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  1. Baronakim
    My comment about Oracle is in ADDITION to my feelings of River North as shown; not that that was the renderings were specifically of Oracle. IMO the concept renderings around the new stadium and the old truckstop are MUCH more exciting...even if they are only eye candy for the most part. All I have seen from Oracle (so fa) looks to me about as exciting as if it was proposed for Cool Springs. Just my opinion.
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    i tend to agree. IMO the one story stuff and the "Tower One " are at best underwhelming. Oracle seems very disappointing to me. for all the initial hoopla.
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    Probably 2 or 3 decades. I designed one on Peachtree Street in Buckhead over 40 years ago and it took about 25 years there.
  4. Baronakim
    Sorry, I think that me not being a Nashville resident would make me ineligable wouldn't it?
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    Why would the historic commission be allowed to require such a preposterous demand? I think that is WAY more than their juristictional role should allow. So we get crappy brick that clashes badly with the historic fascades? IMO stupid. The brick wall is very ugly and I wouldmostly think a mural would be a far worse desecration of any "historic" intent.
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    You seem to have confused Greek legends. You sow hydra's HEADS for new heads. You sow Cadmus seeds (the teeth of a dragon) to grow an army of warriors. You seem to have confused Greek legends. You sow hydra's HEADS for new heads. You sow Cadmus seeds (the teeth of a dragon) to grow an army of warriors.
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    They could at least matched the damn brick color. looks like crap!
  8. Baronakim
    I see a lot about the present number of residents in the Core on various posts but numbers seem smaller than I expected. Perhaps I am seeing a mix of obsolete figures. From looking at the enormity of so many new residential towers, what is the estimation for projected number of downton residents over the next years of this decade? I am seeing what must be thousands of new units just in the Gulch going up besides a massive hotel room increase.
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    Not an ideal situation IMO. I think a better would be on the west side of the tracks at Church Street where there is a wide swath of CSX land from Charlotte to the viaduct at Church. This land will no longer needed by CSX when the yard is reduced to fewer tracks and no switching yard. With the proposal for 3 new residential towers over beside Granger already planned, I think Church is much more of a business heart than Broadway and a station right by Amazon seems more viable than a complete rehab of Union Station. Access at the viaduct level would be available , but surface vehicular access off Chatlotte seems an attractive possibility as well.
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    I believe that the "Raza" is a bad graphic of "Plaza", Mark.
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    Yes. The existing ramped grade for the Woodland Bridge dated from a Civil War era suspension bridge to Edgefield. The streets at it's base did not exist then and the cross streets created afterward never did go through to Woodland because there was a large Nashville Casket Company building from the foot of the bridge to where Shoneys is now. The elevated JRP was built behind that building and the elevated JRP was built at that height only to cross from there over S. First Street which did exist by then. After the 1957 JRP was built, the Interstate completely scrambled the old street grids in the late 1960s and the current Interstate Drive was built. Pretty much no one cared much about any of the east bank on either side of Woodland and JRP after everything was demolished between them. All the maze of junk industrial and warehousing between Shelby and Jefferson was a rusting hulk and leveled to be replaced with the junk stuff subsequently replacing it...like the Drift Inn and PSC for instance, in the no man's land left before the stadium was built in the 90s.
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    ESa seldom produces anything otherwise IMO; but I am some what prejudiced in my praise.
  13. Baronakim
    One can not expect to have such a low profit margin land use in the central core indefinitely when competition opportunities in suburban locations are so numerous. When land values greatly exceed the possibility of profits for a business use, it is very difficult not to consider relocation or closure. That, besides urban gas stations, is the crux of small businesses that many consider "historic" but are not yielding adequate profits to sustain them. My attitude towards a great many complaints of "losing our history" is that often the subject of much "ashes and sackcloth" wailing about them is that they are not economically or culturally sufficient for such anquish about losing them to put money where their mouth is to preserve them. Around here, I find that complaints of the loss of "Old Nashville" is particularly hypocritical IMO. If one does not have enough sense to have adequate gas in your tanks before venturing into the core, that is your own lookout. Likewise, the expectaion of low cost stores like grocers can not be expected to offer the scope of suburban "superstores" for urban dwellers; their gross profit margins are too low to provide other than a more limited niche more like the Turnip Truck niche. Likewise other big box type retailers, i.e. IKEA IMO.
