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Prime (801 Church)
The 38-story Prime tower is part of the 17-acre, Amazon-anchored Nashville Yards development and stands among the city’s tallest buildings. Its vertically aligned stacked volumes relate to the dynamic, shifting stacked volumes of the adjacent sister tower, Alcove, just surpassing it in height.
The DeSimone-designed, cast-in-place, concrete structural system features post-tensioned slabs organized around a central core that maximizes leasable space.
| Client | Giarratana Development |
|---|---|
| Architect: | Goettsch Partners |
| Size | 38 Stories | 455 Feet (139 M) tall | 596,000 SF (55,370 SM) | 350 Units |
| Sustainability | Utilizes CarbonCure concrete and post-tensioned slabs to reduce overall carbon footprint |
| Office: | Chicago |
| Completion: | 2025 |
Designed to reflect evolving expectations for urban living, the tower sits on a distinct podium with ground level retail, and prioritizes access to daylight, outdoor space, and a full, cantilevered 11th floor of amenities including a saltwater pool. The tower’s alternating floor stacks required careful coordination of multiple slab types to accommodate differing layouts and loading.
In addition to 10 levels of parking in the building podium that serve both Prime and Alcove, three below-grade parking levels for 500 vehicles required a 60-foot-deep rock excavation into Nashville’s limestone bedrock, introducing significant complexity during foundation and substructure work, especially at the site-specific, jagged perimeter conditions encountered during excavation.
We used lower cement concrete to reduce embodied carbon. Combined with the post-tensioned slabs that minimized overall material use, we achieved a measurable reduction in concrete yardage and carbon tonnage used in constructing Prime.
