[805 Lea, 29 stories, 310', 356 residential units, 10,500 sq. ft. retail, 321 car garage]

10 hours ago, NashvilleObserver said:

An empty parking lot turned into a vibrant high-rise development and yet people are against it...

*sigh*

I'm not against it. I'm just rather tired of the same banal type design, especially the always-hideous "planter" base. Put that underground and let the tower portion rise from street level.

[Repurposed/revitalized historical buildings in Nashville]

^What happened to the sign ?

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

7 hours ago, donNdonelson2 said:

I don’t know why anybody would want to SIT at cafe seating along Broadway on any night or weekend (and many days in full blazing sun). The possibility of having your hot chicken dinner barffed on or some drunken hooligan falling in your lap makes the idea repugnant to me!

I'd think the exhaust fumes from the cars would be bad enough. *hack*cough*

[805 Lea, 29 stories, 310', 356 residential units, 10,500 sq. ft. retail, 321 car garage]

4 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

Rectangle box + square box + planter base.

*sigh*

[Federal Courthouse, 6 & 8 stories, 276,000 sq. ft.,]

6 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

New design for Federal Courthouse... https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/regions/southeast-sunbelt-4/buildingsfacilities/tennessee/new-nashville-us-courthouse

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/11/20/new-look-for-nearly-200m-downtown-courthouse-ahead.html

A 40 or 50-story skyscraper should go on this lot. Way too short and an underutilization of the property.

[Davidson East: East Nashville, Inglewood, Madison, Donelson, Hermitage, Old Hickory]

2 hours ago, markhollin said:

Stratos (3 stories, 45 units, plus retail) update.

Looking NW from intersection of E. Trinity Lane and Dozier Place:
 

A THREE-story building called "Stratos" ? Whut ?

[Margaritaville Hotel,12 stories, 145 ft., 215 rooms]

2 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

Not as butt ugly as this.

 

That's pretty bad, too. But really, I think of Margaritaville, I think of something tropical. Tropical like, say, Miami Beach. And what does Miami Beach have ? Lots of stunning Art Deco/Art Moderne architecture. I mean, you know if I were in charge of approving plans, I'd want our downtown lined with Nouveau Second Empire buildings with some Nouveau Art Deco/Moderne sprinkled in for contrast. Take some inspiration from MB, have a giant neon-lit pink pelican on one side of the building and a green neon-lit palm tree on the other.

[Margaritaville Hotel,12 stories, 145 ft., 215 rooms]

^That managed to go from mediocre late '60s design to just plain butt ugly.

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

^Should rue the day that went up, that helped to deliver the death blow to Hickory Hollow Mall and Antioch. As a lifelong resident, I can say without hesitation things were better in my neighborhood 30 years ago than they are today.

[Centric Hotel, 20 stories, 252 rooms, 8,000 s. ft. retail, March, 2019 start, C.B. Ragland, 200 Molloy St. (2nd Ave South & Molloy)]

18 hours ago, nashvillwill said:

That’s about the last thing I would want built in Nashville. What an eyesore. It looks like something drawn in a high school art class. 

That is more beautiful than about 90% of what's going up in Nashville these days. An excellent attempt at classical beauty. It looks like it could've gone up between 1920-1935.

[Rebirth of Downtown Chattanooga (2006 and on)]

^Wow, a 4th floor. Let's not go insane.

[Tru Hotel & Home2 Suites (Hilton bi-brand combo), 10-stories, 223 rooms, SE corner of 5th South & Peabody]

4 hours ago, Pdt2f said:

I can’t  imagine living directly above an Indian restaurant, I would end up weighing 600 lbs. It’d be like a monk living above a strop club, except the smell would be amazing. 

You'd end up smelling permanently of curry.

[Centric Hotel, 20 stories, 252 rooms, 8,000 s. ft. retail, March, 2019 start, C.B. Ragland, 200 Molloy St. (2nd Ave South & Molloy)]

5 hours ago, markhollin said:

Looking north from intersection of KVB and 3rd Ave. South.  This new hotel will hopefully cover up the blank white wall of the SoBro Tower parking garage.

Now, if something can be built to cover up the ugly Hyatt Place...

[The Dave Luna Urban Planet Forum Meet-Up (online, too), Sat. July 2nd, 10 AM to noon; The Copper Branch in Downtown Library]

5 hours ago, Predsboy18 said:

Parking is very tight due to a cheerleading contest at Municipal Auditorium!  I’d advise parking at the courthouse, Music City Central, or a side street with no meters. 

Those cheerleaders aren't as pretty as they used to be.

[Modera McGavock (formerly Hotel Broadway plan), 29 stories/325', 400 residential units, 16,000 sq. ft. restaurant/retail]

19 minutes ago, markhollin said:

Oh, my stars. I see where they get the inspiration for it...

