Nashville Bits and Pieces

[Nash_12South]

The only way we could drop our xfinity bill was to go to the 1G speed level. It dropped our bill by about 30%. We discuss it, but having cable, for us, is about like having running water, we can't give it up. (I make no claims at being forward thinking on the subject. We are weak.)

[PaulChinetti]

"I am going to prison"

I'm going to start using that for all kinds of things! 

[titanhog]

3 hours ago, PaulChinetti said:

"I am going to prison"

I'm going to start using that for all kinds of things! 

Sounds like a great way for a man to pick up a woman.   Women like danger. 

[LA_TN]

I decided long ago that I could spend $1,000 a year on something better than tv

[markhollin]

AmeriSave Mortgage is looking to hire between 250 and 300 people in Middle Tennessee to fill loan origination, processing, underwriting, tech, and customer care positions.  The company is based in Atlanta.  No word yet on if there will be a specific office in Nashville, or if folks will be working remotely.

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/finance/article/21141596/mortgage-lender-looks-to-hire-250

[dmillsphoto]

Beaman is being sold. Paywalled, but...

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/07/30/exclusive-lee-beaman-to-sell-automotive-empire.html?ana=twt

[smeagolsfree]

Well they are not sure if the land is included in the deal or not, but either way I think this will spell the end of the downtown dealerships. If Beaman retains ownership of the land he will probably sell the land to a developer and has stated per the article that the land is worth more than the dealership.

"Beaman Automotive Group has agreed to sell its Nashville, Murfreesboro and Dickson car dealerships, as well as Beaman’s Parts Warehouse and Beaman Automotive Collision Center ,to Charleston-based Hudson Automotive Group, according to a statement provided first to the NBJ."

"It was not immediately clear if that10-acre chunk of land is part of the deal, or if Beaman Automotive founder and CEO Lee Beaman, who will step down as CEO when the deal closes, will retain ownership of the land."

"With the sale of Beaman Automotive, the attention of Nashville's real estate community will undoubtedly turn to the fate of the property its Nashville dealerships have occupied since 1958. In 2016, Beaman told the NBJ that he estimated the Broadway land was worth more than the dealership itself — and he had no intention of selling the property."

Overall I think this is a great sign and this land will get redeveloped in the next 10 to 15 years.

"If the Beaman Automotive property is included in Hudson’s purchase, the switch in ownership could result in a flood of new offers for the site."

 

 

[smeagolsfree]

Terms of the sale will not be disclosed till sometime this fall and every asset is being considered in the sale. This is hot off another press release.

[PianoKing03]

It’s a miracle!

[smeagolsfree]

Now maybe there will be a miraculous cure for COVID since miracles are happening.

[titanhog]

1 hour ago, smeagolsfree said:

Terms of the sale will not be disclosed till sometime this fall and every asset is being considered in the sale. This is hot off another press release.

So...sounds like maybe he would sell the land to the new owner if the price was right...but maybe retain the land and sell it himself?

Also...I'm imagining some really awesome development between this and the Reid land.  Could really develop a nice urban utopia.

Edited July 30, 2020 by titanhog

[henburg]

This feels like another one of those persistent things that we'd never actually see materialize, but Nashville has been good at proving me wrong for those as of late...

 

   West End Summit finally materializes (in some form)

   Beaman sells his auto empire (and likely the downtown land it sits on)

  PSC Metals leaves the East Bank 

 

[MLBrumby]

Before I got to your third point, immediately I thought PSC!!  That's a lot longer shot than either of those others. Wasn't there an actual report a few years back that said PSC was looking somewhere in northeast Davidson County on the Cumberland, or did I confuse that with another firm? 

[smeagolsfree]

No you are right, but Cooper sort of screwed that one up.

 

[titanhog]

Just wondering...if your old building grows a "green" roof over time...do you get retroactive LEED certification? 

 

[titanhog]

A worker has been killed at a construction site.  Not exactly sure which building.  The address seems to be Palmer Plaza...but maybe it's the site on Broadway behind it?

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/1-critically-injured-after-industrial-accident-on-west-end/

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One person was killed when a wall collapsed at a construction site on West End Avenue Tuesday morning.

The man killed has been identified as 61-year-old Timothy Tyler

Metro police said Tyler was attempting to remove the caulk around a concrete section on an exterior wall near the loading docks outside an office building at 1801 West End Avenue when it fell on him.  

Officers were called to the location around 11 a.m.

Tyler, who was employed by Architectural Glass and Metal Company Inc., was transported from the scene to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with critical injuries.

