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)

[markhollin]

HOK has been announced as the architect for the AEG/MGM Hotel and Entertainment District.  The hotel looks to be a Park MGM brand.  The adjoining structure that will include the 9 screen cinema multiplex, 700 seat music club, and various restaurants/retailers will be 5 stories tall.  They also announced 90,000 sq. ft. of office space, but I'm not sure where that will be located. 

The hotel, which will rise 21 stories above 10th Avenues 2nd level, and 22 stories above Commerce Street, will be about 275 feet tall.

AEG expects to begin construction sometime in late summer/early fall, with a 2 year build-out. 

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/article/21061113/images-released-for-mgm-hotel-set-for-downtown

[Mr_Bond]

1 hour ago, MLBrumby said:

Did this image get posted here?  NP reported that the foundation permits for P04 or P05 was issued. 

Thanks for posting this.  It gives me a clearer perspective of where everything is going.

@CityHeart, it shows me that the ramp goes basically nowhere.  It's a long walk down to a grassy area and won't get nearly as much use as it would if it led to P09-A or a few restaurants and shops..

[Bos2Nash]

Ramp goes into the green space, also will be a really cool photo spot. The new street design for 10th will push people to those buildings. This green space will be extremely important to the connective tissue of Nashville, especially if this is the "replacement" of other green space in the city. 

[smeagolsfree]

The news is that HOK is the architect and the name is a Park MGM hotel.  The fact that we have other architect companies other than HKS is important. I was afraid we were going to get all of the building looking the same and sort of generic, so the news here is fantastic IMO.

[Vrtigo]

^

My interpretation of the the plans for the ramp is that the green space would eventually extend underneath Demonbreun Broadway into the development of the Gateway parking lot on the other side (e.g. new Cummins Station area towers).

Edited March 25, 2019 by Vrtigo

[markhollin]

It will be interesting to see if rumors that the area underneath the Broadway Viaduct that connect to the lower level of Union Station will become part of this railroad yard park.  The area is burgeoning with cool ideas for kiosks, a music stage, perhaps restaurant(s), a museum of rail history in The Gulch, etc. 

Would certainly need to connect through the former rail station area to extend further along the area where the shed used to be, then further southward underneath Demonbreun Viaduct into the new Cummins/Gateway development.

Here are some pics I took of the under Broadway area a couple years ago:

[e-dub]

Damn, I almost wish you wouldn't have brought that back up. That's a fantastic idea and I think I'd be a little bummed if it didn't happen.

[smeagolsfree]

It will take some cooperation between Zach Liff, The Union Station Hotel, and N Yards. Oh not to forget Metro or the State as one of them owns the right of way under the bridge.

[PruneTracy]

48 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

Oh not to forget Metro or the State as one of them owns the right of way under the bridge.

It's TDOT. This bridge is on the replacement list as well so it would be good not to overbuild the area around it. There are already ROW issues on the other approach with Gannett using the area underneath as a storage facility.

[Mr_Bond]

Will there be a connection to Demonbreun other than the sidewalk along 11th?

[21jump]

6 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

The news is that HOK is the architect and the name is a Park MGM hotel.  The fact that we have other architect companies other than HKS is important. I was afraid we were going to get all of the building looking the same and sort of generic, so the news here is fantastic IMO.

I stayed in a Park MGM in Vegas right after it was renovated from being a Monte Carlo. Pretty Nice, albeit standard hotel room. The lobby and check in areas were first rate, which is to be expected in Vegas. I wonder how much the rooms will cost, my room in Vegas was around $70 a night, which included a discount for being an MGM rewards member. Vegas has some of the lowest hotel rates in the country during the off season, but $70 was a steal. Will be interesting to see their room rates in Nashville.

[markhollin]

Sicilian Pizza & Pasta, one of the last holdouts in the small masonry building at 905 Church Street (part of the Nashville Yards footprint), is relocating to The Barrister's Building at 327 Union in May. 

[smeagolsfree]

21 minutes ago, markhollin said:

Sicilian Pizza & Pasta, one of the last holdouts in the small masonry building at 905 Church Street (part of the Nashville Yards footprint), is relocating to The Barrister's Building at 327 Union in May. 

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/food-business/article/21061709/sicilian-pizza-to-move-within-downtown

[downtownresident]

34 minutes ago, markhollin said:

Sicilian Pizza & Pasta, one of the last holdouts in the small masonry building at 905 Church Street (part of the Nashville Yards footprint), is relocating to The Barrister's Building at 327 Union in May. 

They’ve been closed for a little bit, they’ve temporarily relocated operations to Michelangelo’s on Elliston. 

[CityHeart]

Sicilian Pizza to relocate to  327 union street -

 

[titanhog]

^^Was that last little blurb in the video about "cooking pizza for Amazon in their cafeteria" an online job application straight to Jeff Bezos? 

[e-dub]

Beloved? I ordered from them more than a few times and it wasn't anything at all special, imo.

[titanhog]

So...did we ever determine if any of those permits were for the now-taller tower directly south of Amazon's buildings...and whether or not they're also starting on it?  Definitely appears to be something going on in that area.

Edited March 28, 2019 by titanhog

[smeagolsfree]

They are actually working the entire site putting in the infrastructure, so its getting really hard to tell what is actually under construction until it starts rising out of the ground.

According to permits, the only buildings under construction are the Hyatt and the first Amazon Building.

[e-dub]

Is the increase to 40 stories now official? 

[smeagolsfree]

Not until they get it approved by Metro. They have to go in front of Planning and or the Downtown Code design review committee.

[e-dub]

Oh, wow, I didn't know they were that serious about it. Thanks, Smeags.

[smeagolsfree]

We dont know for sure yet as it has not show up on any of the agendas, but I look at it this way; they had a large building on the north side they wanted to fill and now they have two buildings that are filled there. So they want more office space and are probably getting more inquires as a project like this one builds upon itself and actually creates more demand as other business want to be close to Amazon, so they may in fact move forward with this faster than we think. 

This could also be a ploy to get Oracle or another as yet unnamed company we dont know about. Lots of scenarios that could be in play.

[e-dub]

Nashville Yards' Instagram just posted this. Looks to be a different design for the hotel.

 

 

[titanhog]

^^I'm spying a tall tower in the background.