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Sounds like , if this tower is successful there might be more tall boys in the future. He definitely has the desire, just needs to convince others.

And they are still impressive!! Just think about what’s in the pipeline, we can double what we see here in the next 10 years.

100% agree, and I to want to apologize to Pete for all these rants on TDOT. I really don’t believe it falls totally on anyone in that organization. It’s more the folks up on Capital Hill plain and simple, most of them coming from these backwoods counties that don’t care about the states cities. Their constituents don’t want growth and we all know their views on Nashville and Memphis and I suppose Chatty, Knoxville, and Clarksville are not their favorites either.

As I’ve mentioned before, Nashville is one of the most affordable large cities regardless of what the locals think. They just haven’t experienced living elsewhere.

The State will need to stop spending millions on unnecessary useless 5 lane highways in the middle of nowhere to appease a political pet peeve, and start issuing bonds instead of this stupid pay as you go approach to start. If you never been to some of these counties with these nice highways im talking about, there’s nothing that’s going to help them get new business to come in, wasting money on new roads isn’t going to help, the State needs to invest where it’s needed regardless of political favorships . A transit tax might need to be imposed, just like a wheel tax is to automobiles, plus the ridership fees should offset some of the cost.

Isn’t there a regional advisory board already in place? 100% agree that the cost shouldn’t fall solely upon the taxpayers of just Davidson, but on the lines of Paul’s comments above everyone in Davidson IS paying for it. The infrastructure isn’t supporting only those that live inside city limits, it’s supporting all those that need to commute there daily. Just makes sense to include the whole MSA because the whole Is responsible for the need. Just in case some have missed it, Nashville is now a major city and most major cities have some sort of regional transit. Andywildman’s post above mentions 48,000 commuters just from Rutherford and Williamson, not even counting those from Wilson, Sumner, Maury, etc. there’s probably 100,000 plus daily commuters all descending into Nashville and using its infrastructure, surely it would benefit everyone to try to eliminate as many of those vehicles as possible instead of building more ribbons of asphalt to try to accommodate them. The cost will be there regardless of what way is chosen to address it, highways aren’t cheap either.

Yeah, thought we got rid of you. Now it seems history will repeat itself, different face same old seediness.

Yeah, that’s something I’ve been thinking about. A ploy and bargaining tool .

Full intercity connection for sure , including sidewalks and bike lanes throughout. But to further expand the true meaning of a complete Metropolitan Transit system, then I think it’s necessary to expand and extend into a regional network and connect with the ring communities. Only then can the true benefits of reduced traffic and congestion become a reality, don’t matter how much in city transit exist if you keep dumping tens of thousands of commuters into the mix. I know that a lot people have a hard time thinking outside of the Davidson County Line, but in reality Metro encompasses a broad swath of Counties that feed into the whole picture and a full regional economy depends on it . So it needs to include those municipalities and create a better solution to gridlock,then just adding more asphalt! If people are willing to pay for the use of Choice Lanes, they probably will pay for a fare to have the option to use a transit alternative.

Downtown buildings could top 1000 feet, and if that’s to tall the plane was doomed from the start ! It’s a oversight.

And everyone thought the price tag on the new Nissan was ridiculous! Now you can see it falls right into place, actually a bargain.

Same reasons I believe a Waffle House would be a sound business decision in that area, but I still believe that LB has gone to far off the edge and needs to clean up its act a bit.

I hope they prove so many people wrong, show them that if you got a good product and good staff that it’s not necessary to serve alcohol to be successful. Lower Broadway is becoming a sinful and disgusting place, embarrassing part of the city.

….or is there more good news on the way? what say ye great wizard of the 8 ball ?

Maybe at the time , all intentions were to have Austin as their main HQ . We still really don’t know the full extent of what plans are ahead for Nashville, but it’s possible that things have changed since then and there will be a shift in the company plans.