Nashville Bits and Pieces

[fieldmarshaldj]

3 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:

Great minds, my friend...I had that very same thought right after I posted it, and edited my above post accordingly.  Although I couldn't find an overall number for the core of the city, the second link I posted does break it down by neighborhood.

My address out here in Antioch got a paltry "18" walk score and bike score of "16." However, with no sidewalks and a very busy street that is an emergency route (with frequent police/fire and ambulance travel), you take your life into your hands. I went through the different neighborhoods, but mine was not amongst the nearly 160 listed.

[grilled_cheese]

That website is hard to read, yikes.  Inglewood got a 31 walk score.

[FrankNash]

Rumours and hearsay.....  Yates Construction has been named for 2 projects.  Virgin Hotel and Hyatt Regency Hotel (16 stories).  Also, the owners of Crazytown bar plan to develop the Big Machine Records building on 3rd across from where Hats and Boots now stands. Hats and Boots will be transformed into an Elvis Museum. 

[BnaBreaker]

37 minutes ago, FrankNash said:

Rumours and hearsay.....  Yates Construction has been named for 2 projects.  Virgin Hotel and Hyatt Regency Hotel (16 stories).  Also, the owners of Crazytown bar plan to develop the Big Machine Records building on 3rd across from where Hats and Boots now stands. Hats and Boots will be transformed into an Elvis Museum. 

I thought Hyatt Regency was the hotel signed for the Lifeway Property project that was really tall and facing Broadway...err...maybe they haven't even signed a hotel yet...err...what the hell am I thinking of...I'm confused.  

[Nashtitans]

1 minute ago, BnaBreaker said:

I thought Hyatt Regency was the hotel signed for the Lifeway Property project that was really tall and facing Broadway...err...maybe they haven't even signed a hotel yet...err...what the hell am I thinking of...I'm confused.  

yea i thought the regency was gonna be the ~35 story project in lifeway???

[titanhog]

49 minutes ago, FrankNash said:

Rumours and hearsay.....  Yates Construction has been named for 2 projects.  Virgin Hotel and Hyatt Regency Hotel (16 stories).  Also, the owners of Crazytown bar plan to develop the Big Machine Records building on 3rd across from where Hats and Boots now stands. Hats and Boots will be transformed into an Elvis Museum. 

Yes...please tell me the Hyatt info on height is wrong!!

[Nashtitans]

^I hope that's wrong, but I won't be surprised if it's correct. Nashville hates tall, unique, not-a-box buildings. The city sadly wants to maintain the small southern town vibe and not grow vertically. Wish they wasn't so conservative when it comes to this smh...

 

 

[LA_TN]

Why surprised? We had guessed the Hyatt Regency at 15-20 stories. 16 is good

[fieldmarshaldj]

18 minutes ago, LA_TN said:

Why surprised? We had guessed the Hyatt Regency at 15-20 stories. 16 is good

Ugh, 16 ? I hate shorties on properties that should be tall ! Go put a 16 story out at the airport.

[BnaBreaker]

Okay, I just want to make sure that I'm thinking of the right proposal here.  Is this supposed 16 story Hyatt the same project as discussed in this link and seen in the upper left side of the rendering below??

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2016/08/31/huge-hyatt-hotel-emerges-as-first-piece-of-lifeway.html

Edited October 16, 2016 by BnaBreaker

[bmkTN]

With 540 rooms (and 60,000 sq ft of meeting space), 16 stories would def insure that this has a very large footprint.  I was hoping it'd be at least 20 floors, if not closer to 30, at least we know it'll be dense.  Oh, and hopefully this means the Virgin will be moving forward soon too.  Now need to see some good renderings of both projects.

[titanhog]

16 stories is pretty short.  Probably less than 200'

[markhollin]

Would be difficult to fit 540 usually-large Hyatt Regency rooms within 16 floors if the footprint is the lot of the former LifeWay Bookstore.  I think it would probably need to be more in the 20-24 story range. 

Also, that aerial rendering was purely hypothetical when Southwest Ventures was first coming up with concepts for the LifeWay property.  Shouldn't be looked at as a firm design.

[markhollin]

Of interest to those of us in the entertainment area of Nashville's growth. CAA is one of the biggest booking/management firms in the world, and their presence in Nashville has grown greatly in the past 25 years...and not just with country music.  John Huie is a good buddy of mine, and am proud of what he's accomplished since helping found the Nashville branch back in '91. 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/10/15/titans-talent-top-agents-talk-evolution-music-city/91944238/
 

[MidTenn1]

23 hours ago, markhollin said:

Of interest to those of us in the entertainment area of Nashville's growth. CAA is one of the biggest booking/management firms in the world, and their presence in Nashville has grown greatly in the past 25 years...and not just with country music.  John Huie is a good buddy of mine, and am proud of what he's accomplished since helping found the Nashville branch back in '91. 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/10/15/titans-talent-top-agents-talk-evolution-music-city/91944238/
 

I read that yesterday. It is a good tell on how Nashville went from a quirky little country music town to a major force in the Music business if not 'the force'. It is interesting how they expect TV and Movie development to soon follow.

