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Nashville Warehouse Co. project, with planned 10-story residential building at top right, and Nashville City Cemetery to the right

In recent months, developer AJ Capital has found the remains of two unknown people while digging the foundation of its planned 10-story residential building in Chestnut Hill. Now, the company wants to move the remains to the adjacent Nashville City Cemetery, according to a petition filed in Davidson County Chancery Court on Friday.

Archaeological monitors hired by AJ Capital identified human skeletal remains and fragments of wood, likely from associated coffins, on both May 16 and June 7, according to a filing by Kelly Hockersmith, one of the archaeologists hired by the developer. The remains were located between 14 and 18 feet beneath ground level while digging for foundation work was underway.

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