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On 1/28/2018 at 2:58 PM, MLBrumby said:

Good question. No doubt they're not run of the mill materials, and apparently of the highest quality available. I've been on campus a few times over the past year, and have seen the stonework being trucked to the site. So I'm guessing a lot is done offsite and the folks on the site most of the time are regular construction people. Brick, interior, p&p, etc.  Wonder if one of the architects here has any insight as to how many specialists are needed for things like that stonework, or the slate shingles. 

looking  at brick/stonework/windows/massive steel to support the slate roofing/metal work such as guttering these new VU buildings are extremely expensive.  they will be there a long time. of course their calculus on these things is different than it would be for the rest of us since they don't pay taxes.

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, markhollin said:

Very excited to hear that Nashville real estate developer Elmington Capital has secured full financing for its mixed-use development to be called Belcourt Village at 2111 Belcourt Ave. (directly across the street from Belcourt Theater) in Hillsboro Village.

 The four-story building will be located at 2111 Belcourt Ave., on a surface parking lot behind restaurants and retailers such as Hopdoddy Burger Bar and Altar'd State.

The building, likely to open in 2019, contains about 10,000 square feet of retail and about 22,000 square feet of office space, plus an internal parking garage. Vanderbilt Univ. Med Center is leasing part of the space for clinic and office space. There will be 28 residential units above the retail and office space. The company bought the property in 2016 for $8.3 million, including the retail spaces along 21st Avenue South.

This project, along with the nearly complete V21 and the now-underway Moxy Hotel development (both within a block and a half and both on previously vastly underutilized land), are are helping Hillsboro Village be even more vital than ever. 

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/02/23/nashville-developer-lands-loan-for-mixed.html


 

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 I'm excited about this development too.  I still see Hillsboro Village is the only truly walkable, full-service urban neighborhood in Nashville outside of the downtown loop, despite all of the impressive development we've seen over the years, so I welcome any development that will keep it fresh and progressing and on the forward edge of Nashville's neighborhood arsenal.

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V21 update (4 stories, 101 units, 22,000 sq. ft. of retail/restaurant, internal garage). Commercial spaces beginning to fill.

Work continues on foundation for Phase II.  Looking east from corner of 21st Ave. South and Wedgwood:

V21, Feb 11, 2018, 1.jpg

The Urban Juicer:

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V21, Feb 11, 2018, 4.jpg


Taco Mama getting close:

V21, Feb 11, 2018, 5.jpg

V21, Feb 11, 2018, 6.jpg


Work about to begin on Urban Outfitters:

V21, Feb 11, 2018, 7.jpg

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On 2/23/2018 at 4:38 PM, BnaBreaker said:

 I'm excited about this development too.  I still see Hillsboro Village is the only truly walkable, full-service urban neighborhood in Nashville outside of the downtown loop, despite all of the impressive development we've seen over the years, so I welcome any development that will keep it fresh and progressing and on the forward edge of Nashville's neighborhood arsenal.

This is a great topic, I wish there was a good place to look at a list of Nashville neighborhoods rated on walkability. Closest thing I've seen is walkscore.com but it doesn't have the neighborhoods quite right and it's missing some nuance around which areas have actual sidewalks/crosswalks with pedestrian traffic vs. ones that have lots of stuff nearby but everything is separated by 8-lane super-highways (Green Hills, say).  Off the top of my head the best candidates (top to bottom) would be:  Hillsboro Village, Germantown, Midtown, Music Row, 5 Points, and 12 South. There aren't that many with enough residential density. Maybe The Nations?

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6 minutes ago, AronG said:

This is a great topic, I wish there was a good place to look at a list of Nashville neighborhoods rated on walkability. Closest thing I've seen is walkscore.com but it doesn't have the neighborhoods quite right and it's missing some nuance around which areas have actual sidewalks/crosswalks with pedestrian traffic vs. ones that have lots of stuff nearby but everything is separated by 8-lane super-highways (Green Hills, say).  Off the top of my head the best candidates (top to bottom) would be:  Hillsboro Village, Germantown, Midtown, Music Row, 5 Points, and 12 South. There aren't that many with enough residential density. Maybe The Nations?

Sylvan Park would qualify,  I would think. If you include the metro area downtown Franklin may top them all. 

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1 hour ago, Pdt2f said:

Sylvan Park would qualify,  I would think. If you include the metro area downtown Franklin may top them all. 

I dunno, I'd put Sylvan Park more in the aspirational walkable-ish category. It's a great neighborhood and it's laid out on a nice grid with some commercial activity sprinkled around, but most of the streets don't have sidewalks and it doesn't really show any signs of the density that you need to put residents within a 5-10 minute walk (< .5 mile) of a variety of points of interest. When I'm over there it still seems like very few people walk from point A to point B. If they'd start allowing townhomes along Murphy Rd or on the blocks just south of Charlotte things could change quickly but from what I can tell the NIMBYs are winning that one.

Downtown Franklin is... funny to consider in this context. It's certainly walkable, but it has a weird vibe of, like, a disneyland Bedford Falls, where it's carefully managed to maintain an encapsulated, nostalgic take on an idealized small town from a bygone era. Which, different strokes for different folks, but to me it doesn't really compare to a vibrant, living neighborhood like Hillsboro Village or 5 Points.

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59 minutes ago, AronG said:

Downtown Franklin is... funny to consider in this context. It's certainly walkable, but it has a weird vibe of, like, a disneyland Bedford Falls, where it's carefully managed to maintain an encapsulated, nostalgic take on an idealized small town from a bygone era. Which, different strokes for different folks, but to me it doesn't really compare to a vibrant, living neighborhood like Hillsboro Village or 5 Points.

The externals of downtown Franklin have been preserved, so it’s nostalgic in that sense, but I think what the neighborhood actually contains is very similar to parts of Nashville. It’s got the same combination of newer high end (and sometimes overpriced) restaurants, independently owned shops and boutiques, chains, and old favorites that many neighborhoods in Nashville have. There’s a mix of old (mostly) and new (everything around the grain silo and St. Phillips, plus the new developments near Puckett’s Boat House) construction, and while downtown itself doesn’t have a huge population (although it’s not inconsequential), there’s probably 50,000 people who live within 10 minutes of it, which is par for a lot of Nashville’s neighborhoods. That being said, I see what you say about Franklin. I grew up in Willco and while it’s changed a lot since I was younger, some things haven’t and are just part of how downtown Franklin draws people in. People dig the nostalgia. 

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6 hours ago, markhollin said:

Looking south along Music Square West (17th Ave. South)at ASCAP Building from 4th level of garage at Division and 17th Ave. South:

 

ASCAP building from Division & 17th garage, Feb 21, 2018.jpg

We need a lot more office space on Music Row....that would help get music companies back and maybe even relieve downtown congestion a bit.

And again, where or what is Music Square?

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