Inner Loop - CBD, Downtown, East Bank, Germantown, Gulch, Rutledge

[markhollin]

SomeraRoad, the development team t hat is putting together the 4 tower Paseo South Gulch project across the street, will purchase the .47 acre lot that includes Arnold's County Kitchen at 605 8th Ave. South for an unknown price. Rose Arnold, who owns the restaurant, is retiring, and listed the site for sale (she was not forced out).  She had bought the property a little over a decade ago for $921,780.  Rumors are it is selling in the $7+ million range. 

Citing general weariness of operating a restaurant business for 40 years and property taxes that continued to create a financial burden, Arnold told the Scene she and son Khalil "wanted the chance to exit on our terms.” She added she was not pressured to sell.

To the immediate south of the Arnold's property is the building home to Carter Vintage Guitars. Christie and Walter Carter own that property, having paid $717,435 for it in 2012 via an associated entity, Metro records note. SomeraRoad owns the adjacent property (a surface parking lot), for which it paid $3.5 million in April 2022 (read here).

To the immediate north of the Arnold's property sits a building home to Nashville Boot. Nicholasville, Kentucky-based Shreeve Properties owns that property, having paid $227,500 for it in 2001, Metro records show.

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/local-developer-to-buy-arnolds-property/article_81b87d2c-8c87-11ed-928b-1fe995882652.html

[smeagolsfree]

Here is the area from the development map of the immediate properties. Somera owns all property across the street on 8th below the tracks in blue and red as well as the soon to be Arnold's property and the property immediately to the south in blue on the other side of Carters Guitar.

[Rick Dalton]

Great news. Let SomeraRoad buy everything in the whole area. 

[Luvemtall]

20 minutes ago, natethegreat said:

Great news. Let SomeraRoad buy everything in the whole area. 

Pretty much what we all surmised! Back in April of ‘22 on the Paseo tread ( I think page 9 ) when Somera purchased the lot from Marketsteet, I made comment about maybe moving Arnold’s to the Paseo property, then Somera buy everything on that side of street. Seems like that just might be the intention, now we just need to sit patiently and wait to see what their plans are!

[markhollin]

The Blue Parrot (3 story bar) update: more windows being set.

Looking SE from intersection of 4th Ave. South and Molloy St:
 

[smeagolsfree]

You have all heard of the movie "The Never-Ending Story" This is The Never-Ending Project.

[Luvemtall]

27 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

You have all heard of the movie "The Never-Ending Story" This is The Never-Ending Project.

It will be interesting to see , if 1010 Church opens its doors before this !! 

[PaulChinetti]

The Blue Parrot - Grand Opening August 1, '23... 2123

[BnaBreaker]

3 hours ago, PaulChinetti said:

The Blue Parrot - Grand Opening August 1, '23... 2123

Lmao!

I swear, these people are laying a single brick per day.  Seriously, do they have like one guy working on this or something?  

[donNdonelson2]

36 minutes ago, BnaBreaker said:

Lmao!

I swear, these people are laying a single brick per day.  Seriously, do they have like one guy working on this or something?  

“A layed brick a day keeps the customers away.”

Will a new expression be added to the English language?

[East Side Urbanite]

I can see the Blue Parrot building clearly from my balcony. It is almost stunning to realize how many years this construction effort has required. Painful.

Smeagolsfree and I agree than when the building is finished (please be soon), it will rank among the most distinctive and quirky in downtown. Though it offers some flaws, the building is very cool on various levels. It's an "oddball building" that I find  playful and cool. It truly is an unusual structure that grabs your attention.

One thing to note, even for those who hate the design: charcoal-colored brick always looks industrial, sleek, edgy,  ... pick your adjective for use to describe an urban building. You simply don't see a building like this in the suburbs. And compare the  distinctive Blue Parrot building to the bland and generic adjacent structure housing the Hyatt Place. What a contrast.

 

 

 

[markhollin]

Elliott Row (2 & 3 stories, 47 units) Phase III update: windows installed.

Looking NW from intersection of Madison St. and 6th Ave. North:
 

Looking NE from Madison St., 1/2 block east of 7th Ave. North:

[markhollin]

1723 6th Ave. North (3 stories, 11 units) update: windows installed.

Looking SW from 6th Ave. North, 1/3 block south of Buchanan St:
 

[PillowTalk4]

On 1/10/2023 at 3:43 PM, BnaBreaker said:

Lmao!

I swear, these people are laying a single brick per day.  Seriously, do they have like one guy working on this or something?  

It might because they are getting their building materials from Lowes... like the vapor barrier... LOL!!!

[smeagolsfree]

I think they are having them direct shipped from China on the proverbially slow boat!

[markhollin]

3rd & Coffee (3 stories, 25 townhomes) update: first module topped-out; foundation work underway on others.

Looking west from 3rd Ave. North, 1/3 block SE of Coffee St:

[chris holman]

On 1/13/2023 at 11:12 AM, smeagolsfree said:

I think they are having them direct shipped from China on the proverbially slow boat!

All materials are ordered through the Wish app lol

[markhollin]

Towne Nashville (5 stories, 329 units) is now partially open.

Looking NE from Garfield St. at intersection with Nassau St:

 

[markhollin]

Ballpark Village (8 stories, 356 units, 16,000 sq. ft. of ground level retail, internal garage) update: 2nd crane is rising.

