jdavidf

March 5, 2020

On 3/3/2020 at 6:34 AM, titanhog said:

We need a roll call. All Nashville UPers who see this thread...please sound off.

I'm on Ireland Street. When I jumped out of the bed and looked south, everything looked pretty normal. Little did I know This thing was blowing through about 2 blocks north of me. By the time I got downstairs to closet under the stairs, it was pretty much over. I understand it was moving along around 50mph?

Power just came back on today. Thank dog there was no damage. Been a refugee in East Nashville until today. My friends' house was barely missed. What a week. I was in Donelson in 1998, here for the 2010 flood and now this.

David

November 14, 2019

I always felt the same way about both getting out onto Deaderick or Charlotte and the confusing keypad. It was always an adventure getting in and out of there. But verrry convenient.

On 11/12/2019 at 9:58 PM, wes1990 said:

I really hope this project is realistic. Here is a photo I took on Friday from above showing the double helix. I used to park in this garage and my experience wasn't particularly positive. The garage will definitely need some upgrades if it were to serve high end commercial tenants.

Also I had never experienced a more complicated elevator button pad than this

October 18, 2019

On 8/13/2019 at 9:47 PM, OnePointEast said:

It's like this past two weeks I've noticed a record amount of cranes going up in the 440 inner loop? Is the month of July or August of this year having a record amount of cranes going up or has there been another period where so many cranes have gone up in such a short span? It's really insane to say the least. We're finally seeing the full effect of the Nashville growth from the 2016-present period

Just saw this post and have been looking for a place to say that recently, I've counted 20+ cranes from my front windows; there may be a bunch more I can't see from here. Still, impressive!

May 29, 2019

On 5/24/2019 at 8:28 AM, smeagolsfree said:

With the bridge that ends halfway across the river and that will be the end of the scooter problem. I guess we are saying the same thing.... haha

It's like you're reading my mind

February 22, 2019

1 hour ago, bigeasy said:

For some reason this font/design reminds me of a Ouija board, which seems ironic considering this is a Lifeway building. Anybody else see it?

I hadn't seen that, but now that you mention it .. What caught my eye was the pool table in the break room. That would have gone over like a lead balloon in my fundamentalist upbringing. Amazing how things change over 40-50 years!

What I really liked was the grand piano on the balcony .. since I've sold my real piano and now have an electric, I may have to stroll over sometime and do a little southern gospel for them. If the roof doesn't crash in on me when I darken the doorway!

David

February 8, 2019

On 2/1/2019 at 5:47 PM, PruneTracy said:

PruneTracy's Hot ~~Taeks~~ Chicken Power Rankings

OG Tier

1. Prince's

2. 400 Degrees

tourists plz gtfo Tier

3. Hattie B's

This Presentation Is All Wrong and What the Hell is an Aioli Tier

4. Puckett's

5. ACME

6. Ole Red

Your Hot Chicken Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad Tier

7. Party Fowl

LOL Putting Hot Sauce on Chicken Doesn't Make It Hot Chicken Tier

8. Popeye's

This is almost exactly right. I would add Bolton's to the OG Tier (which I assume means "oh god!"). I've always thought Hattie B's was just an upstart that ought to go back to Franklin and Party Fowl has a pretty cool name, but still, another prtender

David

December 13, 2018

On 12/4/2018 at 3:10 PM, smeagolsfree said:

But is the food any good? I tried ML Rose yet again and yuck, yet again. I'm not that hard to please but have not tried Corner Pub.

Funny - I went to the new ML Rose in Capitol View and got an indifferently prepared hamburger and fries to take home with me. It was nearly $15.00 out the door and I would have been a lot more satisfied if I'd gone to Wendy's. Haven't been back to ML Rose

November 13, 2018

Channel 4 reporting that Nashville will become home to Amazon's East Coast Hub of Operations

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Amazon's new "Operations Center of Excellence" will be located at a 1 million-square-foot facility north of the Gulch where the Lifeway building was previously located. The 15-acre mixed-use development will house tech and management functions, including customer fulfillment, customer service and transportation.

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According to the governor's office, this is the largest jobs announcement in the history of Tennessee and is projected to created more than 13,000 jobs in the state. Every direct job created by the project is expected to create an additional 1.6 jobs.

Who knew there would be an East Coast Hub of Operations *and* two HQs? I had heard on this morning's news that the governor had a major announcement today.

David

November 30, 2017

On 11/15/2017 at 8:58 AM, markhollin said:

Has anybody noticed where "B" is below, between HCA and LifeWay, there's now a brand new surface parking lot? Does anybody know what's going on with that? I first thought it was temporary, but then it seemed like quite an expense to design and put up a parking lot if they're just going to put a new building there later.

