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After being born and raised in Knoxville and leaving for MTSU in 92 then moving up the street to Nashville until 2012. Knoxville has been always geared around the University of Tennessee. Once I was old enough to leave for college. I left and never looked back as most of my High School friends from that area did. Still to this day if I go visit family. I have to be gone in 48 hours(weekend visit). It's depressing because I remember how it was then and still how it is now. If you have ever noticed. The immediate area around UTK(the strip area) always get the majority of any new construction and will have most of your tower cranes no more than a block from the strip(not passing Ft. Sanders Hospital). If I'm not mistaking. Someone on this board a while back talked about I think maybe there is a Walmart and Publix that was recently built next to campus. So just imagine for anyone that has never lived in Knoxville for a period of time. Imagine all development is around the Vanderbilt, West End, Hillsboro Village, Midtown, etc and never leaving that area. UT is Knoxville's heartbeat.

Where downtown would a stadium be built? We all know with recent stadiums come surface parking in the south? Don't mention PCS Metals site are next to the Titans Stadium because we all know "That ain't gone happen".

Don't forget to walk a few blocks to checkout their Target that sat on the corner from the convention center.

WOW!!!1995. I wasn't even born yet. Great pictures though. I remember back when this was being built at that time. I didn't realize it was being built when we would go downtown to the Mix Factory on Tuesday nights(Fight Night), Thursday and Saturdays when I was at MTSU in undergrad. The good ole day's. By the way. The Mix Factory was ahead of its time. That place would be a blast now being four floors sitting on the corner were Asurion is with Have a Nice Day cafe down the street with the big yellow smile on top of the building. Ahhh the good ole day's of partying in Nashville.

If I can recall. I remembered seeing the few surface lots that are in Manhattan for parking use this type of system where the cars are stacked on top of each other. It's on the ground though rather than on top of a building.

We all thank Mayor Dean for having the big freaking "Cajones" to have a vision to drop a little over a half billion dollars right in the teeth of a bad economy at that time for that 2nd legacy project. As asinine as it was Mayor Dean let people across the country know that Nashville was looking good and strong at that point and everyone across the nation was like "WOOOO" what's going on there and push their chips in on Nashville as well. That made an enormous statement. Those of us that use to live or are still there are excited seeing the ever changing skyline and massive developments continue for the city for years to come. I'm just curious of what Mayor Berry's legacy game changing project will be to put Nashville on that next level. 4 people like this

Did Jacksonville's TopGolf start construction before? I think what happened is that CSX held up the whole process for a while on the land purchase because it was something to the amount of the rail tracks that were on the property. Then on top of that. With the enormous amount of construction going on there. The permits were coming in at a snails pace. TopGolf Nashville was originally suppose to open Fall of 2016.

I don't think anyone has realized that Nashville's TopGolf was originally announced a few months before Jacksonville. Jacksonville's TopGolf is already up and running. I think the grand opening was a few months ago.

I went to visit Austin back in 2013 for the first time right after moving to Houston. Went to the Domain while construction was still being done on the movie theater at that time and the place is unique. If I am not mistaking. I think either there may be office space on top of some of the restaurants/retail. I could be wrong but I think I remembered seeing that. The whole setup reminded me of the Boardwalk in Shreveport LA minus Nieman Marcus.

I remember going to Carowinds in Charlotte back in the 80's. Is that place still open?

Oh wow. It's almost done. Here in Houston. Neiman Marcus is literally right across the street from Dillards. It would be really nice if Neiman's, or Bloomingdale's opened in Nashville at that location. I guess sometimes in the near future. There should be some news on what will open once the next phase is complete.

Does anyone know or have pictures of what the progress is at The Mall at Green Hills for the new Dillards? Wasn't they suppose to build a new Dillards and knock down the old one to rebuild for new additions to the Mall?

When we first moved to Houston from Nashville a few years ago. I sold my Nissan Titan because I knew we would live on the light rail line next to the medical center. That was a great idea. We kept my wife's Camry for use just in case we needed to drive out. To get Texas plates which you are issued two for the front and back was about $175.00 initially and the inspection was around $35.00. Tennessee I believe emissions are about $10.00yr but Texas requires an inspection every year before you renew on all vehicles. So just imagine if that same scenerio was used in the state of Tennessee for transit.

Wow. So a floor every 4 working days is basically going up around the pace as Skyhouse before it topped out. That is moving pretty quick. So around New Year's the building will be standing really tall and no telling how much higher the crane will be extended at that time.

Does anyone know about how quick 505 is rising? 2-3 floors a month?