February 27, 2008
InterContinental Nashville doomed to be West End Avenue Pond?
HotelChatter.com snapped a lovely photo of West End Summit (above), which is expected to contain an InterContinental Hotel someday, as it exists here in early 2008.
The developer dug a giant hole and…here we are. Local office workers have started calling it the “West End Avenue Pond” since it seems to be in a permanent state of being filled with green brackish water. We’re expecting some kind of mutant superfrogs to start jumping out in the spring and the urban mosquitoes will find a new heaven.
The timing wasn’t too hot, apparently. While Nashville’s hotel business is booming, developers aren’t happy to just build a hotel these days. You’ve got to also have condos going for over half a million apiece and an adjoining office tower to rent out to commercial tenants.
I’m not so sure about the “mutant superfrogs,” but I do hope the originally planned structures do emerge from the giant hole in the ground that now stands in their place. It may take a recovery from the national economy before that happens, though. The WES Web site also features a refreshable camera recording images of the construction site if you’d like to take a closer look. The camera appears to be positioned on developer Alex Palmer’s nearby property that contains Nashville’s Hotel Indigo.
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