GreenHillsBoy

The parking garage for Dillard's/ Green Hills Mall at the corner of Abbott Martin and Crestmoor has been demolished and core drilling began for the new Dillard's. Unfortunately, they cut down all of the rather mature trees that lined that corner which seemed so unnecessary. I will say that the new garage on Crestmoor that will connect to the new Dillard's does have nice landscaping and lighting, but is still a garage. I don't understand whey they could not have had ground floor retail facing Crestmoor with the garage above. Unfortunately Crestmoor is a hodge podge of small ugly buildings and no connection for the most part, we should expect more.

Has anyone heard of a proposed hotel to take the Broadway side of Bridgestone Arena? It would remove the tower and the area going up Broadway that is basically a blank wall of billboards and houses meeting rooms and offices. It would be a narrow linear type building facing Broadway???? Definitely a rumor but from a fairly reliable source regarding at a minimum discussions. The plus is that the city owns and controls the land and they feel it could be done to add to the needed rooms for the Music City Center.

I agree with samsonh, the math just doesn't work to do $5,000,000 in a month. I lived in Chicago for a year and can't think of any fast food type place that could even approach that, especially with the very average to mediocre food they serve, loaded with calories too.

I've been to several of the new restaurants. Sinema is a beautiful restoration of the old Melrose Theater and I was there only about a week after the opening. The food was very uneven but has major potential once they have the opening kinks out. The major concern is the prices, most entrees are in excess of $30 and appetizers north of $14. One of the most impressive of,the new is Jonathan Waxman's Adeles's in the Gulch. Food is really good and a very relaxed casual atmosphere and reasonable prices.

Maneet Chauhan's Vermillion restaurants in both Chicago and New York are really interesting and big hits there. This should be another in the many new restaurants that are actually becoming a draw for out of towners. Had dinner late last night in the Gulch at 404 Kitchen and the area was hopping with busy sidewalks, bars open to the street with everyone seemingly packed. Very exciting times as we grow into a truly urban center. FUN.

While the food and entertainment venues are very limited in Donelson, I have to agree with donNDonelson2 that the housing values are really good, with stable desireable homes well kept and priced very reasonably. I think it will become a much hotter property area as time goes on and other areas prices dirve people to look at closer areas with good value.

No, fieldmarshaldj, I did not start any political comments and prefer not to go there, but since you and others had, I added my two cents. I have no problem if we all agree to keep our political opinions to ourselves and stick to relevant information and facts on development projects. We all have our opinions and arguing other sides won't change mine and I'm sure not yours or anyone else's. I'm the new guy here and not sure the inner circle here is too welcoming of us new outsiders to the group. Hope that is not true.

Thanks to smeagolsfree for asking posters to stop with the politics. I joined to learn of economic development, not political opinions.

The Tennessee Theater was never a porno theater. It was a great art deco building and should have been restored. In my opinion it was the best of all of the downtown theaters.

Beth Harwell is heavily tied to special interests with lots of money. She enjoys being able to put it to a very popular mayor in her city, where she could not be elected to any thing other than the heavily Republican district they created for her. Haslam is too weak to veto, but if he did, it would be over ridden easily and he is basically powerless within his own party.

We simply have a system in this state, forget the political parties, where the lobbyists and rural legislators look after special interest over the sensible and reasonable needs of the state. I know a number of local leaders who feel that they cannot win in the state legislature and influence anything positive that is not focused on the wishes of special interests. If you travel to any rural area, you will see four lane divided interstate quality highways in many rural areas...Jamestown to Crossville, Cookeville to McMinnville, Jackson to Dyersburg, etc....where a solid two lane with a center turn would be more than adequate and much less costly, yet the four major metro areas are falling further and further behind. We see influence with our Community Colleges opening expensive physical facilities in virtually every county in the state....Motlow from Tullahoma in Symrna, Columbia State in Franklin, Vol State in Livingston and on and on....again lobbyists and rural legislators want to take care of their area even when it does not make sense. I don't know the answer as the system works for the incumbents and it is very difficult to fight. As long as the focus is on social issues, guns, abortion, anti-gay bills, censorship of text books, etc....we will continue to fall into the lower 5 in the major categories as a whole while metro areas have to fight against stacked odds to be progressive.

Thanks, all new to this

There is a report on SkyscraperCity blog from somone named Ron-N-TN that says the plans are very dense with the two HCA buildings being 10 and 14 stories. I dont know the accuracy but that person does a lot of reports on that site and it generally appears to be accurate.

I'm new to the forum, but prefer hearing real news about development and facts, not overly concerned with those that post who share their political views. I will say that Lee Beaman is a spoiled rich kid who has always gotten his way and any view of his will likely be opposite of mine. I live in the Green Hills area and rest assured those that have the Stop Amp signs in their yards are older and wealthier and have only their personal interests at heart, not what is best for the city as a whole. With the massive amount of apartments and condos being built in such close proximity to the West End corridor, adding lanes is not an option, mass transit is the only long range solution.