JW Marriott - 385' - 34 Floors

[rookzie]

First heavies are on site this morning:

 

And so it begins... 

...You at least could have given it it's final "rites". -==-

[Vrtigo]

...You at least could have given it it's final "rites". -==-

They're Methodist... They don't believe in that anyway. 

[smeagolsfree]

I suspect that the demo company may salvage materials form site for recycling. That may be why they are doing it this way, to take the metal and then the marble off instead of just a wrecking ball that would be much faster.

[rookzie]

I suspect that the demo company may salvage materials form site for recycling. That may be why they are doing it this way, to take the metal and then the marble off instead of just a wrecking ball that would be much faster.

I need to find that wrecking sub-contractor, to acquire some of those darker-colored panels at the ground level (either granite or terrazzo).
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Edited August 28, 2015 by rookzie

[smeagolsfree]

Its Demo Plus

[MidTenn1]

I saw on the Metro Planning project tracker where Turnberry applied to have this property subdivided into two properties. Not sure what to make of that.

[chris holman]

A little more info with a quote from Turnberry...

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/real-estate/2015/08/turnberry-pumps-brakes-on-office-tower-next-to.html

  if you read the last part of the article they said the JW Marriott will be the tallest building in Nashville once completed

 

 

[titanhog]

It will only be the tallest in the amount of floors (35)...but not height.  I would imagine this will only be between 400'-430'.

[MLBrumby]

JW Marriott Nashville will not be the tallest. Not a hotel with 35 floors and no crown. And after Buckingham Gulch gets built, this one will not even be able to claim highest number of floors. 

[titanhog]

Will they have to close down Demonbreun to demolish the UMPH?

[Paramount747]

I immediately corrected the author of the article. He had no idea what he was talking about and he thanked me for correcting him.

[chris holman]

From this morning

Edited August 30, 2015 by chris holman

[TNinVB]

Any idea how long the demo should take and when we should she the start of construction?

[MLBrumby]

Looks sad!  Anyone know the history of the buildings at that site.  It would appear that the lower (printing plant?) section is older than the "new" office building. I had heard somewhere that the "new" section was built in 1956... and it was one of the first privately built air-conditioned buildings in Nashville. If so, that would put it a just a year or two older than the L&C tower.

[chris holman]

I believe when it's all said and done the only thing  historic  left in Nashville will be Broadway and 2nd Avenue and parts of music row , the rate that the city is growing

[MLBrumby]

Hopefully the Capitol won't be touched by all this growth... IMHO one of the top five state capitols in architectural history, beauty and significance. 

[Nathan_in_DC]

Hopefully the Capitol won't be touched by all this growth... IMHO one of the top five state capitols in architectural history, beauty and significance. 

I've expressed this before. I really hope the state doesn't divest the green park-like space around the capitol building. It creates a pediment appropriate for our magnificent and extremely significant building (if Billy Strickland had anything to say about it, probably the most significant Greek Revival building in the country).

[rookzie]

I've expressed this before. I really hope the state doesn't divest the green park-like space around the capitol building. It creates a pediment appropriate for our magnificent and extremely significant building (if Billy Strickland had anything to say about it, probably the most significant Greek Revival building in the country).

Hate to say it, but I would not be surprised when I'm gone (you think?), that the state might even partially restructure its surface parking assets within the roughly quadrant-shaped land bordered by 9th Ave N. and 10th Circle (shared with TSU Avon Williams Campus).  The First Baptist Capitol Hill property won't be touched, since it was a "settlement", so to speak, for the condemning of the original church site at 8th and Charlotte back in the late '60s.  What I see is the state considering some higher-capacity re-use, as perhaps multi-level parking garages, or even some deal involving some multi-modal transportation project which has long yet to be conceived as a even a glimmer (maybe by 2041).  Even without it obstructing the overlook view from Capitol Hill toward the NW, I just cannot see the state not eventually mulling over a staged re-utilization of some fof that land ─ even the concept of working with the city to tunnel Jas. Rob Pkwy, south of Nelson Merry Street, and all the way to just north of Church St., thereby covering the existing canyon that channels Jas. Rob.  Just a wild-haired thought.  This is not green-space as is that east of Rosa Parks Blvd (8th Ave N.)
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[chris holman]

http://m.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2013/10/01/tearing-down-the-united-methodist-publishing-house-building-is-doing-the-city-a-favor

 

alot of people didn't like this building old article

[smeagolsfree]

http://m.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2013/10/01/tearing-down-the-united-methodist-publishing-house-building-is-doing-the-city-a-favor

 

alot of people didn't like this building old article

A lot of brutal nasty responses for sure.

[Paramount747]

Well Keeble, who did the L&C built the UMPH building, designed this 5 story classic. Most seem to forget the massive 1830's mansion that was on the site before the Keeble Building. I am shocked Hysteric Nashville on Facebook is not all over this one. They pick and choose their battles as well.

[Nashville Cliff]

Hopefully the Capitol won't be touched by all this growth... IMHO one of the top five state capitols in architectural history, beauty and significance. 

And those of our streetcar suburbs and older historic neighborhoods that had the forbearance to adopt historic or conservation overlays.

[Paramount747]

I woke din the building briefly, and too be honest, the building had lots of issues, especially the former printing plant which was used just for storage. They could have made cool lofts out of the red brick buildings, but the Keeble Building needed lots of work. Again, I wish they could have saved the building as well and converted it to something, but alas; the razing of 1-10 story buildings will continue. It seems it's only the large monoliths we save. I will be upset if the towers on the Lifeway site come down.

[evansnathan]

I didn't see this posted.. sorry if it has already been. 

I was doing my daily search for new construction cameras and saw that Turnberry has updated the rendering on their site.. 

http://www.turnberry.com/portfolio/new-developments/jw-marriott-nashville

Still showing the beautiful curved design but without the office tower. Fingers still crossed tightly that this is the final design. 

 

Edited September 29, 2015 by evansnathan

[TNinVB]

Haha is that the Buckingham tower looming in the background???