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Wasn’t this building converted into a restaurant a few years ago? I seem to remember seeing news articles about it. Did it not do so good?

I completely understand where you’re coming from. I have to chuckle when I see maps like this. Like I appreciate the city trying to make itself more bike friendly, but I think the lack of biking as a serious alternative in much of the city is more of a cultural problem than a infrastructure one. For instance, I live in Madison and I’d be surprised if 10 people a day rode bikes on Myatt or Gallatin. Every time I drive on those roads there’s assholes and drunks all over the road, going twice the speed limit while using their phones. Half the time I see either 20 year olds in souped up Toyotas using the bike lane on Gallatin as a “get out of traffic” lane or stumbling drunks on foot who can’t be bothered to move 5 feet over onto the sidewalk and instead lurch around in the bike lane. I’m the perfect demographic for biking as I live and work in the same part of town, but I also don’t want to make my wife a widow because some dude wants to thumb through instagram while going twice the limit after his 6th bowl. I wish they’d put some serious barriers up between the bike lanes and traffic, something that would mess a car up good. I’d probably bike much more often if there was a bit more than just social trust between me and traffic.

Well an airport is an absolute necessity for a city, a football stadium is not. We all use the airport at one time or another and additional air service is huge in job creation and corporate relocations, but if you’re not a football fan the stadium is basically an expensive-to-maintain behemoth that is used 10-12 times per year and spends the rest of the time just sitting there empty surrounded by an ocean of surface parking lots. All for the benefit of a private corporation (NFL) that excels is pressuring taxpayers to foot their infrastructure costs, and primarily for the enjoyment of the Williamson county lawyers and proctologists who drive up and tailgate 8 times per year. The jobs it creates are overwhelmingly seasonal concessions and security positions, not the high paying jobs that increased air service tends to create. I also don’t believe the airport expansion is being paid for by Davidson county tax dollars. I believe it’s being paid for by a combination of airport-specific fees, although others may have more expertise of where that $ is coming from.

For the airports maybe they’re factoring in that Reagan isn’t used for international flights outside of like 2,000 miles. It’s almost entirely domestic flights originating east of Texas, with like 25 or so exceptions (a particular airline with a particular flight). That leaves Baltimore and Dulles, and someone can correct me if I’m wrong but the Silver Line isn’t extended to Dulles yet so it’s a pain in the rear to get there.

Going for the trendy, modern, rustic look for the outdoor pool. I like it!

There’s rumors that it will be Spirit/Frontier. Possibly as part of a major expansion since 8 gates is much more than they currently have.

No offense, but this is definitely a post of someone who doesn’t live in Nashville and lives far above the income level of understanding why people don’t like the growth. Like many Nashvillians I have a love-hate relationship with the growth. It is cool to see the city grow and do well, and it provides a lot of opportunity, but I’ve also got 2 kids with another on the way and this city is less and less affordable by the day. All the class A office space and $8 million penthouse condos in the world aren’t going to help my kids. I personally worry that we’ll become like San Fransisco and end up with only like 10% of our population being children due to the cost of living. Funny thing is I’ve been on a roll the past 5 years or so with getting better paying jobs and promotions, but it’s meant fudge-all because the cost of living is rising higher than I can earn. Now we have half million dollar homes in Madison (freaking Madison?!) and other places that used to be affordable for people like civil servants, cops, teachers, etc. Btw, for many of the residents here “becoming the next Atlanta” is a huge fear, not something that can make them “see the light.” I don’t know anyone in Nashville who enjoys going to Atlanta or thinks being the next Atlanta would be cool.

My wife and I are expecting our third child, so we’re selling our home and buying a larger one. We want to stay in Nashville but I’m not sure it’s going to happen because of this kind of stuff. Almost anything flip-able is snapped up with cash offers by investors, which means that the actual people who want to buy a home to raise their family in are pushed further out. Or, a slightly dated home that needs some elbow grease - the kind of home that is perfect for young homebuyers with growing families - is bought, $20,000 in repairs done, and re-enters the market 2 months later with $100,000 higher price tag. If I wasn’t homebuying right now I probably wouldn’t be as pissed but right now at any budget you’re basically sitting down in a no limit poker table full of billionaires with $250 in chips in your pocket.

I fixed it for them:

One thing to keep in mind is that many of the incoming residents from neighboring states may just be locals moving a few miles one way or the other. The Memphis metro area includes parts of Mississippi and Arkansas, and we share long borders with Kentucky, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. I personally have family that move frequently between places like Lauderdale County, Alabama and Giles/Lawrence county TN. So I wouldn’t think the moves involving border states are of the same demographic significance as some of the others. Discounting those states, the list is more like 1. Florida, 2 Texas, 3. California, 4. Illinois. I know it’s not something that necessarily shows up in data but my sister works retail in Williamson county and says that probably a quarter of the people she serves self identify as having moved from California. She says the people she works with despise them because they’re super pretentious and act like we’re backwards hillbillies. I personally don’t know many Californians so I don’t have much beef with them, besides just general irritation that housing prices are skyrocketing (which isn’t obviously a Californian-specific issue).

