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So based on the picture above, I guess they ultimately didn't get that parking lot after all.
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On 8/14/2019 at 7:54 PM, titanhog said:
^^I really wish at least one of those hotels in that cluster would have been significantly taller than the other. When you combine these 3 hotel structures with the Omni across the street...it all kinda blends together as one large "lump" of building. Not saying that's a bad thing...just hard to differentiate each building from a distance.
A high rise on the opposite corner of 5th Avenue should help to balance things out.
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Unpopular opinion:
I know it was trashed quite a bit at first, but dare I say it actually turned out looking better than all of the non-Omni and non-The Joseph hotels south of Broadway.
(yes, I know it's an extremely low bar to achieve and thus doesn't mean much)
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6 hours ago, jmtunafish said:
Accor has a bunch of hotels in the Nashville area. Motel 6 and Red Roof Inn are Accor hotels.
Accor's luxury brands are Fairmont, Raffles, Rixos, and Sofitel. Of those, the only ones in the US are Fairmont (Austin, Berkeley, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Maui, NYC, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Monica, Scottsdale, Seattle, Sonoma, Telluride, and Washington) and Sofitel (Beverly Hills, Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia, Washington). Getting either a Fairmont or Sofitel would be quite a coup for Nashville.
Motel 6 and Red Roof Inn *USED* to be Accor hotels.
Red Roof Inn was sold to Citigroup in 2007 and Motel 6 was sold to The Blackstone Group in 2012.
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Definitely an awesome looking project. A nice gateway and much-need infill for KVB/SoBro.
Nashvillle is still sizzling hot!
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1 hour ago, Armacing said:I'm all in favor of local governance, however I wonder if there is a distinction to be made between restricting local freedoms and preserving local freedoms. When I look at a city like Detroit, I wonder if there's anything the state of Michigan could have done to prevent that city from totally self destructing. And didn't the state of Michigan ultimately have to take over governance of Detroit when the city was basically bankrupt?
I'm not saying Nashville is anything like Detroit, but I'm talking about the concept: Should a state take action to preserve economic and civil liberties in a City (when they are threatened by local ordinances) if that city is one of the main economic engines driving the state economy?
The State of Michigan did do a number of things to add insult to Detroit's injury.
One of those things was severely limiting Detroit's ability to anex more annd when it was booming during the early/mid 20th century. As Nashville was able to merge with Davidson County with little pushback, it's virtually impossible for Detroit to do the same with Wayne County. If it did so today, it would become the country's 5th largest city (again)
Moving the main public research university to the boonies (University of Michigan) in the 1800s didn't help either. Detroit could be more like Pittsburgh with Carnegie Mellon with its funky tech start-up scene if U of M were still in the city.
Also, lifting the residency requirement for municipal workers in the late 1990s didn't help. It basically paved the way for what was left of the city's dwindling middle class tax base to bleed into the suburbs.
In a way, Detroit's downfall and the ways the State of Michigan exacerbarted it has come back to bite the state, as it has gone from being one of the fastest growing and wealthiest states in the country to one with a rapidly aging/stagnant population and one of the poorest states in the country.
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On 6/21/2019 at 4:00 PM, satalac said:
There are rumors going around that Costco is coming to Murfreesboro. Would be a nice addition to the city as the closest is in Cool Springs.
Seems to be unofficially official according to the below link.
https://murfreesboro.com/getting-costco/
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On 5/31/2019 at 9:43 PM, OnePointEast said:
Wow. Birmingham looks amazing. I might make a move down there, someday. It looks very cozy, yet large enough for a city life.
Birmingham is definitely a sleeper. It's only a matter of time before it takes off IMO.
Its main drawback now is that it lacks an "IT" factor. It's ot a tourist destination like Nashville and it's not a corporate hub like Charlotte or Atlanta.
On 6/10/2019 at 9:01 PM, OnePointEast said:I read somewhere that restaurant service is unmatched in both the United States and Mexico (including hotels and resorts), in terms of hospitality. I can say the times I've been to Puerto Vallarta, everything was so awesome. Everything felt very personable.
Also, I thought Californians were known to be rude. I've never been there but it's what I've heard of my friends who live in Nashville and have visited SoCal.
I've only been to LA, but the people there are surprisngly courteous for it to be such a big, crowded city.
Not sure what it vouod be (maybe the weather?).
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1 hour ago, Jamie Hall said:
This project seems like another one of those rare ones that went from renderings/announcement one day straight into construction the next day. If only they could all be this way.
You're thinking of Broadwest.
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On 4/21/2019 at 11:49 AM, opendrawerwhore said:
Where are the really high paying jobs ( $100k++++ )in our community to support these developments? Am I missing something or have I just missed out????
