Mr_Bond

On Saturday I hung out at Monday Night Brewing's new tasting room at the Neuhoff plant. Their name for this location is Monday Night Preservation Society, and a great name it is! Here are a few pics though I'm now realizing I failed to get one of the interior. Looks like I'll need to go back and have another Drafty Kilt. This was taken from the Greenway between Taylor and Adam streets, looking east southeast. Same here. Monday Night Preservation Society is next to the smokestack, as you can see in the following pictures. This hole looks like it may have reached its final depth but will get bigger on the north end. Looking north from the gravel drive. There's a covered open space on the second floor but I didn't get up there. The bathroom trailer is on the south end of the property with views toward downtown. From the wooden picket fence you can see across the river. And, lastly, a pic of the smokestack and seating area that is in the middle of the ruins. BTW, the beer is very good IMO.

Here is the link to the study referenced in the article posted by @smeagolsfree. I've not read through the methodology so my comments will have to be based on the hope that these academic researchers did the math right. It looks to me like some knowledge of the methodology might be important but I don't have time to read that now. As noted, Austin is 2nd at a 51% premium. Running down the list we find Atlanta at 38%, Charlotte at 36%, Memphis at 35%, Tampa at 31%, and Nashville at 28%. We are 31st in the list. https://business.fau.edu/departments/finance/real-estate-initiative/housing-market-ranking/housing-top-100/

On Friday and Saturday nights, the last party bus comes through about 11:25 PM. On Friday morning, Councilman Freddie O’Connell (District 19 that includes most of downtown) filed a bill to establish a new regulatory framework for entertainment transportation vehicles. This bill is an important part of ongoing work with the CVC, the Chamber and other groups to address significant concerns related to keeping downtown clean and safe, and reducing noise and congestion. In support of this bill, there will be a statement issued jointly by the Chamber, CVC, and Nashville Downtown Partnership.

Great news! Thanks for the update. In this case, nitpicking = lousing, I mean, losing.

Spot on. It's the difference between having a high net worth and having high income.

I spoke with two senior members of MNPD and they said they are happy to do something if called upon and the violation is clear. The problem is that the only laws against the larger party wagons pertain to noise and nuisance. These are quite hard to enforce. Also, the police have plenty to deal with that is more urgent (and they are understaffed for a city this size) so they can't assign personnel to patrols designed to 'catch' party wagons breaking a noise ordinance. One LEO told me that a city our size should have 2,100 officers and we have just under 1,400. The police have met with the managers of several of these companies and asked them to reduce their noise and try to reduce their effect on city traffic. The pedal taverns are regulated by Metro and you will not see them operating during rush hour. When the Safe Fun Nashville group (I think that's the name) posts videos of pedal taverns and encourages us to join their crusade, they are using a bait-and-switch technique. It's somewhat deceiving, I think. By my lights, the party wagons need some self-regulation or enacted regulation in three areas: location, hours, and noise. By location, I mean that they should commit to specific roads that better facilitate these types of activities. By hours, I mean staying off the roads during rush hour and after 10 PM. And I think the noise issue is obvious but here are the specifics: some wagons are definitely louder than others and some are definitely less loud, and any horn honking should be discontinued.

This looks like a move to shut down the party wagons. If they would keep the noise down and stop at 10 PM, I say let them drink!

@natethegreat, you're spot on. I've looked at this building thousands of times since I can see it from every room in my condo. EVERY time, a thought pops into my head, "They still have some work to do." I concur with @nashvylle that this building will look better after it is surrounded by other buildings.

Welcome to the forum, @TelaEdificio!

They got everything wrong, including the scale. Shouldn't it read "Scale: 1"=100'"? Morons.

I've passed this along to the residents' website for Terrazzo so it will be interesting to hear their comments. My unit is in the northeast corner of the building and will be directly affected by this. My bathroom window will now face a blank wall and I guess that's better than having some renters trying to peek in. The east facing views from the master bedroom will go away but the views to the north and northeast will remain unobstructed. This building will probably reduce the noise from the interstate. Just trying to keep it positive.

@subkyle, if you set up a Venmo account, the rest of us could pay for the drinks. @smeagolsfreeflowinginfo or @freedrinksforsmeags or @ifyouguysonlyknewandnowyoudo

MNPD has a special unit for the Entertainment District. I found this quote from a Tennessean article dated June 10, 2021. The Metro Nashville Police Department recently re-implemented its Entertainment District Initiative putting a team of additional Metro Nashville Police Department officers back in the downtown Honky Tonk Row entertainment corridor on Fridays and Saturdays. The move came due to an increasing number of Nashvillians and visitors heading to the city’s entertainment district on weekends and a rise in crime, according to MNPD. The team of 33 officers re-hit the ground about the time the city lifted COVID-19 related restrictions. Officers working the public safety initiative are in addition to the on-duty resources already in place throughout the Central Precinct as well as the horse mounted unit.