David

April 6, 2017

M.L. Rose is coming to the North Gulch - corner of 11th and Nelson Merry -- should be a nice addition

March 5, 2017

Thank you both... it has been the hardest year of my life. We had been together 28-1/2 years, but I know with my "knower" that he's far better off now, and I am at peace.. still sad, but at peace. Now it's just me and our 20+ year old dog, Big'un... his back legs don't work anymore and I can't leave him alone for more than a couple of hours at a time... eventually, I'll be able to get out and about again, maybe even make it to one of the group's meetings..

in spite of everything, I still lurk around here to keep my eye on what's going on around the city.. I really appreciate everybody's comments about everything. Michael and I loved Nashville as if we were both born here - he'd been here since the 70s and I've been here over 30 years, myself, so it really is Home.

March 4, 2017

I haven't posted anything in a long time.... my partner, Michael, passed away back in June and I've been keeping a pretty low profile everywhere..

I've been watching 505 go up and just thought I'd share a view of it from the north side.. it's not the best (after dark, cell phone camera, etc)... but still, it gives an idea of the impact on the skyline from this direction (near the Farmer's Market).

David

June 30, 2015

Agreed about the Maxwell House -- there's nothing wrong with it, but location wise, not bad, being a straight shot down to those state parking lots.. it's going to be tough on everybody to walk from there, considering you have the kids with you. Getting across James Robertson won't be so bad - just a long haul with the kids..

As for the courthouse lawn, not a bad idea.. and there will be lots of stuff going on there beforehand. The kids will enjoy playing in the pools there.

We walked down a couple of years ago and staked out spots at the top of 1st Avenue around the Gay St intersection and that was pretty good. The earlier you get there the better. Still, I'd bet it would be better than taking the kids down into the middle of everything!

Hope you all have a blast! It really is the greatest show on Earth! Be sure to bring a radio so you can tune in the symphony playing along with the fireworks..

June 30, 2015

Definitely consider parking near the Farmers Market if you can - say, in the state employee parking lots just on the North side of the railroad tracks.. it's not a bad walk at all and you'll be glad you did it when you see all the poor schmoes trying to get out of the parking garages and lots downtown.

If you park in that area, you'll be in your car and out of town before the ones down there even get to the interstate...

June 12, 2015

And a shrubbery. A nice one, not too expensive.

or else you will never pass through this wood alive

June 11, 2015

Thanks, for the graphic briefing. Even though it's not pictured, about 10 years ago I started paying more attention to St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows Church at 5th and Charlotte. While it's not the most beautiful or elaborate church in downtown, what holds my interest is the fact that it was designed by Adolphus Heiman, who also had done the former Children's Museum (Lindsley Hall of Peabody Normal College; UofNshvl Literary Dept; Hospital for Federal Officers), and the Belmont Mansion, among many other structures which remain extant. Unfortunately, his house at 900 Jefferson Street is long gone, although his namesake city street (Heiman St.) remains intact, except for what the interstate took away.

House of architect Adolphus Heiman - 900 Jefferson St. (city)

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I've seen the historical marker for Heiman's house but this is the first photo I've seen of it. What a shame there aren't still lots of those little gems along that street!

June 11, 2015

A couple other that could be added are: Holy Trinity Episcopal at Lafayette and Sixth, and Ocean Way Recorders at corner of 17th and Edgehill from a repurposed sanctuary built in the late 1800's.

The Vine Street Temple Synagogue was really gorgeous. Was the only Jewish fellowship in Nashville from 1877 until 1955. The nine Byzantine turrets were incredibly unique for this area. Sure wish someone would've had the vision to keep it. See it here:

http://www.nashvillewebreview.com/automat/nashville/churches/synagog/VineStreet2.htm

The church where Ocean Way is now used to be Tony Alamo's cult/church. I worked in the travel agency behind it at the corner of 16th and Edgehill.

I'll never forget the day the federal agents swooped down on that place.. the area was afloat in big, black SUVs and there were dark-sunglass-wearing suits all over the place, talking into their cuffs, before they went in and took over. I don't think they found Tony's dead wife that day - maybe she had already been resurrected?

That was an exiting day, for sure!

May 6, 2015

They say one of those does break up the blockage to the flow of "progression", you know. I think that's what eating Metro "government cheese" can do to you.

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Don't knock the government cheese! mmmm...mmm delicious!

April 29, 2015

With the announcement of Alaska Airlines starting daily non-stop, year-round service from BNA to Seattle, there now only remains one significant gap in the MNAA's quest to have nonstop flights from Nashville to key domestic cities.

The remaining gap is non-stop service to San Francisco (SFO) and the likely airline to fly that route is United Airlines. At the moment United has a shortage of mainline aircraft, but the presence of Nissan and Bridgestone in Nashville should put pressure on United (or Virgin America) to launch a nonstop flight to SFO. United operates a major international hub at SFO providing important connections to the Asia-Pacific region. Southwest Airlines will resume its daily non-stop, year-round flights to Oakland (OAK) in June.

I find it interesting that Los Angeles (LAX) is served with no less than 5 non-stop flights per day on 3 different airlines (American, Delta and Southwest). One of the American Airlines flights is a red-eye. That's a lot of capacity so the airlines must be doing quite well on the BNA-LAX route.

