Riding the construction elevator at the stunning new tower at Nashville Yards does not prepare you for the view once you arrive at the 34th of 35 levels. It’s breathtaking to look “down” on Nashville’s skyline.
“It’s just when you can see the roof of the 34-story JW Marriott that you realize, yep, we’re up in the air quite a bit with this. This structure, it’s unique. This is the first supertall in town that was built under the modern code,” explained developer Joe Bucher.
You also look down on the home of Pinnacle Financial Partners for the past decade. Soon this will be their new view.
“I think it still demonstrates what Pinnacle’s commitment is to downtown Nashville, they aren’t moving away from the city center and the core. It’s just a slight change of location within that core,” added Bucher.
The new Pinnacle Tower is the centerpiece of the nearly complete phase of the 19-acre Nashville Yards development. The building is a functional work of art, a signature piece, the city’s new front door.
“Nashville Yards before it was NASHVILLE YARDS was always the gateway to Nashville, this was where the trains were, this was the western edge of downtown, what we’ve really done is recapture that, it’s just capturing the magic of what the arrival point to Nashville really was,” said Bucher.
As a partner and director at Southwest Value Partners, Bucher has pictured this view since 2015, and when it opens later this year it will be the city’s largest office space, 720,000 square feet of twisting glass into the sky, all with functional purpose.
“The more that we can shave down the southwestern face of this building, the more energy efficient it is, the sun just beats down on the southwest face. So if you look at the glass, you’ll see that it steps two and a half feet each level. So the whole building actually twists as it goes into the sky. And that’s an intent really to get sunlight onto our streets. So we’ve turned the building, we’ve made it into a trapezoid and then we allow the sun to cascade past the building and warm up our streets,” said Bucher.
About 1,000 construction workers are on site per day. The Amazon towers are nearing completion, with workers already in one and two residential buildings next to the Pinnacle Tower which will also be ready in months. It’s a new beginning in many ways.
“So we will have seven residential towers in total as part of Nashville Yards. These are the first two, 690 units we will deliver. The first people move into this building in November. So it’s a lot further along on the inside than you would think. We built the first two residential buildings simultaneously,” said Bucher.
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