[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

1 hour ago, glamdring269 said:

Trader Joe's coming to Murfreesboro. This has to be the most asked for thing in the Boro that can finally be checked off the list. Shane's comments kind of show just how ridiculous this ask has been.

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/murfreesboro/trader-joes-coming-to-rutherford-county/

 

 

 

Exciting news! I took a screenshot of the site plan in case anyone wants to see location.

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

3 hours ago, markhollin said:

TDOT plans to widen a 4.4 mile stretch of Nolensville Pike (State Route 11/U.S. 31) fro Old Hickory Blvd. south to Burkitt Rd.  The current two lanes will become 5 lanes  with sidewalks on each side.

https://www.tn.gov/tdot/projects/region-3/state-route-11--nolensville-road-.html?utm_term=nashtoday&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=nashtoday&utm_content=nashtoday

What's crazy to me is that the initial public meeting was back in January 2006... This plan can vote now

[Nashville International Airport Development thread]

13 hours ago, donNdonelson2 said:

The relocation/extension of Harding place to Elm Hill Pike and a new I-40 interchange has been part of a long term plan for several years now.

Thanks for the more detailed plans, but I had no idea. It's hard to keep up with everything, plus I wasn't living in the state back then

[Nashville International Airport Development thread]

Ah, thank you Sean! That is exactly what I was hoping for.

Didn't realize they had plans for another I40 interchange, or at least that's what it looks like.

[Nashville International Airport Development thread]

Is there a legend somewhere to explain the different colors and such? Or explain what an APM is?

[Eleven N (47 stories/525'; 28 stories/313'; 29 stories/311'; 1,475 units; 40,000 sq. ft. retail; 41,600 sq. ft. greenway/park space; 1,870 capacity internal garages)]

Concept looks great! Now let's see if it gets changed up before being built. I hope not, because I really like it.

Side note, they actually used normal people cars in the concept art.
 

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

On 3/13/2023 at 4:28 PM, Rocky@theTop said:

Hy-Vee which is opening their Spring Hill store later this year will expand their TN footprint with 2 stores in Murfreesboro. Going before the Murfreesboro Planning Commission on 3/15/23 will be a 153,000sqft Memorial Blvd (Hwy 231) store & 116,000 New Salem Hwy (Hwy  99) store. Both with have fueling centers. The Memorial Blvd store will have integrated liquor store and separate restaurant. 

https://murfreesborotn.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03152023-1769

This has been approved. Nothing on timeline though, unless I missed it.
https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2023/05/16/hy-vee-plans-approved-for-two-grocery-stores-in-murfreesboro/70222862007/

[IKEA to Nashville]

We may have another shot with Ikea. Time will tell, but I can always speculate

Highlights:

• In a huge bet to draw more U.S. consumers, Swedish furniture giant IKEA will spend $2.2 billion dollars to expand nationwide – marking its biggest investment ever in a single country.
• Ingka plans to open eight new big IKEA stores and nine smaller stores as well as upgrading existing stores in the U.S.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/ikea-plans-new-us-stores-22-bln-push-challenge-walmart-wayfair-2023-04-20/

Edit: Ops, didn't realize we had a threat just for Ikea. My bad.

[Inside 440 - Berry Hill, Midtown, Vanderbilt, 12S, WeHo, Fairgrounds, etc.]

On 1/18/2023 at 8:39 AM, markhollin said:

T3 Wedgwood Houston (6 stories, 200,000 sq. ft. office space, internal garage, timber frame construction) will have Universal Music Group as their first tenant when the structure is opened later this year.  They will be relocating  from their current 38,000 sq. ft. leased space in the 222 2nd Ave. South tower. It is not yet known exactly how much space they will have in T3.

Universal Music Group comprises four labels: Capitol Records Nashville, EMI Records Nashville, MCA Nashville and Mercury Nashville, according to its website. It represents artists like Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, George Strait and Kacey Musgraves.

