2021 Predictions & Your Wish List

[smeagolsfree]

I know we are a full week and a half or so into the new year, but I did want to give you guys a chance to throw out your predictions and your wish lish for 2020.

Lets keep it in the possible and real and not the fantasy please.

My predictions are as follows:

-New announcements of between 7 and 10 - 20 plus story buildings. This is not counting the ones we may know about such as Circle South and previously announced buildings.

-Three to five major corporate relocations and expansions of 1000 jobs plus.

WISH LIST

Some kind of regional transportation plan implemented by the state. 

As always, the start of a new tallest building. Its always a possibility with the growth we are now experiencing. 

 

 

[nashvylle]

Prediction: a new tallest will be announced. 
wish list: Nashville SC partners with the Titans to do massive renovation to Nissan stadium. 

[rolly]

Oracle announces giant Nashville campus.

Major NYC financial firm moves to Nashville.

Cummins Station starts first tower. 

 

Edited January 9, 2020 by rolly

[Binbin98]

Predictions: Oracle announces a campus in Nashville, AMAZON announces 5,000-10,000 more jobs and Nashville in essence becomes their HQ3 specifically for healthcare and logistics, and another huge corporate relocation (probably financial) announced for the circle south project.

Wishlist: Nashville International Airport lands another flight to Europe, A new tallest is either announced or Paramount goes through, and the local government starts to invest in the local infrastructure for a change.

[downtownresident]

Predictions(assuming the economy holds):

Cooper announces transit plan which focuses on sidewalk improvements, bus system enhancements(including a shift to a more grid based system vs. hub and spoke), and intersection improvements. Long long shot of including dedicated ROW BRT along the pikes out to the 'burbs.

Oracle officially announces campus at River North.

Amazon officially announces additional hiring, and we get a finalized plan for office space in Nashville Yards. The rumored 40 story shrinks to between 20-30 stories.

Circle South unveils their plans, and an unforeseen(financial?) corporate relocation is the main tenant for the office portion. The office portion will be tall, but will fall just short of being a new tallest.  

BNA sees an announcement for an additional flight to Europe. Will likely be a Delta flight starting around the time their new expanded Sky Club opens. BNA continues to grow, but will average under 10% growth year over year(assuming the 737 MAX continues to be grounded), and falls just shy of 19 million passengers. 

Swerdling's plans for the hotel finalize at 2nd and KVB, and construction starts late summer/early fall. 

A minimum of 10 new 20 + floor buildings announced. 

Wish List:

The state announces a regional transit system that includes Commuter Rail or ROW dedicated busses out to Spring Hill/Murfreesboro along the interstate corridors. The cities would build park and ride facilities and offer limited last mile transit that ties into the system. 

The 4th ave/2nd ave railroad crossing gets fixed, with a new railroad bridge built. 

NES announces plan to start burying power lines, starting with the denser neighborhoods in the core.

[PillowTalk4]

The need for the original Signature Tower is resurrected and built as an office tower in downtown or SoBro.

Cummings Station starts on 1st and 2nd tower.

The south end of Sobro see's announcements for both mid-rise and high rise buildings to expand the skyline closer to I-65.

Redesign of the Jefferson Street, John Merritt and Ed Temple Blvd intersection to improve the approach and appeal to the Tennessee State Campus.   Would love to see one of the gas stations closed and the other relocated to the opposite empty corner lot.

Redevelop the area along Jefferson Street near I-40  between D.B. Todd and Ed Temple Blvd./28th Ave N. with low and mid-rise buildings to create street level shops, residential and small office suites.  This would help to create a college park like area for Fisk, Meharry and TSU.  The area should include a neighborhood sized Target, Walgreens or CVS, national chain restaurants and local restaurants, possibly a hotel brand like Hilton Garden Suites or Marriott Courtyard.

Redesign of the south portion of the I-40/I-65 loop to better handle the flow of traffic (sky ramps or an upper deck may be the solution to move traffic that is not exiting into downtown). 

Announcement for the first of several buildings to develop the East Bank between Jefferson Street and S. 2nd Street (to include the elimination of all industrial sites in the area, truck stops and all surface parking lots that could be converted to parking garages to create more green space. The truck stop could be moved to the Trinity Lane area)

Enclose Nissan Stadium (Nashville is missing out on major sporting events like the Superbowl and the  NCAA Final Four.

All the car dealerships on Broadway either relocate to free up land for more appealing development, or reduce their lot sizes by building garages to create more urban friendly car dealerships.

The property bound by Broadway, West End and 17th Ave South (The Triangle) is developed with a prominent office tower with a colorful LED display for either visual art effect or commercial advertising.  I'd prefer the visual art effect.

Disney, Universal Studios or Six-Flags announces the development of a new theme park in or near Nashville.  Have they developed the old Starwood  Amphitheater property yet? Probably not large enough but just a thought...

 

[markhollin]

Predictions:

- Unico announces plan for major 40 story tower just north of One Nashville Place (R2D2 Building)

- A one or two tower project gets announced for the Exxon site at Broadway and 12th Ave. South

- Music City Center expansion announced for First Baptist’s lot at Demonbruen and 6th Ave. South.

