[Amazon: The Thread | 5,000 Jobs | 1M SQFT in Nashville Yards]

The demanding attitude about comfort/work is just odd… the overwhelming majority of the world LABORS and must be present to earn a living. Those complaining , their happiness and comfort is dependent on countless present laborers. There is absolutely no replacement for face to face PRESENCE,  Humans are social creatures, after all.  If you want to work from home, start your own business and see how the avoidance of people works out for you. Heck, it might work out perfectly. But an Amazon (or other corporation’s) worker being required to show up in person is not a human rights issue, it shouldn’t even be a labor dispute.  

[4012 Hillsboro Pike (zoned for 15 stories, mixed-use residential)]

14 hours ago, donNdonelson2 said:

16 hours ago, natethegreat said:

Memphis and a bunch of rural nothing. Tennessee would be Mississippi without Nashville. 

Nice. You’re insulting both my home state (TN) and the state of my ancestors (MS). 
 

I’m a Nashville Native, I reside here now, I’ve lived in five different States. 
 

The Nashville I’ve known has always been full of people who have either never lived in another State or fled places that are experiencing the results applied Progressive  Ideologies (namely progressive taxation and excessive bureaucracy). 
 

These folks are either growing more conservative as they age… or… their initial comfort of leaving said problems behind is slowly replaced by their core belief system that a god-like-government leviathan (all the things they fled or have never truly experienced) must be applied or constructed to “fix” their new environs. Of course this time if we do “better” or MORE… Utopia awaits. Of course our “experts” (usually representatives, academics, government workers or activists that have little or no private sector experience) one thing they can objectively do well is campaign (and that’s a “good” thing because they perpetually campaign) and hold religiously to the fantasy that we can  engineer or socially engineer ourselves into a great big beautiful tomorrow…. 

With other peoples money, borrowed future money or federally counterfeited money. 
 

“Progress”

[Driftwood District (multiple 20 +/- story towers, 1,636 residential units, 409 hotel rooms, 82,000 sq. ft. retail, internal parking garages) at 407 Driftwood St.]

…. Driftwood ??

[Prediction & Speculation Thread]

Seems like the Customs Building on Broadway would be an amazing location for an upscale brand like this…

[Prediction & Speculation Thread]

Y’all wondering where Elon moves Twitter’s HQ? Texas would make sense…. diversification would bring Nashville into that conversation. 

[Prediction & Speculation Thread]

Made this prediction a while back amongst friends but now sharing it here:

BOLD prediction / GENIUS idea.

With the advent of Nashville’s soon to be built domed stadium being used to further draw mega conventions downtown… The aging and antiquated Opryland Hotel & Convention Center will be converted into a luxury retirement village. The musical shows portion of Opryland will be revived to entertain residents. Convention Space could be converted for recreational options like bowling, mini-golf, curling and shuffleboard. Additional connecting towers could be added some as hotels for visiting family … as well as add ons like TopGolf. 

The adjacent Opry Mills will be converted from gang recruitment facility / ongoing crime scene into a world class mega-nursing home / memory care facility / geriatric hospital.

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

If we don’t do something, Garth Brooks will have to play the exact same songs in the exact same stadium in 2031… for Brooks’  “The 27th Annual Comeback, This Might Be One of Your Last Chances, No Seriously Stadium Tour”. 
 

And if it don’t have a roof, the folks still won’t get a rope swing. 
 

**Think of The Children**

[19th & Broadway; Fallyn Apts. (26 stories, 295', 355 units); Fraye Hotel (16 stories/220 rooms); 2,500 sq. ft. ground retail; garage]

I’ve Fallyn… and I can’t get up!

 

(I’ll be here all week!)

[Nashville Bits and Pieces]

Captured a moment of River Commerce today, thought I’d share….

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

There’s been a lot of discussion about capping interstates 40/65 where they pass Church St/Broadway/ Demonbruen/ 12th Ave to make a park. 
 

Has there been any talk about double decking the interstate there to double the interstate capacity in such a congested spot? The lower level could be a bypass of sorts while the upper level could handle business traffic intersecting with those crossing streets, perhaps even exiting directly into the Reed District and the Beaman site on one side and Nashville Yards on the other? 
 

Probably a simple thought that would be much harder to implement? 

 

 

[The Transportation and Mass Transit Megathread]

Looong time reader, first time to comment. 
 

Serious question…. For the BILLIONS spent on light rail and then the massive annual maintenance money pit that ensues… how many people will the trains take off the road during peak commute hours? And will these residents be willing to drive to meet the train? A few thousand maybe, right? 
 

If Nashville had the suburban residential density that could walk to meet a train I’d be open to the idea of trains. But we don’t and therefore I’m not. It’s a simple matter of costs/benefits with the costs perpetually overwhelming that equation. 
 

As a Nashville Native & resident I have greatly enjoyed following this forum on a daily basis for years now. I am excited about the continued development of a work, play, LIVE and WALK central core. Encouraging  desirable living conditions in our core, which is well underway, is going to be the practical solution to our traffic woes. I might even be for incentivizing such citizens.