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    Looks a lot like mixed architecture too. Probably won't integrate well in that neighborhood. Sort of a sore thumb IMO. I feel such architectural acrobatics are much more interesting when applied to large and taller structures.
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    Hyatt Caption Hotel, 12 stories/210 rooms. Whisky Kitchen torn down. See Thread.
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    Bland maybe, but it should not be a city of architectural experimentation and oddities. Unlike Barcelona, we have no Gaudi available to spread an architectural genuis across the city. Albion is very, very nice and fabulously sited from the interstate split, but we are also cursed with mediocracy nexto it...outstanding ugliness in fact. as an architect, I am nowhere near as impressed with Albion Midtown in comnparisn to Albion on Division. i think that even Barcelona can be boring to me with its block afer block of the ame height building even if they ar individually beautiful. The cathedrals there are icing on the cake. Overall I fairly please with the core being built is of divese design. Could be better, but reasonably satisfactory to me in genneral.
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    It's about time! Nor renderings yet, but recladding the ugly old yellow brick building will be welcome indeed! On Friday, June 30, Maury Regional Health announced the launch of an extensive $115 million facility improvement plan to enhance patient care and experience. “This will be the first major construction project at Maury Regional Medical Center in approximately 20 years to enhance the patient experience and expand access to care,” said CEO Martin Chaney, MD. “As more patients continue to choose Maury Regional Health for their care, we are recruiting physicians to support growing service lines, offering additional services and expanding our facilities to meet the changing needs of our community.” The facility improvement plan for the Maury Regional Medical Center campus will include: Two floors added to the patient tower Emergency Department expansion and renovation Four new surgical suites (Pavilion) Modern exterior façade Renovation of public dining spaces Health parks in Lawrenceburg and Spring Hill Heart Center expansion Four patient rooms added on the childbirth floor
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    Sorry. Yawn.
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    I'm glad that didn't happen. 10 years ago we still had Lake Palmer. I am sure any development on the carlots would have been disappointingly underwhelming compared to any current or future proposals.
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    On the closure of I-95 in Philidelphia... it almost happend here. 40 years ago I was sitting in my office in Brentwood and looked out the window at the ongoing widening of the street under I-65 at Church Street East. They had just completed removing the the sloped banks under the bridge and suddenly I realized that the concrete footings of the interstate were ONLY supported by a 12 foot tall vertical wall of exposed fill left after excavation. NO pilings whatsoever! They were just poured on compacted fill in the original construction. The entire interstate was in danger of collapse at any moment. I called TDOT and within a couple of hours there was a line of trucks dumping gravel putting the slopes back. Close call.
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    Yeah the city is just crawling with glass boxes. Quick VSRJ, get the wrecking ball before they multiply! Not!
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    The riverbanks from the railroad bridge are a steep tangeld mess on this side of the river.. The barge idea is interesting but I question the practicality of it. If it gets a permit from the core, we will see if it would work considering lack of anchorage. Now if the long sland just downstream was there instead, it would be a terriffic oportunity IMO. I just think the banks are too steep to be of much use except cleaned up and kept as a green space of trees.. i once suggested that the steeper riverbank at the beginning of Gay Street over to the Victory bridge could be developed perhaps as a vertical park with perhaps a climbing wall/ cliff behind the Demombreum statue. The homeles have no trouble at al scrambling up and down it and using it for a toilet and trash dump.
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    There is to much design diversity here for your statement to ever be remotely true. Your pessimism is sad.
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    I do hope there is some plan to completely cut off access to this gap between thes new poured walls and the sidewall of the ramped street. I suspect this gap is on land owned by the city as part of the street overpass property. If it is not blocked off or filled in, it will certainly be a public restroom for the homeless. I hope it will be filled in instead up to street level of the project. The previous gap between the street and the warehouse was UNBELIEVABLY nasty
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    That was a rant? No problem. i feel the same way most of the time. Most of my life I thought I was a born and bred Southerner and was well on my way to being proud of (and rabid about) my Confederate heritage. But doing geneological research, i found out virtually ALL of my kin were from northern Kentucky and before that, Massachusetts. Only my grandfather moved here to Nashville jus before WW1.
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    Looking at the whole picture of downtown proposals here, there seems to be so much more going on potentially and collectively in several nearby areas. NY is terrific but seems to me only to be a jumping off starter point for the city in a few years. the Paseo and carlot proposals are like a mini NY in themselves. I am deleriously excited too and hope to live long enough to see Nashville in ten years. Wow!