[Nashtitans]

In more positive news, Nashville is killing it in construction.

http://www.us.jll.com/united-states/en-us/research/office-outlook

 

Q3 2016 Local Markets by Office Space Under Construction
New York 11,567,853 s.f.
Dallas 10,947,382 s.f.
Washington, DC 10,224,898 s.f.
Chicago 8,376,664 s.f.
Seattle-Bellevue 7,159,557 s.f.
Silicon Valley 5,581,376 s.f.
San Francisco 4,435,830 s.f.
Nashville 3,981,918 s.f.
Philadelphia 3,866,458 s.f.
Atlanta 3,781,397 s.f.
Denver 3,649,889 s.f.
Houston 3,224,356 s.f.
Charlotte 2,491,211 s.f.
Austin 2,221,861 s.f.
Salt Lake City 2,122,795 s.f.
Los Angeles 2,092,795 s.f.
Orange County 1,930,680 s.f.
Baltimore 1,888,432 s.f.
Boston 1,867,642 s.f.
Raleigh-Durham 1,833,068 s.f.
Phoenix 1,692,140 s.f.
Portland 1,605,421 s.f.
Fort Worth 1,222,951 s.f.
San Francisco Peninsula 1,215,839 s.f.
Miami 989,041 s.f.
Columbus 737,000 s.f.
San Antonio 728,077 s.f.
Detroit 418,334 s.f.
Pittsburgh 412,000 s.f.
Indianapolis 372,977 s.f.
Hampton Roads 287,858 s.f.
Cincinnati 260,000 s.f.
Oakland-East Bay 250,000 s.f.
Minneapolis 249,500 s.f.
Sacramento 239,770 s.f.
Cleveland 197,000 s.f.
San Diego 188,435 s.f.
New Jersey 170,445 s.f.
Orlando 135,000 s.f.
St. Louis 125,000 s.f.
Milwaukee 110,000 s.f.
Fort Lauderdale 94,817 s.f.
Richmond 60,000 s.f.
Westchester County 0 s.f.
West Palm Beach 0 s.f.
Tampa Bay 0 s.f.
North San Francisco Bay 0 s.f.
Louisville 0 s.f.
Long Island 0 s.f.
Jacksonville 0 s.f.
Fairfield County 0 s.f.

 

Nashville at #8. Look at who is above us and then we're just there. Pretty amazing. Plus we beat all our peer cities too. The boom isn't over.

[VSRJ]

Memphis isn't even mentioned...sad day for this former Memphian.

[Nashtitans]

2 minutes ago, VSRJ said:

Memphis isn't even mentioned...sad day for this former Memphian.

You're surprised? There's barely any construction happening there. One Beale hasn't even started yet.

Edited October 17, 2016 by Nashtitans

[VSRJ]

3 minutes ago, Nashtitans said:

You're surprised? There's barely any construction happening there. One Beale hasn't even started yet.

I doubt it ever will. OB developers have been teasing and dragging us along for over a decade now. I've given up hope.

I'm not necessarily surprised, but there is stuff happening -- a lot of adaptive reuse and residential. There's enough to merit a new "crane watch" map: http://commadv.com/memphis-development-map

[markhollin]

Bridgestone Arena hosted 4 sold-out events in a 4-day period from last Thursday thru Sunday (Florida Georgia Line concert, Predators/Blackholes game, and two Adele shows). Further proof that we have one of the hottest (and best) venues of its size in North America...heck, even the world.


 

[BnaBreaker]

[bmkTN]

That office list is really interesting. Awesome to see us that high and we've still got a lot more in the pipeline that will hopefully start in the next year.  What shocks me is that some cities going through their own 'booms', like San Antonio and Orlando, hardly have any office under construction right now.  Orlando has almost nothing.  Weird. 

[bmkTN]

Quick question: Isn't the Tennessean supposed to announce this month who they will selling their property to?

[smeagolsfree]

I do not remember them saying they had a buyer. I may have missed it.

[bmkTN]

I just went back and read up on this and realized that they said that all bids were due by the end of October.  I guess it'll probably be late this year if not sometime next year when we find out who won the bidding.