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Lake Palmer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | 1600 West End Avenue Nashville, Tennessee United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 36°09′16″N 86°47′37″W / 36.1545°N 86.7935°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Built | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max. length | 400 feet (120 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max. width | 300 feet (91 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Average depth | 60 feet (18 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lake Palmer was a man-made lake in Nashville between 16th Ave and 17th Ave, south of Hayes St and north of West End Ave.[4] This was the proposed location of a long-mooted mixed-use construction project near downtown Nashville that failed to materialize for over ten years.[5] Conceived by Nashville-based Alex S. Palmer & Company, the project was originally planned to open in 2007 as the West End Summit, a $300 million project for office space and apartments.
Excavation initially started in 2005, but the project stalled due to the 2007–2008 financial crisis. The developer sought an anchor tenant for the office portion of the project.[6] The resulting lake was a source of water for swimming pools and country clubs during water restrictions following the 2010 Tennessee floods.[7] The construction proposal was relaunched in September, 2012 with news that Nashville-headquartered Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) had signed leases to occupy two office towers on the site. In addition to the office towers, an InterContinental Hotel was planned as part of the development. After plans stalled, the property was sold to Propst Development in March, 2018.[7]
The site remained a massive, block-long excavation that was commonly called Lake Palmer, as this 85-foot-deep (26 m) hole was mostly filled with water.[8] As of September 2019, the lake was still visible on Google Maps and labelled as Lake Palmer.[9]