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Absolutely it would have been dreadful. I didn't mention Green Hills for shopping as it was no more to me than an upscale Madison Square and an enclave for Nashville's well-to-do. I aways thought of Harding Mall as a huge joke as it was terribly designed. Most of y'all probably would not know the One Hundred Oaks situation was rather nuts as politically the mall had NO interstate access at all! Armory Drive exit onlycame YEARS later. However, we would not have the "historic Nashville" bellyaching so much now as there would have been no historic Nashville left IMO.

I recall NOTHING of that stadium proposal at all. The previous big sports news was for the City Auditorium built on 4th Avenue at the new James Robertson Parkway in 1962. According to the photo, the proposed stadium was shown about where Bicentennial mall is now. The model shows a massive clearing of literally EVERYTHING from the railroad north past Jefferson Street with some cheesy low density redevelopment. Never mind that the old Sulphur Dell Ball Park was still in use and not yet fallen to DemoDerby. The city was still reeling from the massive destruction of the JRP and Nashville had NO sports other than College, ice hockey and minor league baseball. WTF would possibly use this facility. As an architecture student at the time, I certainly would have heard of this proposal if it had any teeth at all. I think this was some isolated "urban renewal" idea someone cooked up of which there was a plethera of them at the time. This was before the inner interstate loop was built and was way before Metrocenter was conceived. I see in the photo that the model looks to be in some sort of storeroom rather than on public display and probably never saw the light of day or left the developer's ofiice. I think this is not a project that ever saw much possiblity and probably did not see much interest. Remember, at this time, the suburban malls did not exist (even Hundred Oaks) , there was no downtown interstate I 65 (it ended at Harding), Second Avenue was still actively warehouse businesses and Church Steet was still the city's main shopping district. I think this was pie-in-the-sky.

I was always under the impression that Oxford house was to have been demolished. If not the case, what is the function of the strpped building to be?

Wierd but more appelling than so many plain vanilla boxes going up here. Certainly distinctive. They must be are a huge departure from the rest of the neighborhood though. What do the nearby residents think of them. i suspect they are appalled and pissed off.

I don't usually comment on midscale apartment projects, but IMO this ons is one of the better looking ones in terms of looks in quite a while. Too many of them recently have been appalling ugly and boring , endless repeating the same unit plan. This one has some character. Kudos to the architect.

I'm not impressed much either. I have a personal connection to this particular site. When I was 15, I used to go rabbit hunting in the pasture and woodland right there. Still too damn much asphalt surface parking here IMO.

Last year, I had several varieties of rather hard to find Italian vegetables including some fantastic heirloom squashes. I took several crates to five high end Italian restaurants giving them crates of just picked ones for free to use. They showed interest but would not buy them from me without a number of state certificates even though I had researched and found I could sell up to $25K per year without them being required. Probaly the only place it would be worthwhile would be the Factory Farmer's Market in Franklin but even that is difficult getting a booth, and setting up for only a few hours as they take down at noon. The intense crowds also make keeping up with customers a problem if you do not have staff. Also getting tables and produce is difficult if you do not have a fairly big truck too.

Not a building post, but I want to let y'all know i want to share with the forum I've lost my mind. My vegetable garden is way too big for the two of us. However, my miserly nature chaffs at buying all these amazing seeds and just leting the surplus be wasted. Also the varmits will, I know only too well, will destroy or eat enough of what i plant, to keep me mad enough to keep planting. James and I tore down Z's old goat barn last week and burned most of the structure so there is a huge heap of rotted straw and goat poop to spread out on the garden. YAY! I just put in 200 feet of heirloom Burl corn, 3 rows (so far) of big cabbages (about 50 of them. 100 feet of snow peas. You won't believe how many onions and melons. I got a huge head start as I had a half acre beautifully disked and fluffed. i am 2 months ahead of my usual palnting. What am I going to do with all of this heirloom food? Don't even mention giving it to foodbanks or such; this is all exotic heirloom stuff and not what community cooks there have a clue of how to prepare, much less the extra work of me having to harvest and transport it . I will share with neighbors though and will set up a "free veggies couple of tables out front. I thought about "you pick it" but folks these days don't know how to pick crops without ruining three time as much as they pick. I hope several of my old friendswill will drop by, visit and partake of the bounty this year Y'all know i will have lots of goddies.

Yes. pretty much the same as it was when it was built back in the late sixties, early seventies. I was on the team for the design of the original science center which was a relocation of the original Children's Museum behind the Howard City offices on Second Avenue. I had to build the model of it from highway construction drawings as it had not been built yet.

I think a highly concentrated retail development is better overall than a thin paste of it. As Bilbo put it "butter that has ben scraped over too much bread" Just because Metro owns the Auditorium land doesn't mean they need to keep patching the elderly building up. The city could certainly sell it and allow new development. What, for instance, do you expect Metro to do with the site of TPAC when it moves across the river? That one is a white elephant too., screwy structural system moves too much. Tear it down too! i

I disagree somewhat as the city auditorium is right at 60 years old and IMO of dubious value to the city for much longer. Time to redevelop the site. The location has been eclipsed in cultural value by the Bicentennial Mall and now the East Bank centering on TPAC relocation. The dominent activity of the JRP there is principally governmental, both state and city, plus office uses. I do not think injecting retail into this area is a good idea beyond perhaps hotel restautants and similar uses. Retail there would alway be small potatoes and weak. The residental proposal IMO is very sound and the brick proposal dignified and appropriate for the area. It works well wih the general vibes of the residential bustle around the Sounds stadium. No need for more intense retail IMO.

I was a designer of this one (Freedom Point in the Villages) years ago. The most dynamic activity there is probably by the iguanas.

