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Are there any plans for us to get any significant international flight schedules. I only recently realized how lucky folks in LA, ATL, or Boston are with their direct flights abroad. It'd cut down total trip time by almost half for us folks.

No way it's the Vorhees building on 8th. Looks like the Ryman is within a block of it. Might be the brick condos next to the Renaissance Hotel

Apologies. I was just responding to another comment.

I think it's extremely lame that they're planning to make this a dome. Retractable roofs or partial roofs are way better. Players should be playing in the elements. The Bills of all teams are building another outdoor stadium because they get it!

Heard from someone who works for one of the tenants at Cummins station. The building isn't going anywhere. However, they have the structural ability to build up to 6 or 8 stories I believe. I for one think that's a good thing. Cummins Station has always been a massive landmark to me and a really cool building. They did renovations on it very recently too so I don't think it will ever be torn down. Renovations, however, may happen. The parking garage behind the building is going to be developed at some point. From what I heard, the owner of Cummins stations (I'd have to go on the accessor to find out what holding company that is) owns 3 or 4 parking lots and garages along the rail roads down there and all will eventually be developed. I heard this 3ish years ago so it's possible some of that development on 11th in the gulch were from their war-chest of properties.

Hasn't stopped Headquarters, Rhino Books, and some of the other businesses over there from thriving. I think the biggest issue is just the dilapidated store fronts and probably the intensity of automobiles on Charlotte.

Don't quote me on this but the other prevailing rumor on the titans forum is something along the lines of 1/3rd team funded, 1/3rd State funded, and the rest funded by tourism/hotel taxes and other revenue streams not related to property taxes. I hope that's true because people might lose their minds with another property tax increase during this economic period.

On our titans forum a guy who I respect and believe says there have been talks about 1/3 being funded by the State of TN. Apparently this deal would also allow the city to develop some of the parking areas around the stadium for standard development but also to potentially relocate TPAC. I don't know who this guys sources are so this is just a rumor but he's been right on other stuff before.

I'm afraid you're probably right.

As a titans fan and someone who's father has season tickets, I'm torn on this. On one hand it'd be great to have a nicer stadium, on the other hand, the opportunity to do that was when the team moved here. I'll repost what I said in another titans forum: Personally, I think it's absurd to construct a brand new stadium when ours is only 22 years old. I understand the stadium was bare bones even for the early 2000's and I also get the cost analysis makes sense to just build a new one at a certain point, but the wastefulness and environmental impact of essentially scrapping thousands of tons of steel, concrete, electronics, and plastic is just asinine. If TN and the EPA weren't so weak, there would be immense environmental regulations to make these sorts of tear downs way more costly. What happens with all of that crumbled up concrete and rebar? Where do all those plastic seats go? A functional, forward thinking society should be able to assess more than just the cost of construction and look at the cost of disposing of the kilotons of concrete, steel, and plastic that currently make up our stadium. Renovating is obviously a much more efficient use of all resources. Building a new one is only a more efficient use of monetary resources. And also, imagine the crap storm this will cause if Cooper goes out and issues 1 billion in bonds after hiking everyone's property taxes to (ostensibly) pay off the last big wave of big capital expenditures.

Man. I've been away too long and haven't visited the area on my return trips to Nashville. Didn't even realize they had the structure so close to finished. I'm really excited about this.

No one said anything about banning SFH's. We should however, ban future SFH's in many areas of the city for the sake of density and future transit projects (though property taxes are making this essentially guaranteed) . We also should removed any mandatory single family zoning requirements (similar to what Minneapolis did) and allow townhomes, fourplexes, and small apartments just about anywhere.

Hard to say. Rhino Books, Headquarters, and some of the other shops have been holding on for years while others sat empty. I'd guess some of the property owners have been waiting to accumulate multiple locations and the reason for their desertion has less to do with a lack of foot traffic and more to do with property accumulation. I hope so. I've been driving by that location for a decade thinking how could cool it would be if it had some sort of row house situation going on. These townhomes below are brand new in Atlanta. Mixing something like these in with retail facing Charlotte could be a major game changer.

They accused me of bringing a beer into the bar once and kicked me out 10 minutes after I payed a $10 cover. They refused to give me my money back even though I tried to explain the situation. I did not, in fact, bring a beer in (my friends did and I was the one who took the fall) so I've never returned there and would be fine with them getting in trouble for noise ordinances.

I'm starting to think we don't need a signature tower-esque building anymore. I think it's kind of nice to have just a mid size high rise skyline that sprawls a bit. Cities like Rio, Barcelona, or Vancouver don't have a single super tall monument like Chicago but they're still fairly recognizable cities and it has zero impact on the actual inhabitants of said cities. I think we should strive for the 5-7 stories with mixed uses at the street level.