GregH

I went to Lane a couple years ago, it's great. I'm not really a car person so "Motor Museum" doesn't necessarily appear to me, but I loved how oddball the collection is instead of just a bunch of expensive supercars.

I think the home is Harding Place, not pike.

The former catering business property at 5101 Illinois (Illinois and 51st) in the Nations sold last October for $2.5m and is now being renovated: 'INTERIOR RENOVATIONS AND TO ESTABLISH A FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT "CHEX GRILL & WINGS". '

There are indeed a lot. I think old non-owner-occupied permits were grandfathered in anyway. You can see them all on Metro's own permit map.

I saw some silt fencing up at the Camden Nations site (51st and Tennessee) that I think is recent. Don't see new permits on the parcel viewer but maybe they're moving on it finally?

Site prep on this seemed to take forever (same for the Indiana and 42nd project) but they're really moving now!

I don't know where they are but someone downtown still uses spotlights, I can see them sometimes from my house in West Nashville when it's cloudy.

That's terrible zoning!

Got to check out the roof of Thrive at City Heights tonight (on Clifton). Great skyline view!

Young people liking Ikea isn't displacing them from buying quality antiques, they were never going to do that and didn't do it 30 years ago. It's displacing mismatched castoffs, trashed free couches, and yard sale junk, or just not having very much furniture. Ikea actually lets you design your space a little bit in an affordable way without having to spend a lot of time on it and mostly at a quality level that is a bit higher than virtually all the other flat pack furniture options. You could go to Ikea and get everything you need to furnish your first apartment in one day and have it look pretty ok.

Seems like BRT with actually-enforced/protected ROW would be 95% of the way to a "trackless tram" for much cheaper.

Argh! This is one where I was hoping they'd have a walkway I could use to cut through and connect the two Delawares when walking and bike, would make it easier for non-car traffic to get from the Nations to all the new stuff over around Charlotte and 40th.

Yeah I don't think there's any easy answer, people just want to drive / be driven to/from the airport so more passenger volume is going to mean more cars and a transit linkage wouldn't be sufficiently used because outside of narrow slice of passengers going directly downtown people will correctly recognize that even having to sit in traffic is faster than first taking a bus to somewhere you don't want to go. Actually I think a good simple rule for thinking about traffic in general is that the level of traffic in any given period going forward is as low as it will ever be barring another Very Bad event like a pandemic or economic collapse. It can only get worse. Hundreds of thousands of people affirm every day that they are OK with the current level and any increase in capacity will be balanced out by induced demand. The only way to win is not to play (by building non-car transport with it's own ROW or changing your individual driving habits or whatever).

I forgot to post this last week but it seems like there is some excavation going on at 5701 Centennial. There was some press almost a year ago about it being developed into a dog park bar but I don't know if that's still the plan https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2023/01/18/bar-and-dog-park-concept-slated-for-nations-summer.html

I flew out of the shuttle terminal for my thanksgiving travel. They did have staff wrangling the crowds for the shuttles when I went through. However, the whole shuttle aspect is pretty annoying and introduces another unpredictable timing aspect to travel. I'll probably think twice now about using the budget carriers if they're all flying out of there.

Wow I didn't know 54th went all the way back there. We're going to need a traffic light at 54th and Centennial with all the stuff going up.

If I had to guess I'd say the plan for them is to eventually get the whole regulatory scheme tossed in court.

I don't know why Kanas specifically but travel is a huge burden for small-time leagues so it's beneficial to have teams relatively close to each other.

I've seen a lot of people on Reddit extremely mad about the pay parking but I've found paying by phone very convenient and yeah, not really particularly expensive. To be fair, it is quite a big change from the previous state of affairs, where you could mostly completely ignore parking meters and never get a ticket (and until a few years ago the tickets were like $11).

I don't think there will be more grocery-type retail coming to the Nations between the Turnip Truck, the Dollar General, the Charlotte Kroger, and that new proposed Publix on Charlotte. With the Publix that would be 3 full-service stores within ~ a mile. edit: Well that's probably understating the distance to the Kroger and proposed Publix, but still, probably under 2 miles.

A friend told me that he had a former coworker that would do that intentionally to freak out his passengers/ as a some kind of protest because he didn't like roundabouts. I guess that's even stupider than doing it by accident.

I'm speaking about knowledge work in particular*. My work involves a wide ranges of tasks but none of them are countable widgets. Certainly if I were slacking off it would in some way trickle down to the bottom line along with every other little variable, but there's no graph you can point at at say "Look here, Greg's production has declined". If there was, it would be very popular and everyone would use it! And even if productivity has declined it's extremely difficult to attribute causation to that, there's a lot of weird stuff going on right now, it could be many things or (probably) a combination of things. For example, I think most people would agree that switching to a new job results in lowered productivity for a period until you get your feet under you. That's happened at a nearly unprecedented rate lately across the economy. I definitely believe companies are seeing metric declines they don't like, but mostly I think the "back to the office" push is 1) trying to pull a lever that can be pulled, whether you know it will work or not 2) reasoning backwards to justify management's default preference . *I did see a study showing measured reduced remote productivity, but it was, iirc, specific to data entry tasks.

Bullcrap, IMO. Nobody really knows how to measure knowledge work productivity.

Right on red should absolutely be illegal at least in the inner loop (though it wouldn't matter because Nashville doesn't do traffic enforcement). We've actually gone backwards on this, I remember Wedgewood/21st used to be "No Right on Red" and was changed to "Right turn yield to peds". edit: I was in Wedgewood Houston with my wife last week and were were talking about how, if it ever got a comprehensive sidewalk network it would be so nice a neighborhood. I feel the same about Sylvan Park and the Nations.

No off-street parking for these? I like it.