Driftwood District (multiple 20 +/- story towers, 1,636 residential units, 409 hotel rooms, 82,000 sq. ft. retail, internal parking garages) at 407 Driftwood St.

[markhollin]

Time to give this its own thread. For the past 5 years Nashville Capital Group developers have made loose proposals for a large mixed-use project on the far west end of the Railroad District along the Cumberland River,  just SE of downtown. The owners of the 9.4 acres site that sits at 407 Driftwood St. (just east and north of the I-24/40 split and just west of proposed connector bridge over the Cumberland River from South 5th St. to Fairfield  Ave.) are now formally seeking rezoning of the project to make way for a large scale development.

Driftwood District could be made up of multiple 20 +/- story towers, 1,636 residential units, 409 hotel rooms, 82,000 sq. ft. retail, and internal parking garages. Kimley-Horn is named to oversee engineering/land planning, and Hawkins Partners will be in charge of landscape architecture.  A primary architect is not listed yet on documents submitted to Metro Planning Dept. 

Originally Nashville Capital Group had had been granted rezoning from industrial to office/general, but now they want to update to residential/mixed use. The team will go before Metro Planning Commission on Dec. 8th to request the new zoning and a community plan amendment. 

Below are some rough renderings from several years ago to give an idea of massing.

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/rezoning-of-downtown-area-property-sought/article_ee667002-5634-11ed-9edd-0be4f0f234e0.html

Proposed renderings from several years ago to give some massing context (these are not official):

 

Proposed diagram from several years ago to give some massing context (not official):




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

[PillowTalk4]

Edited October 28, 2022 by PillowTalk4

[PillowTalk4]

Somebody is sharing in my dreams... 

That's another area that I've longed wanted to see developed into something other than light industrial.  One has to wonder, if this actually happens, what impact will this have on developing the East Bank.

[Nash_12South]

Have they announced the infrastructure costs to the city????

Kidding, Looks great.

[Sean blackdog]

29 minutes ago, markhollin said:

Time to give this its own thread. For the past 5 years Nashville Capital Group developers have made loose proposals for a large mixed-use project on the far west end of the Railroad District along the Cumberland River,  just SE of downtown. The owners of the 9.4 acres site that sits at 407 Driftwood St. (just east and north of the I-24/40 split and just west of proposed connector bridge over the Cumberland River from South 5th St. to Fairfield  Ave.) are now formally seeking rezoning of the project to make way for a large scale development.

Driftwood District could be made up of multiple 20 +/- story towers, 1,636 residential units, 409 hotel rooms, 40,900 sq. ft. retail, and internal parking garages. Kimley-Horn is named to oversee engineering/land planning, and Hawkins Partners will be in charge of landscape architecture.  A primary architect is not listed yet on documents submitted to Metro Planning Dept. 

Originally Nashville Capital Group had had been granted rezoning from industrial to office/general, but now they want to update to residential/mixed use. The team will go before Metro Planning Commission on Dec. 8th to request the new zoning and a community plan amendment. 

Below are some rough renderings from several years ago to give an idea of massing.

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/rezoning-of-downtown-area-property-sought/article_ee667002-5634-11ed-9edd-0be4f0f234e0.html

Proposed renderings from several years ago to give some massing context (these are not official):

 

Proposed diagram from several years ago to give some massing context (not official):




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

[downtownresident]

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but the maximum height allowed under the proposed SP would be to elevation 605’, which is 189’ above the flood elevation: 

Image taken from the plan located here: https://maps.nashville.gov/MPC/2022SP-083-001_plan.pdf

[PillowTalk4]

35 minutes ago, downtownresident said:

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but the maximum height allowed under the proposed SP would be to elevation 605’, which is 189’ above the flood elevation: 

 

[sambo]

They could maybe add a Music City Star station somewhere in the vicinity over there in 5 years+ since there is a lot of space for development between the downtown station and Donelson station.

Driftwood, TX, is also the home of Desert Door Sotol, so they should start a distillery taproom over there jk

Edited October 28, 2022 by sambo

[MidTenn1]

Build a baseball stadium (at the owner's expense) in the Metro bus maintenance facility next door. The bus facility can be moved. It would be an awesome location if parking and transportation to can be worked out.

[PleinNash]

…. Driftwood ??

Edited October 28, 2022 by PleinNash

[nashville born]

3 hours ago, PillowTalk4 said:

Somebody is sharing in my dreams... 

That's another area that I've longed wanted to see developed into something other than light industrial.  One has to wonder, if this actually happens, what impact will this have on developing the East Bank.

Two words:  arms race.  Giddy-up!

[nashvylle]

48 minutes ago, MidTenn1 said:

Build a baseball stadium (at the owner's expense) in the Metro bus maintenance facility next door. The bus facility can be moved. It would be an awesome location if parking and transportation to can be worked out.

Could have been a cool spot for the soccer stadium to go as well. 

[Baronakim]

5 hours ago, downtownresident said:

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but the maximum height allowed under the proposed SP would be to elevation 605’, which is 189’ above the flood elevation: 

Image taken from the plan located here: https://maps.nashville.gov/MPC/2022SP-083-001_plan.pdf

Note that this site flooded worse than Lower Broad back in 2010.  That is why the area on the other side of the interstate will be Wharf Park instead of development like this.  Unlike the retractable wall nixed for Broadway,  this site will require some kind of flood protection around the entire perimeter as no continuous barrier woul be built along the riverbanks here.  The Oracle site on the East bank has provisions for flooding.  What does this propose design or has it not been considered?  IMO, the expense of flood protection may be enough to kill this proposal given current  economic levels.  Of course if the developers are as flush with cash as Oracle...

 

[Deangelo]

This proposal is interesting, I would love to see buildings at least 20 stories or more built on this site. The rendering from several years ago  looks cool.

[lmc123]

The MPC approved with conditions on 1/12/2023

[MLBrumby]

OK... how realistic is this one?  

[smeagolsfree]

I do not see them developing the site, but rather another developer coming in and doing something of a lesser scale. Only time will tell. We have so many of these sites now it is not even funny.  Just think about the East Bank and Driftwood area alone now. You have the GBT site, the Oracle campus, the RMR site, The Titans Village site, The Driftwood site, not to mention all of the smaller sites that will be available for other projects.

Moving around town you still have Nash Yards that is not built out, The New Heights District, The Beaman site, The Reed site, Demonbreun Hill, plus I know of another one that is not public that you can't get out of me that is in the planning stages. 

This is more than any mid-size city and probably some large cities. So, the likelihood of this being built out soon is low. Not to mention that it is on a flood zone and flood remediation will have to take place for a project to work. We have to start to be real at some point.

[Luvemtall]

All of these sites you mentioned , plus the smaller ones like 2nd & Peabody, Dairy site, Tennessean site, the Circle projects etc . Add them all together and it’s like the whole downtown of some decent cities. It is unreal to think about, some will most likely be cut back or canceled but some will not. So we have to be thankful we are in this position, not to many places experience this. 

[lmc123]

[markhollin]

Aerial of site courtesy of Steve Tanner: