Seth Parker presents, fresh off the press
Boyle Investment Company
The photo session
Thirty-two acres, with Boyle as master developer alongside Northwestern Mutual and Northwood Ravin. Cooper Carry drew the master plan and Block E; Gresham Smith designed the 1100 Charlotte tower; Smith Gee Studio did the residences over the Publix.
The Credits
from the recordLiner Notes
the record, in fullCapitol View — Nashville
McEwen Northside — Franklin
Forty-five acres, designed by TMPartners with Cooper Carry associating. TMPartners liked their own Block E enough to move their headquarters into it — architects living over the store.
CityPark — Brentwood
Brentwood, not Cool Springs — Cool Springs is a district, not a town, whatever the signage implies. And CityPark isn’t ground-up Boyle either: it’s a 2012 rework of an older office park, with H. Michael Hindman Architects on the retail transformation.
Meridian Cool Springs — Franklin
Sixty acres, more than 900,000 square feet — and Boyle’s own Nashville office sits inside it. A developer that’s a tenant of its own development believed its own brochure. I respect that.
Berry Farms — Franklin
Six hundred acres, developed with the Berry family, who held this land for roughly two centuries before a single foundation went in. Historical Concepts serves as town architect; Gresham Smith designed the Ramsey Solutions headquarters, HASTINGS the K-LOVE building, and Smith Gee the residential.
The Same Signatures
My credits across the five: architecture, retail, drone. And if you’ve read the rest of these case studies, you’ve met Smith Gee and Gresham Smith already — Nashville is a big city drawn by a fairly small set of hands, and I keep finding their signatures in my viewfinder.