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I was going to try and work on this more this weekend and realize that this is a first effort. This is a rendition of future and under construction towers in the downtown and possible East Bank area.

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Just for fun... Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I got a little impatient and wanted to see what all these projects might look like added to our skyline. So i had a little fu

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*Note: I copied the text from a post I made on another forum. Most of the commentary is not for y'all. Some of this is construction progress. Some is just miscellaneous. I wish I was half as talented

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41 minutes ago, UTgrad09 said:

I know we show ones from here all the time....but since I was up on the hill today...

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There can't be too many skyline shots taken from this angle, in my opinion.  Great shot.  This is the only angle that I know of from which you can capture every significant tower in the same photo.  

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5 hours ago, UTgrad09 said:

I know we show ones from here all the time....but since I was up on the hill today..

The JW Marriott is revealing nicely from this angle. And the Marriott Tri-Brand is visible, too. It's going to be very interesting what the eventual SoBro/KVB massing of 20ish story hotels (Omni, Tri-brand, The Joseph, Drury) - will look like. Ditto for The Westin, JW, Embassy/Curio and Cambria. 

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Whoa, Bridge Building and Cumberland Park was 2011? I don't know why, but it seems so much longer ago that it was built. My brain knows it's only a few years old, but the whole fabric of downtown has changed so much in such a short period of time, it's hard to believe it was only 6 years ago.

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10 minutes ago, BnaBreaker said:

Just imagine how proud they'd be if only they knew that their sacred homeland would one day be home to a combination Taco Bell/Pizza Hut.  

This particular location is called the 'Mound Bottom' site near the Narrows of the Harpeth State Park. Indeed it is now a part of the State Park per the request of Mr. Street who owned the site prior to his death. I attended a meeting with the Ranger in charge of the park making a plea for interested citizens to create a 501c3 organization called "Friends of Mound Bottom' to support the site through publicity and fund raising. I discussed this with several people, including an accountant (necessary for a successful 501c3), but didn't get a lot of interest.

What the Ranger really wanted was a swinging bridge over the Harpeth to connect an accessible part of the park to the mounds. My cursory Engineering calculations concluded a nearly 300 ft. long bridge would be required to stay above 2010 flood levels. That's an expensive bridge! But, you can access it by canoe.

Morgan Freeman recently visited the site while filming his National Geographic series, "What is God?". 

So in short, there won't be a Taco Bell here, although the throngs of week-end canoeists leave enough garbage on the banks to make you think there could be one.

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This particular location is called the 'Mound Bottom' site near the Narrows of the Harpeth State Park. Indeed it is now a part of the State Park per the request of Mr. Street who owned the site prior to his death. I attended a meeting with the Ranger in charge of the park making a plea for interested citizens to create a 501c3 organization called "Friends of Mound Bottom' to support the site through publicity and fund raising. I discussed this with several people, including an accountant (necessary for a successful 501c3), but didn't get a lot of interest.

What the Ranger really wanted was a swinging bridge over the Harpeth to connect an accessible part of the park to the mounds. My cursory Engineering calculations concluded a nearly 300 ft. long bridge would be required to stay above 2010 flood levels. That's an expensive bridge! But, you can access it by canoe.

Morgan Freeman recently visited the site while filming his National Geographic series, "What is God?". 

So in short, there won't be a Taco Bell here, although the throngs of week-end canoeists leave enough garbage on the banks to make you think there could be one.

I was just making a dumb joke haha, but honestly, thank you for the information!  I'm so happy to hear that the site was preserved.  That's definitely a part of metro Nashville I have very little experience with.  Sounds like it has a lot of natrual treasures waiting to be discovered!

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3 hours ago, Nathan_in_DC said:

Whoa, Bridge Building and Cumberland Park was 2011? I don't know why, but it seems so much longer ago that it was built. My brain knows it's only a few years old, but the whole fabric of downtown has changed so much in such a short period of time, it's hard to believe it was only 6 years ago.

The remodeling of the Bridge Building was about 6 years ago. The building itself is far older (90 or so ?).

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15 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:

There can't be too many skyline shots taken from this angle, in my opinion.  Great shot.  This is the only angle that I know of from which you can capture every significant tower in the same photo.  

That might not be true for long....

10 hours ago, Flatrock said:

The JW Marriott is revealing nicely from this angle. And the Marriott Tri-Brand is visible, too. It's going to be very interesting what the eventual SoBro/KVB massing of 20ish story hotels (Omni, Tri-brand, The Joseph, Drury) - will look like. Ditto for The Westin, JW, Embassy/Curio and Cambria. 

Indeed. I think the JW will have a very pleasant impact on that portion of the skyline. I'm interested to see how the Embassy will actually look. It might completely block out the Sheraton, and it will definitely fill in the sky-gap between that and Cambria/Snodgrass (TN Tower).

5th+Broad also has the potential to hide a few buildings behind it. And who knows what will happen with all the craziness around KVB. 

 

Also of note, I think you'll be able to see how Nashville Yards will extend the skyline (from this view) to the Gulch.

Speaking of the Gulch...and Midtown and Music Row/Vandy:

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And how that view connects to downtown:

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Now if we can just get Buckingham Gulch going....Virgin Hotel...and a couple more 20+ story towers out in Midtown/Vandy/Music Row....and maybe something in the A-Hole there on West End...

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No pictures, but just flew out of BNA this am and caught a grand view of the skyline. Once the cluster of hotels at the western end of the MCC are finished the skyline will really stretch out from that angle. I was thinking if the Buckingham were built, it would frame the western side of the skyline even better. Git 'er built!!

 

Also, Durham NC has a few cranes and a new tallest on the skyline. Impressive growth.

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26 minutes ago, markhollin said:

Looking west towards Gulch and Midtown from above Frist Center (courtesy of Jerry & Brooke Quinn):
 

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The WUS UP BRO district. West Union Station UPtown BROadway part of town (I'll keep pushing this until it becomes a thing),

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