Seeing the rebar in a pile makes me wonder if I've seen this done before. Some effort must be expended to make this happen. Is this normal or has the steel shortage encouraged demo companies to do more of this?

The electricity has to get created somewhere somehow. Perhaps that's where the RNG comes into play.

This website is a quiz about Covid charts. It was put together by two Libertarians but the data is all from publicly available sources. I found it fun! https://www.covidchartsquiz.com

Since the vaccine was rolled out in earnest earlier this year, I haven't visited the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard. With the arrival of the Delta variant, I'm spending a little more time there. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html If you click on the U.S. in the left column and select Admin 1 at the bottom of that column, you will see the states. Tennessee has the seventh most number of cases of all the states. That's disproportionately high on a per capita basis. Much worse, and probably the worst per capita, is Louisiana. When you click on Tennessee, the graphs in the right column update for the state. The number of cases per week are way up, nearing the peak of second surge. However, the number of weekly deaths has risen nearly as much, which I find encouraging. Most encouraging is the green graph of weekly vaccine doses administered. The unvaccinated are responding to the reports of hospitalizations and deaths by getting vaccinated. I have a friend who is a pediatrician in a group practice. He said they are swamped and are putting in lots of extra hours. So, lots of young people are getting this variant which has to be pushing up the number of cases in the graph above. However, they have not had to admit anyone to a hospital yet. He said "This thing is going to blow through here in a hurry." That says to me that each of us should get vaccinated and we should not assume that the path of this variant will look like the first coronavirus.

From the Music City Center website: In FY 2019, we collected over 3 million gallons of rainwater from our Green Roof, reducing our municipal water usage by 51%. https://www.nashvillemusiccitycenter.com/about/sustainability/green-roof

In this picture you can really see-dem plants! Sorry. I just had to say it.

@ruraljuror, I've consolidated my responses here without copying your two quotes. Over the years I've often wanted to dive deep into the topic of state revenue streams but have never had the time. I hope someone is looking at this, other than the politicians. Here is just one example of a tax scheme that doesn't work well: if all road maintenance is paid by gasoline taxes, how do we get electric vehicles to pay their portion? About the sources and percentages, I wouldn't want to put myself in the prison of two ideas, where it's either all of one or all of another. A broader tax base is more sustainable and, potentially, less subject to economic downturns. IMO, every citizen should pay some taxes so that they have some skin in the game. Even those who live off government benefits should have a small portion of those benefits withheld so that they understand that everything has a cost associated with it. This principle also reduces class warfare, which I believe to be a very harmful construct, and it creates a sense of 'we're all in this together' because, actually, we are. We may have strayed off the Nashville Bits And Pieces topic, but I've enjoyed the conversation!

Side note: The USWNT's case for equal pay was dismissed because they actually make slightly more per game than the men's team when all benefits are considered. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/eeoc-backs-us-women-s-soccer-team-pay-discrimination-case

I wonder if the homeschool band can earn any royalties from the team. https://www.nashvillenotes.org

For those of you in the know, does these construction materials result in some time savings versus concrete or traditional wood?

I found annual tax revenue for California online. For the 2007-2008 fiscal year, total tax revenue was $102,521,881. For 2008-2009, it fell to $82,772,112, a drop of 19.26%. I couldn't find anything that far back for Tennessee or Texas. That would begin to give us a little perspective. My comments come from being a portfolio manager during the Great Recession and having to pay attention to a lot of investment-related topics. Many of my clients owned municipal bonds. When the muni bond insurance fiasco started to unfold in 2007, I learned a lot about those types of investments that I didn't know before. (As an aside, if you'd like to know my credentials, check out my profile or DM me.) You are right that the lesser educated segment of the population suffers from greater unemployment during recessions and and they 'get hit hardest during economic downturns' if we're using the word 'hardest' to mean that they experience great financial hardship. However, the loss of state tax revenue because of their unemployment is small compared to lower revenue from business owners whose profits shrink. The point of view we are focused on here is that of the state treasurer. The relevant question for this topic is not "what percentage of business owners can pull out $130K a year from their business?" but rather "how much of the income of the top 20% is comprised of profits and bonuses?" Company managers of all levels see their bonuses shrink during a recession, reducing their taxable income. So, lower bonuses and shrinking business profits hit some states harder than others.

If I recall correctly, this building spent a LOT of time working below grade. Perhaps it was because there are two hotels here instead of one.