BROADWEST (former West End Summit), 36 story Conrad Hilton Hotel/condo tower, 22 story/510,000 sq. ft. office tower, 4 story/125,000 sq. ft. retail/office, 1 acre plaza, 2,500 car garage, $490 million

[dmillsphoto]

Great find dude... that's a great angle. Dated, though. Looking at those old mid-00's cars

[nashvylle]

beautiful-

I wish this design was used and being developed for the Omni hotel.

[chris holman]

I have a question, when they started digging the hole for this building wasn't it for the previus designme? Which, was a larger development meaning doesn't that required a deeper dig for more parking?

Sorry for the errors in my question im on my phone

I was trying to say previous design

[MLBrumby]

I have a question, when they started digging the hole for this building wasn't it for the previus designme? Which, was a larger development meaning doesn't that required a deeper dig for more parking?

Sorry for the errors in my question im on my phone

I was trying to say previous design

No construction engineer here, but I believe the foundation can be adjusted for the ultimate plan for this building. I'm not so sure that this building will be smaller than the original plan. With potential expansion requirements for these two very large tenants (committed up front to almost 500k sf) plus a hotel which will be around 220k sf, the ultimate size could very well be 900k... or more.

[bigeasy]

I really like the old design after seeing that picture from a different angle.

[Hey_Hey]

I was on 16th Ave N on the evening of the 17th and I heard what sounded like a generator running on the property. It was too dark to tell if they were pumping water, but that's what I hope was going on.

[Nathan_in_DC]

I was on 16th Ave N on the evening of the 17th and I heard what sounded like a generator running on the property. It was too dark to tell if they were pumping water, but that's what I hope was going on.

Maybe it'll be dry by the time I'm in town next weekend... I'm kind of curious what is on the bottom of that by now. Lots of dead things, I'd imagine.

[nashvillwill]

I do know they will be pumping water very soon, if not already. I was talking to my uncle, who's company has been contracted to pump the water out. It's a local company (VERY local, as in 2 blocks away) so it's good to see some dollars going into the local economy.

[smeagolsfree]

Talked to WW and he atalked to a Palmer official that said project will be underway by January. About three more weeks of draining the water.

Banner across old sign saying coming 2015

[MLBrumby]

Has Palmer announced that he is redesigning or reconfiguring the building? Several of the folks here have pointed out that the rendering from the latest announcements looked hastily patched together. I don't believe he has even publicly announced details of this project since the Parallon/SCRI news, has he?

[dmillsphoto]

Was on a mission but grabbed a couple snaps of the site and aforementioned banner.

[ariesjow]

Has there been any more rumblings about the hotel component of this project? I'm very curious to see where it will be placed.

[smeagolsfree]

All I have seen is on construction wire is that Intercontinental is planning a 325 room hotel. That was ASP first hotel in the old WES. I think it is fair to say that they are still considered a player. Now, I am speculating that they are going to have to redesign the towers to accomadate a larger commercial square footage. With that being said the tower could go higher, fatter, or there could be a third companant to the project. I had heard a long time ago that ASP had the option on the lot across the street that the Shell sits on. I do not know how reliable that is.

Then again, nothing could change and everything will be the same, but I doubt it. I am betting on a redesign.

[bwithers1]

There is an ordinance being introduced on first reading at the next Metro Council meeting (11/13) that describes what I interpret to be something like a sale-leaseback transaction for the WES site. If I interpret it correctly, the ordinance would approve having the Industrial Development Board own the land, with the WES development making Paments In Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) to the industrial board. I could be wrong about the IDB owning the land in the proposal, but I'm not familiar with these types of deals.

There is some discussion in the ordinance that there might be a hotel added to the property that is not currently in the two proposed towers. The ordinance cites the cost of the development to be $265M and the goes into a lot of detail regarding the anticipated creation of jobs.

This might totally be old news, but it was interesting to see. You don't see that for all developments, for sure. The ordinance is BL2012-297.

http://www.nashville.gov/mc/ordinances/term_2011_2015/bl2012_297.htm

Edited November 5, 2012 by bwithers1

[dmillsphoto]

Not really news, but news.

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/morning_call/2012/11/little-opposition-expected-to-metros.html

[barakat]

Found some updated plans for WES. The office portions are labeled office towers 1 and 2, AND there's what looks to be a third building labeled hotel between the office buildings. That can be seen on page 03.

https://www.google.c...76VaJOQ&cad=rja

After studying these a bit, it appears maybe both office towers now have the same size floorplates, and 20 floors each. Just a guess. Also, the rendering on page 00 is definitely new and more refined that previous ones, I think.

Edited November 24, 2012 by barakat

[smeagolsfree]

I have been wondering about the hotel portion. I have been seeing information on a 325 room Intercon. hotel as part of this project. Would make sense to have hotel in the middle. Guess we will have to wiat and see what the final renderings look like.

[franktown]

Great find!

[e-dub]

mannnnnn i can't wait until this one starts rising!

eric b

[MidTenn1]

Looks like the taller building will rise 311 feet from the sidewalk and the other will rise 298 feet. It's hard to read the elevations on sheet 16 and 18, but the sidewalk appears to be at 514' (above sea level) with the crown rising to 825' (asl) and 824.5 (asl) minus 526.5 (asl) on the other.

[timmay143]

So three towers now? I wonder how high the hotel will rise? Can't wait to see!

What about the back of this thing? Is it important to activate this area as well? What do you guys think?

[dmillsphoto]

Tim - yeah, definitely important to activate Hayes St. It's not an alleyway. It deserves to be active.

[ariesjow]

Very intriguing with the hotel tower over the garage. I had no idea another tower could fit on the site. I also really hope to see the Hayes Street side activated.

Edited November 24, 2012 by ariesjow

[timmay143]

Yeah, obviously we want as much activation as possible, just wondering what everyone else thought or knew about the plans. Hadn't thought about it much either until I checked out the drawings. Hopefully something will be done.

[barakat]

I'm guessing the hotel with either look like a shorter version of previous Intercontinental where office tower 2 is now planned, or it will have a generally more benign design, letting the office towers have more of an 'edge' with their twin mohawks.