From: The Nashville Post
Nashville-based developer Nathan Lyons has paid $2.9 million for a property in West Nashville’s Charlotte Park neighborhood which he is eying his next adaptive reuse project.
Lyons — perhaps best known for his Stocking 51 in The Nations — specializes in reinventing industrial buildings with retail, restaurant, residential and creative office spaces (read more about his work here). In this case, he hopes to update an existing brick warehouse (pictured) located at 6100 Robertson Ave. with commercial space and supplement it with potentially 24 townhomes. The warehouse is home to Proctor Marble and Granite, a tile contractor.
The transaction — one of the most significant recent deals for a site in what some folks specifically call Croleywood — involved four parcels with Metro records unclear as to what year the seller acquired the properties. Based on a preliminary plan seen on a document — click on View Gallery in the above image to see — submitted to Metro, the site will contain vehicular points of access from Vernon and Robertson avenues. A 202-space surface parking lot would serve the commercial businesses and some of the residences.
The image shows 16 townhomes with two-car garages. Twelve of those residences would face Vernon, with the other four located behind them. Eight other townhomes (without garages) also would be located behind the dozen. All the surface parking would be positioned behind the structures.
In addition, a new two- to three-story commercial building with a patio space would be constructed next to the existing warehouse and would front Robertson, likely the key street within this segment of Charlotte Park. A small home located at 609 Vernon Ave. would require demolition and the property will need to be acquired.
Lyons could not be reached for comment and the Post was unable to determine if brokers were involved in the deal.
Nashville-based Centric Architecture is designing the structures. No detailed color rendering had been submitted to Metro as of April.
The property sits with Metro Councilmember Mary Carolyn Roberts’ District 20.
Lyons also is underway with an addition to Stocking 51 (read here) and the reinvention of the former Vaughn Manufacturing facility in East Nashville with what will be called Highland Yards.
Also, Vintage South Development is teaming with The Legacy Companies to give new life to the site once home to Hobson United Methodist Church, also located on the east side. That project is called Eastwood Village.