[downtownresident]

31 minutes ago, titanhog said:

A worker has been killed at a construction site.  Not exactly sure which building.  The address seems to be Palmer Plaza...but maybe it's the site on Broadway behind it?

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/1-critically-injured-after-industrial-accident-on-west-end/

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One person was killed when a wall collapsed at a construction site on West End Avenue Tuesday morning.

The man killed has been identified as 61-year-old Timothy Tyler

Metro police said Tyler was attempting to remove the caulk around a concrete section on an exterior wall near the loading docks outside an office building at 1801 West End Avenue when it fell on him.  

Officers were called to the location around 11 a.m.

Tyler, who was employed by Architectural Glass and Metal Company Inc., was transported from the scene to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with critical injuries.

It was Palmer Plaza. They had caution tape around the area. 

[nashvylle]

2 hours ago, titanhog said:

 

Tyler, who was employed by Architectural Glass and Metal Company Inc., was transported from the scene to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with critical injuries.

Prayers for him and his family 

[markhollin]

More new developers in Davidson County will be required to plant street trees after a recent expansion of the city's current law by the Metro Council.

The new law, which went into affect Aug. 3, extends current street tree rules for Metro Nashville out to the Davidson County line, as a part of the city's ongoing "Nashville Next" plan to improve the county's physical development over the next 25 years.

More at The Tennessean here:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/07/suburban-nashville-developers-now-required-plant-street-trees/3292820001/

[PaulChinetti]

I hope it sets aside money for checking that the trees survive more than 6 months. 

[nashvylle]

Random question, but does anyone think we have a shot at getting a tower in Rutledge Hill / Pie Town with some legitimate height? I know something massive was proposed (and canceled within a day) within pie town, but it really would stretch the skyline enormously. It is hard to tell from the @smeagolsfree's development map.

Thanks

[downtownresident]

3 minutes ago, nashvylle said:

Random question, but does anyone think we have a shot at getting a tower in Rutledge Hill / Pie Town with some legitimate height? I know something massive was proposed (and canceled within a day) within pie town, but it really would stretch the skyline enormously. It is hard to tell from the @smeagolsfree's development map.

Thanks

Rutledge Hill, probably not due to the historic nature of the neighborhood. Closer along Lafayette and 8th, it would be more likely. 

[smeagolsfree]

13 hours ago, nashvylle said:

Random question, but does anyone think we have a shot at getting a tower in Rutledge Hill / Pie Town with some legitimate height? I know something massive was proposed (and canceled within a day) within pie town, but it really would stretch the skyline enormously. It is hard to tell from the @smeagolsfree's development map.

Thanks

Pie Town, yes, Rutledge Hill Yes/no.

I have to qualify my yes/no first. Rutledge Hill sort of includes the Rolling Mill Hill area and there is the Hensler tower that is proposed on RMH. So the areas that are included in the Rutledge Hill redevelopment district include where the Hensler tower and the Swerdling hotel will go . see below:

Also there could be areas along 4th that could see pretty good height.

Now the areas in Pie town could also see height include that large area where the group from Chicago (Smithfield Group) planned the three high-rises along 6th and Division. That hugs the interstate, so I could see it happening easily there.

[Bos2Nash]

Rolling Mill Hill is actually it's own stand-alone redevelopment district and the Swerdling hotel is not part of Rutledge hill according to the city.

That being said, I see it as very hard to get sizable height in the area as there are very few sites that would allow for it. There is also alot of historic or worthy of conservation in the area which could make it difficult. I think this area has alot of character which I hope the form based code will preserve. I see a plateau of 10 stories max so things work with context.

[smeagolsfree]

Well I agree with you that nothing tall will be built there. I do feel that the boundaries have been blurred and not clear to John Q Public and also that all of the responsibility for any of this should be taken from MDHA, as they have not been consistently doing their job for a long long time and they should never have had the authority they have had.

This goes back way before you were here Craig. They were givien way too much power and authority over larger areas of redevelopment districts and there was no need for them in the first place. They should have just been invloved with Metro Housing and the land they directly owned....nothing else.

Ofcourse Metro Historic dropped the ball along with the Council years ago and did not do historic overlays where they were needed and contextual overlays where they were needed. Most of this should have been done 40 or 50 years ago, but Nashville was a hick town and still is in a lot of ways.

There are a lot of areas that are in redevelopment districts now that should not be and the Opportunity Zones are frankly a joke. There are some Redevelopment Zones that just need to be incorporated into the downtown code to stramline a lot of the nonsense you have to jump through as a developer.

I can go on and on about how bad Metro has dropped the ball, but it is what it is now.