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[Nashville Cliff]

I like it already.  

Me too.

[Andrew_3289]

Photo update - Apartments on the corner of the 28th/31st Ave Connector and Charlotte Ave. (http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/real-estate/2014/12/apartment-developers-buy-charlotte-avenue-land.html). Looks like they only have one more floor to frame up. 

[chris holman]

Thompson Hotel today

Edited October 10, 2015 by chris holman

[markhollin]

^ ^ ^  They are really rolling on The Thompson now, aren't they?!

[Chris Lee]

Bridgestone progress (taken from 2nd floor of Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)

 

[MLBrumby]

Great pic to whoever took it. I really need to make a trip downtown at night. 

 

So will they complain about noise as well once they start holding concerts at Ascend Amphitheater? 

I'd like to point out that BigEasy asked this prescient question back in July!

[rookzie]

I'd like to point out that BigEasy asked this prescient question back in July!

Yeah, he did....  He's some kind of swami ─ quite a discerning conjecture at its best.  Just goes to show that, with nearly ANY type of proposition-turned-reality, it's almost a postulate to say that, with the wide spectrum of contemporary "urbanism", personally interpreted difficulties will come to present themselves, such that verbal and even legal challenges rarely will be avoidable.  Along these same paths of reasoning, both residential- and retail-types of urban development almost always become an impediment to advanced transit planning as well, unless the latter precedes the former.

On aspect of such urban dwelling within the oldest and largest cities is that these perceived affronts to personal entitlements often circumstantially have become a non-issue or at least circumvented over very long timelines of pre-evolving infrastructures, such as building height, workforce, employment centers, particularly those occurring during the first-half of the 20th century.  These cities long have undergone the growing pains of the distant past, and as well, having maintained a much larger proportion of old-stock, often within a densely developed district, and in which structures were built with more durable and enduring materials, and which frequently have lent themselves to one or more repurposings.

Dwellers and business owners alike always have complained about the rumble of street cars, the squeal of their wheels rounding a curve, and even the occasional intense electric flash caused by rainwater between trolleys and the overhead wires.  Hell, I even have had residents here in Nashville, complain to the MTA about the inordinately loud impulse of compressed-air discharge from the air-brake compressor relief valves of some of its newer buses, as they pass during the predawn hours.  Therefore, imaging how loud people would bark, if the transit authority ever were to run "owl" (all night) service along some of its routes ─ rapid or local.  Next thing to happen will be people claiming that their property values will decline, if an entertainment venue is built within 2 miles, as if it were a hog farm or something.  No one really raised a stink during the late '50s, when the Sulphur Dell stadium was frequently used as an open-air venue for live entertainment bookings as Little Richard and Sam Cooke, prior to the completion of the Municipal Auditorium.  While there always have existed noise NIMBYs, it had been rather "uneventfully" accepted in those contiguous neighborhoods of working-class residents.
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[fieldmarshaldj]

No one really raised a stink during the late '50s, when the Sulphur Dell stadium was frequently used as an open-air venue for live entertainment bookings as Little Richard and Sam Cooke, prior to the completion of the Municipal Auditorium. 

That's because their music didn't suck... unlike today's "artists."  

[urbanpath]

any recent pics of the Stix installation?

[chris holman]

 

About 20 more floors to go this building will make an impact

Edited October 10, 2015 by chris holman

[chris holman]

1000 division

[MLBrumby]

That 1000 Division seems to be taking a really looooong time for a relatively insignificant building. And OMG.... all those freaking power lines!!! 

Edited October 10, 2015 by MLBrumby

[titanhog]

So...have the residents on the lower-level backside of Icon thrown any fits about 1000 Division blocking their views?

[chris holman]

No not yet lol

Sobro tower today

[Titans10]

Damn! Sobro is moving on up!! Great pics! Keep them coming!!

[BnaBreaker]

Broken record time again...have I told you guys how much I appreciate these construction progress photos??!  You guys, particularly chris holman, are making it that much easier to be away from home for so long.  Thanks on top of thanks!!  You guys are awesome.

Edited October 11, 2015 by BnaBreaker

[chris holman]

Its never a problem I love watching the city grow I almost take pics everyday

 Thompson hotel today 

HCA

Nice sunset off of music city center

[titanhog]

MCC really is a beautiful building...especially for a convention center.

[MidTenn1]

 

About 20 more floors to go this building will make an impact

I really like this view, with all that urban density in the foreground. I never imagined you would see something like that in Nashville.

[markhollin]

I fly a lot (nearly 2,000 flights to all 50 states and 54 countries in my career), and am always struck by the beauty of Nashville as compared to many cities.  Three things always stand out: A) the foliage (I think only Atlanta exceeds Nashville in the amount of trees that cover the vast majority of the metropolitan area); B) the expanses of green space within and certainly surrounding the primary metro; and C) the atmospheric clarity (lack of significant pollution or haze nearly every day).  We should not take these attributes for granted…definitely pluses compared to many other metroplexes world-wide.

#1 is from the southwest near the Natchez Trace overpass of Highway 100 looking towards downtown in the distance.

#2 is from the south side of Brentwood looking up I-65 toward Maryland Farms, Green Hills, and downtown in the distance.

#3 is from the southeast side looking up Nolensville Rd. corridor with downtown in the distance. 


 

Sticks sculpture and Westin Hotel progress, Music City Center Roundabout, Oct. 10, 2015:

 

Edited October 11, 2015 by markhollin

[dmillsphoto]

That really is a fantastic shot of the MCC. Also, SCRI is going to be so noisy with it being a solid steel building. So strange there is no concrete.

[chris holman]

1201 Demonbreun today

[chris holman]

skyhousemic check , introducing element 

 

Edited October 12, 2015 by chris holman

[rookzie]

...Great effect, Chris.  Given the fact that the Musica statue dancers and parts of base are cast in bronze and set with limestone monoliths, it gives confers a rather rich and ritzy appearance for making that roundabout finally becoming transformed into a quintessential urban focal-point for the Midtown.  I particularly dig how you "suggested" that Geico Hump Day Camel Commercial ("Mike! Mike! Mike!.......Mike!")
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[21jump]

I still cannot believe how quickly Skyhouse is coming along