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21 hours ago, bwithers1 said:

Most of the Envision  Cayce buildings will have residential units on the ground floor. Having residential units face the street does activate the street more than having screened parking podiums, for instance. If the units can have doorways facing the street, then that provides even more interaction along the street. At least as much as in the townhomes.

These buildings probably will have more street-level activation than the Eastside Heights building, which has taken many years to fill even a small amount of corner retail space. Vacant, papered-over retail spaces do not an activated street make.

The Cherry Bark Oak Apartments building (Boscobel IV) works around a champion heritage tree specimen and addresses a fairly steep north-south topographic change while providing  a lot of green space for trees lawns, which has been a major priority for the East Nashville community.  The trees themselves promote traffic calming and provide for a pleasant pedestrian experience along South 6th Street, which is a local street that is almost entirely residential or institutional in use.

For the most part, the Envision Cayce Master Plan calls for corner commercial spaces to  face the planned central green space to support smaller businesses in a much calmer and more enjoyable environment that is centrally located for campus residents rather than along an outside edge of the campus that doesn’t even border on another neighborhood. 

The west side of South 5th Street is likely to remain the home of the Fire Department/OEM/Rescue, DCSO, NDOT/Public Works and other utilitarian uses for our lifetimes. Residential and other dense infill on the west side of 5th is supported by the community plan, but these civic uses aren’t likely to move anytime soon.

Across Crutcher lies an NES substation. 

The proposed new East Bank bridge would lift at Crutcher and go over the river, so what remains of 5th from Crutcher to Davidson would likely not have retail activation for obvious reasons. A lot of that area south of Crutcher is also in the flood plain and retail cannot be constructed at grade level in a flood plain.

So South 5th Street is not necessarily going to support the a lot of ground-floor retail other than up at 5th/Shelby where the Envision Cayce Master Plan calls for more intense mixed uses including a grocery or a larger retailer that also offers groceries. On the other hand, adding the large number of housing units here is exactly what is required to support those targeted retail corners and mixed uses along the central green space and further up at the Shelby bike lanes and bus line.

As for Shelby House itself, the building on the corner is the actual Samaritan Recovery Community building for in-patient recovery services. They don’t necessarily need or want lots of people coming and going in and out of their lobby. But at the same time, this will not be a blank wall by any means.

A lot of the other Shelby House building faces will have residential units on the ground floor connecting to or close to the street. But the corner building is the recovery center itself.  Preliminary plans anticipated that the townhome units north of this building along South 5th Street going toward Fatherland would  be live-work units that may have ground-floor retail or office spaces with loft apartments above. Those plans are still in process. But in any event, this building will have more pedestrian interest than the 1960s Edgefield Manor cottages across the street.

And it will have nearly 375 affordable housing units including many deeply affordable units. That affordable housing need next to the East Bank is more important to Nashville’s future growth than creating just another  retail pocket that few of the thousands of affordable housing residents living nearby would likely be able to afford to patronize frequently anyway.

Appreciate the thoughtful response here Brett. I'm just happy that these aren't buildings where the ground floor is entirely parking garage (like 909 Flats on Rosa Parks).

Fully get that popping in random commercial units that will sit unused is worse than residential. One of the screenshots above has elevated, sheltered patios on the first floor overlooking the street - feels like that's a really strong use of ground-level residential. Other views are definitely less street-activated, but sounds from your reply that those are for valid reasons.

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6 hours ago, andywildman said:

Porter & Cahal will legitimately be one of the most walkable developments in Nashville by the time this is done.  I adore having mixed-use developments set back in neighborhoods, but this one is also surrounded by a ton of cool stuff.

Walkable to the Porter/Greenwood corner, to the elementary school, to the park, and it's along a bus line. It's within a mile from Stratford high school, a mile from Gallatin Pike (a top-3 bus route), will be walkable/bikeable to SLC's Diesel College redevelopment at Renraw (~1.2 miles), and it's a block off the Riverside Drive bike lanes. 

It’s definitely gonna be an awesome development! This is what more neighbors in Nashville should get! It’s a great mix of housing and neighborhood retail. Really can’t wait for this one. 

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