Today, we’re traveling from the past to the future of the Factory at Franklin as it undergoes an approximately year-long redevelopment project.
The Past
The factory was...
The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency Design Review Committee on Tuesday approved the final plan for a boutique hotel building slated for East Nashville —...
New details, renderings unveiled for The Factory at Franklin redevelopment
The Factory at Franklin’s lead developer has unveiled new design plans and renderings ahead of the renovation project’s construction start this week.
Allen Arender, who leads...
The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency Design Review Committee will vote June 7 on the final plan for a mixed-use building slated for East Nashville
Local...
A Hermitage Avenue site located near the southeast segment of downtown Nashville’s inner-interstate loop is slated for a boutique hotel.
To be called The Neo, the...
Vanderbilt to start $20M-plus update of iconic tower building
Vanderbilt University is ready to begin a major renovation of Kirkland Hall — the distinctive brick and stone tower that nears its 150th birthday and...
The Metropolitan Historical Commission has awarded 1700 Fatherland Street with a Preservation Award during their 46th Annual Presentation Award ceremony. We are honored to have...
A grand combination of bonafide music lovers, audio geekery, and century-old materials is driving the creation and construction of Madison, Tennessee’s new performance venue, Timberhawk...
$15M music venue, former Roots Barn, eyes 2023 Madison opening
The Nashville area will soon have a new $15 million, 1,000-capacity concert hall and music venue.
Timberhawk Hall is opening in Madison in early 2023, announced...
Renovated factory Sylvan Supply sells to CBRE for $87.5 million
Sylvan Supply, a renovated office, retail and dining development in West Nashville, now belongs to a global investment firm.
CBRE Investment Management paid $87.5 million for...
First phase of transformative mixed-use project in Madison to break ground 'immediately'
Three firms are ready to break ground on the first part of a transformative mixed-use project in Madison.
Chicago-based Origin Investments, along with Nashville-based ZMX Inc...
American Institute of Architects Middle Tennessee announces 2021 Design Awards winners
The local chapter of the American Institute of Architects has selected winners for its 2021 Design Awards.
The 16 winning firms, honored for architectural excellence, are...
AIA Tennessee (Tennessee Chapter of the American Institute of Architects) celebrated the 2021 Design & Honor Awards virtually on Thursday, December 9. To salute excellence...
An iconic Nashville flavor: Look inside Goo Goo Chocolate Co.'s immersive new $2M facility
For Laurie Spradley, a third-generation owner of the Goo Goo Chocolate Co., life sometimes seemed like a Willy Wonka set.
Her father and grandfather purchased...
Medici XD Reveals Its Five Divisions, Names Nathan Jones as CEO
selectable-paragraph="">Medici XD (Experience Development) is the new venture of Mousetrappe founder Daren Ulmer with fellow industry leader and Animax Designs founder, Chuck Fawcett. Yesterday during...
Mixed-use plan for seeks 275 apartment units, office, commercial on church property in Mt. Juliet
A new mixed-use development plan on church property in Mt. Juliet includes 275 apartments along with office, retail and restaurant buildings.
Village at Pleasant Grove is...
The Factory at Franklin eyed for massive renovation following $56M buy
A Midwestern-based development firm paid millions for The Factory at Franklin, a once-industrial site that is planned to house a massive redevelopment project within a...
Vintage South announces latest commercial project, 'Breeze Block'
The Nashville developer behind much of The Nations’ revitalization is trekking further west for its latest commercial project.
Vintage South Development plans to start site work...
Kirkland Hall renovation to enhance accessibility, upgrade infrastructure
Kirkland Hall, which is central to Vanderbilt’s history and widely recognized as the university’s signature building, will undergo a significant renovation that is reflective of...
Murfreesboro-based TDK Companies and Imagine1 Company of Nashville have released an image for and broken ground on Vintage Edge, a $47.6 million mixed-use building to...
