Paramount, a 65-story luxury residential tower, will become the tallest tower in Nashville once completed.
Stretching 750-feet into the sky, the skyscraper will be set on a parcel of approximately 12,000 sf on Nashville’s Church Street between Anne Dallas Dudley Boulevard and 6th Avenue. The tower will eclipse the city’s current tallest, AT&T Tower, by 137 feet.
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Paramount will be the first Goettsch Partners-designed building in the rapidly growing southern city. No construction or completion dates have been announced yet.
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