National developer Portman and Creed Investment Company delivered The Moore Building, a 16-story Class-A office building with ground-floor retail space, to the heart of Nashville’s Music Row district.
Legal advertising firm Whitehardt and Albany Road Real Estate Partners will be among the building’s first office tenants, both of which are expected to move into the building in the summer of 2023. CBRE Senior Vice President J.T. Martin handles office leasing for the project.
Located within walking distance of Broadway, The Moore Building features 236,000 square feet of office space and 8,500 square feet of ground-floor retail. Portman engaged local architect Gresham Smith to design a state-of-the-art, amenity-rich tower in the midst of one of Nashville’s most walkable and bikeable communities. The building features a sky lobby on the eighth floor that leads to a 4,000-square-foot amenity deck that boasts sprawling views of Midtown and Vanderbilt University.
The multi-use building was thoughtfully curated with both tenants and visitors in mind, combining work and play in one coherent concept. On the 8th floor, the amenity deck provides a space for office tenants to gather and get outside during the work day. The retail-activated ground floor is designed around an extended porte-cochère lobby, one of the first in the city.
Whitehardt, a local legal advertising firm, will be furthering its business at The Moore Building beginning early this summer. Joining them is Boston-based Albany Road Real Estate partners, a private equity real estate firm with offices in Nashville, Dallas and Denver.
Named after Elvis Presley’s former guitarist Scotty Moore, the building is located on the previous site of Moore’s recording studio Music City Recorders, later known as Studio 19. In order to preserve the site’s rich history, Portman brought on Rachel Halvorson Designs to lead the interior design for the project, taking cues from the 1970s and including subtle music references to establish a unique, refined workplace setting.
The Moore Building’s amenity level features art from local groups, New Hat Projects and Tinney Contemporary Gallery. Additionally, the space includes one-of-a-kind vintage furniture pieces combined with luxury textures like mohair velvets, terrazzo and custom wood pieces by local designer Aberdeen Studios.
In addition to the Moore Building, Portman is applying its experience with experiential mixed-use development to two other urban infill projects in Nashville: Starling and Eleven North.
In Germantown, Portman is developing Starling, a 363-unit residential community that overlooks the Nashville Sounds’ First Horizon Park. The project includes an expansion of the Cumberland River Greenway and 17,000 square feet of chef-driven restaurant concepts at the street level. The development recently secured Toastique, a Washington, D.C.-based gourmet toast and juice bar, as its first tenant.
Portman is redeveloping Eleven North, a 10-acre apartment campus in The Gulch, into a connected mixed-use destination with the addition of three mid-rise residential and office buildings. Located adjacent to Asurion’s HQ campus and Amazon’s new towers, the project will provide a critical link between the North Gulch and mid-Gulch districts. With direct access to the Gulch Greenway trail, Eleven North will create new paths for seamless pedestrian connectivity to the Gulch neighborhoods.
