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As a current renter in Hendersonville who is waiting on a home purchase to be finalized in White House, I hope this ends up in Wilson County lol. I think it’s a cool idea and all, I just don’t want to deal with theme park traffic in my commute. Especially since the southern and eastern edge of Sumner are blocked by bridgeless rivers, all traffic basically has to pass through the I-65 and Gallatin Pike bottlenecks in Madison/Rivergate. Add a few bridges to Old Hickory and Hermitage and we’ll talk.

Never say never, if Austin is now I wouldn’t be surprised if we did in a few years. As for now I think a 787-9 is about the limit of what we can handle. Its crazy how much action exists London-NYC. 7x daily LHR-JFK, 3x daily LHR-EWR, 1x daily LGW-JFK. And that’s not including all the other airlines that run multiple flights per day. There’s probably like 20-25 flights a day between those two cities, if all airports in either city are included.

I don’t think TH was saying that there weren’t elitist elements within nascar (there are elitist elements in any organization that involves as much money as nascar), only the OP’s statement that Nashville doesn’t need any more “redneck tourism,” which many of us took as classist and anti-rural/Southern.

I think the point of 86ing the socialism accusations is it just isn’t helpful in the conversation. First of all the hysterical boomer definition of socialism of “anything where the government sets a regulation on anything” has nothing to do with the reality of actual socialism, which is state ownership of the means of production. Second of all, accusing something of socialism does not automatically render it an invalid point. To be honest when libertarians do this it reminds me of certain progressives who throw fascist accusations all over the place. Like it’s not helpful if you’re just calling people who disagree with you socialists, or anything you disagree with as socialism. Nor does it prove that your position is better or worse. Aside from this, I’d also just like to point out the fact that many actually socialist revolutions - not the “Obama-wants-to-raise-taxes “socialism” but the real Lenin-Castro-Chavez type - happen because those of lesser means are unable to acquire land. Smart nations see this and pass laws that de-emphasize the financial merits of land speculation and hoarding, dumb nations try and act like it’s not a problem until it’s too late.

Could any population slowdown or loss be due to families moving out and singles/couples without children moving in? I don’t have any stats about this, just anecdotal, but probably 3/4 of the couples with children that I know have left Davidson over the past few years. I still know a few holdouts but some of them want to leave too. Hell, I wanted to stay but we still ended up in Sumner County. Again, anecdotal, but our family of four (expected to be five by early July) was replaced in our old home by a couple without kids. Also, I know that much of the new apartment construction basically maxes at 2 bedroom units, and even those are so prohibitively expensive that it basically demands high earning single roommates splitting rent.

I don’t know if the yields and passenger numbers are good enough for many more players on BNA-DCA. I’m not frequent on the route but I do travel BNA-DCA a couple times yearly to visit friends and I don’t think I’ve ever been on a flight where it cost more than $100 each way or was more than 60% full. The last time I flew the route in late January the flight was 30% full for the BNA-DCA leg with Southwest. About 40 people for the 737-700 that sits around 150. At least American isn’t flying the route with those awful Eagle CRJ-200’s anymore. IMO the least comfortable plane to travel in.

Ah yes, farming just like our sharecropper ancestors did.

I may have been a bit more open minded about this but having just finished a brutal home search I’m just done with the rental companies and investors, including AirBNB. What’s the point of more housing if those companies are pricing out anyone who isn’t moving from a $2 million home sale in California. Funny thing is that everyone I know who lives in Davidson county wants to get out of Davidson county for a variety of reasons, some I see the merit in and some I think are idiotic. We actually wanted to stay, but still ended up buying in Sumner county because almost anything reasonably priced that would be worth buying in Davidson has been snapped up by carpetbagging companies like ABnB. If it’s not them its the investors. I saw one house that sold on 2/3/2022 for $300,000, and then was put back on the market on 2/24 for $375,000. Literally nothing was done to merit this, someone just wanted to make quick money. Tens of thousands of potential homebuyers were priced out of this house over a 3 week period due to one person or organizations greed. You may say, whelp that’s the free market, and maybe you’re right. I just don’t care anymore.

Happens to the best of companies and organizations. Network security is by nature kind of reactive so you hope you just don’t look like too juicy of a target. I was actually thinking it looked like a darker Mecha Godzilla haha

I love the Chrysler building, it’s my favorite tower. I also love the Tower Life building in San Antonio. Almost every tower in Philadelphia is fantastic. I personally don’t think that SoBro is as bad as Licec says, though. I mean, it’s a little utilitarian but better that than the parking lots, shady muffler shops and titty bars that were there before.

