Went to a bachelor party there last year and a wedding this year…
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I was there for work end of the summer then again a month ago or so for a birthday gathering. 
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Happy Birthday Dylan! 
It wasn’t mine!!! 
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It is the number #1 destination for bachelorette parties in the country. And man when I was there it showed. Our hotel was packed with women, none of whom showed the slightest interest in me, even with my wedding ring flashing!
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But it was just your birthday this past weekend. You can run from aging!
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Went to a training conference at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It was the best excuse that I needed to stay at the Nashville Union Station Hotel, going to the point of having a room at track level. I also made sure to ride the local bus back and forth just to get the flavor of their system. So, I was totally getting my train/transit geek thing going on…
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It really is such a grand space.
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It’s such a shame that it’s not senior housing. 
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The surreal part of the experience was walking out the front door to catch the bus and seeing the World’s Largest Lifeway Bookstore just to the north attached to the Southern Baptist headquarters.
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Los Angeles moving against parking diapers for new developments.
" In 2016, the Los Angeles Department of City Planning issued an advisory notice seeking to tamp down on parking podiums in new high-rise developments. Now, as above-grade parking continues to proliferate, a new advisory notice has been issued to prospective project applicants.
“As Los Angeles transitions from an auto-oriented metropolis to a more transit-oriented and pedestrian-friendly city, few design features can so easily detract from a vibrant public realm as above-grade parking,” reads the notice, which which calls for new structured parking to be consistent with the core principles of the Citywide Design Guidelines:
- Pedestrian-First Design;
- 360 Degree Design; and
- Climate-Adapted Design.
The advisory notice urges project applicants to minimize the amount of parking provided using zoning tools such as the Transit Oriented Communities Guidelines and other methods such as automated parking to reduce the amount of physical space required. Additionally, the notice suggests that all parking should be located below ground."
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Fascinating but…
Is this realistic considering the cost for underground parking…if I am reading correctly?
In LA, yes. Here it might be a major deterrent to developers. But damn would I love for some design standards like this 
Raleigh may need to continue giving developers option to build parking podiums, but we should at VERY LEAST have some wrap requirements. Looking at that new render of North Hills Tower 4 and the Walter, imagine how much better it’d look if the deck below Tower 4 was covered in glass to make it continuous from ground up.
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Agreed. I think underground parking will still generally be a pretty tough sell, but ground floor activation and better wrapping for the parking structure should be required. I think that seems like a good compromise between finances, function, and aesthetics.
Look at PNC Plaza, I think a lot of people don’t even notice the multiple floors of parking bc it matches the office portion on three out of four sides, and the non-matching side doesn’t face the street.
I also like encouragement for the parking levels to be flat for easier conversion in the future to other uses.
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So we happily don’t have any historic Nazi bunkers in Raleigh, but I like this idea!
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@GucciLittlePig The best we have is some well-hidden remnants of earthen breastworks that Governor Zebulon Vance had put up to protect the city from Union incursion.
I’m not sure where this should go (certainly not AH). Having an apartment building with a car elevator. Seems more like wretched excess.
But, that it’s wrapped in the skin of adaptive reuse is supposed to make me feel better about it. I dunno. You be the judge.
https://nola.curbed.com/platform/amp/2018/10/25/18024848/luxury-condo-development-car-elevator-cbd
Car elevator. Why? Is it too much to ask to leave the car parked and get on a regular elevator?
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Yeah, exactly. I’m guessing that with the building being a former car dealership, the supports are designed for the additional weight.
None of the references I could find online indicated how the elevator worked in the process. Unless, you take it to your floor, and then drive your car down to your residence.
That would mean that the back portion of each floor is a garage. And, the residential units face the front side.
Also, I can’t wrap my brain around the concept unless there was some amount of space left on the end as a turnaround as they don’t talk about a transfer table function in the floor. That would be too much like the Jetsons.
But, if there is a wide enough aisle down the traffic way to allow typical parking garage maneuvers (as I’m finding with further links), that seems like another waste of space. 
https://www.nola.com/news/article_b996998c-9ac4-549b-9d2a-5a5fa6866567.amp.html
A car elevator was spotted in the renderings for 213 S. Harrington, but it was probably more necessary there due to the tiny size of that building’s footprint.
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