Looking NW from 3rd Ave. North at Stockyard St:

Looking SW from 3rd Ave. North, 1/3 block north of Stockyard St:

Looking NE from intersection of Harrison St. and 4th Ave. North:

[markhollin]

Chief's at 200 Broadway (renovation of 1900-era 5 story structure into entertainment bar) update: Only the southern and eastern walls remain of the 3rd-5th floors.

Looking NE from Broadway at 3rd Ave:

Looking NE from Broadway, 1/2 bock east of 3rd Ave:

Looking NW from intersection of Broadway and 2nd Ave. North:

Looking west from 2nd Ave. North, just north of Broadway:

Looking SE from 3rd Ave. North, 1/4 block north of Broadway:

[Nash_12South]

While it's sad that they demoed everything but 2 walls, I do understand that it was likely necessary to make the new bar space work. But, they better not try to tell the world how they "restored" an old building. 

[UTgrad09]

7 minutes ago, Nash_12South said:

While it's sad that they demoed everything but 2 walls, I do understand that it was likely necessary to make the new bar space work. But, they better not try to tell the world how they "restored" an old building. 

I agree, but it makes me wonder what was up there. I know the upper floors of some of those old buildings haven't been used in decades for anything but maybe storage.

I'd be interested to know if it would just have been more expensive to rehab, or if structural engineers told them it was unsafe to keep.  

The facade is obviously the most important part, but I would like to see as many historic interiors preserved as possible. 

[Baronakim]

2 hours ago, UTgrad09 said:

I agree, but it makes me wonder what was up there. I know the upper floors of some of those old buildings haven't been used in decades for anything but maybe storage.

I'd be interested to know if it would just have been more expensive to rehab, or if structural engineers told them it was unsafe to keep.  

The facade is obviously the most important part, but I would like to see as many historic interiors preserved as possible. 

I would like to see the Christian interior of the Pantheon in Rome reverted to  the original pagan  Roman gods too, but museumism isn't my thing.  I am extremely impressed with this project in the extent of their preserving and especially RESTORING the originional exterior of this building.  Would you likewise be pleased with putting back the rough board flooring (or even the dirt ones) in most of the Second Avenue buildings?  I certainly remember what they were like back then and Second Avenue in the 1950s was only a place to visit if you wanted bulk goods.  Unless buildings like this one originally had a fabulously significant historic interior, I see no problem whatsoever with ripping it out for a new use relevant to our our times.  This rebuilding fairly assures this building will grace the corner for at least another century or two, wheras most of the buildings downtown built of steel and glass will be gone in the next 50 years.  They are built with planned obsolesence.

[Baronakim]

2 hours ago, Nash_12South said:

While it's sad that they demoed everything but 2 walls, I do understand that it was likely necessary to make the new bar space work. But, they better not try to tell the world how they "restored" an old building. 

I disagree.  I see nothing sad here.  "Restoration" takes many forms and sometimes to gut is the superior option in every aspect.  Structurally, functionally,  financially and safetywise.  No one "restores" old buildings interior guts  unless they are a museum function and even that is required to update obsolete systems by codes for public safety.  Second Avenue is not Pompei historic in importance.  I personally, as an architect, have  "restored" a good many significant buildings at great expense to preserve or even rebuild  to a level of authencitiy.  I have greatly restored quite a few Civil war and Victorian buildings on the Square in Columbia, Tennessee.  These Include the Courthouse, the Curley Building, the Archives (old jail), the Memorial Building, the County office buildings and others with fairly extensive rework.  The Curley building was a concrete tee 1950 furniture store, that I rebuilt the square facade consistant to the Victorian building the preceded it on the same site.  In the Victorian County offices, gutting  included structural stabalizing interior brick party walls that were leaning ten degrees or more. and tearing out a century of interior chopped up modifications.  No one in their right minds would want to "restore" these buildings to their original , totally obsolete configurations.  Your concept of restoration seems to me to be rather narrow.

[Nash_12South]

45 minutes ago, Baronakim said:

I disagree.  I see nothing sad here.  "Restoration" takes many forms and sometimes to gut is the superior option in every aspect.  Structurally, functionally,  financially and safetywise.  No one "restores" old buildings interior guts  unless they are a museum function and even that is required to update obsolete systems by codes for public safety.  Second Avenue is not Pompei historic in importance.  I personally, as an architect, have  "restored" a good many significant buildings at great expense to preserve or even rebuild  to a level of authencitiy.  I have greatly restored quite a few Civil war and Victorian buildings on the Square in Columbia, Tennessee.  These Include the Courthouse, the Curley Building, the Archives (old jail), the Memorial Building, the County office buildings and others with fairly extensive rework.  The Curley building was a concrete tee 1950 furniture store, that I rebuilt the square facade consistant to the Victorian building the preceded it on the same site.  In the Victorian County offices, gutting  included structural stabalizing interior brick party walls that were leaning ten degrees or more. and tearing out a century of interior chopped up modifications.  No one in their right minds would want to "restore" these buildings to their original , totally obsolete configurations.  Your concept of restoration seems to me to be rather narrow.

I do not get your anger/frustration here. I said I understand demoing the building to just two walls. My problem  is people saying they restored a building when they renovated it. Just my opinion, is that restoring is what you do at the Hermitage, for instance. Renovating/new construction is what you're doing here. You can restore the walls in front, but the building is not restored, just my opinion. A frustration for just me is folks who say they restored an old house, but when you walk through the front door 99% is brand new with only the front wall being original.  That is just my opinion and I'm not trying to sway anyone else to it.  You want me to appreciate your point of view, don't pick apart mine.

Edited January 16, 2023 by Nash_12South