There’s not really much significance behind like any modern public art. I just don’t think modern society has enough to say to make good public art. I scroll through the public art thread in this forum pretty much every day and for the few pieces that aren’t idiotic and pretentious my reaction is mostly “huh, could be worse” or “eh, kind of clever.” In the past there was usually some sort of guiding ethos behind cultures that was glorified and beautified through art, but a culture where the average person spends 15 hours a day staring at some sort of screen just doesn’t have the cultural lead in its pencil for it. You could make the case that much of the beautiful art is on those screens, but that doesn’t really beautify public places for future generations like past examples. lol not to make my whole post a Debbie downer but it’s interesting how differing perspectives can be. I dislike all three of your examples of desirable architecture, especially the London examples. The Shard is too inhuman to me for a city like London, and the Pickle (or Gherkin) is basically a 600 foot pecker. The Sydney opera house is probably better than the other two, but it’s no Bolshoi.

Nice! Fantastic beer.

“Lyriq” Good grief

If that prison is demolished and sold I think it would more likely be for mixed use development, not a theme park. I hope this theme park happens, but what Nashville proper needs more is housing, not amusement parks. Is that prison in any way historically protected or something? It’s the one they use in movies a lot, right?

Plus the recession that killed Siggy was caused by a real estate bubble popping, not inflation or fuel prices.

Well that looks downright pleasant! Who would have thought that park didn’t have to look like a dump.

For all it’s flaws I actually don’t consider the tower nondescript. It’s black and grey stripes, non-flat roof, and “fat guy on short legs” look makes it pretty distinct to me. Despite its relatively humble height it stands out in the skyline, especially when you’re looking from the north or west during the day (if I’ve got my bearings right). I could see something very tall going there. It’s a unique location in a part of town that’s already very built-up, unlike some locations along places like 2nd avenue there’s no historical character of the area that would need to be maintained, and given land prices and the gradually shrinking amount of available locations downtown by the time the Polk tower is demolished it could be financially smart to expand upwards more than what we normally see. I’m a layman with this though so I could obviously be completely wrong, and a Dennys could go there instead.

I’m sure there is, but I have no idea where. I’m pretty sure the city budget is public record.

Exactly. I remember back in 2020 when Metro was in the unfortunate position of having to raise property taxes. The alternative was massive cutbacks in services, including PD and fire, to the point where the city wouldn’t be able to function. Probably bankruptcy and being taken over by the state, a la Detroit or Birmingham, was in the future. People just didn’t believe it. I had neighbors who were just absolutely convinced, without evidence, that Metro had plenty of money but they were just wasting it on special interests. Like somehow the city spent so much money painting slogans on roads in east Nashville that they can’t afford to pay cops. Someone on 99.7 told them or something. Meanwhile I was having discussions with council members who were considering resignation if the budget wasn’t passed, and fiscal personnel in various crucial departments who were having to come up with various plans for how to deal with losing half of their funding. It’s insane. It’s like the owner of a McDonald’s refusing to pay more for employees, and then getting infuriated that the place is a disaster during the lunch rush when there’s only 2 people working and no burgers left.

This literally is not a representation of Metro’s Codes dept. I’m a metro employee who has worked with various Codes units over the year. The problem is lack of funding. If they have enough inspectors (which is rare) they don’t have enough vehicles. There’s no point in having 100 inspectors if you only have vehicles for 50 of them, especially since the salary level doesn’t really factor in wear and tear on personal vehicles (yes Metro reimburses for private vehicle use but it’s laughably bad). Inspectors are constantly leaving to take better paying jobs in the private industry due to Metro’s industry-low salary. There’s no more supervisors than what’s necessary for the functioning of the department, if anything they have a hard time filling supervisor positions due to the stress of the job and low salary. If the city wants quicker service and better results they have to be willing to pay for it. I don’t understand how people in this city can constantly gripe about Metro but then refuse to agree to tax raises to fund Metro on a level equal (or even just moderately lower) than cities of the same size.

Why is it fascinating? It’s like the most natural thing for people to desire businesses they like to stay open.

Lol I love the rep from Knoxville that basically said “dude nobody wants to do AirBnB’s in freaking Dickson, so why do you care so much?!”

I was thinking the same thing. Like when I think of how to poorly handle major growth when it comes to infrastructure and transportation, Dallas is one of the cities that comes to mind.

I noticed on google maps that it says that log behind First Baptist is “Premier Parking FBC Lot C.” I’m assuming First Baptist owns the land but Premier contracts to do the pay parking during non-service times? Anyway, I highly doubt First Baptist sells anytime soon. Unless it was worked into a contract that they would have a guaranteed amount of spots in a parking structure that was the base of a tower or something, but I don’t know if that would be economically feasible for a builder or not. I remember 5 or 6 years ago when I lived in Bellevue they tore down the Waffle House there at the I-40 on-ramp….and proceeded to build an identical Waffle House. I was so baffled.

Probably not until A is expanded. I wouldn’t be surprised if a United Club ends up in A, or if AA moves to A if they build an Admirals club over there, or both. If AA moved and gets a new lounge, there will be room for someone else to take the one in C. The only issue is that whole concourse would probably be used by southwest, and typically southwest customers (like yours truly) aren’t typically airport lounge users.