1715 West End (twin 25 story towers, 200 room hotel, residential, retail, garage)

[markhollin]

Twin 25 story towers (both actually 20 stories on top of a 5 story pedestal) that would feature a 200 room hotel, residential housing, retail, and a large garage are envisioned by Ardavan Afrakhteh.  He bought the former bank building property encompassing .52 acre at 1715 West End Ave. (just east of Hotel Indigo) for $5 million in January. 

Afrakhteh is often known as more of a land banker, so we are not sure how serious this concept is, or it it is just a show piece to get other developers interested in buying or partnering with him. 

In the renderings, it appears that one of the towers would face West End, and the other face Broadway.  The area is zoned for 16 stories, but there may be allowances for more height based on parking, LEED certifications, etc.  

This development would be less than a block to the SE from the massive Broadwest complex, already underway. 

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/article/21025911/image-released-for-proposed-grassmere-office-building

 

The1 story former SunTrust Bank branch is on the site now. Looking SW from West End Ave., 1/2 block west of 17th Ave. South:

This screen shot from Smeagolsfree's excellent development map shows the site in teal at the center of the frame:

[smeagolsfree]

This was the project I eluded to on the West End thread.

 

My thoughts are this: 

A 5% chance of happening. That's about all we can say based on his track record thus far.

[musiczealot]

That seems like an awfully narrow footprint for that large of a project.

What are the chances of this being the first piece of a long-term play of acquiring the car wash, Sprint store, the purple square parcels (all I remember the purple square being was Bill Haslam's campaign headquarters 8 years ago)?

[MLBrumby]

Didn't he own the site of the Kennect building?  If he is, then that's the only thing I can think of he has proposed that has even come close to materializing, and obviously it took someone else to build it. BTW: What is the status of his proposed residential midrise on the perch above the I-440/I-40 junction?  

[smeagolsfree]

7 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

Didn't he own the site of the Kennect building?  If he is, then that's the only thing I can think of he has proposed that has even come close to materializing, and obviously it took someone else to build it. BTW: What is the status of his proposed residential midrise on the perch above the I-440/I-40 junction?  

He owned the site where Noshville was  and had planned a 2o something story residential tower there. He has since sold that to Vanderbilt. He is also the one that proposed the hotel that is still on the map at I 65 and OHB south of town and is the one doing Sky Nashville on Howard Hill that was supposed to start last month but no dirt has moved yet.

17 minutes ago, musiczealot said:

That seems like an awfully narrow footprint for that large of a project.

What are the chances of this being the first piece of a long-term play of acquiring the car wash, Sprint store, the purple square parcels (all I remember the purple square being was Bill Haslam's campaign headquarters 8 years ago)?

Treg Warner owns the car wash and just spent a boatload of money redoing it. On the other side is the old office building that was converted to Hotel Indigo now Aloft hotel. Thus to get this dine would be beyond his means IMO.

[BnaBreaker]

Yeah, I don't think anyone should take any proposal by him seriously until he actually follows through with one of his plans.

Edited October 6, 2018 by BnaBreaker

[Pdt2f]

As highly unlikely as it is, I hope it happens. This is a good looking project and seems to make the most of that little bit of land. Maybe the developer/land banker guy will end up reading this thread, getting super defensive, and bankrolling this project out of sheer spite?  

[mattbhadley]

The past couple of days there have been crews taking loads and loads of junk and old furniture out the old Suntrust Bank building... there has also been a crew clearing landscaping and removing some pavement from around the building. It feels like they are prepping to demo the old bank building...

Is this project still on the table? I figured with no news and no movement for well over a year this one was dead.

[MLBrumby]

Was the car wash in the footprint of that proposal. I know part of the Suntrust and BBT merger here is resulting in branches being closed. 

[downtownresident]

It’s going to be a Fifth Third Bank branch per this permit: 

https://epermits.nashville.gov/#/permit/3753256?searchCode=APN&page=2&searchText=09216017600&searchType=permit&orderBy=fullAddress ASC,permitNumber ASC

[smeagolsfree]

You beat me to it Taylor. I thought William did a real estate notes on this when I sent the pemit to him a wek or so ago.

But we can probably kiss Ardivans grand two tower vision here good bye. Just like all of the other towers he has proposed. He was supposed to have started tree removal on Howard Hill for Sky Nashvillle back in December and that has not happened either.

 

[markhollin]

Work continues on the new Fifth Third Bank branch conversion of former SunTrust Bank building.

Looking south across West End Ave.,  1/2 block east of 18th Ave:
 

[markhollin]

The like-new cladding on the Fifth Third Bank branch conversion of former SunTrust Bank building.

Looking SW across West End Ave.,  1/2 block east of 18th Ave:
 

[markhollin]

Progress on the back (south) side of the Fifth Third Bank branch on the site.

Looking north from Broadway, 1/2 block east of 18th Ave. South: