I learned a little more about our future neighborhood via today’s Tennessean feature:

SoBro, the area south of Broadway in downtown Nashville, includes several new projects:

??? The Encore, an $80 million project at Third Avenue and Demonbreun Street, behind the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, will bring residential and retail space when it opens in spring 2008.

??? The Pinnacle at Symphony Place, between Second and Third avenues, will be a $110 million, 29-story office tower. The anchor tenant will be the Nashville law firm Bass Berry & Simms, and the Pinnacle also will be home to Pinnacle Financial Partners. The building, with 20,000 square feet of street-level retail space, is expected to open in the first quarter of 2010.

??? Rolling Mill Hill, along First Avenue, south of Broadway, will have more than 170 residential units in five buildings.

This development is reusing old buildings, such as the former Metro General Hospital facility and the nurses’ building. The General Hospital facility will become The Art Deco Building and will contain 24 units. The nurses’ building is becoming The Victorian with 12 units. Another building on the property is also being renovated and is becoming The Powerhouse, with nine units.

The three refurbished buildings are expected to be completed by late 2008.

Two new buildings, with expected completion in 2009, will be a six-story, 36-unit building called The Metro, and a 10-story, 92-unit called The District.