- Sale of the MDHA lot at SE corner of Hermitage Ave. and KVB to major developer for another 30 story tower

- Pizzuti announces a 20 story office tower for NW corner of Lea and 4th Ave. South

- Gettys Group announce plan for 10 story project at 460 James Robertson Parkway

- Comfort Inn (11 stories) on 14th Ave. North just north of Church St. is resurrected.

- A project ranging from 6 stories on north and 18 stories on south (probably hotel/entertainment mix, still could be House of Blues complex) announced for block along 1st and 2nd Ave. South, along the northern edge of Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge.

- Highlands Development begins leaking plans for TheTennessean site (at least 3 20-25 story towers)

- Plans for another 10-15 story residential project announced for the RJ Young site at NE corner of Division and 9th Ave. South in The Gulch.

- Several 10–15 story projects announced for just NE of Nissan Stadium along Woodland St.

- Several more major financial firms announce relocations from NE to Nashville.  

- More relocations of other corporate HQ's from west coast and maybe even some rust belt cities. 

 

Wish List:

- Major tower (50-70 stories) on the garage/surface lot site at NE corner of Commerce and 5th Ave. North

- Tony Giaratanna somehow gets things worked-out for the 750 ft. Paramount Tower at Church Street Park site.  If not, he does a variation at another site within a few block.

- Buckingham Gulch (38 stories) finally starts moving forward

- The State begins to seriously entertain offers to develop their massive surface lots at James Robertson Parkway and Rosa Parks Blvd.

[LA_TN]

Tony begins construction on Church St. blocks tower 

Swerdling starts site prep for KVB hotels (actual construction in 2021)

Hensler starts construction on his Rolling Mill tower/project 

Hotel Broadway site (13th & McGavock) is sold, 22 story hotel announced, construction 2021

One major office tower announced for Commerce St (not in Nashville Yards) 46 stories

Exxon site buys 11th Avenue property from Highwoods and announce 25 story residential. Meanwhile, Highwoods makes formal announcement of plans in Q2 for the razed Tennessean site. Propose twin office towers at 25 stories. This is only an announcement to hopefully lure a primary tenant. Crickets for 2020

BNA will hit 20 million passengers for calendar year 2020...barely. Delta or Air France to Paris announced by August, beginning April 2021. One new international flight to a Latin America destination announced

One major redevelopment project on Broadway announced for one set of properties adjacent to BroadWest. And hopefully the tower in front of Skyhouse will start by Q3

Circle South announced as 3 towers (22 & 26 office plus 32 residential) and begins demo, site work 2020 Q3

Oracle officially announced

Gerst Haus redevelopment announced, 16 story hotel

Woodland St (Old Thai Phuket) will be announced, 2 residential buildings, 6 and 10 stories

RJ Young 16 story residential announced

Three Franklin Park is a go Q3

Tanger Outlets begin construction Q2 to open Summer 2021

Wendy's and Chick-fil-A announced for 5th and Broadway

Taylor Swiftly left Nashville for NYC, years ago, and continues to stay there

Urban Planet web server burns out 2 CPUs due to Nashville subforum overload

[donNdonelson2]

I thought T. S. came back to TN already (on paper anyway-no income tax, you know). Remember how interested she was in the Marsha Blackburn senate race.

[Buildtall]

“One major office tower announced for Commerce St (not in Nashville Yards) 46 stories”

Is this a hint at something

[smeagolsfree]

No.

[smeagolsfree]

I am just renaming this thread so we can continue with it.

I think that the prediction and anticipation for 2020 got thrown out the window  because of COVID, so hopefully we can start 2021 anew. 

I really do not think year will be as strong as we hope it will be as it will be a slow start but will pick up as 2021 moves forward. The efficacy of the vaccines will have a lot to do with how things happen, IMO.

Now to my predictions for 2021:

Some of these are givens but I will list anyway.

* The start of 1601 Broadway

* The start of the Edition Hotel

* The start of the Gibson Residences

* The start of 900 Church

* The start of 801 Church

*  The start of Amazon Two full scale work

* The start of the MGM project

* The start of the 127 Rosa Parks project

* The start of Circle South

* Start of Swerdling/Fairmont hotel late 2021 or early 2022

* The start of the Moore Office building

* The start of the Lord & Liberty Hotel

* The start of the Bill Miller Reserve Hotel

* Start of Brightwood project in Green Hills 

* Start of Block 5 in Germantown

* Start of Moderna Germantown

* Start of Neuhoff first Phase in Germantown

*The start of Vanderbilt Graduate housing 

* The start of The Landings Creek Lane Cap. project on the east bank

* Announcement of Oracle to the East Bank (40 ACRE CAMPUS)

* Sale of the Beaman site on Broadway

* Details emerge about the two unknown Giarratana towers

* Paramount is declared dead, because the Metro will not sell the lot

*  Multiple HQ relocations from CA & NY

* A new high-rise project announcement at 18th & Division

* Development will pick up steam in the WeHo area due to the construction of the Soccer Stadium. More new developments will be announced and the area south of the stadium will start seeing new investments (Corinne Place & Russwurm Heights) with a major development announce for the southern intersection of Craighead and Nolensville.