More at NBJ here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2023/01/18/universal-music-group-wedgewood-houston-hines.html
 

I've got pretty good word that this isn't 100% accurate. UMG will not be relocating from their 222 2nd Ave location as they have a long term lease. However a subsidiary of one of those labels will be moving there.

[Inside 440 - Berry Hill, Midtown, Vanderbilt, 12S, WeHo, Fairgrounds, etc.]

2 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

When checking this site   https://epermits.nashville.gov/#/?searchType=permit     you have several different ways of checking. You can check the range of permits applied for from yesterday today and also permits applied for todays using todays date through todays date.

There is also a difference between open and issued. 

This is where you get the actual permits issues on a dally basis. .Building Permits Issued | Nashville Open Data Portal.

You cn also go through parcel viewer  Parcel Viewer (nashville.gov) and enter an address or parcel number and look under permit history and actually get even more information many times but not always.

 

Sorry to overwhelm you, but this comes with years of experience and had to learn it on my own. Taylor (downtownresident) is a wiz at this too. A lot better than me!

 

This is good! I've always wondered about this too. So thanks for sharing it.

Besides a few people on here knowing the ins and outs, is there anywhere else on this forum where this has been documented? Or maybe a place where we could, so others could learn? I've been documenting like crazy at work lately, so this is where my mind jumps to first lol

[Nashville Bits and Pieces]

As a certified Sheetz occultist they are very good!

I grew up near Pittsburgh and Sheetz was the main player around those woods. Never really thought much about Sheetz until I moved here and didn't have it anymore. Like @Bos2Nash said about planning trip around them, that is how I do it too. Plus the food is a lot better than you would think for a gas station. I would take them over a lot fast food places. When I took my wife back north, I told her that she's going to have to trust me on eating at a gas station. 

 

[Capitol View Northwestern Mutual/HCA 32 acres of mixed use | UC]

1 hour ago, jjbradleyBrooklyn said:

Maybe there will be an opportunity for them to add some office space in the third Amazon tower? 

If there is one thing I learned while working at HCA is they like to own their buildings. I use to work at the Dell building and HCA was renting from Dell for a bit. HCA eventually bought the building from them. Dell now pays rent to HCA for the Dell building. Makes me lol when I think about it.

Maybe the pandemic has changed that mind set, though it could be temporary space if they did decide to rent. Rent until they secure land or buy a building they like. 

[Nashville food and beverage scene]

Didn't see this posted, but Milkshake Concepts has signed four leases in Nashville. At first I was like more milkshakes please! Then I realized that they aren't in the milkshake business. This is their first venture outside of the Dallas market.

Layer Cake - Lower Broadway
Harper’s - behind Pinewood Social
The Finch - former home of the Flying Saucer
Vidorra - 800 Broadway 

You can read more here: https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2022/05/04/exclusive-milkshake-concepts-announces-three-conce.html
 

[Paseo South Gulch (Phases 2 & 3: 30 & 16 stories w/ 390 residential units, 183 room hotel, 18,000 sq. ft. office, 14,000 sq. ft. retail; Phases 4 & 5: Another 30 story tower w/ 396 units, a 22 story office tower, 1,500 capacity internal garage)]

It's crazy to see these pictures and then go look at the first page of this post. I'm excited to see what they have envisioned next!

[BROADWEST (former West End Summit), 36 story Conrad Hilton Hotel/condo tower, 22 story/510,000 sq. ft. office tower, 4 story/125,000 sq. ft. retail/office, 1 acre plaza, 2,500 car garage, $490 million]

Which is a shame, because Hall's was quite an amazing experience when I was in Charleston last year.  Hopefully just bad looking renders, and it will look better in person.

[New Titans Stadium (60,000 capacity dome, ground level retail, directly east of Nissan Stadium)]

Having a new stadium would be amazing! I can imagine a lot of cool concepts and seeing a super bowl here would be really really cool. I just don't want the city paying for this. Isn't the city having money problems too? If the Titans want to go and pay for it themselves I have no problem with that.

