[Nashville International Airport Development thread]

There are some reports that Southwest Airlines could be gearing up for daily non stop flights to Panama City, Florida. Currently, Southwest doesn't serve that market in any way so this would be new service in a couple different ways. Nashville and Baltimore are the rumored cities that will get initial service on Southwest so I encourage you to stay tuned. I can see Southwest making this route work from both cities, especially with the connection possiblities in both Focus Cities.

they're supposed to open service at the new airport that's been under construction for sometime. it's been rumored for a while, but it's posted on the PC airport site as of today being official that SWA will start in may '10.

[Music City Center, 1.2 million sq. ft., $623 million]

i can kinda see that, but i'm not sure if that's what they were meaning for. i'm still waiting to see more pictures and hear more information about it. from what i see so far i like it. not what i expected, but not offensive either. btw, what other buildings besides the country music hall of fame have the "looks like instruments" look?

Sorry I should have said music themed instead of instrument themed. I just hope we end up with something world class architecturally.

[Music City Center, 1.2 million sq. ft., $623 million]

Is that supposed to be a guitar face on the roof? I know it's called the music city center (tentatively anyway) but do we have to go down the lets make buildings look like instruments (like the arena) road again?

[May Town Center]

Yes. Here's an article in the City Paper confirming this.

http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=61154

I don't know whether the development will be quite as attractive to companies considering relocation to Nashville as it would be if the the development were connected directly to I-40. Still, the developers felt ths was necessary to keep the project moving forward.

Doesn't this sound like what happened to 100 Oaks years ago? Where the freeway access to keep it alive was too little too late?

[May Town Center]

Agreed, this place is 5 miles from the city center. Sorry about the luck of the people in Bells Bend, but you're the final frontier in Davidson County, and it makes too much sense NOT to happen.

They did it to Bellevue, they did it to Antioch, they did it to Hermitage, and all of those are much further from the center of town than Bells Bend is. I'm amazed it took this long!!!

That's a good point, but raises the question of what happens to existing retail in the city core? (and paints perhaps a negative portrait for the furture as look at bellevue and antioch now) I doubt they're going to have anything unique there that isn't already served by Nashville West, Rivergate, etc., where are the people going to come from? and where will they stop shopping when and if they go?

The big box, mid market retail in this city is semi saturated as it is, do we need to saturate it further?

[Signature Tower]

Also one could look to San Diego's Lindburgh field which is right downtown, and while the city doesn't boast many exceptionally large skyscrapers, just watching a landing from inside the plane looks like weaving through traffic cones. (with the buildings as the cones)