[Nashville as MLB Expansion/Relocation Market]

2 hours ago, natethegreat said:

North Nashville is too dangerous for this

As a Good Guy With A Gun® I Always Feel Safe

[Forum Behavior]

I'll drink a craft beer to that

[WHAT ARE NASHVILLE'S STRENGTHS & SHORTCOMINGS?]

8 hours ago, Armacing said:

Actually, we need just the opposite.  We need all rules related to short-term rentals removed to help break up the monopoly on lodging currently held by the hotel industry.  They are behind the efforts to ban AirBNB, which is a legitimate use of private individual's property.  The hotel industry lobbied in favor of the convention center financed by tax payers, yet when those same tax payers want to rent out their house, they are against that.

Also, during the Stanley cup playoffs and other recent events, there were multiple reports of hotels cancelling people's reservations so they could charge a higher room rate for the special events.  To me that is just emblematic of how the Hotel industry is laser-focused on extracting the maximum profit from Nashville without any respect for its citizens or the long-term reputation of the city. 

They want all public investments focused on tourism and nothing left for regular Nashvillians who can never afford to party on Broadway or go to a sporting event.  And yet, for the majority of their workers, they pay close to minimum wage.  Tourism is not a high-tech industry, but somehow they have convinced a large portion of the voting public that the future of Nashville's economy is very dependent on tourism.  That is short-sighted in my opinion.  If Nashville is a tourist destination, then great - let that happen organically.  We don't need the city to engineer a tourism-focused economy.

I hate rules and regulations, too

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

10 minutes ago, grilled_cheese said:

Sounds like the free market at work to me.  How could an economy based off quarterly profits go wrong?

You say that like money isn't the one and only thing in the entire world. 

[Nashville International Airport Development thread]

@Ingram, come in here and show these boys how complaining is really done!

[Nashville Yards, 15 acres/4 million sq. ft./ $1 billion, Phase I: Grand Hyatt Hotel (25 stories), Phase II: Amazon (26 & 22 stories), Phase III: AEG District (4 K theater, 34 & 35 story apts); Phase IV: Pinnacle Tower (35 stories), Amazon 3 (43)]

First, they take cars away from us Boomers. Then fully automated luxury space communism!

[More Accolades for Nashville]

Somebody called?

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

56 minutes ago, nashville_bound said:

Come on is this satire?

Freedom from the government forcibly taking one's income is surely a more basic right than the 'freedom' you equate with being able to ride a subsidized trolly 10 blocks to get a cup of Joe or consume a particularly micro batch of a micro brew...

GAWD that's a sexy post. 

I look down on Craft Beer drinkers, too.

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

The Market has spoken. #freedom #cars #LOVlanes