I will stop here and give you folks a chance to share as I could go on. Yes, I am sounding overly optimistic, but I do think we have a lot to look forward to and I do not think 2021 could get much worse unless the economy totally crashed, WW III happens or Yellowstone erupts. Then all bets are off!

 

 

 

 

[nashvylle]

1 hour ago, smeagolsfree said:

* Development will pick up steam in the WeHo area due to the construction of the Soccer Stadium. More new developments will be announced and the area south of the stadium will start seeing new investments (Corinne Place & Russwurm Heights) with a major development announce for the southern intersection of Craighead and Nolensville.

Have you heard about any rumors for Corinne Place and Russwurm Heights?

[smeagolsfree]

23 minutes ago, nashvylle said:

Have you heard about any rumors for Corinne Place and Russwurm Heights?

No, this is an area that has sort of been on my watch list for a while and is a natural progression from the WeHo/Fairgrounds area. The area that fronts Craighead & Nolensville is a perfect opportunity for a developer to have a very ambitious project there. I am unsure if it is in a opportunity zone or not, but I have had my eye on that land for some time.

It was quitclaimed to the Kornman Investment company in 2003. I think they are a land investment company, just waiting to sell.

[MLBrumby]

2 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

I am just renaming this thread so we can continue with it.

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* The start of the Edition Hotel

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* Start of Swerdling/Fairmont hotel late 2021 or early 2022

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* Start of Moderna Germantown

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* The start of The Landings Creek Lane Cap. project on the east bank

* Announcement of Oracle to the East Bank (40 ACRE CAMPUS)

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* Details emerge about the two unknown Giarratana towers

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* A new high-rise project announcement at 18th & Division

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"The Unknown Giarratana" towers?  Were these credible rumors? And where would they go? 

Smeags, you keep your ear to the ground and become aware of projects (sometimes long) before they're publicly announced. So I have to ask, which of the above have you heard about with a lot of confidence?  OK... I had to ask. 

Thought Russwurm was a typo.  Someone may have to do something about changing that name.

[NissanvilleTitans]

Wish list? Oracle moves to town and Siggy comes back.

Edited December 2, 2020 by NissanvilleTitans

[smeagolsfree]

29 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

"The Unknown Giarratana" towers?  Were these credible rumors? And where would they go? 

Smeags, you keep your ear to the ground and become aware of projects (sometimes long) before they're publicly announced. So I have to ask, which of the above have you heard about with a lot of confidence?  OK... I had to ask. 

Thought Russwurm was a typo.  Someone may have to do something about changing that name.

The NBJ has reported that Tony has two more towers in the works, so that is public knowledge now. If I told what I knew then I would have to kill all the people I know!

[nashvylle]

42 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

The NBJ has reported that Tony has two more towers in the works, so that is public knowledge now. If I told what I knew then I would have to kill all the people I know!

Can you tell us if the design for these two unknown towers have... a crown/spire?

[smeagolsfree]

I have no clue.  But based on the current architectural trends, crowns are so last century.

[e-dub]

I'd rather they have distinctive lighting than a crown, honestly.

[titanhog]

I’m surprised no one predicted 2020 would be the Apocalypse. 

[smeagolsfree]

6 hours ago, titanhog said:

I’m surprised no one predicted 2020 would be the Apocalypse. 

From my  post:

"Yes, I am sounding overly optimistic, but I do think we have a lot to look forward to and I do not think 2021 could get much worse unless the economy totally crashed, WW III happens or Yellowstone erupts. Then all bets are off!"

 

I did leave out the life ending asteroid strike or the direct hit of a class X solar flare on planet earth, or even the possible zombie apocalypse, alien invasion, or gamma ray burst.

 

[titanhog]

57 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

From my  post:

"Yes, I am sounding overly optimistic, but I do think we have a lot to look forward to and I do not think 2021 could get much worse unless the economy totally crashed, WW III happens or Yellowstone erupts. Then all bets are off!"

 

I did leave out the life ending asteroid strike or the direct hit of a class X solar flare on planet earth, or even the possible zombie apocalypse, alien invasion, or gamma ray burst.

 

I was talking about no one predicted Covid back in January…or that 2020 would be the craziest year ever.

[smeagolsfree]

I may add another one to the list now that I saw a demo permit this morning.

Modera Gulch 2021 start

And now the Rutledge Flats project after the news article.

[donNdonelson2]

My wish for 2021 (and beyond) would be the announcement of a new, high tech performing arts venue to replace the aging TPAC. This venue could provide better access to patron parking and dining than the current location. In my dreams this would be a part of a project that would incorporate restaurants, retail, office, and perhaps even residential (and the Reed or Beaman properties would be good locations). Photos are of the Eccles Theatre in Salt Lake City, which was developed at a cost of $116 million and opened in 2016.

 

Edited December 4, 2020 by donNdonelson2