Inside 440 - Berry Hill, Midtown, Vanderbilt, 12S, WeHo, Fairgrounds, etc.

[PaulChinetti]

First I've seen of these plans for the old Mrs Grissoms site at Bransford and Craighead.
 

 

[markhollin]

Music Row Villas (3 stories, 7 units) update: new renderings  on signage; footers poured; rebar rising.

Looking NW from 16th Ave. South,  1/3 block south of Horton Ave:

[Bos2Nash]

20 hours ago, PaulChinetti said:

First I've seen of these plans for the old Mrs Grissoms site at Bransford and Craighead.
 

 

Should expect this to change...

[smeagolsfree]

Here is the full image and site plan.

Project type: APARTMENTS
Status: PLANNING
Size: 4 STORY 303 UNITS
Price:
Opening Date:
Neighborhood: BERRY HILL
Developer: BROADSTONE ALLIANCE
Architect: DYNAMIK DESIGN

 

[PaulChinetti]

I wonder if/what they will do with that Coke railroad extension there. Even some kind of paving and sidewalks would be more desirable than the current miserable situation it is now. 

I bet residents won't like not being able to get to their home when the trains stops on the tracks and backs traffic up in all directions so that you can't even go around. 

[markhollin]

Pancho & Lefty's Cantina is going to relocate from their downtown space on 5th Ave., just south of Broadway, to the vacant slot formerly held by The Sutler at 2600 8th Ave. South.

More at NBJ here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2022/06/28/pancho-leftys-cantina-relocates-downtown-locati.html

[markhollin]

Third & Mildred Shute (3 stories, 64 units, ground level retail) update: some new stairwells/elevator shafts are rising on this very-slow-moving project.

Looking SW from intersection of Mildred Shute Ave. and 3rd Ave. South:

Looking north from 3rd Ave. South, 1/2 block north of Chestnut St:

[markhollin]

The 7 story mixed-use project that was planned for the empty lot at 2401 21st Ave. South (6 blocks south of Hillsboro Village) has been scrapped.

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/mixed-use-building-project-eyed-for-21st-avenue-scrapped/article_863ece8c-f718-11ec-aea4-976b17c670f5.html

[smeagolsfree]

Neighborhood pushback! The building was too tall.......OMG Get over it.

[PaulChinetti]

UGH, take your butt out to the suburbs if you don't want tall buildings. 

It's right on 21st and it's a corner lot!? What the hell. 

How can a not at all large building on a main corridor get submarined like this? Can planning not step in? That is crazy.

The more and more I see stuff like this, the more I want to ban any new SFHs inside the inner loop but also the 440 loop. 

Edited June 29, 2022 by PaulChinetti

[markhollin]

Music Row Apts. (7 stories, 105 units, ground level retail, underground garage) update: underground garage walls and more pillars forming.

Looking west from 16th AVe. South, 1/4 block south of Grand Ave:


 

[markhollin]

700 Hamilton (6 -7 stories, mixed-use) update: equipment on site.

Looking NE from Hamilton Ave., 1/4 block east of Fort Negley Blvd:

[markhollin]

Affordable Housing Resources announces the completion of 3 story, 24 one-bedroom condo project at 432 Murfreesboro Pike. All of the units are 465 sq.ft. 

More ta NBJ here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2022/06/30/ahr-affordables-ribbon-cutting.html?cx_testId=7&cx_testVariant=cx_23&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s


And here:

https://ahrhousing.org/condos-for-sale/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022.06.30 NASH&utm_term=NASHtoday Subscribers - MASTER

[markhollin]

The Finery (6 stories, 383 residential units, 416,000 sq. ft. of office/commercial space, internal garage) update: up to 5th floor in NE corner.

Looking SW from Gray St., 1/4 block west of Martin St:

Looking NW from Merritt Ave., 1/4 block west of Martin St:

Looking NE from Merritt Ave., 1/4 block east of Hagan St:

Looking north from Merritt Ave., 1/4 block east of Hagan St:

[markhollin]

1010 16th Ave. South (5 stories, 44 units, internal garage) update: starting to dig away limestone that faces16th Ave. South.

Looking east from 16th Ave. South, 1/2 block north of Tremont Ave:

[Nashvillain]

Nice article in the Scene detailing the transformation of 12South over the years. 

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/churches-go-last-an-influx-of-wealth-has-remade-12south/article_2ba309c8-f657-11ec-91f2-c3dc4c95dcec.html

[markhollin]

T3 (6 stories, 200,000 sq. ft. office space, ground lever retail, internal garage) update: eastern wall and more pillars rising.

Looking north from parking lot behind 1260 Martin, i1/3 block north of Merritt Ave:
 

[markhollin]

Vanderbilt Univ. Owen School of Management (5 story addition/renovation, 48,000 sq. ft. internal garage) update.

