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Take a look at Huntington Park in Columbus as well if you want to see a AAA ballpark done well and placed in a great area. There's a reason the Clippers had, I believe, the highest attendance in AAA this year.
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on another note, something I've been thinking for several weeks. as far as connecting music row to the gulch. what about selling air rights? let a developer build a building over the interstate on Demonbreun. yes I realize there are exit lanes to deal with but those could be worked around. im not saying cover the entire interstate downtown, but it would be a nice green swath through town.
It has been done in other cities. heck there are several blocks in NYC that are directly over the rail yard behind grand central terminal, and madison square garden is on top of penn station.
I definitely think something like the 670 cap in Columbus would work great over Division/12th. Can't link to it now as I'm on my phone, but a quick Google search will show you what that one looks like. You don't even know you're over the interstate when you're on it, and it really helps connect downtown with the Short North neighborhood here.
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http://featuresblogs...y-offers-m.html
The above is a nice article that I bookmarked from the Chicago Tribune that was written last year about various highway cap projects across the country. Chicago is studying a highway cap of the portion of I-94 that passes right by The Loop. Check out the Columbus, OH freeway cap that the article references. It's a simple but fantastic concept, that continues the street wall with buildings on either side (one story buildings, mind you, because of the weight issue) rather than a park. Anyway, I think these projects in general are absolutely phenomenal and vital for rebuilding certain neighborhoods that have had their connectivity and continuity completely destroyed by freeway construction over the years.
This type of project would be huge for The Gulch. I'm just being unfairly cynical when I say this, but I still am used to Nashville not having leaders who have the foresight to actually do something ground-breaking and progressive like this. But, who knows. I honestly have no idea what the price tag on this Gulch proposal would be, and I'm sure the city would find some way to bungle it and make construction costs double or triple beyond the projection, but it really doesn't seem to me like this should cost an exorbitant amount of money by any means. Someone above compared the project to Boston's "Big Dig", but it's nothing like that because the expressway is already below grade, which means there is no digging to speak of going on, beyond digging holes to plant the park tress in. In Boston they were putting an elevated highway that was right smack dab in the middle of a very urban neighborhood, into an underground tunnel. All this Gulch concept would take is really just building a park on top of some reinforced base that covers the freeway. Surely that can't be that costly, can it? The highway cap project in Columbus, which is significantly smaller in area than this project would be but still close enough that it should give us a general idea, only cost $10 million to complete. For a project that would have such a dramatic impact, that is surely doable.
For reference, here is an aerial of the Columbus highway cap project, now complete:
Here is the project at street level. To go from a basic highway overpass with a chain link fence on either side to this is pretty incredible, I think.
I'm in school at Ohio State, and literally if you didn't already know that the cap had been built you would never know that you were over top of 670. It's a fantastic job, and the businesses that are in the cap are very high end. It's done a great job of connecting the convention center, DT, and the Arena District to the Short North (which is a fantastic area in its own right without those areas).
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Ugh, the naysayers. I hope they enjoy sitting in hours of traffic and a bus hits their car...
j/k of course.I think my favorite was from the lady from Clarksville who didn't see how it would help people from outside of Nashville... Like why even ask that lady for a quote? It's not supposed to directly help you when you live an hour away.
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I thought Southwest benefitted Nashville by providing low cost direct service to other cities. Could you explain a little more why Southwest holds BNA back?
Not to speak for Lexy, but with Southwest having such a large presence here it makes another airline less likely to make Nashville a hub or put any sort of a medium to large size operation here. This holds us back from getting an American/Delta/US Air here to provide overseas flights.
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Nashville is a popular re-fueling stop for cross-country military flights. That's probably what you saw.
Well whoever was flying it was putting on a little show too because he flew by me twice.
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Okay, so I'm working today at an apartment complex on Murfreesboro Rd by the airport. All the sudden I hear this huge roar, and I assume it was thunder because there was a storm moving into the area. Then I look up and there is a fighter jet, extremely low, I don't know whether it was an F-19, F-20, etc. but it was amazing. The roar was absolutely ridiculous.
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There's a Baptist Convention at the intersection of Franklin Rd. and Maryland Farms Blvd. but I think it's just the TN Baptist Convention.
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I don't know. But I do know that is one of the places where the most dust will get stirred up. Let me check aroudn and see what I come up with.
Thanks!
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Went thru the airport on Friday and will be coming back on Tuesday. All of the carpet in the C concourse is gone now and it's just the concrete underneath it.
While waiting in line for security I was wondering how they're going to do the consolidated security checkpoint. Are they going to get rid of the Capitol Grille or what?
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Bad thing is that flight has been pulled from Nashville with the arrival of JetBlue here. LOL!!! Southwest has pulled it in favor of the Philly flight. Plus, that airport has come under some recent scrutiny about safety and I think SWA is a little leary of having a large bank of flights into there. At least until things pass.
From experience in Islip on a SWA flight they are very lax about security there... but that's to be expected with a small airport
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A full 2 1/2 page spread in the Tennessean today. It was pretty impressive. It had basically all of the info that a rider would need to know. I imagine that this would help to inform many people whom are oblivious to the project. However, with revenue service starting on monday, I am surprised we haven't seen any actual advertising for the Star. With so many people that only get news from t.v. and not from the paper. Many potential riders might not know about it.
I haven't seen any advertising on TV, but I have heard a fair amount on the radio...
j/k of course.
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The one in DT Minneapolis is also very nice, though I assume that is their flagship.