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

[nashvylle]

25 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

So A-B announced an additional 200 employees at their Nashville HQ... for (what is it now) 1200 employees. I hope they anticipated this when they decided to go shorter and squatty. 

also remember the developers decided to go short and squatty. A-B came after all plans were approved / funding was secured.

[downtownresident]

From @markhollin's image, it looks like we have at least one more floor to go. Seems that the model might not be to far off:

 

[Native]

26 minutes ago, downtownresident said:

From @markhollin's image, it looks like we have at least one more floor to go. Seems that the model might not be to far off:

 

From the drawing, it appears that may be the portion that has the A-B logo on it.  Or it could be another floor.  Here is a view today from the other side.

 

[MLBrumby]

Short and stubby... but it's all right. "The Place" (gawd, I had that name) is more architecturally significant, but barely. This makes for great infill for that corner in downtown. No one will notice above the third floor. 

[downtownresident]

8 minutes ago, Native said:

From the drawing, it appears that may be the portion that has the A-B logo on it.  Or it could be another floor.  Here is a view today from the other side.

 

I was thinking mechanical floor+logo. 

[MLBrumby]

I find it comical that the Nashville media never seem to get the number of floors of any building accurately.  Apparently, they're the same 'small big town' news anchors/reporters who did news back when I lived there. I even see them... a lot grayer... more wrinkled (albeit with Botox). However, I think Chris Clark has retired. And Demetria Kalodemos was kicked out the door. Slowwwwwwww turnover. 

[CenterHill]

1 hour ago, downtownresident said:

From @markhollin's image, it looks like we have at least one more floor to go. Seems that the model might not be to far off:

 

Comparing to the post-AllianceBernstein renderings, the protruding columns circled in the above photo will anchor the mechanical screen and logo.     If the rendering is accurate, the mechanical screen will be the equivalent of another one story and will cover about 3/4 of the rooftop.   

[CenterHill]

Philadelphia coffee shop set for big downtown project  

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/01/14/exclusive-philadelphia-coffee-shop-set-for-big.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

A Philadelphia-based coffee shop inspired by Japanese culture is heading to Music City.

Elixr Coffee Roasters confirmed to the Business Journal that the company will open a location in the forthcoming Fifth + Broadway mixed-use development.

Elixr is owned and run by business partners and brothers-in-law Evan Inatome and Winston Justice. This will be Elixr’s first coffee shop outside the Philadelphia area, where the company will soon open a fifth location.

Justice, a former NFL player and current financial adviser with Bernstein Private Wealth Management, said Inatome is the “brains behind the operation.” Justice joined AllianceBernstein's Nashville team in October.

 

The NBJ article is from today, but inexplicably uses an outdated image of the 5th & Broad project (outdated by several years - almost everything in the rendering has changed).   

Edited January 15, 2020 by CenterHill

[OnePointEast]

On 1/6/2020 at 11:53 PM, OnePointEast said:

I believe the reason why so much steel was delivered was due to part of the tower(majority) still has three or four? floors to go? The final two were erected on the shorter side, but the taller side has a few floors on top of the final two floors that aren't yet installed.

That's what I thought and posted a while back, too.

[Native]

22 hours ago, CenterHill said:

Comparing to the post-AllianceBernstein renderings, the protruding columns circled in the above photo will anchor the mechanical screen and logo.     If the rendering is accurate, the mechanical screen will be the equivalent of another one story and will cover about 3/4 of the rooftop.   

I think CenterHill has it right.  And I noticed in this rendering that the stair step panels on the garage are also being used on the side facing Broadway.  Not sure that was in the original drawing or at least it was not as obvious.

[Mike G]

Not sure why the 2 light color panels have the thick side to the left and the thin side right, while the two darker sets are opposite. I hate the gaps between the colors- but maybe it'll be fine with all the panels in there. 

[Native]

Mike G has a sharp eye.  I wonder if that is why they quit installing a few days ago.  We'll know when some of the panels start to come down.

12 hours ago, Mike G said:

Not sure why the 2 light color panels have the thick side to the left and the thin side right, while the two darker sets are opposite. I hate the gaps between the colors- but maybe it'll be fine with all the panels in there. 

 

[Jarno]

On 1/14/2020 at 5:27 PM, MLBrumby said:

I find it comical that the Nashville media never seem to get the number of floors of any building accurately.  Apparently, they're the same 'small big town' news anchors/reporters who did news back when I lived there. I even see them... a lot grayer... more wrinkled (albeit with Botox). However, I think Chris Clark has retired. And Demetria Kalodemos was kicked out the door. Slowwwwwwww turnover. 

Chris Clark did retire 12 years ago and Demetria left about 3 years ago.  But the new ones still are very inaccurate on what is going on a lot of times.

[erdichia]

I feel like they keep adding floors to the office tower...... I think they just started floor 27 of the 26 story tower.

[Bos2Nash]

18 hours ago, Mike G said:

Not sure why the 2 light color panels have the thick side to the left and the thin side right, while the two darker sets are opposite. I hate the gaps between the colors- but maybe it'll be fine with all the panels in there. 

5 hours ago, Native said:

Mike G has a sharp eye.  I wonder if that is why they quit installing a few days ago.  We'll know when some of the panels start to come down.

This is possibly intentional. If you look closely, the slight gaps where the changes occur are at color changes as well. I bet this will create a form of illusion when completed. 

Also the construction process would never allow these panels to start going up without approval of layout from the designer. If approval wasn't given, that is a big screw up by the contractor and opens them to a ton of liability.

 

[smeagolsfree]

5 hours ago, Jarno said:

Chris Clark did retire 12 years ago and Demetria left about 3 years ago.  But the new ones still are very inaccurate on what is going on a lot of times.

Most of the new local television media is not very accurate. They can't pronounce street names right, misquote people, and for that matter a lot of them come off as complete idiots many times. I watch, and want to throw something at my TV when they get stuff wrong.

[Native]

On 1/16/2020 at 3:03 PM, Bos2Nash said:

This is possibly intentional. If you look closely, the slight gaps where the changes occur are at color changes as well. I bet this will create a form of illusion when completed. 

Also the construction process would never allow these panels to start going up without approval of layout from the designer. If approval wasn't given, that is a big screw up by the contractor and opens them to a ton of liability.

 

Bos2Nash is probably right but I noticed yesterday they have stopped installing and the scaffold was up for a while but taken down later.  We'll see.

[deletethisaccount]

[Native]

They have removed some of the panels that were installed improperly, but a few still remain.  It appears that when they are finished the odd gaps will no longer exist.  The top photo was taken today and the bottom was a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Native]

OK, this picture confirms they are removing the panels.  Only thing I can figure is that someone looked at it and said it was not going to work or maybe just looked bad.  The screen shot of a rendering below seems to confirm the odd look, but I am just speculating.

 

[Bos2Nash]

And for this reason is why we see mock ups on construction sites for different skin materials. These sorts of things get worked out on small scale prior to building install

[chris holman]

On 1/23/2020 at 1:58 PM, nativenashville said:

Wish they could have extended the glass wall above the top portion of The Place, it would have been a cleaner look to the building 

[downtownresident]

Good riddance to those panels. They looked terrible, imo. 

[Native]

17 hours ago, downtownresident said:

Good riddance to those panels. They looked terrible, imo. 

It's going to be very interesting to see what they do now.  A screw-up of this magnitude has got to be expensive and time-consuming.

[markhollin]

The 5th Ave. North digital sign for National African American Music Museum is up and operating.

Looking west from 5th AVe. North, 1/4 block north of Broadway: