Nashville Bits and Pieces

[smeagolsfree]

You may be right. The tax plan is complicated and I am not sure it will work out. Guess we ae going to have to and and see.  

 

Frankly I am just too tired to follow all of the particulars. We will have to see if it passes first to see what transpires.

[markhollin]

Solid overview of Nashville's current housing scene.  Still growing, but cooling slightly.  

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2017/12/01/nashville-housing-bubble-market-now-showing-some-signs-cooling/682958001/

[markhollin]

Nashville's architectural community is ready to have their voices heard, which is why 100 architects participated in the Nashville Civic Design Center's newly opened "Letters to the Mayor" exhibit.

Participants weighed in on what they think Mayor Megan Barry needs to focus on in the coming years as the city's white-hot development boom continues. Some of the city's biggest names in design — including Manuel Zeitlin, Kim Hawkins, Brian Tibbs and many others — are featured in the exhibit, which debuted last week at the Civic Design Center's downtown location.

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/12/05/mayor-barry-gets-advice-from-nashvilles-architect.html

[markhollin]

12 months ago, we started calling 2017 as "The Year of the Hotel."  Indeed, it was, as far as some significant completions and plenty of new announcements.  But, it is 2018 that will truly win that moniker, as so many that were revealed in the last few years will finally finish or get underway.

Here are the 10 hotels (1,213 rooms) that opened in 2017:

Kimpton Hotel (17 stories, 180 rooms)
Thompson Hotel (12 stories, 224 rooms)
Wingate by Wyndham, Century City (4 stories, 123 rooms)
Music Valley Drive Motel (4 stories, 120 rooms)
Candlewood Suites, Goodlettsville (4 stories, 120 rooms)
TownPlace Suites, Goodlettsville (4 stories, 120 rooms)
Hampton Inn, Goodlettsville (4 stories, 120 rooms)
Fairfield Inn, MetroCenter (4 stories, 80 rooms)
Candlewood Suites, MetroCenter (4 stories, 101 units)
SoBro Guest House (3 stories, 25 rooms)

Here are the 51 hotels (9,993 rooms) that will be underway or completed in 2018:

505 CST, Stay Alfred (about 12 of the 45 stories, 129 units)
JW Marriott (34 stories, 532 rooms)
Embassy Suites (30 stories, 400 rooms)
Hyatt Regency  (25 stories, 540 rooms)
Marriott TriBrand (21 stories, 486 rooms)
Drury Plaza (21 stories, 390 rooms)
Ragland Hilton Brand (20 stories, 450 rooms)
The Joseph (20 stories, 450 rooms)
Cambria Suites, (19 stories, 255 rooms)
Curio Hotel (18 stories, 200 rooms)
W Hotel (16 stories, 350 rooms)
Virgin Hotel (15 stories, 240 rooms)
Hyatt Place West End (14 stories, 205 rooms)
Holiday Inn SoBro (14 stories, 228 rooms)
The Fairlane Hotel (13 stories, 72 rooms)
The Graduate Hotel (12 stories, 200 rooms)
Margaritaville Hotel (12 stories, 215 rooms)
Holton House/James Robertson Hotel redo (12 stories, 190 rooms)
Stanza Hotel (12 stories, 117 rooms)
2nd & Demonbruen Hotel (12 stories, 265 rooms)
Comfort Inn & Suites (11 stories, 126 rooms)
Noelle Hotel (11 stories, 166 rooms)
Hilton Tru/HomeWood Suites SoBro (10 stories, 233 rooms)
Hampton Inn/Hilton Tru, Gulch (10 stories, 200 rooms)
Tapestry by Hilton Printer House (10 stories, 175 rooms)
Fairfield Inn & Suites, West End (10 stories, 156 rooms)
Hampton Inn Capitol View (10 stories, 168 rooms)
Green Hills Hilton (9 stories, 207 rooms)
Dream Hotel (9 stories, 169 rooms)
50 Music Square West repurpose (9 stories, 100 rooms)
Green Hills Marriott Residence Inn (8 stories, 116 rooms)
The Bobby (8 stories, 144 rooms)
TownPlace Suites, Charlotte Ave. (8 stories, 160 rooms)
Germantown Union Hotel (7 stories, 150 rooms)
Hyatt House SoBro (7 stories, 160 rooms)
OneC1TY Starwood Element (7 stories, 169 rooms)
Moxy Hotel Hillsboro Village (6 stories, 130 rooms)
Nashville West Hotel (6 stories, 120 rooms)
Broadway Lofts (6 stories, 60 units)
Moxy Hotel Broadway (5 stories, 161 rooms)
Hampton Inn, Skyline (5 stories, 126 rooms)
Fieldhouse Jones (4 stories, 100 rooms)
Holiday Inn Express, Metro Center (5 stories, 120 rooms)
Comfort Suites, Metro Center (5 stories, 100 rooms)
Hampton Inn SoBro expansion (5 stories, 50 rooms)
Spring Hill Suites, Brentwood (5 stories, 134 rooms)
Fairfield Inn & Suites, One Bellevue Place (5 stories, 99 rooms)
StayBridge Suites, Charlotte Ave. (5 stories, 120 rooms)
Hyatt House, Century City (4 stories, 122 rooms)
The Charlesville (4 stories, 12 rooms)
Hotel AirBnB (3 stories, 29 rooms) 