With regard to United Airlines, we learned yesterday that they're replacing their pint-sized regional jets with real grown up jets - I don't know if foretells anything about possible non-stop service to the west coast, but to me it hinted at a stronger presence here..

April 15, 2015

I take it that you might be on Ireland, where that hill crests. That indeed is (was) a fun view, whenever I'd drive up the hill, even though I always had to stop the car and look back (on the one-way).

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That's right - we're at the top of the hill - great views... been there since day one 11 years ago.. It's tucked away there so that you have to know how to get there in order to go through. Thanks for going the right direction on that one way, by the way!

April 14, 2015

The silver lining, I think, for the Encore owners who bought for the views is that what they might lose in property value from blocking developments will surely be made up by the attractions those developments bring to the area.

I think you're right about that.. with the new development going in on Rosa Parks across from the Farmers' Market, we're disappointed to be losing the view of the market and the Bicentennial Mall beyond (in fact, we're afraid we're going to feel closed in)... but we are looking forward to a bump in the property values, so we're certainly not complaining!

April 10, 2015

I recall Publix mentioning they aren't ruling out opening at two separate locations. "...Publix store in Capitol View would not preclude another store in Midtown or elsewhere in urban Nashville — meaning this does not appear to be an either/or scenario for the grocer." The store in Midtown would be smaller, whereas the Capitol View location would be full service.

now that you mention it, I seem to recall that too.. It'll be nice to have two options at last if that turns out to be the case...

April 9, 2015

Since we're talking about grocery stores. . . there was a big discussion on Nextdoor about the Rosa Parks Kroger. Apparently, there are 3 tiers of Krogers: Value, Mainstream, and Upscale. Current it's classified as Mainstream, but a neighbor in the business broke the news that the store is being reclassed (downgraded?) to a "value" store. This means, among other things, that there will be more space devoted to Kroger brand products, and less for national brands. Additionally, space of natural/organic/health food will be reduced. This caused quite a stir in the surrounding neighborhoods on the board.

Here's what I took away from the Nextdoor discussion:

-New sandwich station in the deli
-New Chicken Case in the deli for fried, baked and roasted chickens
-Other new cases in deli that will allow for better product mix
-New 8 ft. Sushi case for in store made sushi
-New deli cheese case
-Additional product offerings throughout the Deli/Bakery area
-New 8 Ft Service Seafood Case
-Other new cases in Meat Dept
-New floors in produce
-New bins and tables in produce
-All new Nature’s Market Nutrition Destination area
-Added new 5 door case of frozen nutrition
-Added additional 8 ft. to refrigerated nutrition
-Expanded dairy in the grocery department…additional 20’ added
-Expanded beer set
-Additional new cases and fixtures throughout the store
-New décor
-The store will have a full service seafood department when the remodel is complete!

Although, the discussion about Value vs Mainstream, etc seemed pretty up in the air - no definitive response from the Kroger rep, but it does seem odd that a "Value" store would have sushi and full service seafood departments.

I see a lot of negative comments about the Rosa Parks Kroger here and in other forums (especially Nextdoor!) and I don't get it. We've been shopping there for nearly 11 years and have seen lots of positive changes in the store over that time. When we first moved to the neighborhood, the store was run-down, unclean and loaded up with sullen, unhelpful employees.

Something has happened because the service and overall attitude of the staff at the store has improved markedly; I never have any problem getting assistance from most everybody that works there..

The place is a mess right now, with all the construction going on, but that's to be expected, I suppose. They can't exactly close down the store to do the remodel. I remember when they were remodeling the Kroger in Donelson 15 or so years ago and it was a mess, too..

I had hoped we would get a Harris Teeter in Capitol View and that that would cause Kroger to up their game.. looks like that's not going to happen and if Publix goes in on Demonbreun Hill, who's to say what we'll get. Could be a Whole Foods for all I know -- which means we'll continue shopping at our Kroger for the most part!

David

September 24, 2014

Putting this here for now, until more is revealed. How cool would it be to have Bridgestone/Delek move downtown at the same time and into the same building?!

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/real-estate/2014/09/running-out-of-room-in-brentwooddelek-may-move.html

May 21, 2014

I don't think this has been posted here, so I'll link it. Willis is looking at relocating 3500 jobs from higher cost locations to lower cost locations. In their release to investors they mentioned Nashville and Mumbai as two low cost locations. Maybe they were just using Nashville as an example, but I would suspect something more substantive is going on behind he scenes for them to name nashville in their release. Maybe Eakin will get a new tenant and Nashville will have its very own Willis Tower.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-29/willis-to-cut-relocate-staff-as-profit-misses-estimates.html

There's some irony - when they were Willis Corroon, they built their taj mahal out in Century City and ended up leasing then selling it and moving into the Genesco building, of all places... although, to be fair, they transformed their floor at Genesco into something pretty special! Now to think they might be back in the big building business!

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