$200M Mixed-Use Development Planned for Cummings Research Park
Something truly unique is coming to the second largest research park in the country.
While it is not another Fortune 500 company, it will offer much...
$200M Mixed-Use Development Planned for Cummings Research Park
While it is not another Fortune 500 company, it will offer much needed residential, retail and creative office space support for the many innovative companies...
In the heart of the city | Publication in Commercial Contraction & Renovation
Development. Consulting. Management. Third & Urban is an Atlanta-based developer that builds communities. It builds the kind of communities that anchor people, not just city...
Local Developers Team Up on 18-acre Madison Project
Local developers are teaming up to build an expansive mixed-use project in Madison.
Core Development and Forbes Plunkett Real Estate & Development, both based in Greater...
Vintage South Development announces latest Nations project at lumber warehouse site
Construction will start this month on a local developer’s latest neighborhood hub.
Nashville’s Vintage South Development today announced Stateline, a 93,000-square-foot renovation project in The Nations...
Nashville-based Vintage South Development and Atlanta-based Shelton McNally Real Estate Partners have begun construction of and released images for Laurel & Pine, a mixed-use development...
SGA Receives Architizer A+Awards Special Mention for Vanderbilt University Project
BOSTON—SGA, a Boston and New York City-based national award-winning architecture, interior design, planning, branded environments and virtual design and construction practice, today announced that the...
Gina Emmanuel was recognized in the Community Champions of the Year category.
Q&A
Biggest opportunity of the past year: With the increasing comfort level of virtual meetings,...
Photo Tour: Vintage Station North, a mixed-use development at the WeGo Star stop in Mt. Juliet
Commuting on the region's only passenger rail has a new look in Mt. Juliet.
The Business Journal recently toured the Vintage Station North development, located at...
"A mixed-use building is being eyed for a site located near The Fairgrounds Nashville.
To offer 108 residential units and 4,000 square feet of retail, the...
6 Magnolia Circle & Mayborn wins an Honor Award, the highest award, from the AIA Middle TN 2020 Design Awards.
Jury Comments:
"The jury was impressed with...
A transit-oriented development that includes 192 apartments and 28 townhomes in Mt. Juliet is now opening and will include an expansion of a trendy Nashville...
Centric Architecture as well as our project, Stocking 51, were featured in Forbes’ 30 under 30 publication.“We start with envisioning how we can tell a...
Centric Architecture is an architecture design firm based in Nashville, TN with projects across the southeast region. Our projects and specialties range from mixed-use developments,...
Centric Architecture + Bonadies Urban Development are partnering to bring “Designing Out Inequality” to Nashville Design Week 2020.This event will be an exploration into the...
Nashville continues to grow by leaps and bounds, including a surge in the rehabilitation of historic buildings for both commercial and residential projects. Makeovers at...
Sylvan Supply, an adaptive rehabilitation of what had been the home to 60-year-old Madison Mill Inc., is now open.
The mixed-use development has an address of...
Nashville Architects on their Unique Projects, Favorite Features
"As part of our special report on commercial real estate, out in today's weekly edition of the Nashville Business Journal, we asked executives with architectural...
Nashville-based developer MiKeN Development is targeting a September groundbreaking for the next building at The Annex project long underway in West Nashville's Charlotte Park.
To be...
Fresh Hospitality, Seattle developer seek approval for downtown projects
"A prolific homegrown Nashville restaurant company aims to create a mid-rise building on a triangle of land at downtown's doorstep, according to plans filed with...
Historic East Side Church Structure to get New Life
An historic East Nashville church building is slated to be home to a boutique artist management company whose roster list includes musicians Ashley McBryde, Marty...
"Middle Tennessee has grown dramatically since we first published an In Charge list in 2010. New companies — homegrown and relocated — have brought to...
Woodland Wine Merchant to take space at Sylvan Supply, join FortyAU
The owners of East Nashville’s Woodland Wine Merchant — which ranks among Nashville’s most distinct...
