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  1. archilove
    Jobs good. Poverty bad.
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    This is a stylish upgrade for West End.
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    The call for kudzu gives me a mental image of downtown covered entirely in kudzu. That would be unique, not to mention green.
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    Love trains. Like to look at them. Like to hear them.
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    Painted with Anton when I first came to Nashville some 60 years ago. There used to be a warehouse down by the river with an open air platform that stuck out over the river and we would set our easels up on it and do river scenes. This was when he did representational art.
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    Love your consistently positive take on things.
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    The tourist traffic is a very large part of our congestion problem. There were 14.6 million of them last year and the numbers have been growing every year. Next time you are stopped in traffic look at the license tags around you and notice how many are out-of-state.
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    Have been to Nice a number of times, most recently with the whole family. Love it, especially the old quarter! We went to the Gare Rotierre each morning and took a bus along the incredibly scenic coastline, each time to a different little town, then we took a train to one-of-a-kind Venice, my favorite place in the world. I love waking up in the morning to the sound of church bells and supply barges. I've painted it many times.
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    Someone also thought the public sculpture at the AT&T Building looked good. It doesn't even look professional.
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    So how many downtown groceries do we have now? I believe there is one in the Viridian, a Whole foods coming to Endeavor, and a Publix at Capitol View. Do we have more?
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    I really liked this project, but can't see much historic preservation in the plans. How much damage did the fire do? Did it get the Italian custom leather shoe store?
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    This was many years ago. He was from Cleveland , Ohio, inherited millions from his dad, and bought in Franklin. His niece once came to town from Pittsburg and said "there's such a thing as too many trees." But there was no such thing as "too many trees" for "Dutch."
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    Tennessee, Texas, the Carolinas and Florida are gaining population from high-tax states like New York and California. Raise taxes too much and people will have one less reason to come here. Regarding Nashville's pluses: We are exceptionally green, i.e., lots of trees and unusually large yards, especially in older neighborhoods, and have a signature decorative look in the omnipresent stone walls throughout the county. I had a friend from up north who said he moved here because he had heard it was a place with spacious, shady yards. We have a limited supply of older buildings and are tearing down what we have. Towns with older buildings have charm and character. There are plenty of parking lots. Let people develop those.
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    I explored this development a few days ago and think everyone should go take a look. It has a great feel to it, a nice urban, pedestrian-friendly ambiance with wide sidewalks, nice landscaping and a feeling of space. There is free parking and lots of benches.
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    Losing a wall, but replacing it with a beautiful stylistic improvement.
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    The antebellum home was the beauty spot of that area. I enjoyed it for many years.
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    Who is that guy in the photo? The face is familiar.
  18. archilove
    Right, the Arcade is already international, House of Pizza is one of the best pizzas in Nashville and Varallo's little cafeteria has some of the best tasting meat and three in town. And don't forget the Planters Peanut store. Good restaurants downtown? Try Demos, Puckets, The Standard, Etch, Brazilian Steak, Southern Steak and Oyster, Husk, Kitchen Notes in the Omni, Chicago Steak House, Merchant's Hotel, the Hermitage Hotel, Union Station restaurants, and others, some with great views. And without all those tourist dollars this town would be much worse off economically. No one is forced to mingle, and frankly, I find it entertaining to sit on a bench by the Schermerhorn and watch the tourist show. They are a variety of people from all over the world and a very colorful bunch. To reference an old movie, "The Blues Brothers" depiction of the country music crowd is not a fair representation of this contemporary crowd. They have been led to believe that they are welcome here. Insult them and they might take their money elsewhere.
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    Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
  20. archilove
    Some years ago the ACLU went to court to oppose the incarceration of the mentally ill against their wishes. Society should be able to provide help for those who need it, even if they don't want it.
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    This building gets my runner-up award for the biggest improvement to a longtime eyesore, Broadwest being number one.
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    I like the way the old quarter of European towns are a harmony of red roofs, unlike Nashville, where every building clashes with every other building. Although we are starting now to get a sort of harmony of glass. Love France, love Italy!
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    The court decision that created homelessness was a bad decision. The homeless have ruined that little park, made our nice downtown library a sketchy experience, and are now taking over the Walk of Fame Park in the middle of the tourist district.
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    My favorite city is Venice, Italy. One of my fondest memories is waking up in Venice to the sound of church bells, then striking out to find a sidewalk cafe that serves breakfast. Stay away from the main tourist areas during the daytime as they are crowded. But in the evening many of the day trippers go back to their hotels on the mainland and that is the time to visit places like St. Mark's Square. The most romantic spot on the planet is sitting at a table there with your wife with a glass of wine while listening to the bands play and watching a full moon rise above St. Mark's Cathedral. I was sitting there once and a young American came up holding a bouquet of roses which he said he had purchased, and since it was Mother's Day he intended to give one to all the mother's on the Piazza. Some ladies rejected them, thinking it was a scam, but it wasn't and my wife enjoyed hers tremendously.
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    My idea of a fun and relaxing day in Nashville: Drive to the Bellevue Park and Ride and catch the #5 bus to Music City Central, enjoying along the way the attractive urban thoroughfare that is West End Ave. Walk to Varallo's just outside the Arcade on 4th Ave. and have a three veggie lunch. Then proceed through the Arcade to the Planter's Peanut Shop and buy a bag of hot-roasted pecans (or whatever) and take them through the alley to the plaza in front of the Fifth-Third Bank Building, sit down and eat them while quietly enjoying the people parade. Then down the hill to have a cup of coffee on the Panera veranda and watch the construction across the street. Again, down the hill through the Walk of Fame Park to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center to sit on a bench under a shade tree by the fountain and quietly enjoy the passing scene ( tourists on scooters, bachelorettes on pedal taverns. etc. ), all having the time of their lives. Then catch a free circulator bus back to Music City Central by way of the Gulch or maybe the Farmer's Market, and on home to sit on my patio with a glass of Cabernet and watch the sun descend slowly and peacefully beyond the distant hills.
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