Someone brought up putting money into a chip plant, and that would be a better use of money by the city than a stadium.  Some of the articles I'm going to link say a Target would be better economically than a stadium long term. You know what a better use of money would be? We have a big thread on it here, and that would be mass transit, but that's another topic. Just throwing examples out there.

Here are some articles talking about this. They have a lot of good info in it and I would implore y'all to read some of it. Good research papers on this too. If you find some articles saying the opposite I would like to read them too!

https://www.investigativepost.org/2021/12/13/little-economic-benefit-from-new-stadium/

https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/19/are-pro-sports-teams-economic-winners-cities/

https://econreview.berkeley.edu/the-economics-of-sports-stadiums-does-public-financing-of-sports-stadiums-create-local-economic-growth-or-just-help-billionaires-improve-their-profit-margin/

This really goes down the road of a Need vs Want. Like I said, if the Titans want to do it themselves and the city doesn't have to put money up, then I have no problem.

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

Looks like Murfreesboro is getting the next Buc-ee's.  It will be by Elam Road and Joe B. Jackson Parkway by I-24. Key high light: "Although no site plans have been submitted, the concept proposes a 76,245-square-foot building with 120 fuel pumps, 490 parking spots and room for 15 RVs and buses." A lot more info in the link below.

https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2021/12/16/bucees-convenience-stores-gas-stations-murfreesboro-tennessee-locations/8924994002/

[Nashville food and beverage scene]

On 11/13/2021 at 12:26 AM, MagicPotato said:

Buc-ee's building a gas station in Murfreesboro.  Woot!

Did they announce where this is going in Murfreesboro?

[Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs]

Back when I used Photoshop there was a website called Good-Tutorials that had some decent tutorials for that. Learned a lot from there.
It still exists: good-tutorials.com/tutorials/photoshop
Looks about the same when I used it 12 years ago (style wise) lol

Someone made a browser photoshop clone. It's free, if you want something that resembles PS, but in browser form. This is what I use now.
photopea.com

[133 KVB (two 49 story towers of 574’ & 512’ featuring condos, apartments, hotel, ground level retail, public park & 8 levels of parking)]

I hate to be this person, but could someone send me the link to this topic on SP, like a PM or a DM or whatever you want to call it? I can't find it.. Also not sure what I'm looking for either since I've never used that site before. 
Sorry if not allowed.

[Economic Conditions - Nashville, TN, U.S., Global]

20 minutes ago, samsonh said:

Semiconductor foundries are being built here in the US again. The investment is massive. It just takes years for that them to produce. Earlier this year a bipartisan bill passed to subsidize and accelerate this investment. It’s a national security matter imo

The average time for a semiconductor factory is about 3-4 years. That's in perfect conditions... As we all know we are very far from perfect conditions. So we're going to be in this hell for awhile  

I've also been wanting to buy a graphics card (GPU), but can't get one. I guess I should figure out how to make bots to buy things for me. And price! I miss the days of $450 was about top of the line, now it's $1200.... Ugh

[500 2nd Ave. South, 39 story residential; 29 story hotel; 32 story residential on full 3.4 acre block (Cumulus Radio site)]

So what are the chances of the gas station saying bye-bye in the near future? 

[1010 Church Street (60 story/750', 500 unit residential tower, 7 story/60,000 sq. ft. YMCA addition), $350 million]

So when will this be renamed to Paramount? /s

Over all this is great! 

[Mid City (1501 Broadway, 8 acres on Broadway, 7 towers of 20-35 stories, 1.3 million sq. ft. office, 1,000 residential units, 150,000 sq. ft. commercial/retail)]

[Nashville Bits and Pieces]

I have really strong opinions on DDI and Roundabouts in Nashville. They need to be everywhere and that's that! /s

Real talk, I joined the forum for the insightful talks about what's going on in the city where I live. The insights and topics are still happening, but we got some funk to work out.  Plus it's really great to drop construction information on people like I have people. So thanks people