The Urban Land Institute Nashville held its annual Excellence in Development Awards this evening at the Omni Nashville Hotel in downtown Nashville. Over 700 ULI Nashville members and guests representing firms across the real estate and land use industry attended the 14th annual Awards event, which celebrates developments that demonstrate exceptional innovation, and impact on the community or within their product type. ULI Nashville Chair, Sheila Dial-Barton and principal at EOA Architects also announced that the ULI Spring Meeting will be held in Nashville in 2026.
“The Awards are always an exciting event for the commercial real estate industry. It’s a chance for colleagues to gather and celebrate the amazing projects within our city,” said ULI Nashville Chair, Sheila Dial-Barton, principal at EOA Architects, “In November, we celebrated Nashville being named the number one ‘market to watch’ by ULI Americas and PwC for a third year in a row, and at the Excellence in Development Awards, we see why we received that title. The Awards showcase projects that are outstanding in terms of architecture, financial success, and land use, but also the impact these projects have on our community. They make Nashville a more vibrant, exciting, and inclusive city.”
Of the twenty-one projects that were nominated for award consideration, eleven received winning recognition due to their demonstration of meeting market demands and addressing community needs specific to Nashville and Middle Tennessee. The judges came from Charlotte, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. to tour and carefully review each applicant across the criteria of excellence in land use and design, construction, and financial success as well as innovation in affordability, sustainability, and public-private partnerships.
This year’s eleven winning projects and the development teams are as follows:
1030 Music Row
Project team:
- Hamilton Development, LLC
- Music Row 3, LLC
- Anecdote Architectural Experiences
- Turner Construction
- Hawkins Partners, Inc.
- Barge Civil Associates
- Pinnacle Financial Partners
- KCI Technologies, Inc.
- Professional Service Industries, Inc.
- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP
- Bennu Enterprises
- Power Management Corporation
- StructureCraft
- EMC Structural Engineers
609 MERRITT
Project team:
- Urban Grout Commercial Real Estate
- Pfeffer Torode Architecture
- Carter Group, LLC
- Fulmer Lucas
- First Farmers
- Holland & Knight
Albion in the Gulch
Project team:
- Albion Residential
- Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture
- Clark Construction Group, LLC
- HDLA Landscape Architects
- Barge Civil Associates
- KCI Technologies, Inc.
- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP
- Solty’s Art (Artist: Mosaic Tile and Murals)
- I.C. Thomasson Associates, Inc.
Alcove
Project team:
- Giarratana Development
- Goettsch Partners
- Barge Design Solutions
- Walker & Dunlop
- Terranova
- Holland & Knight
- Jarvis Signs
- Giarratana
Amazon-Nashville, Nashville Yards
Project team:
- Southwest Value Partners
- Gresham Smith
- Clark Construction, Inc.
- Bell Construction
- Hawkins Partners, Inc.
- RaganSmith
- U.S. Bank
- KCI Technologies, Inc.
- GEI Consultants, Inc.
- Spencer Fane Bone McAllester
- RSM Design
- Walter P. Moore
- Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd.
- Alvine Engineering
Meharry Living Learning Center
Project team:
- Meharry Medical College
- Moody Nolan
- Whiting-Turner
- EDGE
- Catalyst Design Group
- THA Consulting, Inc
- S&ME, Inc.
- Pillars Development, LLC
Nashville Women’s Rescue Mission
Project team:
- Nashville Rescue Mission
- Design Constructors, Inc.
- T.W. Frierson Contractor, Inc.
- HDLA
- Barge Civil Associates
- JHME Real Estate Advisors
- ECS Southeast, LLC
- Bennu Enterprises, Inc.
- Inner Design Studio
REI Distribution Center 4
Project team:
- Al. Neyer
- REI Co-op
- A.N Architects
- Cumberland Landesign
- Warren & Associates
- R.G. Phillips Consulting, LLC
- TTL, Inc.
- I.C. Thomasson Associates, Inc.
- HASTINGS Architecture
- ASD | SKY
Tanger Nashville
Project team:
- Century Farms
- Tanger Outlet Centers
- Dorsky + Yue International, LLC
- Choate Construction Company
- Kimley-Horn
- ECS Southeast, LLC
- Tanger Outlet Centers
Ten21 at Five Points
Project team:
- S&S Property Management
- EOA Architects
- MCR Group
- Barge Civil Associates
- Design Object
- Power Management Corporation; EMC Structural Engineers
Tennessee Justice Center
Project team:
- The Tennessee Justice Center
- architect WORKSHOP
- PBG Builders
- Studio Topography
- Collected Civil Engineering
- GEOTEK Engineering
- LEE Company
- Thompson Electric
- Dewberry
- EMC Structural Engineers
The evening culminated in awarding the Rose Faeges-Easton Community Impact Award to Nashville Women’s Rescue Mission. Rose Faeges-Easton was the founding Executive Director of ULI Nashville in 2008 and launched the ULI Excellence in Development Awards in Nashville in 2009.
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