July 24, 20186 yr Damn! Are there no more surface parking lots in downtown Nashville? There are plenty of surface lots in downtown Nashville, old money is holding on to them, like they are in Cincinnati. Either waiting on a huge cash buyout, or to just go to the grave with them.
July 24, 20186 yr ^ you pretty much have to take them to the grave or else you will have a huge tax hit
July 24, 20186 yr Damn! Are there no more surface parking lots in downtown Nashville? There are all sorts of odd pieces of land because of the railroad tracks and weird street layout...will we see anything go up on this tiny traffic island?: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1536097,-86.7764161,3a,35.8y,90.56h,95.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sh3ZUuk1rBv5z30jhqo704w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
July 24, 20186 yr Damn! Are there no more surface parking lots in downtown Nashville? There are all sorts of odd pieces of land because of the railroad tracks and weird street layout...will we see anything go up on this tiny traffic island?: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1536097,-86.7764161,3a,35.8y,90.56h,95.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sh3ZUuk1rBv5z30jhqo704w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Perfect place for a coffee shop (starbucks) or a krispy kreme in Nashville.
July 24, 20186 yr Damn! Are there no more surface parking lots in downtown Nashville? There are all sorts of odd pieces of land because of the railroad tracks and weird street layout...will we see anything go up on this tiny traffic island?: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1536097,-86.7764161,3a,35.8y,90.56h,95.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sh3ZUuk1rBv5z30jhqo704w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Perfect place for a coffee shop (starbucks) or a krispy kreme in Nashville. The long side is about 50 feet and the side is about 25. If they can get a parking variance and let a tower overhand the sidewalks, they could do a tower there with one small 800-1000~ sq foot unit per floor.
October 31, 20186 yr Developers bought this boring 1980s condo complex for $18 million and turned it into a "Bachlorette Party Hotel": https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2018/10/31/nashville-bachelorette-parties-hotels-bode-group-travel/1804686002/ Here it is on streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1572964,-86.7721729,3a,75y,249.92h,94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGXW3lLUcUU4XvRRDBQxl9w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
November 1, 20186 yr 1 hour ago, jmecklenborg said: Developers bought this boring 1980s condo complex for $18 million and turned it into a "Bachlorette Party Hotel": https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2018/10/31/nashville-bachelorette-parties-hotels-bode-group-travel/1804686002/ I....think I hate Nashville without ever having been.
November 1, 20186 yr ^It's over $200 per bedroom, per night. https://www.bode.co/bode-nashville-hotel-alternative It's actually a pretty brilliant business model. Pay $18 million for a tear-down 1980s apartment complex, spiff it up and market it to trust funders on vacation, then in 10 years, just as all of the decor needs to be replaced, sell it for $40 million to a developer who'll bulldoze it.
November 1, 20186 yr 2 hours ago, edale said: I....think I hate Nashville without ever having been. As Atlantis flooded, the nobles still cried for their slaves...
February 22, 20196 yr 750 ft tall residential skyscraper being proposed in downtown Nashville, among other projects: https://urbanland.uli.org/development-business/balancing-nashvilles-skyline-with-more-downtown-density/?utm_source=realmagnet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HQ Urban Land Magazine 2-18-19 “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
February 22, 20196 yr I...kinda...like...it? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 22, 20196 yr ^That might be the city park site that isn't actually a city park. So the homeless advocates have been up-in-arms.
March 26, 20196 yr I think i found peak Nashville and post here for your amusement. Custom art and decor for the new places made from the bones of the 'ruined and abandoned' homes of others........shown here in a hundred thou or so schoolie tiny home format that is probably an airbnb for instragram interns. http://www.1767designs.com/somedrifters. I kid cuz i luv
April 8, 20196 yr Hot Tub party bus: https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2019/04/08/hot-tub-wheels-downtown-nashvilles-newest-party-vehicle/3399939002/
April 18, 20196 yr The Tennessean reports that Nashville's growth rate shrunk significantly in 2018, but it still added 30,000 residents: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/04/18/nashville-population-growth-slows-2018/3498194002/ The metro probably won't surpass 2 million in the 2020 census, but will likely surpass all 3 C's by 2030.
