Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs

[nashvylle]

1 hour ago, MLBrumby said:

Anyone know what the crane in front of the ATT & (BWSC?) building is?  I'd guess it's the LC Sobro site, but it seems awfully tall for a 7-story building. And how close will Eakin's box get to City Lights from this distance/angle? 

So is anyone else feeling like giving up on Embassy/Curio?  

 

Your vision is better than mine. No idea where that crane is 

[donNdonelson2]

Music City in the Big Apple!

[markhollin]

Looking NE along Division St. from Kimpton Hotel/Aertson:

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Aerial Innovations, 18 months ago:

[chris holman]

[donNdonelson2]

Here is a Warne Riker Photo from 2012 that came up in my “memories” on Facebook from my posting it back then. It’s worth sharing on here again as well. Wishing a happy and safe Labor Day weekend to all!

[UTgrad09]

Edited September 2, 2018 by UTgrad09

[dragonfly]

On 8/29/2018 at 10:14 AM, wreynol4 said:

Geez, their skyline is at least twice as dense as ours

That is mostly residential, as west coast youngish people want to move to downtown Austin. You can look up the numbers and see that office square footage of Nashville and Austin are almost the same. Also Austin does not have a midtown to campare to Nashville's.  I lived in Austin twice and Nashville thrice.

Edited September 3, 2018 by dragonfly

[Predsboy18]

If I may go on a mini-rant on here. You guys always DO say I need to post more, so here goes.

I'm a Nashville native, one of the few remaining, but we are out there. Being born in the early 80s, I'm not quite as privy to the particulars of the history of our great city, even though I did take a class on Nashville history in high school. I grew up in a time where downtown was only "open" from 8-5, and going down there after dark was dicey at times. No honky tonks on Lower Broad, 2nd had numerous restaurants, but many struggled to get by. I can recall going to the Old Spaghetti Factory on 2nd, and the family would park at the Bank St. lot, walk down, eat, then get out. There was virtually no tourist industry except for Music Row, and a few spots here and there. You had Fain Fair at the Fairgrounds, and Nashville was just sort of, there.

I for one am glad we've rid ourselves of the seedy side of Lower Broad, though some nights, some of the drunken tourists might make one long for the "old days", but they can be avoided, and there's so much more to do now that doesn't involve that area. I see a number of people that have lived here for a certain amount of time whine about "Nashville is full" or that we're getting "as bad as Atlanta" and other hyperbole of that nature. I loved the photo submitted by @PHofKS, but to many on my Facebook feed use that as a weapon to say how bad all the growth is. I disagree. Yes, development has gone above and beyond anything that most of us could have imagined, but that's what happens when you're a mid-sized city that is so centrally located that people and businesses come beating down your door to be here. We're getting businesses from all over the world that 25 years ago would have never given Nashville even a glance, but now are wanting to locate here. The only issue is we can't build fast enough.

I will agree to their point in one respect, that with the growth has come an undesirable element, and that is the scourge of the "tall skinny". Driving around The Nations, they're like a disease spreading, and sadly, they're hitting Old Hickory, in the village which is supposed to have a historic overlay that new homes have to look like the existing homes in the area, but that's being ignored for this horrid 3 per lot garbage. That I will agree needs to be put to an end somehow. Sadly, as long as people buy them, they will keep building them. It's a shame that it's happening to one of the best neighborhoods in Nashville. (I might be a bit biased because I have family there)

I love the growth overall, I love that our skyline is starting to look like a real city, and I love that we're slowly knocking off that "redneck" image, even if the CVB keeps promoting us as that, but that's tourism money, and I don't go past 5th Ave on Broad unless I absolutely have to, so I don't deal with it. I love that Nashville has exploded the way it has, and we in this group embrace that growth and embrace that change, because we are able to see where this is leading us. We all want that 1,000 footer, that one building that will put Nashville on the map of a major city, but we also know that it's an evolution. Girratana was ambitious with the Signature Tower, perhaps a little too ambitious, but his is the kind of thinking Nashville needs to push us over the top. The recession didn't help, but perhaps he was also dreaming a bit big. It did make Atlanta hate us for a while, so that was kind of a bonus.

I guess what I'm saying here is, I for one love the growth, I love that some of the older buildings are being preserved, I think L&C is a landmark building, and just to stir up the hornets nest, I think it's a beautiful building. A bit jarring with the concrete, but it was our first, and if you get it in the right angle, it's actually a really nice building. I actually like a number of the old buildings that survived the "tear it all down" rampage of the 70s-90s, as they all have a certain charm about them, and are a great way to see where we were, and where we're going. My chief concern with the continued growth is that there's a sense of "nativeism" creeping in among the older residents that for some reason want to go back, rather than forward. I will agree with an earlier post that the mid 90s-mid 2000s were my favorite years in Nashville, as we hadn't experienced the boom yet, but we were growing, and we were a respectable mid-size city, but then we all long for our younger years from time to time, but time marches forward, and so does our wonderful city.

[markhollin]

Crane Wars.  Lifestyle Communities SoBro in distance, City Lights, and the two at Peabody Plaza/Trolly Barns site.

Looking SW from KVB Bridge:

[dmillsphoto]

Nice sunset timelapse courtesy of Jacqueline Cassell

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1036778513800548352

[markhollin]

Another shot from Live on the Green:

 

[Mr_Bond]

On 9/3/2018 at 6:57 AM, Predsboy18 said:

...and I love that we're slowly knocking off that "redneck" image, even if the CVB keeps promoting us as that, but that's tourism money, and I don't go past 5th Ave on Broad unless I absolutely have to, so I don't deal with it.

Great post, @Predsboy18.  I'm not a 'native' but have lived here for 26+ years now.  IMHO, when we took "Music City" as our brand, we embraced all things 'country music,' including rednecks.  However, "the Nashville sound" made country music accessible to a much wider audience by moving past the quaint, folksy sound from the Appalachians.

Just like the people with the attitude that created "the Nashville sound," we are showing the world what it means to be Southern, smart, accessible to all, and (I would add) friendly.

[markhollin]

Looking SE at  8th Ave. South district between Bradford Ave. and Berry Rd:

[jmtunafish]

From this morning's Sky5:

[nashvylle]

Hi 5th and Broad Residential Building

[UTgrad09]

From my recent visit to a certain West Coast town.

[BnaBreaker]

Wow... Eugene  sure looks great this time of year!!

[markhollin]

TBT: University School, 1925
 

[Tennessine]

That LA air looks awful. I would hate living there.

[markhollin]

The Parthenon (courtesy of Neil Andrews):

 

[Andrew_3289]

[Mr_Bond]

1 hour ago, Andrew_3289 said:

Very nice shot!  One small step for man, one giant leap for the UP forum.

[TNinVB]

Wow! Is that the new balcony or from a room?

[markhollin]

Batman+Swirl (courtesy of Caleb McLaughlin):