Nashville Yards, 15 acres/4 million sq. ft./ $1 billion, Phase I: Grand Hyatt Hotel (25 stories), Phase II: Amazon (26 & 22 stories), Phase III: AEG District (4 K theater, 34 & 35 story apts); Phase IV: Pinnacle Tower (35 stories), Amazon 3 (43)

[Bos2Nash]

More pictures of the glazing going in. Lots of framing already in place to along the west facade.

Also photos of the amazon tower progress. Gonna be interesting how the entry works from church street (if at all)

[smeagolsfree]

Grand Hyatt crane being raised today.

 

[Sean blackdog]

 Tower crane add going up  

Edited July 29, 2019 by Sean blackdog

[Sean blackdog]

Big mobile crane is here.  Not larger crane. 

Maybe work on 2 big elevators. 

Edited July 29, 2019 by Sean blackdog

[smeagolsfree]

I suspect we will see a tower crane here very soon.

[fishsticks176]

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/job-creation-and-investment/5-000-reasons-why-nashville-and-amazon-are-a-perfect-match

[PaulChinetti]

Some updated shots of Nashville Yards. 

[chris holman]

[titanhog]

1 hour ago, PaulChinetti said:

 

^^I see a mini Lake Palmer.  Palmer Pond, maybe? 

[chris holman]

This hotel has a large base to it 

[e-dub]

Yeah, the hotel is less "bulky" than I thought it was at first... but that garage is THICC.

[Andy20]

19 minutes ago, e-dub said:

Yeah, the hotel is less "bulky" than I thought it was at first... but that garage is THICC.

I think all of the parking is below broadway bridge level. There is a lot of event/meeting space in this one with very high ceilings.

[PaulChinetti]

And a video from the air too because why not. 

 

[AsianintheNations]

On 7/29/2019 at 8:54 PM, e-dub said:

Yeah, the hotel is less "bulky" than I thought it was at first... but that garage is THICC.

Hahaha!

I do really wish that even half of the volume of these gigantic above-ground parking pedestals could be underground. I know it's expensive and all to do that, but even with ground-level retail, having five-story gaps before the usable building truly starts just gives this feeling of distance and out-of-reachness. The human scale is just lost, in contrast to say the buildings in Broadway or Printers Alley (where you could plausibly take stairs to get to an upper floor). Alternatively, once Sobro/Gulch/Midtown are completely uniformly filled with these glass buildings sitting atop concrete bunkers, say around 2030, maybe we could just build a new pedestrian "ground level" six floors above the ground and decide that's the first floor of everything, with some cherry trees in giant planters for good measure.  Could have an interesting by-product effect of developing hipster underground (literally) music venues and shady black markets in the depths of the parking abyss ... . Sorry for rambling, it's just that every time I see the huge garage pedestals, I'm reminded that since those garages demand beefy concrete structures to support the weight of all the cars, the result is that our cars are sheltered in such sturdier houses than our own residences, like the five-story wooden apartment complexes that most of my colleagues live in ... seems like an implicit representation of our priorities.

[FrankNash]

My thought is that once cars are no longer needed,  the pedestal will become retail and loft apartments.

[Nash_12South]

I don't disagree that the parking pedestals are often unattractive, but take them away and much of the minimal height we have downtown goes away. The Korean Vets "canyon" of 20ish story hotels become 10-15 floor hotels. Bridgestone Bldg. becomes what, 20 floors? If they'd put 5 floors of parking under (at street level) the 505 rather than beside it, how much taller would it appear?  I get the point, but there are times I wish the 505 had 15 levels of pedestal parking under it....

[nashvylle]

35 minutes ago, Nash_12South said:

I don't disagree that the parking pedestals are often unattractive, but take them away and much of the minimal height we have downtown goes away. The Korean Vets "canyon" of 20ish story hotels become 10-15 floor hotels. Bridgestone Bldg. becomes what, 20 floors? If they'd put 5 floors of parking under (at street level) the 505 rather than beside it, how much taller would it appear?  I get the point, but there are times I wish the 505 had 15 levels of pedestal parking under it....

You could also argue for less parking requirements altogether and give developers the ability to build higher and add more units. 

[Nash_12South]

I'm all for lessening parking requirements - as soon as we have a public transportation system that could realistically serve those folks. For every 20 something that could scooter to work there is a 30 something that has 2 toddlers that isn't giving up their car while at work. I also have watched excited bus riders, bicyclers get tired of the hassles, weather, etc. involved in those modes of travel. I work with someone who lived 3 blocks from our office. She maintained a parking space in the building for the rainy days, the 80 degree morning walks, the 20 degree morning walks. She was teased a lot, but was defiant. 

 We may get to a car-less world, I'm just not sure it will be very soon. 

 

Edited July 31, 2019 by Nash_12South

[Nashvillain]

48 minutes ago, Nash_12South said:

I don't disagree that the parking pedestals are often unattractive, but take them away and much of the minimal height we have downtown goes away. The Korean Vets "canyon" of 20ish story hotels become 10-15 floor hotels. Bridgestone Bldg. becomes what, 20 floors? If they'd put 5 floors of parking under (at street level) the 505 rather than beside it, how much taller would it appear?  I get the point, but there are times I wish the 505 had 15 levels of pedestal parking under it....

Uh...so? 

SoBro and Mid Town would be much (much much) more pleasant without all the vehicle amenities. Ditching the garages would be a massive upgrade even if it meant losing some height. 

[Nash_12South]

7 minutes ago, Nashvillain said:

Uh...so? 

SoBro and Mid Town would be much (much much) more pleasant without all the vehicle amenities. Ditching the garages would be a massive upgrade even if it meant losing some height. 

You're totally correct. I may get too caught up in the practicalities/realities of implementing these visions of how Nashville should work.

[Sean blackdog]

Work on tower crane. 

Crane base on the way come soon. 

Edited August 4, 2019 by Sean blackdog

[DeemonBruhn]

You could also argue for less parking requirements altogether and give developers the ability to build higher and add more units. 

There isn’t a parking requirement downtown.

[nashvylle]

26 minutes ago, DeemonBruhn said:

 

There isn’t a parking requirement downtown.

 

Thanks, didn't know that. 

[Nashvillain]

3 hours ago, DeemonBruhn said:

 

There isn’t a parking requirement downtown.

 

But apparently, lenders won't finance projects without parking. 

[MontanaGuy]

The builders of this hotel obviously calculated how many car parking spaces would be necessary for the number of hotel rooms they'd be renting.  Even though it must have been a massive expense to house all of those cars there are many people staying there who will either be driving into town or renting a car when they get here.  When I was looking at moving to Nashville 11 years ago I stayed at the hotel across the street and I had driven here from Arizona so I needed a place to park my vehicle.  If there hadn't been a place to park I wouldn't have stayed there in the first place and visitors to this new hotel are in the same situation so the large garage is a necessity.  So when people talk about simply getting rid of places to park downtown or nearby areas they're not being realistic about the needs of visitors and residents alike.  It's not as though there are other alternative means of getting around or commuting to a job for people who live downtown.  Cities like New York or Chicago that have extensive mass transit systems where you can go almost anywhere without a car are not typical of most American cities including Nashville.  I think we should do everything we can to try to create such a mass transit system here and elsewhere but we don't have it now and people need to park their vehicles if that's the only transportation that works for them.