A property in Nashville’s Pie Town neighborhood that was once supposed to house the city’s first luxury beach club is now the target of a very different kind of project: a six-floor, 270-unit apartment building. Atlanta-based South City Partners is proposing the project. A document submitted to Metro Planning Department concerns the 2.2-acre site at 800 Sixth Avenue South.
From Beach Club Dream to Apartment Blueprint
Modera SoBro, the 404-home community developed by Mill Creek Residential, is at 825 Sixth Avenue South, according to Mill Creek’s own project page. Per the Nashville Post’s reporting, the same stretch of land was previously eyed for Nashville’s first luxury beach club.
That beach club was planned to open in the summer of 2027, per the same account, and the Sixth Avenue site is now slated for apartments.
What the New Concept Plan Shows
South City Partners envisions a six-floor, 270-unit residential building on the parcel, the Nashville Post reports, while a separate filing described by CityNowNext puts the proposed residence count at 270 units with concealed parking and amenities on a 2.19-acre, DTC-zoned site.
The Developer Behind the Proposal
South City Partners is Atlanta-based, according to the Nashville Post.
Pie Town’s Long Pattern of Big Residential Pitches
The Sixth Avenue corridor has seen this kind of ambition before. A prominent Pie Town property at 825 Sixth Avenue South — the Modera SoBro address — was at one point being eyed for a development with 715 units, according to a separate Nashville Post report, while a former brewery site in the same neighborhood drew interest for more than 700 units, as the Nashville Business Journal reported at the time.
Modera SoBro was slated for completion in March 2025, with one-, two- and three-bedroom units averaging 921 square feet, according to Multifamily Leadership…