Paramount Tower, 65-68 stories, approx. 750', 200 units, $240 million, Church Street Park

[chris holman]

21 hours ago, subkyle said:

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/12/27/giarratana-uses-billboard-to-reveal-tower.html

[KJHburg]

Is this supposed to be all condos if so that is a tall order no pun intended without lots and lots of presales with hefty deposits.   

I count 88 or so condos still for sale in the 505 tower.  That is a lot of money tied up there.

https://505condos.com/floor-plans/

[PaulChinetti]

Just now, KJHburg said:

I count 88 or so condos still for sale in the 505 tower.  That is a lot of money tied up there.

https://505condos.com/floor-plans/

Does it say 88 out of how many?

[KJHburg]

5 minutes ago, PaulChinetti said:

Does it say 88 out of how many?

Yes but I did not count the original number.  Basically I just went through the floors one by one and looked at what is available.  To me it seems like a lot available unless this is not updated.  Start on floor 30 to 44 evidently the top floor is sold out no availability. 

Edited December 27, 2018 by KJHburg

[MidTenn1]

Who is the architect?

Edit: Never mind, Goettsch. 

[titanhog]

I think Tony and some of these other developers are thinking ahead with Alliance Bernstein and Amazon coming here soon.  It's a risk...but a calculated risk.

[MLBrumby]

26 minutes ago, PHofKS said:

Who is the architect?

Edit: Never mind, Goettsch. 

Somebody that used to know?

[MidTenn1]

Another interesting tidbit about this building should it be built as reported....when you walk in to the lobby over to the elevators, there will be a button with the number 65 on it.  Nashville would be one of only 12 US cities to have a 65 or greater story building.  If Tony wants to top Austin, he could add 2 more floors and claim that bragging right.

• New York (30)
• Chicago (13)
• Jersey City (2)
• Miami (2)
• Houston (2)
• Dallas (1)
• Atlanta (1)
• Detroit (1)
• Los Angeles (1)
• Seattle (1)
• Austin (1) 66 floors (Proposed)
• Nashville (1) (Proposed)

[Tennessine]

I was surprised Oklahoma City's Devon Energy Tower isn't on the above list. I guess it has a pretty tall crown. That building is 752' but only has 52 floors.

[titanhog]

I would have thought NYC would have had more than 30.

[AronG]

Count me with the skeptics (fool me once, shame one you etc. etc.). Is there a single one of his projects that ended up looking like the early renders? He clearly has no compunction about tossing around a lot of fun ideas while trying to get through the approval process, but he must have a totally different internal process where he works out a real design that actually makes financial sense.

Since this is what we have to goggle over though, here's the base of 110 North Wacker. Would be super cool to see something like this on Church. What if he builds a park for the homeless underneath the overhang? Have our cake and eat it too?

[PillowTalk4]

21 hours ago, PaulChinetti said:

Is this a real building? 

I love the skinnier base  and then the flair out.

Yes.  It's the China Merchants Tower building in Shenzhen, China.  It was completed in 2013 and is 37 stories tall.  I had posted it previously as an alternative to some of the other designs we've seen for Nashville.  

[PaulChinetti]

DROOOOOOOOLLLL. That angle!

[nashvylle]

Haha what are you guys doing to yourselves!! 

[Ingram]

23 hours ago, Dale said:

^ You guys are torturing yourselves.

I guess you're starting to notice this forum is rather nutty.

[satalac]

Alright Tony, use a mixture of glass and brick and I think we'd have a winning design. 

 

[Titans10]

maybe we could just talk him into giving this a whirl again 

[DeemonBruhn]

maybe we could just talk him into giving this a whirl again 

To each their own. To me that looks like an early 2000’s era design for a building that belongs Houston.

[Pyramid Scheme]

59 minutes ago, DeemonBruhn said:

 

To each their own. To me that looks like an early 2000’s era design for a building that belongs Houston.

 

I think it looks magnificent. Sort of like art deco.

[Dale]

At the risk of sounding picky, why couldn’t the reveal have featured a crisper rendering ?

[SoundScan]

Right? I can find cat videos in 8K HDR on YouTube, but a rendering for what would be a $300M building  looks like it was made in Microsoft Paint in 1994.

[DeemonBruhn]

At the risk of sounding picky, why couldn’t the reveal have featured a crisper rendering ?

I would surmise that he is being intentionally vague to allow for future flexibility.

[NashRugger]

18 hours ago, Titans10 said:

maybe we could just talk him into giving this a whirl again 

No thanks, that 700ft version was better and would already be standing I'm sure had it not been for the increase in size and such.

I'm all for a new tallest, but not to the point where it obscenely is out of proportion to the rest of the skyline, i.e. Oklahoma City.  

[MidTenn1]

3 hours ago, Dale said:

At the risk of sounding picky, why couldn’t the reveal have featured a crisper rendering ?

It's a picture taken of a digital billboard showing the rendering. The ads on the billboard are typically flashed for about 6 seconds as all the ads cycle through at 6 seconds each until the repeat of the original. It would be tough to get a quality snapshot.

[bnacincy]

4 hours ago, DeemonBruhn said:

 

I would surmise that he is being intentionally vague to allow for future flexibility.

 

I had a baby picture like that.