The Music Row landscape continues its transformation as demolition picks up speed, making way for Forestar Group Inc.’s mixed-use development Music Square Flats. The lot on 17th Ave. on Music Row which was previously home to the SESAC offices, is being cleared for an apartment complex slated for a spring 2017 opening.
The addresses 54, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 64 Music Square West will house the Austin-based developer’s 230-apartment complex, as well as retail space.
Special thanks to Rusty Jones and Victoria Lazarus for assistance with obtaining these photos.
http://www.musicrow.com/2015/05/photos-demolition-of-music-row-continues/
Comments:
Katherine Richardson: Really sad that there isn’t some sort of historic overlay on music row preventing the loss of these houses. I remember when I moved to Nashville from NYC in 1991 and was telling all of my friends in NY about how all the cool companies were in real houses on Music Row. It would be nice to see more of the history preserved.
Devon O’Day: I’m grateful to have been a part of the little big town (before it was a band, before it was a publishing company) and to have seen the old homes transformed into creative confabs of great music. But every year brought a change. I remember watching the SESAC building go up. People complained. ASCAP and BMI – both had former buildings – and people complained when they went up. With every change – there was one constant – Music. Someone somewhere is always making great music in this town. The buildings don’t make the music. The people in them do. The face and appearance of the street may change – but the music that brings it to life never will. Just a little ray of sunshine to ponder. Write on fearless creative souls. It ain’t over as long as there is a pencil, a yellow legal pad and an out-of-tune guitar.