April 19, 20196 yr On 10/31/2018 at 11:04 PM, jmecklenborg said: ^It's over $200 per bedroom, per night. https://www.bode.co/bode-nashville-hotel-alternative It's actually a pretty brilliant business model. Pay $18 million for a tear-down 1980s apartment complex, spiff it up and market it to trust funders on vacation, then in 10 years, just as all of the decor needs to be replaced, sell it for $40 million to a developer who'll bulldoze it. Not saying I have experience with bachelorette parties, but from my experience with bachelor parties and similar: Chicago > Detroit = Vegas = Cincy (being a Cincy quasi-local helps) >>> Nashville. I don't get the Nashville bachelor party / bachelorette party draw. Nashville certainly would have Gatlinburg beat IMO Edited April 19, 20196 yr by SWOH
June 7, 20196 yr Major cuts were just announced for Nashville's bus system: https://www.nashvillepublicradio.org/post/nashville-bus-service-cuts-explained-4-points#stream/0 The system lost about $4 million in state funding despite a slight overall increase in ridership. No news on a new transit tax initiative after the 2018 effort went down hard.
June 23, 20195 yr After failed transit referendum in 2018, Nashville eyes...2024: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/05/02/nashville-next-transit-plan-may-come-2024-referendum/3506780002/?utm_source=oembed&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=storylines&utm_content=news&utm_term=1091574001 That's right, they have absolutely no plan to increase funding for the bus system until 2024.
July 10, 20195 yr 22 year-old tourist dies while attempting to jump from one rooftop bar to another: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/man-falls-to-his-death-from-broadway-rooftop
September 13, 20195 yr Briley, who inherited the mayor's seat after Barry's resignation, is defeated by John Cooper. So the last vestige of the Barry scandal is gone. Some pretty choice quotes from this article: https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/09/12/nashville-mayoral-election-david-briley-john-cooper/2306429001/ Quote What this is about is disgust. The people most likely to vote in Nashville, long-time residents, the elderly and native Nashvillians, have seen enough. The influx of new residents, the traffic, the tourism dollars spent downtown, none of it has anything to do with them. Meanwhile, the budget has gone south, and no one wants to say why. There are reasons why, of course, but cool, hip Nashville has been too busy patting itself on the back to get around to that, while politicians, including both Cooper and Briley, have played funny with the facts to suit themselves.
March 3, 20205 yr Several tornados struck Nashville in the early morning hours of March 3. One passed within about 500-1,000 of the State Capitol.
March 3, 20205 yr My cousin is there for work right now and says all of the locals are HEATED about lax building codes leading to more collapses and damage
March 17, 20205 yr Massive layoffs loom for the city's massive hospitality industry: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/03/16/bar-closures-threaten-layoffs-nashville-works-curtail-pandemic/5062985002/ I'd also expect to see work stall on several of the large projects underway...we likely just witnessed the collapse of Nashville's 5-year boom. Several years might pass before momentum resumes.
June 10, 20205 yr ^ that's great news. i saw the nypl is planning on doing curbside too when they get to that stage of reopening. seems the thing for libraries to do for now.
June 22, 20204 yr Renderings have been released for a retractable roof stadium for a major league baseball franchise in Nashville...a group of investors is looking to poach either the Oakland A's or the Tampa Bay Rays or make a bid for an expansion team.
June 22, 20204 yr I mean, they can have the Rays... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 22, 20204 yr 9 hours ago, ColDayMan said: I mean, they can have the Rays... Thinking about this...this stadium location permanently blocks a bridge at the foot of Broadway. I have long thought that a low bridge with a draw span might be possible here since commercial shipping on the river is light in this area. A low pedestrian-only draw bridge is definitely possible. Unfortunately, they messed-up big-time when the Schimerhorn was built where it was, with its front entrance facing the former ramp to the small bridge that was shuttered to vehicular traffic when the Korean Vets bridge opened around 2005. Now they have to wait until Martha Ingram dies before they entertain any idea of extending the entrance ramp to the arena and reopening the thing to traffic. The very expensive facade will be blocked by a ramp but...too bad. Plus, the damn thing has faced a surface parking lot for the past 15 years and nothing has been done about that. Edited June 22, 20204 yr by jmecklenborg
June 22, 20204 yr Semi related question I ask because this thread showed up on my notifications and I've been wondering: does this building have a colloquial name?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Snodgrass_Tennessee_Tower
June 22, 20204 yr 5 minutes ago, E Rocc said: Semi related question I ask because this thread showed up on my notifications and I've been wondering: does this building have a colloquial name?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Snodgrass_Tennessee_Tower The Tennessee Tower. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 22, 20204 yr 1 hour ago, ColDayMan said: The Tennessee Tower. Figures LOL. As far as I know William was no relation.....
June 24, 20204 yr it's actually really good timing to be planning for a mlb team this year and working on that.
