Living in Nashville’s tallest buildings

Living in Nashville’s tallest buildings

Nashville 2011 vs 2017 @NSHBIZSichko pic.twitter.com/n6VxCPMc8g

— John R. Stevenson V (@johnrstevenson) May 8, 2017

Few things have illustrated just how much the Nashville skyline’s changed over the past few years like the above gif being passed around Twitter last week. The headline: From 2011 to 2017, we’ve become a much taller, tighter city.

That fact was underlined again this week, as the 505, downtown Nashville’s newly crowned “tallest residential building,” held a topping out ceremony. Rising 45 stories and about 545 feet, the mixed-used tower should welcome its first residents in October.

While tall and imposing buildings are nothing new to Nashville — we can trace our skyscraper history back to 1905, when the building that’s now the Courtyard Nashville Downtown went up — the rush of residential skyscrapers has been growing, in a fittingly big way.

Most — even the 505 — are dwarfed by Nashville’s tallest building, the AT&T tower better known as the Batman Building, which stretches 617 feet. But our residential skyscrapers will still make you crane your neck, and that’s only getting more true.

Want some more specifics? Here’s a look at the tallest residential buildings in the city now (all trailing a bit behind the new 505), plus a few that are in the works, so you can get a sense of what moving on up in Nashville looks like:

The Viridian
415 Church Street

Opened: 2006
Height: 31 stories, 378 feet
Neighborhood: downtown Nashville

12th & Broadway
Intersection of 12th Avenue North and Broadway

Expected to open: likely a few years still (last update we saw, plans were still being revised and submitted in March).
Height: 26 stories, 322 feet
Neighborhood: North Gulch

SkyHouse Nashville
111 17th Ave S.

Opened: Just opened in spring 2017
Height: 25 stories, 289 feet
Neighborhood: Midtown

ICON in the Gulch
600 12th Ave South

Opened: 2008
Height: 22 stories, 282 feet
Neighborhood: The Gulch

Twelve Twelve
1212 Laurel Street

Opened: 2014
Height: 23 stories, 270 feet
Neighborhood: The Gulch
(We sold a gorgeous unit in this building last month. If you’re looking for something similar, let us know!)

Encore Condominiums 
301 Demonbreun Street

Opened: 2008
Height: 20 stories, 267 feet
Neighborhood: SoBro

Drawn to high-rise living in Nashville? We’d love to help you find the condo of your dreams. Call or email Radius Residential Partners, and tell us about what you’re looking for.