21 more hotels (5,879 rooms?) still undefined:

One World Hotel (40 stories, 829 rooms)
JW Marriott, Phase II (35 stories? 500 rooms?)
Endeavor Phase II Hotel (28 stories, 300 rooms)
Platinum Hospitality KVB/6th Ave. Hotel (25 stories? 475 rooms?)
McGavock Boutique Hotel (21 stories, 470 rooms)
Bridgestone Arena Hotel (20 stories? 350 rooms?)
Nashville yards Phase II Hotel (20 stories? 350 rooms?)
House of Blues Hotel (18 stories, 200 rooms?)
Hilton Airport (16 stories, 280 rooms)
West End Summit Hotel (16 stories, 250 rooms)
Demonbreun Hill Hotel (15 stories, 230 rooms)
Mark Bloom Hotel (15 stories, 250 rooms)
Curio Hotel/Rudy Law site, 1810 Broadway (14 stories, 220 rooms)
Whiskey Kitchen site boutique hotel (10 stories? 130 rooms?)
15th Ave. North Hotel (10 stories? 125 rooms?)
100 11th Ave. South Boutique Hotel (10 stories? 120 rooms?)
8th Ave South & Drexel Hotel (10 stories? 150 rooms?)
Lafayette &5th Ave South Hotel (8 stories? 160 rooms?)
Corsair Distillery Boutique Hotel (8 stories? 160 rooms?)
North First Street Hotel (8 stories? 180 rooms?)
Patel Metro Center project, Athens Way (5 stories? 150 rooms?)

[Flatrock]

23 minutes ago, markhollin said:

Here are the 50 hotels (9,867 rooms) that will be underway or completed in 2018:

 

[markhollin]

Nashville Hoods. It's not fully accurate, but still pretty cool.  

 

[titanhog]

8 hours ago, markhollin said:

Nashville Hoods. It's not fully accurate, but still pretty cool.  

 

I notice they only include the "hip" places in town.

[BnaBreaker]

29 minutes ago, titanhog said:

I notice they only include the "hip" places in town.

That looks like the pre-consolidation boundaries.  Maybe thats what they were going for.

[Pdt2f]

23 minutes ago, BnaBreaker said:

That looks like the pre-consolidation boundaries.  Maybe thats what they were going for.

I didn’t know Nations wasn’t in the pre-consolidation boundary. I agree, if they left Nations out it couldn’t just be the hip areas that are included. 

[NashvilleObserver]

7 hours ago, titanhog said:

I notice they only include the "hip" places in town.

What's hip about Trinity Lane???

[titanhog]

16 minutes ago, NashvilleObserver said:

What's hip about Trinity Lane???

You must have not visited there lately.  It's cutting edge. 

[smeagolsfree]

That paricular piece of art is about 5 years old. Was pretty cool, and is already outdated as there are a lot more trendy areas. I hate the term hip and hipster and all the other labels that are used these days.

[satalac]

On 12/8/2017 at 9:35 AM, markhollin said:

Nashville Hoods. It's not fully accurate, but still pretty cool.  

 

No Nippers Corner? Antioch? Left off a rather sizeable chunk of the city off.

[MLBrumby]

Nashville added 43,000+ jobs from January 2017 to October 2017; from 950,000 to 993,000. 4.6% change is highest growth of largest cities in the nation and u/e rate of 2.4%, lowest in the nation.

