Mr_Bond

If I "follow" a thread, will UP bring it up automatically as I cycle through by clicking "Next unread topic"?

I'd like to learn more about how Libertarians (capitol L out of respect) feel about intellectual property rights. Living in Music City, I feel very uncomfortable saying to half my neighbors that they shouldn't own the rights to their music. What am I missing here? Lots, probably. Help me out!

It would be cool to a "Magic 8 Ball" emoji in the short list in the bottom right corner of a post. Can Neo do that for us?

The Paper Moon mural in Noble Park in The Gulch often has a small line. You can see it while standing in line for "What Lifts You Nashville."

If I had to change one thing in the entire Gulch, I would have a sidewalk in front of the Wellspire Center and 905 Gleaves (the building in your photo, @markhollin). Every week, thousands of tourists who have to cross Gleaves to get to a safe sidewalk on the north side. And that street is busy on the weekends and it can be dangerous to cross. It is my suspicion that someone with money was able to get the Wellspire Center built without having to have sidewalks, because it was built after the Gulch was a thing.

As a fellow libertarian and a student of Austrian economics, I wish you and I could sit and talk for a few hours. I vote "For."

When mudslides took out all major roads up and down the coast south of Santa Barbara in January 2018, the state paid whale watching ships to run passengers from Ventura harbor to Santa Barbara. My nephew had to move his wedding venue and my family members who flew into SB, had to take the ferry down to Ventura and back up again because the airlines would not allow them to move their tickets to an L.A. airport.

Nice work, @Rob. Welcome to the forum!

Another tower along Church Street, please. This area needs its own name. Amazon Row. Gibson Gulch. This calls for some creativity. @titanhog, please?

They brew some great stuff. Their Blind Pirate is one of my favorite beers.

I see this building all day and all night from my condo in The Gulch (I usually sleep at night but, if I'm awake, there it is). You are right. I haven't seen crews working on the exterior for a few weeks. I haven't tried to figure out where the work is being done but it's not on the exterior. The exterior on the Greystar Gulch building is getting attention every day.

I'm a couple of weeks late, but here's some perspective. Commodities move in a super cycle. This graph is for a broader basket of commodities. I think of it in terms of copper. When copper demand rises and prices go up, copper producers say "Let's open a new copper mine!" Then five years later, the mine opens. By then demand may have slacked and the sudden flood of more copper drives prices down for years. BTW, copper prices are such a good indicator of the health of the global economy that the commodity is referred to as Doctor Copper. Here's a chart of the super cycles. It ends in 2011 (sorry about that). Since then, prices have dropped for almost all commodities. It is likely that the super cycle is already picking up steam again and prices will be going up. Of course, each individual commodity works with its own supply and demand forces.

@markhollin, your pics are always good and appreciated, but those ^ are especially good. Thanks much!

I haven't seen it in a long time. One of the stairs broke a couple of weeks ago and caused major headaches for thousands of tourist. The lights under the stairs are still on.

Actually, the walk down 11th at night will be very entertaining! Grand Hyatt, Asurion, NES, and what may be coming from the other towers in the works. Do these NES lights change colors or patterns?

The gasoline supply chain is very tight. I spoke with a jobber (won't name which one) several years back and he said that if everyone in the country went to the gas station to top off their tanks, the stations would run out of gasoline. At least for a day, until the trucks arrive. So, if a bunch of people hear that there's a shortage and they run to the gas station, they will create a self-fulfilling prophecy. At least for a day or two, when the trucks arrive to refill the stations. Add to that the trucker shortage and some stations could stay empty longer. Different topic: Gas stations and oil jobbers to not make any profit when gas prices are going up. They don't want to scare the public so they shrink their profit margins or eliminate them entirely when prices rise. However, when prices start to come down, they lower the price at the pump slowly, expand their profit margins, and make money. When the country's gas prices rise suddenly and Congress wants to hold hearings about price gouging, they're a bunch of idiots.

I have two problems with this concept. 1. Why can't we flip it around? My condo faces the west side and I want to face the east side. It's like he's mooning MarketStreet and the Gulch. 2. This building will partially block my view of the fireworks displays at Riverfront Park. I'm calling the City Lights people and we're hiring some BB&S's lawyers. Maybe that lady in 1212 knows who to call.

The color at sunset is beautiful. Dark sky in the background, sunset colors on the buildings. The only thing missing the second tower.

This building will fill in a nice spot from Demonbreun. I took this from viaduct yesterday. One22One still have about 12-13 floors to go, I think.

The lights along the top of the commercial tower are really bright when seen from lower Demonbreun. This was taken from the viaduct but I could also see them from the corner of Demonbreun and 8th.

Ditto on the favorite building. If you see someone in yellow on a Segway, that's an ambassador. Actually, anyone in a yellow shirt/jacket/golf cart is available to help you with anything. The same company provides these services to GBID and CBID.

CIM Group has done some cool things like this... https://www.432parkavenue.com You can own a piece of all this if you're qualified as an investor.

That is some serious street activation on Phase II. 11th Avenue North will be a wonderful place to walk after dark, making it easier to get to Capitol View and from there to The Gulch. As a Gulch resident, I couldn't be happier about this development! Excuse me while I get on a soap box about "The Gulch." "The Gulch," as served by the Gulch Business Improvement District, is bounded the interstate, the railroad, and Broadway. This was the original 'Gulch' as developed in a master plan by MarketStreet. The Gulch is bounded by the interstate, the railroad and Broadway. The Gulch has become a 'great place to live, work and play' (to borrow a phrase from the Nashville Downtown Partnership) because of MarketStreet's foresight and planning. Now, it's such a go-to destination for tourists and has such a good reputation that other developers are using the name to make their efforts seem more hip. The property owners within the Gulch Business Improvement District pay extra property taxes to fund services that enhance the beauty and safety of The Gulch: extra trash can pickup, large planters with flowers, ambassadors who deal with the homeless and help tourists, street cleaning, graffiti removal, landscaping and mowing, weed removal, reporting street lights that are out, and much more. These services help make the Gulch a great place to visit. The other, non-Gulch Gulches do not pay into the GBID and do not have these services. So, in a way, these developers are using GBID's services to make themselves look better. Since the former Tennessean site is north of Broadway, it falls outside of the GBID. Okay, the rant is over.

It's been almost eight months since the cranes came down. Why is this building taking so long to finish? I drive or walk by several times a week and it seems like no change has happened on the 12th Ave side FOR-EV-ER!

Depends on the bride, and the groom.