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[SoundScan]

Both parcels are at the exact elevation (417ft. ASL) according to the GIS data I could find.

[MLBrumby]

13 hours ago, wreynol4 said:

Wow! That thing is hideous.  Just hideous. 

[fieldmarshaldj]

5 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

Wow! That thing is hideous.  Just hideous. 

Massive planter and a big concrete box, giving the equivalent of a big middle finger to the street and its neighbors. Screams "1978."

[markhollin]

Looking north over Cumberland Apartments (Music City Aerial):

[NashvilleObserver]

20 hours ago, chris holman said:

 

 

 

 

I love how skinny SoBro looks from certain angles. I'm so glad they didn't make it a glass box.

[claya91]

Here are some awesome pictures of Nashville mostly ruined by power lines! Taken today. Don't forget to click on the photo for full res.

 

Charlotte Pike 

 

Capital View

 

Facing south near the East Bank

 

Facing west

 

Atop Fort Negley 

 

Vertis Green Hills

Edited January 31, 2017 by claya91

[arkitekte]

I appreciate all of y'all for posting so many pictures lately. I haven't been to Nashville since October and probably won't be back that way until late summer, so keep it up!

[claya91]

I also noticed the first few panes of glass being installed on the Hines/Hayes box.

[markhollin]

Adelicia looking east:

[Nashvillain]

12 hours ago, claya91 said:

Vertis Green Hills

Damn! That is going to be a huge Men's Wearhouse. Is it a flagship store or something? 

 

Edited January 31, 2017 by Nashvillain

[dmillsphoto]

50 minutes ago, Nashvillain said:

Damn! That is going to be a huge Men's Wearhouse. Is it a flagship store or something? 

 

[Nashtitans]

awhile back...

Edited January 31, 2017 by Nashtitans

[SoundScan]

Looks like winter 2016 to me.

[claya91]

3 minutes ago, SoundScan said:

Looks like winter 2016 to me.

Is that HCA under construction to the left of the TN State Tower?

[Skyscrapergeek]

Westin

[NashvilleObserver]

38 minutes ago, Nashtitans said:

years ago...

 

months* ago...

[MLBrumby]

21 minutes ago, claya91 said:

Is that HCA under construction to the left of the TN State Tower?

HCA would be to the right and out of frame of the picture.  The vantage is from the north (over Germantown). 

[MidTenn1]

Getting tough to get an original picture with all the forum photographers roaming about, but I'll try.

The 222 2nd Avenue from beneath the bridge.

And a lot of steel...

[markhollin]

Looking west over Centennial Park:

[nashvylle]

2 hours ago, markhollin said:

Looking west over Centennial Park:

 

I wish that park, or a similar one, was at the car recycling plant next to Nissan Stadium. 

[PillowTalk4]

6 hours ago, nashvylle said:

I wish that park, or a similar one, was at the car recycling plant next to Nissan Stadium. 

I'd be happy with a "Men's Wearhouse" replacing the "car recycling plant" next to Nissan Stadium.... lol

[BnaBreaker]

2 hours ago, PillowTalk4 said:

I'd be happy with a "Men's Wearhouse" replacing the "car recycling plant" next to Nissan Stadium.... lol

...or an empty field, or adult book store, or the world's largest pawn shop/check cashing store... I'd rather see just about anything there than what sits there right now.  Even a different type of industry would be preferable...at least if there were smoke stacks or something it'd provide some type of visual interest to the cityscape.  

[titanhog]

Is there any chance of there ever being eminent domain used on that land?  I would figure Icahn would fight it pretty hard.

[rookzie]

53 minutes ago, titanhog said:

Is there any chance of there ever being eminent domain used on that land?  I would figure Icahn would fight it pretty hard.

The city ultimately can end up paying the market rate for something force-relinquished with eminently domain, just as what occurred with the city when it acquired some of the Tower Investments properties.  Invoking eminent domain highly likely would lead to litigation becoming tied up in court for a protracted period, possibly for years.

Ultimately, there probably could be promotion of community conversation concerning the re-purposing of that property, but even any pivotally definitive results on that still hopefully would be determined by how much taxpayers are willing to pay for PSC, as opposed to the “seemingly “outright, hard-line tactical approach during the previous administration, in preparation for the MCC.  Then related to the statutes of E-D are the encumbered issues of where and how to move PSC, as they are a special kind of market business.

In comparison, while the circumstances might appear totally different, and arguably so, I would wager that the CSX would win unequivocally, if not decisively, any attempt to acquire Radnor Yard by eminent domain, though this is not to say that this would be attempted.  It would be a hard case to be made, in convincing courts that the city or the region would need Radnor to implement its comprehensive transit proposals.

Just saying that, although PSC and Radnor might seem like apples and oranges, eminent domain definitely would not be that silver bullet, and it would have a big chance of ricocheting and biting you in the ass.

 

[Canuck87]

I bet the ever-increasing value of the property where PSC is located will be the factor that forces its relocation. As I recall, more than half the property where the scrapyard sits is leased, and the rent is based upon the appraised value of the property. The last couple times rent was adjusted, it was very contentious, which led to lawsuits being filed.

I remember one mayoral candidate mentioning the possibility of rezoning that property to mixed use in order to inflate the property value even more, as an alternative to eminent domain. At the end of the day, Carl Icahn is an investor, and like all investors, he's looking for a return on his investments. If rents and property taxes increase to the point that they cut into PSC's profitability, relocation is inevitable. 

Edited February 2, 2017 by Canuck87