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  1. CandyAisles
    Nice pics, @KJHburg. Fun fact about the glass atriums...initially pitched with the glass conservatories, the ownership doubted they could afford the steel and glass it would take to construct it. Earl Swensson sold them on the fact that the interior rooms as opposed to the exterior rooms would garner the higher room rate. He was right. That additional projected revenue from the higher room rates substantiated the additional costs. Then...in future phases, Opryland sought to make more INTERIOR facing rooms.
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    @Baronakim this has your fingerprints all over it. Explain yourself! what’s this castle doing in Clarksville and what did you have to do with it?
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    If you haven’t experienced this project at dusk, please do so. Go get a meal at the Optimist and saunter over to take in the majesty of the lighting courtesy of Matteo lighting. Smith Gee Studio (local architects) freaking nailed it on this one.
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    No. The "East Bank" has to be the answer to everything. Affordable Housing, Transit, Neighborhood Friendly, an NFL Stadium, TPAC...oh and the infrastructure needs to appear magically for free. It's too much. I would not characterize this as a half a$$ job by any stretch. The expectations are just ridiculously high and the program is too much.
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    That was a comment on the limitations of the of the capacity effecting what types of performances we can have there.
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    I’m a big Bjarke Ingels fan (no pun intended). But I’m not thinking they (or TPAC) is going to be overly concerned with street activation. Hope I’m wrong.
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    Kind of really a bummer
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    Being scaled downward so it can be shoved into the East Bank? Maybe it doesn't belong there? Putting a limited use building next to another massive limited use building is going to be a struggle for activated streets in this new neighborhood.
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    It would be a shame of the Board of Zoning appeals allows a variance for this property to allow for less frontage to accommodate a curb cut on Gallatin. This will end up being an extraordinarily dangerous series of T-intersections.
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    This is the end…my only friend, the end… https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2024/02/07/whataburger-east-nashville-expansion.html
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    Pics above are of the coffee shop that is on the corner. Lobby will be upstairs.
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    Fins will be lit but they can’t be uplit due to Dark Skies regulations. The intent is to be able to see these fins as a wayfinding element. Hop out of the doors of the Music City Center along Demonbreun or 5th Ave…look north. The fins are about all that pop over the Baptist church so it works as intended. So there’ll be light shining down on either side of each fin as of now.
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    East Nashvillain here. I support Randall’s (Randy’s?) 50 acres.
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    That's only in the downtown code. Permits are being pulled for projects in Midtown, East, Wedgewood/Houston, etc.
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    You and I differ on what constitutes "good news".
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    The Design Review Committee for the Planning Department (that reviews ALL projects looking for a permit within the Downtown Code) had zero projects to review a month or two ago.
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    As it is, it'll end up being a project one would happen upon rather than a project that would dominate a block. I'm disappointed it's not taller but it is also one block away from Broadway which is, generally, lower scale.
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    We sometimes refer to this as "not good".
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    HRI Hospitality and Bell Construction need mention in allowing this design to come to fruition. Taken a long time to get to this point…and while it would have been nicer for it to have been the taller dual brand, this will do. The story that the hotel tells from outside to inside is meant to be charming…and a little bit of an inside joke. Gotta finish it up though…still have a little ways to go.
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    Went to Puttshack today for a Friends and Family event. Tons of fun. Those folks are going to KILL IT. Official opening date is Black Friday.
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    Ha! Thought that was a weird highlight of their menu too. The food is much better than one would expect.
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    EDITION and Ritz Carlton brands are owned by Marriott. Marriott considers both to be a part of their luxury collection. This deal should not effect the EDITION's new direction. Marriott doesn't have much to do with the development of either project...just allowing the "branding".
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    I would describe the access in and out of this area as "poor". NDOT won't allow any cuts along Demonbreun or 8th. Means Clark and 10th have to do all the lifting and 10th is constrained by Cummins Station. Lea is too close to the roundabout that backs up.
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    Additionally...the alley belongs to the city. If a paver breaks, the city would not be interested in replacing it with a more costly piece.
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    If they aren't changing use, it's allowed. But any SLIGHT change in use would be grounds for a complaint.
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