Adding decimals. Multiplying fractions. Calculating averages. Seventh grade teacher Kendra Ritter hears the same question from her students over and over again:
"When am I ever...
New Mid-rise Pitches Skyline Views from a Corner of Downtown
Plans for a five-story building have surfaced in a corner of downtown Nashville.
Muse is the name of the proposed building, which would include more than...
Green Hills-based Woodmont Christian Church — which stands at the intersection of Woodmont Boulevard and Hillsboro Road and is recognized for its white brick exterior...
When Natalie Copeland, FNP-C,and Beth Higney, NP-C, met on their first day of nursing school at Belmont University 11 years ago, they became fast friends...
Music City Roots Partners With Madison, TN For A New Roots Barn Venue
Music City Roots, the 10-year-old live radio show and public television series, announced plans for a new venue on Thursday. Co-founder John Walker and community...
Petal project at Vanderbilt expands Living Building foothold in Southeast
The second Living Building Challenge project on a college campus in the Southeast is well underway but still half a year from completion.
The 88,000-square-foot rehabiliation...
Gina Emmanuel named a 2019 Influencer of Commercial Real Estate
"The Business Journal spotlights 100 executives who are influencing real estate and development in their respective communities.
It's as if Gina Emmanuel were born to do...
The developers who are revitalizing a nearly century-old factory on Charlotte Avenue have secured their first two tenants — both from Nashville.
Bearded Iris Brewing Co...
Ole Smoky, Yee-Haw Brewing Company to open moonshine distillery and beer garden in SoBro
"A soon-to-open sprawling SoBro complex designed as a gateway to the downtown-adjacent neighborhood will put locally made spirits front-and-center.
Tennessee's Ole Smoky Moonshine and Yee-Haw...
ENR 2018 Best Projects, Renovation/Restoration: Cordell Hull State Office Building
"Built in the 1950s, the Cordell Hull State Office Building was on the chopping block for demolition as its original form was considered potentially...
22 Unit Transit-oriented Home Development in Mt. Juliet to Break Ground in Early 2019
More on Station North!
"A mixed-use plan to build 192 apartments and 28 townhomes in Mt. Juliet will break ground in early 2019.
Vintage Station North is...
First Look: From a Factory to Office Space, Dining and Shopping
Real estate executives from Atlanta and the Washington, D.C., area have released new details and renderings of the transformation they're about to oversee of a...
"The Atlanta-based developers eyeing Sylvan Supply — an adaptive reuse development to radically reinvent the Charlotte Avenue corridor site long home to industrial operation Madison...
Three Questions with Gina Emmanuel of Centric Architecture
'People are looking for smaller private spaces and larger community spaces'
Gina Emmanuel serves as a principal of Rutledge Hill-based Centric Architecture, teaming with Jim...
Vanderbilt Starts Work on $41.5M Peabody Campus Project
Vanderbilt University officials announced Thursday groundbreaking on the first phase of a $41.5 million multi-building construction and renovation plan at the Peabody College of Education...
Looking back: Nashville architects reflect on their first projects
Justin Lowe, Principal, Centric Architecture
Describe the first project you worked on in the field of architecture. It was a single-family residence, and in my first...
Exclusive: Developer doubling size of Nations project
"A Nashville developer is doubling down on a mixed-use project that he hopes to turn into a landmark destination within a fast-changing neighborhood.
In an exclusive...
An interior shot of our recently designed 450 foot long tunnel connecting two of our other projects (the restoration of the Capitol Building's cupola and...
Nashville-based Aerial Development Group is eyeing a spring 2018 groundbreaking for an arts-influenced mixed-used project for West Trinity Lane.
To be called North Lights, the project...
"The owner of Johnson City, Tennessee-based Yee-Haw Brewing Co. is preparing to relocate the company headquarters of his craft beer business to Nashville.
Relatedly, Joe Baker...