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)

[nashvylle]

add this to the transportation thread... but amazing to think if metro was able to purchase the rail lines by the gulch, Nashville Yards, etc... our transportation woes could be theoretically.... gone. 

[smeagolsfree]

1 minute ago, nashvylle said:

add this to the transportation thread... but amazing to think if metro was able to purchase the rail lines by the gulch, Nashville Yards, etc... our transportation woes could be theoretically.... gone. 

Bet that would cost more than the original plan even if they could be for sale.

[Dale]

1 minute ago, smeagolsfree said:

Bet that would cost more than the original plan even if they could be for sale.

Strictly fantasy category: rehab Union Station and make it a commuter rail hub.

[smeagolsfree]

Not as much fantasy as you think as Metro I think still owns it and it leasing it out. The same goes for the Customs House. If we ever got Amtrak then it would be great.

[Dale]

1 minute ago, smeagolsfree said:

Not as much fantasy as you think as Metro I think still owns it and it leasing it out. The same goes for the Customs House. If we ever got Amtrak then it would be great.

Whoa! Side note: see where Music City Star is working towards upgrading its cars. 

[markhollin]

I also think ground will break any day on the AEG portion (17-20 story boutique hotel, 15-20 story residential (?) tower immediately to north of that hotel, 4,000 seat theater, 8 screen movie complex, bowling alley, many eateries/bars, and 700 seat music club still listed), as they are claiming to be open by late 2020 on their website.

A panoramic shot of the site from late September, Looking south and east from Church Street Viaduct:

 
A couple of slightly expanded and crisper renderings from the Gresham Smith Partners website:

[MidTenn1]

28 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

Will we get a new tallest out of this?......Who knows, but I am not holding my breath. In this town they can build a 70 story and the blasted thing will still end up being shorter than 500'.

That would be like a 70 story Motel 6.

[MidTenn1]

15 minutes ago, markhollin said:

 

Of course I saw that ^^^^ and couldn't resist. I am so going to rendering photoshop hell!

[Dale]

I’m assuming a goodly amount of retail as well ?

 

[Armacing]

I think it would make sense to bring back some of the taller buildings that were shown in the earlier versions of the Nashville Yards rendering.  In addition to the Team A(mazon) tower, the earlier renders had another tall building on the south side of Church St.

[subkyle]

I read somewhere that Amazon will occupy the tallest building on the development. 1m sf is a big building? Anyone think that building might grow?

[smeagolsfree]

At this time the building was being marketed as 750,000 SQ. FT. in about 32 stories, So add 250, 000 to that and there is your million. So my guess is they add 10 more stories to the building and you get 42 plus the crown which could be in the hood of 46 total floors. 

 

Guys, this is a guess. No I dont know anything. I will let someone else do the math to figure out how tall a 42 story building plus a crown will be.

 

[e-dub]

I wonder how probable a re-design of the Team A office tower is. I'd imagine Amazon would prefer to be in a flashier building?

[titanhog]

2 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

Guys, this is a guess. No I dont know anything. I will let someone else do the math to figure out how tall a 42 story building plus a crown will be.

 

Between 650-700'

[Dale]

53 minutes ago, e-dub said:

I wonder how probable a re-design of the Team A office tower is. I'd imagine Amazon would prefer to be in a flashier building?

I don’t think they’re Seattle buildings are terribly flashy.

[bnacincy]

On 11/5/2018 at 10:13 AM, bnacincy said:

My hope is they buy the Holiday Inn property, tear it down and build a tall boy office building there.

I'm just sayin.....

[e-dub]

1 hour ago, Dale said:

I don’t think they’re Seattle buildings are terribly flashy.

Yes, their Seattle buildings aren't the most eye-catching things out there, but I seem to remember them mentioning that they wanted to come to a city where they could be a "partner" in growth - something along those lines. For better AND for worse. Just because we didn't get the full on HQ2 (thankfully), I wouldn't write off their desire to be the prettiest girl/building at the dance/neighborhood quite yet.

[satalac]

9 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

I just put all the buildings facing the railyards as under construction. I figured that will now be a safe bet as all of the infrastructure work is underway and they snagged a tenant for the big boy according to the Tennessean. I think we all knew that would be the building anyway.

 

Will we get a new tallest out of this?......Who knows, but I am not holding my breath. In this town they can build a 70 story and the blasted thing will still end up being shorter than 500'.

Not to temper the excitement, but Amazon still isn't a done deal right? Don't they still have to pass quite a bit through City council and legislation with all the tax incentives? Or was this stuff already handled in private?

[Hey_Hey]

9 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

At this time the building was being marketed as 750,000 SQ. FT. in about 32 stories, So add 250, 000 to that and there is your million. So my guess is they add 10 more stories to the building and you get 42 plus the crown which could 

Guys, this is a guess. No I dont know anything. I will let someone else do the math to figure out how tall a 42 story building plus a crown will be.

 

My estimate:

First Floor: 25 ft

Additional conference/theater/cafeteria/gym floor: 20 ft

40 floors of offices @15 ft/fl: 600ft

Crown: 30 ft

Total: 675 ft

[wmaddbb2018]

4 hours ago, Hey_Hey said:

My estimate:

First Floor: 25 ft

Additional conference/theater/cafeteria/gym floor: 20 ft

40 floors of offices @15 ft/fl: 600ft

Crown: 30 ft

Total: 675 ft

This would be AWESOME!

[Skyscrapergeek]

18 hours ago, PHofKS said:

Of course I saw that ^^^^ and couldn't resist. I am so going to rendering photoshop hell!

On  the contrary, Pete.  I’m nominating you for photoshop sainthood!

[smeagolsfree]

Not to be critical, but being critical , just kidding. The Fifth Plus Broad project is not in there either.

I have no clue as to how to use photo shop. so kudos for the picture.

[bigeasy]

6 hours ago, Hey_Hey said:

My estimate:

First Floor: 25 ft

Additional conference/theater/cafeteria/gym floor: 20 ft

40 floors of offices @15 ft/fl: 600ft

Crown: 30 ft

Total: 675 ft

I bet we can get it down to 500ft

[Dale]

Where does all this height cynicism come from ? The city didn’t chop 505 CST, Tony chopped it.

[smeagolsfree]

It has happened over and over in this city not only with 505 which use to be the Signature tower which sort of got cut by the FAA. Also Sheet Music which morphed into the Bridgestone was to be 40, then it was 30, then the Bridgestone officials found out they had under est. the number of workers and needed 40.

The Developers of Gulch Crossing wished they had gone taller because it filled so fast.

 

The list can go on and on. The 2nd and Demonbreun project was cut form two towers to one. 805 Lea went from 35 to 31. 

This has been going on for years here and when you mention height, some people here freak out as in Green Hills and now on Murphey rd where they are fighting 16 stories.