Named after Elvis Presley’s onetime guitarist, The Moore Building, a 16-story office building with ground-floor retail space, has opened in Nashville’s Music Row district.
Developed by Portman and Creed Investment Company and designed by Gresham Smith, The Moore Building offers 236,000 sf of office space and 8,500 sf of ground-floor retail. The ground floor is designed around an extended porte-cochère lobby. The building’s first office tenants include legal advertising firm Whitehardt and Albany Road Real Estate Partners.
To serve both tenants and visitors, the building’s design concept combines work and play. Within walking distance of Broadway, The Moore Building features an eighth-floor sky lobby that leads to a 4,000-sf amenity deck—providing space for office tenants to gather and offering views of Midtown and Vanderbilt University.
The Moore Building takes its name from Elvis Presley’s former guitarist Scotty Moore, and it’s located on the previous site of Moore’s recording studio Music City Records, later known as Studio 19. To preserve the site’s history, Portman engaged Rachel Halvorson Designs to lead the project’s interior design, which nods to the 1970s and includes music references.
The building’s amenity level features art by local groups New Hat Projects and Tinney Contemporary Gallery. The space also includes vintage furniture pieces combined with mohair velvets, terrazzo, and custom wood pieces by local designer Aberdeen Studios.
In addition to The Moore Building, Portman is developing two other urban infill projects in Nashville: Starling and Eleven North. In Germantown, Starling is a 363-unit residential community that overlooks the Nashville Sounds’ First Horizon Park. And in the Gulch, Portman is converting Eleven North, a 10-acre apartment campus, into a mixed-use development with the addition of three midrise residential and office buildings.
On the Building Team:
Owner/developer: Portman and Creed Investment Company
Design architect and architect of record: Gresham Smith
MEP engineer: Alvine Engineering
Structural engineer: SDL Engineering
Construction manager: Hoar Construction
Related Stories
| Aug 11, 2010
10 tips for mitigating influenza in buildings
Adopting simple, common-sense measures and proper maintenance protocols can help mitigate the spread of influenza in buildings. In addition, there are system upgrades that can be performed to further mitigate risks. Trane Commercial Systems offers 10 tips to consider during the cold and flu season.
| Aug 11, 2010
Skanska, Turner most active in U.S. hotel construction, according to BD+C's Giants 300 report
A ranking of the Top 50 Hotel Contractors based on Building Design+Construction's 2009 Giants 300 survey. For more Giants 300 rankings, visit http://www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants
| Aug 11, 2010
AECOM, Arup, Gensler most active in commercial building design, according to BD+C's Giants 300 report
A ranking of the Top 100 Commercial Design Firms based on Building Design+Construction's 2009 Giants 300 survey. For more Giants 300 rankings, visit http://www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants
| Aug 11, 2010
New book provides energy efficiency guidance for hotels
Recommendations on achieving 30% energy savings over minimum code requirements are contained in the newly published Advanced Energy Design Guide for Highway Lodging. The energy savings guidance for design of new hotels provides a first step toward achieving a net-zero-energy building.
| Aug 11, 2010
AGC unveils comprehensive plan to revive the construction industry
The Associated General Contractors of America unveiled a new plan today designed to revive the nation’s construction industry. The plan, “Build Now for the Future: A Blueprint for Economic Growth,” is designed to reverse predictions that construction activity will continue to shrink through 2010, crippling broader economic growth.
| Aug 11, 2010
PCL Construction, HITT Contracting among nation's largest commercial building contractors, according to BD+C's Giants 300 report
A ranking of the Top 50 Commercial Contractors based on Building Design+Construction's 2009 Giants 300 survey. For more Giants 300 rankings, visit http://www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants
| Aug 11, 2010
Webcor, Hunt Construction lead the way in mixed-use construction, according to BD+C's Giants 300 report
A ranking of the Top 30 Mixed-Use Contractors based on Building Design+Construction's 2009 Giants 300 survey. For more Giants 300 rankings, visit http://www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants
| Aug 11, 2010
Report: Fraud levels fall for construction industry, but companies still losing $6.4 million on average
The global construction, engineering and infrastructure industry saw a significant decline in fraud activity with companies losing an average of $6.4 million over the last three years, according to the latest edition of the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report, released today at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2009 Annual Meeting in Boston. This new figure represents less than half of last year’s amount of $14.2 million.
| Aug 11, 2010
First CityCenter projects earn LEED Gold
CityCenter announced today that it has received three Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED Gold certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council for: 1) ARIA Resort's hotel tower; 2) ARIA Resort's convention center and theater; 3) Vdara Hotel. ARIA and Vdara will open in December on the Las Vegas Strip and are the first of CityCenter's developments to be LEED certified.