July 24, 20204 yr Pedal Wagon SHUT DOWN: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2020/07/24/nashville-party-buses-larger-transpotainment-vehicles-must-close/5506378002/
July 27, 20204 yr n'vuhl developments one22one planned for spring 2022 opening. 365'. the foundation is about done. these two are called broadwest four seasons hotel and residences is also well underway
July 27, 20204 yr 2 hours ago, mrnyc said: n'vuhl developments one22one planned for spring 2022 opening. 365'. the foundation is about done. ^Look at where all of these 20~ story buildings are going up between the tracks and the interstate - I don't doubt that there is planning in the background to bring regional rail into Union Station. The downtown railroad yard is not very big but it is active 24 hours a day. It's where all of the local freight for various local industries are sorted. No doubt there have been conversations re: getting all or almost all of that activity out of there and turning the railroad yard over to developers and giving over the feeds to that yard to passenger rail and commuter rail.
August 17, 20204 yr Nashville's new mayor proposes new transit plan, but it will not involve any rail, only a BRT from suburban Antioch. The West End/Broadway BRT that was the subject of 2014's Amp gets no revival. https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/08/17/nashville-mayor-cooper-new-mass-transit-plan.html Quote In 2018, then-Mayor Megan Barry pitched a plan to voters that would have cost about $9 billion over 15 years of construction. The vision featured new rail lines and a tunnel under downtown. Voters rejected the plan by a nearly 2-to-1 margin in a May 2018 vote, occurring two months after Barry resigned after admitting to an affair with her head of security. The Tennessean notes: "This time, the plan doesn't hinge on a proposed sales tax increase. It relies on more than 75 highly tailored funding streams that include federal and state grants, tax revenues and private developer contributions." In 2014, then-Mayor Karl Dean unsuccessfully pushed to create the Amp, a bus rapid transit line that would have linked East Nashville and West Nashville through downtown and the West End Avenue corridor.
August 19, 20204 yr when nashville had bill boner as a mayor anytime they mentioned his name for something on the radio the rock station announcers would always yell BILL BO NAH ... YOU KNOW WHUT AH MAYN! it was always pretty funny.
September 14, 20204 yr https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/mergers-acquisitions/article/21141890/beaman-to-sell-automotive-business Notorious transit opponent is selling his Nashville car dealerships, including the one that occupies prime, prime, prime property between Nashville's downtown and Vanderbilt. Beaman was active with the Koch Brothers in opposing the circa-2014 BRT proposal and the 2018-19 light rail subway plan. Here is the site: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Beaman+Automotive+Group/@36.1549741,-86.7918754,395m/data=!3m2!1e3!5s0x8864668d464a0093:0xc05ac85e9fecffea!4m5!3m4!1s0x8864668d48d6f84d:0x8dd89b8fa9310f2e!8m2!3d36.154269!4d-86.7907991
September 17, 20204 yr Ben Shapiro moving his operation to Nashville: https://deadline.com/2020/09/the-daily-wire-ben-shapiro-jeremy-boeing-1234577589/
September 18, 20204 yr On 7/24/2020 at 7:20 PM, jmecklenborg said: Pedal Wagon SHUT DOWN: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2020/07/24/nashville-party-buses-larger-transpotainment-vehicles-must-close/5506378002/ Perhaps "Nashville Hot Chicken" isn't real, but "Transpotainment" is 100% real and 100% native to Nashville: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=transpotainment&geo=US
November 3, 20204 yr Developer pays $9.4 million for a vacant lot in Downtown Nashville measuring about 35x120: https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2020/11/03/real-estate-investor-closes-9-4-million-deal-undeveloped-lot-lower-broadway/6128483002/ Behold: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1608846,-86.7774083,3a,49.1y,165.06h,95.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slmtPA82TqKdiyPlZ-5SNBQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
November 11, 20204 yr Suburban/rural Williamson County DOWNZONES from one house per acre to one house per five acres: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/franklin/2020/11/10/williamson-commissioners-approve-rezoning-preserve-rural-areas/6190758002/ This significantly discourages more development near the new I-840 and will put more pressure on land values in Davidson and the other neighboring counties. Davidson is where DT Nashville is - Cheatham County is almost completely undeveloped thanks to its rugged terrain and lack of water and sewers. Therefore the suburbs are going to keep pushing to the north, east, and southeast. We might see development leap frog Williamson and start happening in Hickman County, but that is a LONG 45-minute drive into town.
December 27, 20204 yr Nashville has almost zero historic buildings as compared to any northern city, so it's a shame that several Second Ave. buildings lost their front facades. No news yet on how they will be rebuilt. Hopefully a developer doesn't get greedy and seek to insert a narrow skyscraper in this spot since these buildings are over 100 feet deep and the backs are okay.
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