Demonbrewin'.

Nope. Not mine. Terrible design. Walls are ridiculously low and indefensible. Concrete block construction would be breached almost immediately. One narrow hall in keep. Some one spent a lot of time and money for a stage set for a rental party venue. A folly.

Fishing with a stick, a string and a safety pin IMO. They will be lucky to catch bait.

Architects???? You dignify these folks who are mostly third rateCAD-jockeys! Crap like this comes from inhouse staff. Few respectable architctural firms would touch such work.

Having no landing at the front door of such a convoluted stair would make me drop considering living in this turkey a definite NO!

I'm not going to hold my breath on this one. Dicey IMO.

I have a family story about "colorful" Printer's Alley. Back in the early 1950s. My stepfather's dad came to Nashville with a group of his buddies to party in the dead of winter. He had a room in the Noel Hotel and passed out drunk on his bed. His buddies , not quite so drunk yet, found the body a homeless man in the Alley who died of the cold and hauled it up to put in the bed with him. He awoke in the early hours of the morning and just stood the stiff corpse in the hallway outside his room and went back to bed.

Considering how much anti-Nashville stuff goes onein that building, I am not at all surprised at that.

Smeag, in this I TOTALLY agree! My contention centered around walling it off to protect drunks. IMO it was an inadequate suggestion of a solution. Indeed it is a huge embarrasment in need of a massive cleanup on both sides of the river. However, just a thorough cleanup will not solve the problem; it will only get trashed again all too soon. I fully support a comprehensive redevelopment of the riverfront on BOTH banks. It is shameful it has been ignored for decades. I say this should be from the Siliman Evens interstate bridges all the way to Neuhoff (or even further) and on the East Bank from Shelby Bottoms all the way to the interstate bridges at Oracle's end. It cannot happen soon enough IMO. The East Bank development opening up for controlled river access and public use would be wonderful. It will take quite a bit of good planning and design though to create a worthy Greenway on the Eastside banks from under the Woodland Bridge to connect with the developments on the north side of Jefferson Street near Orace. i hope I live to see it. I think the remaining abutments of the original Nashville bridge across the Cumberland should be incorporated into it though. It is an important part of Nashville's early history. Perhaps some newer folks would like to see the post I made on the riverfront back in 2020. The riverbanks thread is on page 9, "The Nashville I Remember" on the first page of posts dated August 7th.. Newer folks would probably not be aware that Gay Street did not originally exist under the bridges as it now does. There this part of the banks was occupied by magnificant Victorians from Church Street over to the old power plant side and railroad bridge. The building backsides facing the river were completely wooded steep slopes all the way down to the river. Anyone interested can see what was there in the predceeding article I posted about the SQuare on August 5th.

I SAID I did not see the video and that I did SUSPECT the locaton was where they took out the body, so your accusation of "not true" is spurious dude. Yes the place ehere the credit card was found is quite steep. i never said otherwise. Ropes would certainly be in order as a cautionary measure, but I have climbed it my self without them. It rather deprnds on precisely where this was. not seeing the vid, i can't say for sure. Until you have personally experienced the area, you really can't tell from a video. I was on the banks in my 60s looking ro the original bridge across the Cumberland.

Sorry Smeag, but I have been all over those embankments and the steepest embankment with a "sheer" drop is already fenced off. Even in the areas unfenced, falling all the way down in into the river is unlikely as the dense scrub trees gives a reasonable opportunity to stop the fall on the way down. The worst areas would involve climbing over existing stone walls or scrambling down denuded slopes. Yes indeed, the danger is greater when the river is high, but the dangers relate more to homeless who attempt camping out on areas at the edges of the floodzones. where there is sufficient flatter ground for a small tent, like under the Jefferson bridge. From just under Victory Memorial bridge to Jefferson, access to the river is quite difficult . It is also quite further away from the sources of presumed drunkeness, i.e. Lower Broadway. Far more dangerous IMO is the East Bank side, but again, the very nature of the tangle of overgrowth is a huge deterrant to the casually inebriated. IMO, the more you clean these areas up with parks next to the bank, the more opportunity forhomeless to attempt camping on the banks would exist. While I did not see news pictures that you cite, I suspect that the area involved was MILES downriver and nowhere near Gay Street. I don't think that is a problem worthy of extensive concern, being if you are drunk and trespassing, there are more ways to kill yourself than just falling into the river. IMO there is a reasonable limit of expectaion of the city's responsibility.

I think that is silly to consider and ill advised. If anyone falls off the wooded embankment areas along Gay Street, they would not fall into the river directly. One could only fall into the river through sheer determination to do so. However, the embankment is crisscrossed with paths littered with discarded clothes, shoes and is regularly used as a toilet by the homeless. This is true along the entire length of embankment all the way past the Jefferson Street Bridge too. Several folks have died there too, suicide or murders.. Across the river is equally dangerous and there the bank there is undermined with areas collapsing into the river. Several empty campsites did so a few years ago. Spending money for fencing, walls and such is IMO a joke. A few years ago there was a proposal for a floating landing along the bank from the existing terraces. I thought the steep rocky banks would make a great climbing park myself. How do you keep folks from falling in (or jumping in) there at the Landings as well? For the small number of preventable deaths involved, I think money could be much better spent elsewhere to improve pedestrian safety. There is only so much that can be done to overcome foolishness and folks who want to put themselves in danger. ANYTIME you have a body of water, ther will always be deaths from carelessness. It is not the city's job to create extensive barriers. Perhaps y'all would approve the Texas razorwire solutions then? Ridiculous. This is evolution in action for the most part IMO.