block today, if his family would have had anything to do with it.

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Nashville Union Stock Yards – Hog and Sheep House (1960s and today)

 

Nashville Union Stock Yards – Offices, 1921

 

Nashville Gas Company – Floating GasHolder Towngas Storage Tank

 

Downtown – Facing NE – 1965 (my 1st year in high school)

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Edited March 7, 2015 by rookzie

[volsfanwill]

what is the year on that last picture?

[volsfanwill]

historic nashville had some pictures from inside the climax saloon and upstairs brothel the other day. very cool, abandoned for decades. 

[volsfanwill]

yes, most of the 3d buildings on google maps are user submitted.

[MidTenn1]

I had heard the City of Nashville hired someone several years ago to make 3d building models on Google Earth for most of the downtown area. That is why it looks like more like 2010. There have been a few additions, since but a lot of buildings are still un-modeled.

Edited March 4, 2015 by PHofKS

[chelovek]

what is the year on that last picture?

 

1965

[rookzie]

what is the year on that last picture?

 

1965

 

with so much haste, left off the key point. (sorry...so busy with that tank description)

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Edited March 4, 2015 by rookzie

[fieldmarshaldj]

I cringe at how many buildings were lost (willfully demolished) in that photo.

[MLBrumby]

The Sudekum Building and the National Life towers were the biggest crimes. Lots of "crimes" to be mentioned though... the Genesco Building... the public square... the First Baptist Church (to be replaced mockingly by a bland slab with its original steeple)... First American Bank.  Biggest crimes were those which fell for a parking lot. Tulane... too shame?

 

Noticed that the Tulane hotel was already gone by the time this pic was taken.  When did that fall?  !950s?  

[rookzie]

1959 or so...

[MLBrumby]

Now the Stockyard Building... and next the Centerstone HQ building, the two-story masonry building on Jefferson Street next door to Vista?  The article mentions that the buyer is attentive to reuse of old buildings; so it may not be demolished. Hopefully not! 

 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2015/03/03/developer-mainland-cos-strike-deal-buy-centerstones-germantown-hq/24351679/

[BnaBreaker]

Now the Stockyard Building... and next the Centerstone HQ building, the two-story masonry building on Jefferson Street next door to Vista?  The article mentions that the buyer is attentive to reuse of old buildings; so it may not be demolished. Hopefully not! 

 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2015/03/03/developer-mainland-cos-strike-deal-buy-centerstones-germantown-hq/24351679/

 

I sincerely hope not.  The balance between the old and the new is what makes Germantown special.  It just doesn't make sense to me.  If you had a beautiful building like that on a lot you just purchased, why wouldn't you put it to use? 

[donNdonelson2]

There is a historic easement on that Centerstone building on Jefferson. It cannot be demolished and all exterior alteration must be submitted for approval. (This info from Historic Nashville, Inc. via their Facebook post on the subject.)

[NashvilleNative]

Does anyone participating in this forum have any ideas or concerns about where people of low income will live in Nashville now that their hometown has become an "It City" affordable only to people involved in the type of real estate projects listed here? Or is concern for the poor beyond the scope of this forum and the "It City?" I've noticed on this forum that people who raise concerns about displacement are branded "Old Nashville" by newcomers.

Edited March 4, 2015 by NashvilleNative

[titanhog]

Does anyone participating in this forum have any ideas or concerns about where people of low income will live in Nashville now that their hometown has become an "It City" affordable only to people involved in the type of real estate projects listed here? Or is concern for the poor beyond the scope of this forum and the "It City?" I've noticed on this forum that people who raise concerns about displacement are branded "Old Nashville" by newcomers.

Most definitely there are areas that, at the least, once housed many middle-class tenants...but are quickly becoming areas for only people with substantial income.  I would imagine the only people who can live in those areas will be ones who can gain a subsidy of some type.

 

I personally don't know enough about these type of things to understand how you enable those with lower incomes to purchase or rent in areas like the Gulch or the CBD...but hopefully these areas won't be for elite earners only.