Amazon: The Thread | 5,000 Jobs | 1M SQFT in Nashville Yards

[Dale]

2 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

Yes the 32 or so story office tower in Nashville Yards, not to mention the other two office buildings planned there.

Owing to geography, wouldn’t the 32 story tower appear as the dominant structure on the skyline, I mean, with the possible exception of paramount ?

 

[smeagolsfree]

Yes, but it is not as elevated as Paramount. All of those buildings in the CBD are actually playing taller than they really are because of the terrain. Its 50 to 100 feet taller than the other surrounding area.

[LA_TN]

4 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

Yes the 32 or so story office tower in Nashville Yards, not to mention the other two office buildings planned there.

It is nice to speculate, but we must wait for Nashville Yards to make an announcement. It would be nice if they replaced those ~10 story buildings with some taller ones. They could easily go with three 20 story buildings - and that would look nice too

[MidTenn1]

17 minutes ago, LA_TN said:

It is nice to speculate, but we must wait for Nashville Yards to make an announcement. It would be nice if they replaced those ~10 story buildings with some taller ones. They could easily go with three 20 story buildings - and that would look nice too

Putting 5,000 people in one building seems crazy. There would not be enough elevators to move people at closing time. 

[Dale]

5 minutes ago, PHofKS said:

Putting 5,000 people in one building seems crazy. There would not be enough elevators to move people at closing time. 

Seems like 5,000 would be enough to build out the Yards.

[Nashcago]

4 minutes ago, Dale said:

Seems like 5,000 would be enough to build out the Yards.

 

10 minutes ago, PHofKS said:

Putting 5,000 people in one building seems crazy. There would not be enough elevators to move people at closing time. 

5,000 people in one building isn't that crazy at all. I work in downtown Chicago and there are buildings here that have close to 30,000 people come and go each day. That's obviously a much larger scale than what we can expect to see at Nashville Yards, but putting all Amazon into one building is definitely feasible. We'd probably all agree that it will likely be spread across a few buildings, but it will be exciting to see how this develops, not to mention the residential high-rises to follow!

[Pdt2f]

6 minutes ago, Nashcago said:

 

5,000 people in one building isn't that crazy at all. I work in downtown Chicago and there are buildings here that have close to 30,000 people come and go each day. That's obviously a much larger scale than what we can expect to see at Nashville Yards, but putting all Amazon into one building is definitely feasible. We'd probably all agree that it will likely be spread across a few buildings, but it will be exciting to see how this develops, not to mention the residential high-rises to follow!

Good point. Keep in mind, though, that in Nashville almost all of those 5,000 will be bringing their car every day, which factors into building size/infrastructure costs. Even if a fifth of them commute in a way other than a car, there will be enough commuting cleaning/security contractors and retail workers to make up for the reduction in cars. 

[bigeasy]

How many people do we think work downtown now? Is a 5,000 person increase pretty substantial? I know this is a huge announcement, but I wasn't sure how this compares to say Bridgestone's office. Do they have around 1,000 there? I bet this is going to cause a huge impact in the Supply Chain industry around town. Within an hour of the announcement I heard people talking about it here. So I wouldn't be surprised if some large companies  will start looking into employee retention in preparation of some poaching being done

[titanhog]

Haha!  I opened this thread on the last page...read a few lines...and was all confused, thinking this was some kind of joke.  So...I flipped back a page...and realized it only went back an hour or so.  So...I flipped back another...and again...about an hour.  I'm thinking, "WHAT is going on?!!!"  Took me like 3-4 pages back to find out you guys weren't crazy and just playing some huge joke on me! 

AWESOME news!  I'd say Nashville is even a bigger winner than DC and NYC!

[Dale]

5 minutes ago, bigeasy said:

How many people do we think work downtown now? Is a 5,000 person increase pretty substantial? I know this is a huge announcement, but I wasn't sure how this compares to say Bridgestone's office. Do they have around 1,000 there? I bet this is going to cause a huge impact in the Supply Chain industry around town. Within an hour of the announcement I heard people talking about it here. So I wouldn't be surprised if some large companies  will start looking into employee retention in preparation of some poaching being done

Proportionately speaking, this is like downtown Chicago adding 50,000 jobs.

[smeagolsfree]

20 minutes ago, titanhog said:

Haha!  I opened this thread on the last page...read a few lines...and was all confused, thinking this was some kind of joke.  So...I flipped back a page...and realized it only went back an hour or so.  So...I flipped back another...and again...about an hour.  I'm thinking, "WHAT is going on?!!!"  Took me like 3-4 pages back to find out you guys weren't crazy and just playing some huge joke on me! 

AWESOME news!  I'd say Nashville is even a bigger winner than DC and NYC!

Surprise!

[KJHburg]

Now maybe Nashville will get its new tallest tower.  A 33 story building in Charlotte now underway is 632 feet tall so maybe your new tallest will be the Amazon tower.

[smeagolsfree]

You can build 33 story towers here all day and they have a hard time getting past 450'. 

[TheRaglander]

4 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

You can build 33 story towers here all day and they have a hard time getting past 450'. 

Is the size of Nashville Yards office tower official as how it was before the announcement?   Do we expect a communication regarding that campus at some point?

[smeagolsfree]

I am sure those that look into these things are reaching out to those that know.

[titanhog]

Gotta believe this is just the start for Amazon in Nashville.  I'm willing to bet their scope of size in Nashville will double and triple within 10-15 years (as long as Amazon is still the big boy on the block).

 

[smeagolsfree]

That is sort of what I am thinking too.

[markhollin]

45 minutes ago, bigeasy said:

How many people do we think work downtown now? Is a 5,000 person increase pretty substantial? 

According to last month's Nashville Downtown Partnership Annual Report. there are now 70,000 people working downtown, and 11,000 folks living downtown.  

[MLBrumby]

In addition to that number downtown, I would venture a guess that Midtown-Music Row have nearly that many... 50,000+. Vandy, VUMC, and Belmont employ thousands.  

[titanhog]

What is the largest office building downtown, as far as square footage?  Trying to wrap my head around 1 Million square ft.

[chris holman]

From the business journal 

 

In its Nov. 13 announcement, Amazon said it will invest $230 million in its forthcoming Nashville office and occupy 1 million square feet of space a million square feet,

what size of building are we talking about? 

[markhollin]

Nashville Post story:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/economic-development/article/21031971/amazon-taps-nashville-for-5000job-center

NBJ coverage:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/11/13/report-amazon-to-add-5-000-jobs-in-nashville.html

Tennessean coverage on what business and political leaders are saying about this announcement:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/11/13/amazon-nashville-hub-corporate-jobs/1987032002/

Chamber of Commerce story:

https://www.nashvillechamber.com/blog/2018/amazon-announces-operations-center-of-excellence-in-nashville

Behind the NBJ paywall, another story about how Holly Sears Sullivan, the Amazon exec. with 13 years of experience working in Middle Tennessee, was key in Music City landing this deal:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/11/13/for-the-exec-very-much-responsible-for-amazon.html?ana=twt

[Nash_12South]

If an average office building has 20,000/floor that translates to 50 floors? 

[OnePointEast]

Biggest news for Nashville in how long?

[smeagolsfree]

Again,, my guess is two if not the three office buildings planned at Nashville Yards. That's about 1.2 million SQ. FT.