Buckingham Gulch Tower 38 Floors, 450+ ft., 345 residential units, 4,900 sq. ft. retail

[smeagolsfree]

Me thinketh that our legs are being pullethed.

[chris holman]

http://aertsonmidtown.com/

Website 

[Nashtitans]

 

1 hour ago, chris holman said:

http://aertsonmidtown.com/

Website 

Thats for the aertson. What does this have to do with the buchingham gulch tower? Got me excited opening this thread lmao.

Edited October 21, 2016 by Nashtitans

[titanhog]

44 minutes ago, Nashtitans said:

 

Thats for the aertson. What does this have to do with the buchingham gulch tower?

Probably just a mistake since they are both Buckingham projects.

[chris holman]

Sorry just a mistake

[DoermanPhoto]

So got push back last time I mentioned this, but I heard again from multiple people this project is off. Anyone else heard?

[smeagolsfree]

Not a peep which is bad.

[MLBrumby]

The company's CEO made it clear back when ground was broken for Aertson that they would not even proceed with the Gulch project until Aertson was complete. 

[titanhog]

4 hours ago, DoermanPhoto said:

So got push back last time I mentioned this, but I heard again from multiple people this project is off. Anyone else heard?

I hope it's just on the back burner and not completely dead.

[BnaBreaker]

21 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

The company's CEO made it clear back when ground was broken for Aertson that they would not even proceed with the Gulch project until Aertson was complete. 

Agreed.  That's what I was about to say.  I have zero 'inside sources,' on anything having anything to do with Nashville development, so perhaps the rumblings heard by others of this project's demise are indeed accurate.  But I don't think simply not hearing anything about this project moving forward yet is a sign of anything negative for the very reason you stated.  This was never intended to move forward until Buckingham's other ventures in the city were wrapped up and complete.  We shall see!  Fingers crossed.

[bmkTN]

They do own the property I think.  And they also said that even if the tall version doesn't pan out that they'll still almost certainly build a residential building more like 20 or so floors eventually anyway.  I'm pretty sure their approval from the city to build the tall version lasts until October 2017, so I would definitely expect that we'll hear more about this in the spring or summer.

[Pyramid Scheme]

I hope they build the tall version so that the 1212 lady can have some shade.

[chris holman]

I actually hope this gets built at 38th floors I was hoping to move in this building from the Icon once it was completed

[SumnerCountian]

That is a very small plot of land for such an imposing building. I do hope it comes to fruition.

[Jamie Hall]

22 hours ago, SumnerCountian said:

That is a very small plot of land for such an imposing building.

Agreed. I'm not excited about the prospect of a major tower on that tiny odd-shaped lot when there are so many ideal spots downtown or elsewhere in the Gulch.

[Pyramid Scheme]

I was under the impression that the small size was one of the reasons for the height. Since they can't build out, build up instead.

[PillowTalk4]

New York is building pencil or super slim buildings everywhere now.  That style is starting to spread into other parts of the country as developers want to get more bang out of their small plots without having to purchase additional property.  Quite honestly the pencil buildings are less obtrusive than those that have a footprint that takes up half a block or more.  I've walked past a few in NYC and when you're at street level you don't realize just how tall it is because it has such a relatively small footprint.  But when you are driving into Manhattan from surrounding areas you can see the great impact they have from a distance.

Here's a link to an interesting video on Super Slender Building...

The Super Slender Revolution

[jmtunafish]

5 hours ago, PillowTalk4 said:

New York is building pencil or super slim buildings everywhere now.  That style is starting to spread into other parts of the country as developers want to get more bang out of their small plots without having to purchase additional property.  Quite honestly the pencil buildings are less obtrusive than those that have a footprint that takes up half a block or more.  I've walked past a few in NYC and when you're at street level you don't realize just how tall it is because it has such a relatively small footprint.  But when you are driving into Manhattan from surrounding areas you can see the great impact they have from a distance.

Here's a link to an interesting video on Super Slender Building...

The Super Slender Revolution

Interesting video, but also very dismissive of places like Hong Kong (where I grew up) and Tokyo which have had slender high rises for decades.  My family lived on the 30th floor of a building in HK that had the footprint of two apartments.  Even the freight elevator was small; the movers had to carry our piano up 30 flights of stairs.  My best friend lived in a 20 story building that had just one apartment per floor.  And that was in the 1980s.  New York did not "invent" the super slender high rise, as the above video claims.

 

 

[markhollin]

^ ^ ^ Yeah, when I visited there, I felt like I was transported into the era of "Blade Runner" down on the ground level of massive urban canyons complete with the intense humidity of late July.

[SumnerCountian]

I had just not realised how small that plot of land was. I am all for the building going up. I am just accustomed to seeing a whole block or so being excavated. 

[titanhog]

4 months for Buckingham Gulch to make up their mind.  (can anyone see behind the paywall and tell if there's any new info?)

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/06/22/developer-nears-key-deadline-for-38-storygulch.html

[smeagolsfree]

No new news here other than they are basically wiating to see what the market does. They will not build just to build it because theyare out of time. The more time that passes weather it is this or any project does not bode well. Perfect example, WES.

[chris holman]

Does anybody know how the market is going with all the new apartment condos that that's been built all over the city?

[UTgrad09]

1 hour ago, smeagolsfree said:

No new news here other than they are basically wiating to see what the market does. They will not build just to build it because theyare out of time. The more time that passes weather it is this or any project does not bode well. Perfect example, WES.

WES isn't a perfect example for anything, other than epic failure. It is an outlier. Most of these non-starting developments that end up being pie-in-the-sky, hit-the-cycle-at-the-wrong-time or unable to finance just fall through, and people either regroup/start over or move on. WES is a glaring example of how arrogance and ego can not only kill a project, but salt the Earth in the process. Nothing happens on that property until Palmer dies, or he sells to avoid financial problems. Any future project that is proposed on that land is dead before it starts as long as it is owned by Alex S. Palmer. You can't say that about most any other (even pie-in-the-sky) developments.

[smeagolsfree]

I was referring to the amount of time that has gone by.