My God, I’m so sorry for your loss! That’s terrible to lose both of them so close. My prayers are with you. What vultures, calling about the house right after that! I believe I’d go off on them.

Many of my friends and colleagues received massive financial support from their parents while buying homes in recent years. I think it’s a declining middle class purchasing power thing, but it doesn’t make it any easier to swallow when you’re trying to buy a house and you keep getting outbidded by twentysomethings using daddy’s money.

That’s crazy! I guess fares on the route are so depressed that it’s just the cheapest option? I remember back when AC was the only choice on the route how expensive it was. Like $800 round trip on a CRJ-200 expensive. All that competition has its merits. It is surprising that DL would route you away from ATL and DTW. Like I thought the whole point of offering 20,000 daily flights to everywhere from here to Jupiter from ATL was the connection aspect.

As a kid I used to visit the USS Alabama ship in Mobile and always had a blast. I would love this! Boom, problem solved!

Kind of off topic, but pretty much every daycare in Nashville has a waiting list a mile long, regardless of how well loved they are. There’s just not enough of them for the demand. I think the law is that there has to be a 6:1 children to teacher ratio, so any more than 6 in an age class means you need two teachers. So the schools either have to charge insane amounts to be able to afford the salaries of the two teachers, or pay so little that they can’t keep teachers and the quality of care declines. I don’t know the solution, but for any “good” daycare people will start signing their kids onto a wait list when they find out they’re pregnant. My wife has been a stay at home nanny for over a year for a boy who has been on like three wait lists the whole time. sorry for the tangent!

So we’ll have 4 separate carriers flying BNA-Toronto-Pearson? There can’t be that much demand. I haven’t checked recently but apparently travel to and from Canada right now is a pain in the rear. Hopefully things start to loosen up by the time Flair and Swoop start these flights.

I personally think soccer is like watching paint dry, but damn if that ain’t a pretty stadium. Well done.

I actually think the Polk building looks kind of cool with the striped black and silver look, but I’ve heard rumors for years that this thing needed to come down. It’ll be a shame to lose TPAC, but refreshing to see some of Nashville’s boom reach the north side of downtown where it’s largely been quiet. Considering the size of the site I’d like to see a two tower project, hopefully with lots of ground floor restaurant options that would appeal to the thousands of State, Metro, UBS, BoA, etc employees that work in the area.

I don’t know what Metro’s plan for this building is, but I know there’s a space crunch in a lot of metro departments. All the departments located at the metro southeast location by the airport are on borrowed time, considering it’s going to be demolished for a runway expansion one day. The new Police HQ is already overfull (they seriously built it two or three stories too short), and the Fulton campus is at capacity. It’s smart for metro to make this purchase because I’m not sure there will be many more reasonably priced options if they wanted to have more of a downtown presence in the future. Whatever they do, it’ll be good to have this building occupied for the first time in 5 years.

Does that include delivery contractors? By the way, I complain about Amazon’s size and tactics to friends a lot, but I have to say that for those of my family members and friends who work service/retail/manufacturing jobs, Amazon has been a godsend. Not because they work for Amazon, but the fact that it’s so easy to go get a good-paying job with Amazon means that their pay and on-the-job treatment by their employers have increased greatly. Smart employers won’t treat employees like sh#t if they know that the next day the person could be making ~$20/hr at Amazon.

Idk, if boss man tells them to put it there they put it there. I’m not going to blame the grunts because planning this kind of stuff isn’t their responsibility. Someone higher up got lazy and hoped nobody would notice. As a man of heft I appreciate our very own Paul Chinetti making sure that I get my full three feet of clearance

My kids would love that! What a cool idea!

Irritating, but kind of necessary with the vast increase of low-storage housing in the core. I don’t really have a problem with the self storage buildings per se, I just wish they would add some street activation around them. Some restaurant and/or retail space would help to dull the “blank spot” effect of buildings solely build to store crap.

This is just my perspective, but I don’t see Allegiant as having a direct competitor. Spirit runs pretty standard route pairings, just super cheap, and ULCC’s like Frontier and Sun Country have massive bases in one market but smaller focus city operations around the country. Allegiant seems to just throw darts at the board and then connects wherever they land with tourism destinations like Las Vegas, Orlando, and Nashville. They’re great at what they do and make money hand over fist, but I don’t think they feel threatened by much when their business model is to connect price conscious vacationers in places like Des Moines and Rapid City with Orlando’s second airport and Nashville. If they’re getting all 8 gates in the satellite that could be a pretty serious operation. They’re not going to get close to WN’s operation size (especially if WN expands at BNA like many are speculating they will to Baltimore or Las Vegas 200+ daily flights level, after the expansion and Max7 deliveries commence), but 8 gates would be enough for 70-90 flights per day, if fully utilized. It would be weird to see that now but the combined Frontier and Spirit have a ton of planes on order.

Last time I was in New York I got plastered drunk and gave the Flatiron building a long hug and kiss. I would love similar opportunities to publicly embarrass my wife here, as well. I did the same to the Chrysler Building, if any developer would like to build a 1,000 foot Art Deco skyscraper here, too