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  1. DeemonBruhn
    Microsoft had several developer presentations set up for the day they were here. After they met with the Mayor they cancelled the presentations and headed straight back to the airport and left Nashville. You can draw your own conclusions on the specifics that occurred.
  2. DeemonBruhn
    I think it would be better served with a bulldozer.
  3. DeemonBruhn
    Sure, if there was one big enough. A big part of their model now includes condos. A building like that doesn’t exist in the downtown core of Nashville.
  4. DeemonBruhn
    Glass.
  5. DeemonBruhn
    Taller and more complex. Has all the mechanical equipment supports incorporated.
  6. DeemonBruhn
    How many of these soulless townhomes do we need in the city? They all look the same with tiny changes. None have any semblance of place.
  7. DeemonBruhn
    Floors aren’t just added after the fact. Adding floors has a serious impact on structural columns and the function of elevators. This is especially true of office buildings.
  8. DeemonBruhn
    It sure will. However, logic doesn’t stand in the way of politics. Tax incentives only happen in things like this for jobs or development that doesn’t currently exist in the city. If we give zero incentives, but get passed over for new investment because of that there is no way that is a net win. I know this is tantamount to preaching to the choir.
  9. DeemonBruhn
    That’s not the performance hall. That is the old design of the building that houses the movie theater and restaurants.
  10. DeemonBruhn
    Massing very nice. Infill very nice. Color choice is tragic. All the browns in the crayon box were used. The white line at the top... not good.
  11. DeemonBruhn
    So 1.5 percent of the budget. For all those jobs. All that infrastructure. All that notoriety. All the economic activity. Best ROI of all time. A lot of bluster around the wrong things.
  12. DeemonBruhn
    Church Street was originally Spring Street and the center E-W street in the original city plan. (Broadway was the southern edge in that same plan.) Following the city plan the center of downtown was Church for many years and most of the commercial buildings originally sprung up around it. The center has gravitated over time.
  13. DeemonBruhn
    The number of buildings listed as “A” is laughable. For example... Cummins Station is anything but Class A.
  14. DeemonBruhn
    Here is a quote from the Tennessean: "The scope of the problem is not at all beyond the capacity to handle," Justin Wilson, the state's 34th comptroller of the Treasury, told The Tennessean on Thursday afternoon. Overplay the “crisis” that has a fairly simple series of corrective actions to eradicate. Make your opponents look like morons. Look yourself like the only smart person in the room and like a political hero. Look at the actual budget. Debt service is the real issue here (outside of water) because we suspended to interest only payments during the recession due to a plummeting income stream. In addition we made some big capital improvements that have and will continue to pay off long term for the city. Huge miscalculation both politically and economically on not changing the mill rate at last appraisal. A simple adjustment would have prevented this type of headline. Worth noting that Standard and Poor still rates Metro Nashville as the highest possible bond rating.
  15. DeemonBruhn
    All I will say is this... it is a very dangerous precedent to retrade deals that have been made. It cashes in all the good faith reputation built over the years and sends a bad message that Nashville is no longer a place for investment. Look beyond the headlines. There is political motivation by the current administration to make things look really really bad. They aren’t.
  16. DeemonBruhn
    Truly a tragic finish palette.
  17. DeemonBruhn
    In this case the architect doesn’t have much leverage to move this forward. This site is encumbered deeply into a quagmire of Nashville politics. Tony has already put out a new rendering of another tower just four blocks away. I think this is dead for the foreseeable future.
  18. DeemonBruhn
    What a change to this block of midtown!! Crazy.
  19. DeemonBruhn
    This area of town will be incredible when both this and Hyatt Centric are complete.
  20. DeemonBruhn
    Probably, but still no excuse to mail it in.
  21. DeemonBruhn
    It is a very interesting building in a lot of ways. Most aggressive architecture in any city is mostly reserved for civic buildings. This is a hotel, where the real money is made in well appointed rooms. Bravo of them to care about creating something unique. There are a lot of very creative moves in the facade of this building that are thoughtful and add a ton of character.
  22. DeemonBruhn
    I just love where this is located, how it engages the site, and how it meets Church Street. I haven’t seen enough info on how it engages 11th Avenue. I’m hopeful it does something akin to Gulch Crossing.
  23. DeemonBruhn
    No issue with the scale. The color pallet on this project however is horrendous. They used every imaginable color of brown and stuck some stark white accents in randomly just to make it worse. I really dislike the execution of the projects already in place. Additionally, the giant blank wall facing downtown is very disappointing.
  24. DeemonBruhn
    I really like your list, except that Hampton Inn. One couldn’t get more generic and terribly proportioned and fake. The rest have a certain chic nashville industrial with the right color profile.
  25. DeemonBruhn
    That’s just bad information. The building wouldn’t pass the energy code. Looking at the installation photos that glass is definitely insulated. 222 has laminated glazing on the Ascend side. Standard insulated glass elsewhere.
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