Representatives of Perkins Eastman â the designer of New York s famed Battery Park City, among other public spaces â on Tuesday night launched a public study to determine how best to create development opportunities for the Cumberland River s East Bank.
Via a virtual meeting hosted by Metro Planning Director Lucy Kempf, Perkins Eastman Principal Designer Eric Fang explained from a Nashville hotel room what Nashville can expect from the East Bank Study while a colleague rode alongside the river by scooter to highlight existing conditions.
The meeting followed Mayor John Cooperâs office in April having
announced Perkins Eastman, which focuses on urban waterfront placemaking, will oversee the redesign of the East Bankâs 338 acres. The vast project is anchored in the May 5Â
Mixed-use building would offer residential, retail space
Details are emerging and a basic image has been released of a planned mixed-use building eyed for Germantown, with the Metro Planning Commission to soon vote on a specific plan zoning request to allow for the project.
Philadelphia-based Greenpointe Construction plans the project for an unimproved 0.87-acre multi-parcel site, the main address for which is
1231 Second Ave. N. Greenpointe last December paid $5.5 million for the property more than 14 times the mark for which it last sold eight years ago and seemingly a per-foot dollar amount record for raw land in the north side district.
Perkins Eastman has worked in New York, Baltimore, D.C.
Months of vetting has led Mayor John Cooper and his team at the Metro Planning Department to land on the firm renowned for its work on New York’s Battery Park to spearhead the master development plan that will revamp the Cumberland River’s East Bank.
Cooper’s office
last fall said that Planning was looking to hire a consultant to help redesign and repurpose the East Bank’s 338 acres in a way that would better serve its entire community. On Tuesday, the mayor announced the consulting firm will be Perkins Eastman. Along with its work on Battery Park City, that company also has worked on high-profile projects such as Baltimore’s Inner Harbor East and the District Wharf in Washington, D.C. In Nashville, Perkins Eastman will collaborate with local contractors that include Hodgson Douglas, Pillars Development and WSP.
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Five of the eight residences at West End Park townhome project Belwood Townhomes have sold to one entity for a collective $4.38 million.
The project (pictured) is located on a 0.33-acre property located on the northwest corner of the T-intersection of Belwood Street and 31st Avenue North. It previously had a working name of 31st and Belwood.
Ross Schilling was the seller. Schilling enlisted Nashville-based Root Architecture (stylized as “rootARCH”) to handle design work. Nashville-based Dale and Associates oversaw land-planning efforts, with Provence Builders having served as general contractor.
The main address of the residential development is