Nashville College & University Expansion

[jmtunafish]

On ‎2‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 4:16 AM, markhollin said:

The handsome new dorm at Aquinas College. Looking south from athletic field at back of campus:

 

Looking east from near softball field on west side of campus:

So six months after building this beautiful building, Trevecca is now on the verge of collapse.  I saw their billboard on I-65 heading towards downtown from Brentwood last night saying Trevecca is Middle Tennessee's "fastest growing university."  What on earth happened?  http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2017/03/10/facing-problems-aquinas-college-shrink-dramatically/99000064/

[titanhog]

5 minutes ago, jmtunafish said:

So six months after building this beautiful building, Trevecca is now on the verge of collapse.  I saw their billboard on I-65 heading towards downtown from Brentwood last night saying Trevecca is Middle Tennessee's "fastest growing university."  What on earth happened?  http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2017/03/10/facing-problems-aquinas-college-shrink-dramatically/99000064/

That's Aquinas.

[jmtunafish]

2 minutes ago, titanhog said:

That's Aquinas.

ha  Oops.  I meant Aquinas, sorry about that.  Forget about the Trevecca billboard.

So, what happened to Aquinas??  If they were losing $3 million, why would they build a $9 million dorm?

[titanhog]

22 minutes ago, jmtunafish said:

ha  Oops.  I meant Aquinas, sorry about that.  Forget about the Trevecca billboard.

So, what happened to Aquinas??  If they were losing $3 million, why would they build a $9 million dorm?

Yeah...that's really weird.  Maybe it's because of the dorm that they're going broke? 

[smeagolsfree]

Sounds as if there are some folks in the hierarchy of the college that has no idea what they are doing.

[smeagolsfree]

Vandy School of Nursing project announced.

http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/education/article/20856011/vanderbilt-announces-23m-school-of-nursing-project

 

[Neigeville2]

^love that facade, especially that thing on the right where it looks like it's eaten a smaller building.

[AUNash]

I like the fact that they say they are including a reworking of the school's frontage on 21st. For a school of Vandy's caliber, 21st is a missed opportunity at present.

[markhollin]

Vandy in springtime:

[markhollin]

Travecca University is going to merge/absorb Eastern Nazarene College outside of Boston.  Could add a bit more to their substantial growth over the last decade (they've grown from about 2,000 up to over 3,200 students in the past ten years).

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/03/27/nashville-college-set-for-merger.html

[markhollin]

The just-opened Jackson Center for Music and Performing Arts at Travecca University.

Looking SE from corner of Factory St. and Lester Ave:

 

Looking NE from parking lot along Lester Ave. near Woodycrest Ave:

[markhollin]

Tower cranes up for Belmont University's Bruin Hills  Dorm (11 stories, 600 units).

Looking east along Bernard Circle from intersection with 15th Ae. South:

[markhollin]

MTSU's new Science Building renderings:
 

[MLBrumby]

Inside is reminiscent of the curves of the Music City Center. Wonder if the same architects. 

[markhollin]

Belmont Univ. aerial looking east from above 21st Ave. South last fall. Amazing how much of the campus has expanded in the last two decades. I count at least 11 new buildings in this view.  

 

[markhollin]

Belmont University's Bruin Hills Dorm (11 stories, 600 units) update:

Looking east from near Bernard Circle:

 

Looking NE from near Bernard Circle:

[markhollin]

Travecca University continues expansion by buying industrial sites at 191-195 Polk Ave. for $12.4 million.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2017/05/23/trevecca-local-investor-pay-12-4-m-mixed-use-property-near-campus/341058001/

[markhollin]

David Lipscomb University additions update.

Field Engineering Sciences Hall, looking NE:

 

The Village II, looking SE:

The Village II looking south:

[markhollin]

Lipscomb University will break ground this fall on a new $10.5 million College of Entertainment and Arts Center:

http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/education/lipscomb-university/article/20865730/gift-fuels-lipscombs-george-shinn-events-center

 

[markhollin]

Update on Belmont University's Bruin Hills Dorm (12 stories, 600 units). Up to the 4th floor now on the north end.

Looking SE from Bernard Circle:

 

Looking south from Bernard Circle:

[markhollin]

Update on Belmont University's Bruin Hills Dorm (12 stories, 600 units). Up to the 5th floor now. 

Looking east and NE Bernard Circle:

[PillowTalk4]

Tennessee State's president announced in a strategic planning session with faculty and administrators, plans to build two new academic buildings and two new residence halls as part of physical campus expansion.  I'll see if I can find out more details for each.  All that I know at this point is one of the academic buildings will be a new College of Engineering and the other will be for Health and Sciences.  A previous announcement regarding the residence halls was that each would be approximately 100K square feet.  Hopefully renderings and more details will come soon.

There are also plans to redesign the entrance into the main campus.  The issue with the entrance to the TSU campus is that it can only be done on one side of the street because there's an two very ugly Marathon gas stations on the other side of John Merritt Blvd that unless TSU buys that property, they will not be able to do anything about.  Right now the TSU entrance wall is at 29th and JMB.  29th is pretty much like an alley that runs between the two Marathon gas stations.  The only thing that could improve the visual of a redesigned entrance would be to move it further east and construct it in the curve that connects Ed Temple Blvd (28th Ave N.) to John Merritt Blvd.  Or to work with the city to do away with the island at that intersection, redesign the intersection to be all underground utilities and do a nice entrance that includes a fountain.  At least that way the visual is better and it won't include the gas stations.

[MidTenn1]

Really glad to hear the Engineering School will get new digs. Engineering needs to be highlighted at TSU as prime destination for students around the State and country. 

[archilove]

I miss the old Watkins on Church Street also. When I was 19 years old I took art classes at night there from a charismatic teacher named Gus Baker. The old building had no air conditioning and the students would open the windows and sit øn the ledges during break, trying to catch a breeze. Or we would go down to Candyland for a treat and watch Gus demonstrate his cross-hatch technique. He had a beautifully furnished apartment above Emma's Flower Shop where he invited us for a party. In my young life I had never seen anything like it. He played classical music on his baby grand, recited poetry from memory and showed us his paintings which were all over the walls. I was not into alcohol, so he fixed me a drink which looked like it could be an alcoholic drink and told me not to tell anyone. And Florence was there. 61 years ago I was in love with Florence.

[MidTenn1]

I took some classes under Gus Baker at the old UT Knoxville Extension Building at Broadway and Ninth. Quite the artist.