Nissan, Ford and CHS combined add up to 6,000 high-paying jobs, and that's just in Franklin.
Is that not enough?
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This along with the Embassy were probably the more highly anticipated projects for me.
Definitely good to see they've both broken ground.
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3 hours ago, nashvylle said:
I agree! If you are flying into Nashville and staying there, why would you not just use uber?
Uber gets pretty expensive if you're going to be traveling between multiple destinations across town.
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2 hours ago, Salbato said:
We need a tall skinny skyscraper between the Hyatt Place and Drury Plaza!
No love for Gino's East?
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1 hour ago, CenterHill said:
No, but they're Bradford Pears. No one will shed a tear over those.
Why you gotta be like that to Bradford Pears?
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33 minutes ago, Andy20 said:
Looks like smaller tower is no longer a Curio. It will be a 1 hotel. Other 1 hotel locations are New York City, South Beach, West Hollywood, and coming soon in Hawaii. Seems to be an environmental focused brand.
Interesting.
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48 minutes ago, titanhog said:
But it's a weird "reverb" type thing. It's not as simple as Nashville is 100% what drives growth in the suburbs. The suburbs also help drive growth in Nashville, especially considering that more people are moving into the suburbs than are moving into Nashville / Davidson County...and probably less than 5% of newcomers are actually moving into downtown. These people who are deciding to move here for work are often taking a job in Nashville...but then buying a home in the suburbs. And...of course, industries are also growing in the suburbs.
IMO...we actually have to stop just looking at the suburbs (which now are many considered "urban") as something different than Nashville. It's really ALL Nashville. The city limits / county lines really don't mean a whole lot.
The bolded is what I'm getting at.
Employers creating these jobs settled on Nashville because of Nashville's airport, Nashville's convention center, Nashville's cultural amenities, Nashville's university (Vanderbilt), etc. And the people who take on these jobs do so because Nashville offers all of the aforementioned amenities.
They don't move to Lebanon or any other suburb because there's anything special about them, but because they're in close proximity to everything they need/desire in Nashville.
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18 hours ago, titanhog said:
I’ve always wondered about sprawl. I can understand sprawl in the sense of a large city that keeps expanding outwards into the rural areas. But...I’m not exactly sure what to think about a city surrounded by other cities and towns (albeit much smaller)...and they all grow at the same time until they become one huge area.
In other words...this isn’t just a case of Nashville spreading outward. It’s a case of all of these little cities growing. Of course, I’m sure that’s what is considered sprawl in today’s age...but it still seems a little different than one large city just growing outside of its city limits.
Here's one way to look at it:
This development would *NOT be happening if Lebanon wasn't so closely tied to Nashville's socio-economic sphere of influence.
Much of the growth there comes from people who work/play in Nashville and desire affordable housing/decent school within a reasonable commuting distance/time.
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3 hours ago, Ingram said:What in the world? You all can't let Alex Palmer go. What's with the creepy obsession with him and this particular project? The site is under development and you are still obsessive compulsive about it.
Heeey Alex...
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11 minutes ago, satalac said:
I've never seen a more beautiful erection in a hole before...
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You know they did a pretty good job with this hotel when the only criticism is about the barn wood bar.
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Is Northern Capital still involved in this project?
I haven't seen their name in any of the recent articles (unless I overlooked it).
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2 hours ago, PHofKS said:
Seriously, you're someone from Boston who likes NASCAR and drives a pick up truck. What is this world coming to?
Now you see why his username is "Bos2Nash"
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8 hours ago, markhollin said:
Oracle plans on opening a Nashville office that will employ up to 3,000 people and seeking office space of 800,000 square feet. The location would most likely be somewhere in the central core (CBD, SoBro, Midtown or River North all seem to be options). Glory be! More forthcoming.
The jobs will primarily be inside sales, marketing, and sales support teams.
The article posits that they could take up more of the other space in Nashville Yards, or some in Gulch Union, or Broadwest. Of course, River North could be an option, as well as One KVB, Highland Properties where the Tennessean used to be located, etc. Let the speculating begin!
More at NBJ here:
https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2019/03/01/report-oracle-scouting-nashville-for-massive-local.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headlineMore behind the Nashville Post here:
Well damn!
Nashville is on fire!
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Nashville as MLB Expansion/Relocation Market
in Nashville
Posted · Edited by urbanplanet17
Detroit was the closest, which was able to support the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB when its MSA had less than 3 million people.
That said, unlike Nashville, Detroit was home to 3 of the largest and fastest growing corporations in the world at the time too. A good corporate presence is also critical for sponsorship purposes and having a fan base with enough disposable income to support so many teams.
With that being said, an argument could be made that Charlotte would be a more likely candidate for a MLB team than Nashville.