Published April 17, 2020 by William Williams
A Charlotte-based company that undertook its first local project in Germantown is eyeing a mixed-use development for Wedgewood-Houston as its second.
Proffitt Dixon Partners is targeting a first-quarter 2021 groundbreaking for the project, which will have 220 residences and some retail space in three buildings. Tentatively called Hagan & Hamilton, the development’s restaurant space would be located in a building facing both Hamilton Avenue and Hagan Street (and offering residential), while two residential-only buildings would address both Hagan and Moore Avenue. The main address is 625 Hamilton Ave.
Hagan & Hamilton would offer nine live-work units, with five in one of the residential-only buildings and four in the other such structure. Amenities would include a swimming pool, a club room, various patios and private outdoor space, and fitness center, among others.
Proffitt Dixon has the property under contract with a limited partnership that also owns the business on the site (Queen’s Tree Surgery, which will relocate) and hopes to close on the purchase in early January.
“We believe Wedgewood-Houston is one of Nashville’s great walkable neighborhoods,” Stuart Proffitt, company co-founding partner, told the Post.
Proffitt Dixon has enlisted Civil Site Design Group (engineering and land planning), EOA Architects and Hawkins Partners (landscape architects). Each is locally based.
The team will go before the Metro Planning Commission on Thursday, May 28, to seek a specific plan rezoning.
No detailed image has been finalized and the company is not disclosing the roughly estimated cost to undertake the project, Proffitt said.
The planned project has evolved since early 2019. At that time, Proffitt Dixon began discussions with Wedgewood-Houston-based Manuel Zeitlin Architects. Months into the process, the Metro Planning Department undertook a neighborhood study. Late last October, the Metro Planning Commission approved the Wedgewood-Houston and Chestnut Hill Planning Study.
“Manuel Zeitlin Architects and EOA Architects teamed up with us to craft a wonderful project that conforms to the vision outlined in the … study,” Proffitt said. “Wedgewood-Houston has long been a well-organized neighborhood with SNAP (South Nashville Action People) and CONVERGE (an arts organization) neighborhood groups that created a forum for neighborhood input into the plan.”
Of note, Proffitt Dixon developed the Germantown site home to apartment building Peyton Stakes, which it still owns via an LLC.
https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/article/21128945/mixeduse-project-planned-for-weho