Looking  NW from 21st Ave. South, 1/2 block north of Scarritt Place:

Looking SW from intersection of 21st Ave. South and Grand Ave:

[Bos2Nash]

22 hours ago, markhollin said:

T3 (6 stories, 200,000 sq. ft. office space, ground lever retail, internal garage) update: eastern wall and more pillars rising.

Looking north from parking lot behind 1260 Martin, i1/3 block north of Merritt Ave:
 

Can't wait to start seeing the timber panels and columns rise on this one

[markhollin]

2125 8th Ave. South (4 stories mixed-use, underground garage) update: complete.

Looking SW from 8th Ave. South just north of Prentice Ave:

Looking west from 8th Ave. South at Prentice Ave:




Looking NW from 8th Ave. South just south of Prentice Ave:

[UrbanWes03]

14 hours ago, markhollin said:

2125 8th Ave. South (4 stories mixed-use, underground garage) update: complete.

Looking SW from 8th Ave. South just north of Prentice Ave:

Looking west from 8th Ave. South at Prentice Ave:




Looking NW from 8th Ave. South just south of Prentice Ave:

A big fan of this one. Addresses the street well and it’s approachable with a nice human scale. The angles and little commercial space are really nice as well. If only we allowed this kind of mixed use zoning to be more wide spread. We could have little unique nodes of activity in every corner of any neighborhood. I visited Seattle last month and they did that very well and was one of the biggest reasons I enjoyed it so much. I know they are more forward thinking with zoning than here but one can dream right? I have been happy with the amount of nice infill Nashville has been getting though so hopefully we are moving in the right direction. 

[markhollin]

Fairgrounds Block C/445 Park Commons (6-8 stories, 225 residential units, 11,000 sq. ft. ground level retail, 7,500 sq. ft. business incubator space, and 500 capacity garage) update: pillars rising; more core drilling:

Looking south from Benton Ave., between racetrack and GEODIS Park Stadium:

Looking east from Benton Ave. at GEODIS Park:

Looking south from Benton Ave. at GEODIS Park:

[markhollin]

2200 8th Ave. South (conversion of furniture store to Medici XD digital production) update: new first layer of skin.

Looking NE from 8th Ave. South, 1/4 block south of Prentice Ave:

Looking SE from intersection of 8th Ave. South and Prentice Ave:

 

[markhollin]

The Malvern (5 stories, 7 condos, internal garage)  update.

Looking SE from 17th Ave. South, 1/3 block north of Edgehill Ave:

Looking west from 16th Ave. South, 1/3 block north of Edgehill Ave:

[Bos2Nash]

On 7/3/2022 at 11:35 PM, UrbanWes03 said:

A big fan of this one. Addresses the street well and it’s approachable with a nice human scale. The angles and little commercial space are really nice as well. If only we allowed this kind of mixed use zoning to be more wide spread. We could have little unique nodes of activity in every corner of any neighborhood. I visited Seattle last month and they did that very well and was one of the biggest reasons I enjoyed it so much. I know they are more forward thinking with zoning than here but one can dream right? I have been happy with the amount of nice infill Nashville has been getting though so hopefully we are moving in the right direction. 

If I'm being honest, there are details on this building that just bother me. Like this one. 

I understand this is a stick frame building, so there are obvious structural limitations to the stacked box concept, but that just feels extremely clunky.

Addressing your comment about the mixed-use zoning policies. Nashville actually has them all over the place. Many of the main thoroughfares are even already zoned to do just this and developers just don't want to do it. Multi-family (Condos or Apartments), General Office, Restaurant/Retail are all permitted or permitted with conditions (which are fairly easy conditions) in all four of the Mixed-Use policies, most of the Office policies and most of the Commercial properties. I have stated it before, but building in Nashville is quite easy from a zoning policy standpoint, with some exceptions. The biggest issue right now is the inflation of land values. We talked briefly about this at the meet-up, but out of state developers are investing in Nashville because they are seeing a big return here. The problem is they view Nashville as an affordable city and a city in which they do not have to put alot of money into their project to make money. One example is the utter contempt to do below grade parking here even though some of the developers are coming from places like NYC where below grade parking is a given. Another example is the amount of stick frame that is used within the core. Yes stick frame is a solid economic use for construction, but there are serious drawbacks to it (and I'm not even referring to fire drawbacks).

Developers see that many of these smaller commercial slots sit empty for a long time and see them as a money losing situation. I'm sure they sit empty for a number of reasons like maybe the street isn't really built for storefront retail, but to me the big thing is rent costs. The land values are so high (and I am not complaining about them) that smaller retail cannot really afford to go in, and when they do they end up needing to charge high values to pay their rent. It is a catch-22 because people what these retail slots, but then complain about all the high-end or high cost retail/restaurants.