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    Perhaps a good fire there and we can make Louisiana back-bay bayou bunny bordelaise a la Antoine.
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    Yep. True. I come from a long line of Lexington close kin. Went there several times a year from Nashville for almost 8 decades now. My aunt and uncle recently sold 10 acres adjacent to the airport and several hundred acres directly on Man of War Blvd. I guess they qualify as super rich. but I don't think they are much into gambling and horse racing thgough. They are in their late 80s.
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    Nashville 125th??? I agree this is generally nonsense garbage. Look carefully at the major cities that Nashville ranks better and how relatively close Nashville is to other large metros like Atlanta. Eliminate, the podunk cities that are very much smaller and you will see Nashville ranks quite well with similar or larger cities. I think their ranking criteria is badly skewed. This list really tells us nothing overall.
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    That probably should be "any more". "Anymore" is not what I think you meant.
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    Projecting the design into the river is a dumb pipe dream. I suspect that there would be major ecological constraints about totally build in on the existing banks. Also, since baseball has a very large schedule of games, I would think the disruptions of major league games on the academic campus would be detremental to the university itself. This is a great deal different from the impact of just a university baseball facility. Adding an entertainment venue is even worse. A fully commercial venue like this on a publicly funded state institution's land is ludicrious. Why not just use emminent domaian and take out all the land used for surface parking at vanderbilt and build it there (sarcasm)?
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    There are none...no new single family homes ANYWHERE in the core bro. And it is not fences and warehouses. Those are mostly long gone. As to another's statement "The rescue mission has done a good job with their management of the facility and being a partner in that community. " No. It hasn't. The Room at the Inn has done much better, an excelent job, not the Rescue Misssion. It has managed its operation without blighting the area. The Mission is a magnet for homeless all over town and IMO their practice is run by religious zealots and other homeless who prey upon more unfortunate homeless men . It is time for it to relocate out of the vicinity. There would be more than adeqate sites for a new facility just down Lafayette. Lafayette beyond Treveca is a Nashville arterial that is the most unlikely to develop new residential neighborhoods. That is my opinion. There are long vacant carlots and lots of blight all down that way from Treveca to I 24 overpass.. The Mission should be able to sell out for more than sufficient capital to buy a site there and rebuild a bigger and more modern facility. The present mission acreage is worth many, mamy millions. A facility of this nature does not belong in a new developing core IMO. If you want to know more, contact me privately, I have over 3 decades of experience with the homeless here. The real answer is to HOUSE not warehouse. these people in facilities like the new facility over on Fist ave. N. or in low income apartments in established complexes. I have helped several get good and safe permanent housing. It can be done.
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    That looks awfully low above the water. What is the minimum vertical clearance required on the Cumberland during periods of high water? Is this going to be lower clearance than any of the other bridges downtown or will this prevent steamboats from visiting Nashville downtown? Doesn't the General Jackson have stacks which fold down to clear?
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    Hard to believe I worked there 57 years ago. It was a real hellhole back then.
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    As a native Nashvillian, I think it is time to move the track. The remaining carcass of a once great facility is doing nothing much for the city IMO. If only the old facility had not burned back in 1965. There was still a vestige of grace and history remaining. I fondly remember climbing those continuous steps up to the food stalls and narrow benches at the rear of the stands. I think the biggest mistake was dropping the dirt horse racing track for auto racing. It didn't work a damn for Sulphur Dell either. i am glad I am old enough to have more gentle and fond memories of both.
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    What is impressive to me is not the land acerage size of Metro, but that so much is being concentrated in a rather small downtown core very intensively. It pleases me greatly that Nahville never developed city sized nodes surounding it like Buckhead or perimeter in Atlanta. Cool Springs comes close, but it restricts building heights and density, so it is not a real rival to Nashville's core.
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    Acquiring a suitable sized piece of land where you feel it more appropriate is often impossible for reasons beyond price. Old towns of tiny homesites and small businesses are a web of small acerage and zoning is a big issue too, in a town like the Boro. it never intended to grow bigger than Chattanooga or Knoxville, so it does make sense. There is no transition of land use from small to immense usages here. Even moreso in Nashville.
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    Too bad the huge swath of totally vacant vacant land owned by CSX couldn't have been purchased and incorporated into this project. Another 100 feet of width would have been awesome. But CSX is being CSX. Sigh.
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