Give your Nashville buildings an engagement program tenants talk about.
Why urban beekeeping works for Nashville buildings
Nashville's low impact development standard requires new development to manage the first inch of rain on site, and green roofs are one of the accepted ways to do it. Those green roofs are ready-made forage, so a hive program puts that infrastructure to work, turning a stormwater requirement into a great tenant program.
How an urban beekeeping program works in Nashville
A living amenity tenants actually use
Year-round events
Participation data that compounds
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Meet the neighborhood bees
AllianceBernstein sponsors the hive on the green deck at 501 Commerce, part of Nashville's Fifth + Broadway development. AB has built real programming around it, hosting sessions with their Alvéole beekeeper where employees learn the craft, and inviting their employee wellness group out to meet the bees, while MyHive keeps tenants following the hive between visits.
Turning your hives into insight
Data collection and instant reporting
Remote sensing establishes baseline indicators across your portfolio, while onsite monitoring (bioacoustics and eDNA) captures species presence and habitat quality at each property. That data feeds directly into TNFD, CSRD, and GRESB reports, generated in minutes from pre-filled templates, with audit trails showing exactly where each number comes from.
Portfolio dashboard and AI agent
See biodiversity trends across all assets, benchmark each property against portfolio average, and export site-level data for individual disclosures. Ask the AI agent questions about TNFD requirements, GRESB scoring, or site-specific risks, and get answers that reference your actual portfolio data and current framework standards.
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FAQ
Nashville permits beekeeping, and Tennessee requires beekeepers to register their colonies with the state Department of Agriculture. Alvéole handles registration, siting, and compliance for every install.
Yes. Alvéole keeps Italian honey bees, a breed known for its docility. Honey bees are not aggressive away from the hive and rarely sting unless it's disturbed. Our beekeepers site hives away from high-traffic rooftop areas and manage all hive access, so tenants interact with the program through workshops and events, not the hive directly.
A rooftop program builds on the green infrastructure Nashville already encourages through its stormwater program. Each honeybee hive is paired with wild bee habitat to support native pollinators, and Alvéole's biodiversity monitoring turns your building's nature data into reporting you can use for GRESB, BOMA BEST, LEED, WELL, and other certifications.
The foraging season runs roughly March through October, with strong spring and summer nectar flows across Middle Tennessee. That window is also when most tenant-facing events land, hive tours, harvest days, and workshops, so the program's busiest stretch lines up with the season buildings actually want tenant programming.
Alvéole sites hives based on local forage density rather than adding to already-busy blocks, and pairs each honeybee hive with wild bee habitat to support native pollinators too, not just honeybees.
They stay in the hive. Honey bees don't hibernate or migrate. As temperatures drop, the colony clusters around the queen and lives off the honey it stored through summer, though Nashville's mild winters bring the occasional flight day. Before winter, Alvéole winterizes each hive and confirms the colony has enough stores to reach spring. Tenant programming keeps running through the colder months with indoor workshops, and hands-on hive visits pick back up once the colony is active again.