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    There is a great deal of difference in the"urban" character of Franklin between the area over at I-65 and the old core downtown,. Unlike Murfresboro, you won't see high rige towers next to the square there in the next couple of decades. The remodel of the First Horizon Bank on the Square and the city government buildings over by the Carter House I think is evidence that Franklin will keep the scale in the downtown at a smaller impact even if they don't put up absolutely fake Victorian facades. I think this project with only 68 homes on varying sized lots will hep preserve some integrity of the green space along the riverway rather than carving up 600 acres with 1200 cookie-cutter lots.. It is my observation that filling the land with a high number of single family lots means that EVERY nataural feature will be bulldozed flat and clean.
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    Are we getting close to when the finally raze Oxford House? Looks to me like it will be a very tight job.
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    "Historic racing" is rather a dicey term IMO. While all of those drivers are indeed famous, no specific historic event distinguishs their presence as particularly more "historic" than their appearance at any other track event. Now if the fairgrounds track achieved some the same importance as the Augusta and the Masters in golfing, I think your opinion would have some heavier weight. Horseapples are mostly hay due to the inefficincy of equine digestion systems and do not smell like dogcrap. Also my suggestion did not include any kind of stabling facility which could conceivably have offensive odors, just riding.
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    I am SO happy someone is so easily amused!
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    No, I don't see where you are coming from per se in justifation of the claim of its 'historic"racing. IMO the "historic" part ended in 1965 when the whole shebang burned to the ground. As to the Ryman, few folks really grasp how little Nashville thought of it decades ago when Lower Broad was full of pawnshops and porno stores. It very narrowly escaped demoltion and surviving as a temple of country style country music. If car racing was so important to Nashville, IMO they never should have torn down Sulphur Dell when it converted to cars. I CAN however agree that converting the fairgrounds facility to put up more crappy apartments with nasty surface parking is a wrongheaded mistake of the fairgrounds use. Other than Geodis Park and the new mixed use surrounding development, the rest of the old fairgrounds has been sadly ill developed. The flea market sheds and and the dog park were particularly disappointing. I personally would prefer bulldozing all of the lower grounds and converting it a jewel of a city park. I think it would be excellent to be developed as an equestrian park for Nashvillians to ride their horses. Historically, horses were there long before racing cars. Maybe it could even host an annual steeplechase like the Iriquois? Dump the cars for good; make it a green space!
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    Upon a careful look , the whole facade is assymetrical and the cornice reflects this. It is metal and the center section is slightly taller. I have to assume the original entrance front at the street was centered on the two sections and the single window panel at the corner was supposed to balance out the other side but as there was no room for a 3 window section. Are there any original photos that would confirm this? I wouldn't have raised the middle sections and would have put a box there if I were the original architect rather than a clumsy attempt to emphasize two of the bays. I would have treated all the pilasters alike.
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    my question is why did the omit the box finial in the cornice at one of the columns? Makes no sense to me at all.
  21. Baronakim
    It was on the river just before Cowan Street passed under the I-65 Interstate bridges.
  22. Baronakim
    What you are seeing is not as bad as it was a few years later. EVERYTHING was trash and vacant with tons of passed oyt homeless squatters. Cock of the Walk was over by Opryland.
  23. Baronakim
    As far as I think, rebuilding THIS would be the only 'historic' project acceptable on this site.
  24. Baronakim
    Density figures mean little if the adjacent property considered is not similarly occupied. Surroundings count a lot., either adjacent room or lack there of. For instance, one of the most crowded places on Earth is Ebeye Isand in the Marshalls. 15,000+ residents are on an island of about 53 acres and 2/3 of them are under 20 years old. It is a hopeless slum in the Pacific. About 200,000 per suqare mile if land were actually there . Almost make me feel guilty about just two of us living on 50 acres.
  25. Baronakim
    These buildings destroyed in 1985 by an arsonist on that lot were very beautiful Victorian buildings. Regretably the city also tore the facades down as Second Avenue historic district had not become such a treasured area as it is today. Whatever goes back MUST be built in the same scale and architectural style. The vacant land is no excuse to build anything over four stories and other than compatible architecture IMO.
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