I presume the rooms will each slide out and guests dropped into them ?

[Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs]

3 hours ago, Pdt2f said:

Is that really Nashville?!?! Looks like lower Manhattan or something. Are the buildings on the left and right with the columns still there? I’m having trouble thinking of what is currently at this intersection. 

The ones on the left (south side of Union at 3rd) are still there, but 3 square blocks along the north (right) side from 1st to 4th below Deaderick were all demolished in the 1960s/early '70s (and then all the way up to Legislative Plaza shortly after for TPAC). The block between 3rd and 4th was where the First American would go up, but the 2 blocks to 1st were made into parking lots for the Courthouse (now the park). A dreadful loss of 19th and early 20th century buildings (and then the entirety of the buildings surrounding the courthouse were demolished by 1974).

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

16 hours ago, Neigeville2 said:

This isn't an argument against this transit plan, it's an argument against having a government.  Governments need oversight, not griping and oversimplified ideological arguments, which is unfortunately a lot easier to do.

Nope, it's an argument against wasteful government spending. The one thing it has proven time and time again (be it federal, state or local) is how to get us trillions of dollars in debt, with little to nothing to show for it. To continue to pour money down a black hole and expect it will somehow be efficiently spent is ludicrous. If anyone in the private sector operated as the government did, they'd be out of business and in prison in short order.

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

2 hours ago, titanhog said:

^^That's a lot of zeroes.  

Wait 'til you see the ACTUAL costs.

[Davidson East: East Nashville, Inglewood, Madison, Donelson, Hermitage, Old Hickory]

15 hours ago, rootARCH said:

We were very encouraged that there were several "no's" in the room when we started and at the end of the night they turned into "yes's". It sounds like every business owner immediately around the site is now in favor of this concept? ( I might need to do some one on one conversations to confirm that) but we got a really nice call from the Eastside Smiles owner across the street and they love the idea that we are proposing. At the end of the night, the 5 spot guys were lobbying the angry(and very rude) neighbors who live 6-8 blocks down to get on board with the idea. WW is posting these pictures today so here they are. As of right now, the project will be reconsidered with the design team and we will go back to the drawing board to design a 3-story option that encompasses the site.

The two-story base is fine, but that... thing... sitting on top is like a turd in the punchbowl. If I were a neighbor, I wouldn't want to look at that either. Something classy should rise from the base.

[5th & Broadway | 501 Commerce | NMAAM | 34 story apt, 26 story office, + 183,000 sq. ft. of Retail]

6 hours ago, Pdt2f said:

It’s in the same category as In-n-Out to me, a super famous burger place that gets talked up like crazy by people (especially those who hail from the region where you can find the restaurant), but ends up just being a standard run-of-the-mill greasy 5 Guys twin. Not bad, just overrated. A good sign that they’re looking here, though, as you mentioned. 

Hey, I'm satisfied with just a Burger King.

[JW Marriott - 385' - 34 Floors]

33 minutes ago, donNdonelson2 said:

The Good, the Bad AND Ugly! (To slightly beotchize the Clint Eastwood flick title)

(I did NOT type “beotchize.” Does big brother digitally wash out our mouths with soap?)

Yup, they do. Ain't that a motherfluffer ?

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

11 hours ago, markhollin said:

Proposed downtown Nashville tunnel

Uses: Light rail and electric buses

Type: Double-rack

Projected cost: $936 million

Length: 1.8 miles

No way in hades is a 1.8 mile tunnel through limestone gonna cost just $936 million. That alone is going to cost billions.

[Soccer in Nashville]

10 hours ago, SoundScan said:

Citation needed.

Ordinarily, I'd give political examples, but I'll cite something that isn't and more relatable for everyone...

Ebay, for example, recently decided to change your ability to view 200 items from a given category and instead made it just 48 or 50. So instead of having to scroll through one or two pages to see a day's worth of items ending, you've now got to go through 8 or more. And no way to change it back. Complaints fell on deaf ears.

They also decided to change the feedback pages so that it's not only out of order of purchase, but you've got to go through every single item instead of having them neatly lined up in a row of 25 or more, meaning it takes 10 times as long to enter in feedback as it was before. There's more change for you.

My personal favorite was Google changing the way you viewed and utilized maps early last year from a great, easy and convenient way from launch. Now it's worse than ever to navigate, plan and just take a "stroll."

Some premier examples of change from "works just fine" to viscerally inconvenient, unneeded, unnecessary and lousy. To paraphrase a political slogan, "I'll keep my stuff, you keep the change."

[JW Marriott - 385' - 34 Floors]

8 hours ago, Hey_Hey said:

These buildings together can be called The Dichotomy.

How 'bout "The Lady and the Tramp" ?

[Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs]

11 hours ago, nashvylle said:

Wow. I thought it was Denver at first. 

Wilson County Mountain Majesty.