Folks, that number is actually amazing. 

Per USA Today 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2017/12/11/25-cities-adding-and-losing-most-jobs-2017/934148001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

Four TN cities on this list: Nashville 4.6% (43,000); Morristown 4.2% (2000); Chattanooga 3.8% (9400); JC 3.7% (3150)

[Pdt2f]

26 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

Nashville added 43,000+ jobs from January 2017 to October 2017; from 950,000 to 993,000. 4.6% change is highest growth of largest cities in the nation and u/e rate of 2.4%, lowest in the nation.

Folks, that number is actually amazing. 

Per USA Today 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2017/12/11/25-cities-adding-and-losing-most-jobs-2017/934148001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

Four TN cities on this list: Nashville 4.6% (43,000); Morristown 4.2% (2000); Chattanooga 3.8% (9400); JC 3.7% (3150)

It lists “mining, logging, and construction” as the prime drivers of the growth, which is obviously primarily construction in Nashville’s case. Evidence of Nashville’s explosive growth, and like you say it’s amazing. We’re probably over 1,000,000 jobs by now, or will be in a few weeks. 

[claya91]

On 12/8/2017 at 6:35 PM, titanhog said:

I notice they only include the "hip" places in town.

Well they left out BNA which is, judging by # of baseball hats I've seen, the hippest place in town.

[markhollin]

Metro lines up $2.85M of incentives for @Philips — and that's only the start of what the company could receive for its pledge of 815 jobs. 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/12/14/barry-proposes-2-9-m-incentive-package-philips-nashville-expansion/953287001/

Story behind paywall at NBJ:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/12/14/metro-lines-up-2-9m-of-incentives-for-fortune-500.html?ana=twt

[MidTenn1]

I am posting this chart from another website as it puts in perspective Nashville's recent MSA growth as compared to other cities.

Obviously it was developed by a poster from Texas as those cities are high lighted.  

[jmtunafish]

31 minutes ago, PHofKS said:

I am posting this chart from another website as it puts in perspective Nashville's recent MSA growth as compared to other cities.

Obviously it was developed by a poster from Texas as those cities are high lighted.  

Nashville is also the smallest MSA in that list.  Here's how their 2014-15 rates of growth stacked up:

1. Austin - 3.0%
2. Orlando - 2.6%
3. Houston - 2.45%
4. Las Vegas - 2.21%
5. San Antonio - 2.20%
6. Denver - 2.12%
7. DFW - 2.08%
8. Nashville - 2.03%
9. Tampa - 2.0%
10. Charlotte - 1.98%
11. Phoenix - 1.96%
12. Portland - 1.73%
13. Atlanta - 1.70%
14. Seattle - 1.66%
15. San Francisco - 1.31%
16. Miami - 1.27%
17. Riverside-San Bernardino - 1.14%
18. Washington - 1.06%
19. Los Angeles - 0.07%
20. NYC - 0.04%

Edited December 14, 2017 by jmtunafish

[MLBrumby]

Interesting to see in bar graph, but that is over 2 years old and some demographic data that I've been privy to show that y-o-y figure to now be in excess of 40,000. Keep in mind that all of those figures are still just estimates. I think the 2020 census will be a surprise on the upside. 

[CenterHill]

Many of us knew Getahn.    This is very sad. 

Getahn Ward, longtime Tennessean reporter, beloved community leader, dies at 45

https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2017/12/16/getahn-ward-longtime-tennessean-reporter-beloved-community-leader-dies-45/958327001/

 

 

[smeagolsfree]

A separate thread has been started for Getahn's passing.

[markhollin]

Cool slide show of demonstrating some of the Art Deco around Nashville...

http://www.nashvillelifestyles.com/bestof/art-deco-nashville

 

[e-dub]

not trying to be nit-picky, but i always considered the l&c to be more midcentury modern?

[markhollin]

The Barnes Housing Trust Fund, a grant program within the Nashville Mayor’s Office of Housing, will partner with local nonprofit organization The Housing Fund to create the city’s first community land trust, an entity designed to own the land under affordable housing units.

The land trust model can cap resale prices for housing on its land in order “to combat displacement and preserve affordability in neighborhoods in transition,” according to a release from Mayor Megan Barry’s office.

More info here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/politics/metro-government/article/20986545/barnes-fund-brings-on-partner-for-land-trust