GregH

This kind of stuff is how teams are constantly able to screw municipalities on stadium deals.

Un-signaled crosswalks on multi-lane roads make me real nervous as a pedestrian. Even if someone stops for you, there's a risk that a driver coming up behind will just choose to swing around them at full speed, not thinking about why they might be stopped. I think someone was killed in this situation on maybe Trinity Lane a few years ago. In terms of un-enforced/enforceable signs, one of my favorites is the "No Trucks over 5,000 Lbs" sign on my street. That's just a Toyota Sequoia these days!

I'm guessing they're retaining walls to deal with the elevation of the site but

quite a lot of different exterior textures there.

Maybe they'll do one of those White Bison coffee shops? It would be a bummer to knock it down, I had always thought that building would be a good restaurant or bar space.

I imagine there's going to be a lot of griping and a rude awakening vs the previous level of parking enforcement but I think it's necessary.

Finally we can experience terrible french fries in Middle Tennessee!

Yeah, the demo permit is only for part of the lot, some buildings are staying (maybe leased already?). I tried to google around on the investor dude and he seems pretty small time so I wouldn't expect anything interesting.

there was a post here when it sold over the summer but I don't think anything else has been announced since then

There's also stop lights at Post Road and in front of Target that are accessible from TJ's

Based on historical Google street views, that building is actually a rehabbed existing building and the new building is the one behind it / to the right in the first picture.

I can almost envision a White Bridge overpass over Harding in the existing space that allows three-phase operation of the intersection but I don't know how much that would really help given the stroad-y nature of that area. The stoplights at Kenner and the Kroger on Harding are limiters to traffic flow as well. There's just a bunch of stuff around there that people want to turn into and out of, it's always going to be a mess.

They could probably save themselves some future heartburn if they made clear that their advisors are from the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County and not The Heritage Foundation

That was my first thought too. Was anyone even asking for that??

It's hard to get more "this crap has been tried before" than persisting with car-centric design in a dense area. You can either continue to sit in increasingly bad car traffic or try something more space-efficient. There is no magic bullet to make individual car use work smoothly in a city, someone would have figured it out in the last 100 years and gotten a Nobel prize or whatever.

I guess historically there was a ferry at McGavock. For better or worse, I don't think there's a good spot for a bridge these days. McGavock seems like the most obvious place but the local residents would (fairly, in my opinion) surely raise hell at the idea.

Looks like they were purchased last year but there might not be any plans made public yet https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/east-nashville-sites-on-river-sell-for-21-5m/article_25f1b3b4-4331-11ec-8b94-eb4a0bc78b95.html

Yes it seems like it mostly is, though I wonder if it's primarily from water draining down the hill (I have no idea how floodplains are determined) and could be mitigated with built in drainage. edit: I looked at the 2010 flood arial imagery and yeah it probably gets full of Cumberland.

There's a little historical marker for the train wreck at that "NES Trailhead" off White Bridge.

Thanks for the Laurel Woods reminder, I went out and did the short loop today and it was lovely.

https://www.nashville.gov/departments/transportation/traffic-and-parking/parking/apply-parking-permit This is an existing program where street parking can be signed for residential permits only (usually only during busy hours) and the permits are only $10 a year. It's already in place in a bunch of streets in 5 Points and 12 South, at least. It makes sense as a political solution to resident complaints but, in my opinion, viewed in isolation it's pretty bad to be giving away in-demand public space to locals basically for free to the exclusion of everyone else.

I don't love the maximums either but hopefully it won't actually make much of a difference in practice. As a related aside, I understand the $10/year residential parking permits are a political necessity, but I'd like to see a plan to phase those out long term, it's kind of contrary to the whole idea to provide extremely subsidized public space as parking for incumbents.

Wow, that could be a lot. Wonder if any additional sidewalks come with it.

That's neat. I wonder if it's that autonomous vehicles actually maintain a larger following distance but that space allows human drivers room to slow down without hard breaking and creating an accordion effect for everyone? I remember watching a youtube video once from some guy who claimed he could break up traffic by intentionally slowing enough to always leave huge gaps in front of him.

Finally a broadway bar that caters to my interests.