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Side-note: I feel it was an incredibly poor decision for the city to not mandate some sort of a pedestrian thoroughfare between Icon and Pine Street Flats. There's a huge amount of disconnection between the "heart" of the Gulch and the section behind Icon that I'm not sure could ever be rectified now. Both sides suffer for it, IMO.

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Walking home from a stunning Mozart’s Requiem at the Schermerhorn last night. Had a pre-dawn Uber to BNA for a flight to SEA this morning!

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More images released of Hill Center Germantown  slated for mid-2022 groundbreaking at 416 Jefferson St. https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/notes-additional-images-released-for-ger

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H.G. Hill Realty will finally be developing the full 3.58 acre block at 416 Jefferson St. with $93.5 million 5th & Jefferson mixed-use project. It will include a 4 story structure with 110,000 sq.

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This is one I'm very excited about (Thompson hotel). It's going to give the Gulch a completely different look in terms of density and feeling like a true urban neighborhood (or one that is steadily growing into that status). As popular as the Gulch has become, it has felt unfinished, incomplete having the gravel lot at this key crossroads. There are plenty more gaps to be filled in in the Gulch, but this is the most important one.

 

Were it not for the Station Inn I would say that the block bordered by 11th, 12th, and Pine would be an ideal location for open space such as a square or plaza. If you can imagine standing in the middle of such a space with full build-out of the surrounding area you can see what I'm getting at.

 

Side-note: I feel it was an incredibly poor decision for the city to not mandate some sort of a pedestrian thoroughfare between Icon and Pine Street Flats. There's a huge amount of disconnection between the "heart" of the Gulch and the section behind Icon that I'm not sure could ever be rectified now. Both sides suffer for it, IMO.

 

Or an extension (probably a re-extension) of Gleaves. In any case, the elevation change combined with the close quarters puts a damper on any such connection today.

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Side-note: I feel it was an incredibly poor decision for the city to not mandate some sort of a pedestrian thoroughfare between Icon and Pine Street Flats. There's a huge amount of disconnection between the "heart" of the Gulch and the section behind Icon that I'm not sure could ever be rectified now. Both sides suffer for it, IMO.

 

anything new here?

it just needs a serpentine shortcut across the train tracks ─ that should fulfill the needs.

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BnaBreaker City

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Great looking project...incredibly beneficial...but something tells me that the $100 million price tag will bring the naysayers out...'why don't they just put plywood slabs up and spend that money on painting the rusty swingsets around town??'

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Count me as a Naysayer...... $100,000,000 for a 500 year flood? The economics do not make sense.

 

The 500 year flood is the one that causes $2 billion in damage.  What about all the other more minor but still monetarily impactful floods?  This would pay for itself relatively quickly, I would think. 

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The pumping station slash observation platform seems like a new element that was not in the west riverfront amphitheater park currently under construction. There was an observation deck at that location in the original plan, which has not been under construction, but I think incorporating a $65M pumping station into it is a new development.

A downtown pumping station is needed and is a good idea. But it will involve major underground infrastructure work that will almost certainly have to run underneath the new park (the lawn component). Bids will have to be let and construction contracts negotiated. Seems like this will set the park opening timeline back considerably. Anyone know?

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To correct myself a 1000 year flood!??!?!? This is insanity. The 13 MIL for the wall ? Sure why not. It looks better than some of the public art the Metro Art Council installs. But 65MIL for a pumping station that will be idle, on average, 999 years out of a thousand. Hyperbole admittedly, but serious what historic flood stage needs to be triggered before the new pumping station is even utilized? That would be good information IMO. 

 

oh and.... hold onto our water service user fees because this 1000MIL price tag is ONLY for the West Bank..... East Bank flood mitigation plan is on the way! yay

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As a meteorologist, I shall chime in. The 1k year flood is just a mathematical equation that averages out to that, but we have no accurate record of Cumberland River floods really beyond the first settlement way back when we didn't have all this fancy technology.

In reality, all we need to see another significant flood doesn't have to be 16in of rain in 3 days, but a well above average wet winter plus wet spring within the basin and you can have significant problems far beyond what the reservoirs/lakes can handle here. Had the Old Hickory Dam been overtopped, and it was less than 5ft from being so, the disaster we saw would've been amplified at least ten fold. Protection always outweighs cost in the end.

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I just love the notion that we should be cutting corners and going the budget route on a project designed to protect the city from the same natural disaster that just cost the city $2 billion (that's $2,000,000,000 or TWENTY TIMES the cost of this project) to recover from only three years prior.  In other words, in monetary terms, the city just paid for twenty of these projects already due explicitly to the fact that we DID NOT invest in a project like this sooner, and yet somehow, there are still people complaining about the cost, up in arms about making that total twenty-one even if it meant it would never happen again.  Seriously, this is the literal physical well-being of the city we're talking about here.  I realize that there is a cost/benefit analysis that needs to be conducted when it comes to large scale projects like this, but I would think that if there was anything the bargain basement budget crowd would consider worthy of funding, it would be safeguarding the city from natural disaster.  Maybe it's just me, but that's not something I think pennies should be pinched over. 

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Protection always outweighs cost in the end.

I wouldn't say that. We can engineer a lot of things that would protect us from a lot of different threats, but the risk benefit equation doesn't work out.

What's more important? A mass transit project from Centennial Park to 5 Points (or downtown to the airport) or flood protection? We could have either one for roughly the same price.

I'm undecided on this at this point, but I don't fall into the camp that says protect against a threat that is unlikely to hit us in the 100 years at any cost.

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Permit pulled for new build at 1723 Heiman - they purchased the lot and home on it for over 60k and permit was pulled for 173k build... so this may list in the high 200s.

 

Hart-Love builders appears to be starting a build soon on 10th Ave N and they also purchased a house/lot on cass at auction for 57k.

 

As I said earlier, things are really heating up NW of the interstate in Elizabeth Park and surrounding neighborhoods.

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