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A little sad that a downtown building has to get special "bonus height" permission to build 11 stories.

demo started for Moore office building -- 19th and Chet Atkins today

I love how the 1st new rendering shows a nice grassy square in the foreground which is actually where University Square condos are. At least they got Adelicia and Morris in there (and Kinect and Americana from the reverse view).

Bound'ry and South Street have "Available" signs on them now.

The event business hasn't been super busy, but it has been used a fair amount (I live across the street), but something is afoot. The moving continues today.

Anyone heard anything about Bound'ry? It appears that a lot/all of its contents are making their way onto a moving truck right now.

At least in this neighborhood (Midtown) the dirt is so expensive that its difficult to build anything "affordable" and by the time you have to charge that kind of rent, people expect a pool/gym/security/someone to sign for packages etc. The A+B, Amazon, and E&Y crowd wouldn't really qualify for any sort of income restricted housing anyway, those are jobs that will pay well above the median around here. The new building just announced for West End Ave will be slightly more affordable than others in the neighborhood, by having smaller unit sizes, but that doesn't really help your single parent with 2 kids scenario -- 600 ft is pretty cozy.

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/retail/article/21030141/jjs-market-to-close-at-years-end Graduate student housing to start building 2020.

I've been under the impression that AB is mostly (for now) moving existing employees here, while AMZN will probably be more new hires.

Terrace Pl garage at VU has a double helix.

The Moxy is going to have some public parking I think. Its something like 150 rooms and 30? rentals and I think about 200 spaces. I doubt if hotel will use a lot of that, given that their target is probably millennials who aren't driving while here. Not sure if that would be more spaces than were available there before. Doubledogs has some spaces behind and I think some of the other new stuff is including parking as well.

A broker told me a few years ago that the developers shoot for 30% profit and are happy if they hit 20%.

https://www.pinewoodsocial.com has bowling

I think you just abandon it when done. They are 15c/minute so I wouldn't think anyone would try to save one while having lunch as long as there are more nearby. I went running near VU around 5pm yesterday and saw at least 9 of these being ridden and several other parked. At least half of those being ridden were on the sidewalk. I think that is what Metro is concerned about as well as the fact that after a ride they are just left on the sidewalk for people to trip over. Their model of having people go out to collect/recharge them every day sounds like a good way to make even less money than being an Uber/Lyft driver. "oxo" electric bicycles have been showing up in our neighborhood recently as well, but I guess people are keeping them off the sidewalk or they haven't received as many complaints as bird has.

DWR was not named that because they competed with Ikea on price. It was named that because at the time a lot of that furniture was only sold to interior designers or other professionals and not directly to the public.