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YES on the guitar scoreboard.  This is minor league baseball...and stuff like that is what this league is all about.  Kitsch.

agreed, minor league ball is built on gimmicks that draw people to the park....and as corny as it is, I know many people who have only been to a game or two at Greer Stadium and the only thing they ever remember is the scoreboard.

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Well, I think it might be interesting to all of our newer Nashvillians on the forum to hear a little about the history of the Sulphur Dell site of First Horizon Park .  I reviewed this thread back to

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The Sounds finish the season with the highest average attendance in all of minor league baseball at 6,721 per game.    More behind the Nashville Post paywall here: https://www.nashvillepos

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Nashville Civic Design Center had a presentation from the developers of the new Sounds Stadium tonight. New info that I didn't know is the rectangle grass area that runs parallel to 5th ave. will be for future development. They want the field completely boxed in so if the Tennessee State Museum doesn't happen the stadium will always be surrounded.The State garage will have retail and maybe apartments on the bottom floor facing out. A roundabout will be located where 4th ave. and the green way intersect just outside of center field. Jackson street between 3rd ave and 5th ave. will be similar to 5th between Music City Center and The Omni Hotel. The scoreboard will be a jumbo size. 3rd street will be a two way street and MTA plans to run the free green bus around the ball park from downtown. The contractor said they have been running a average of 265 dump truck loads of soil from the site daily. Some of that soil is being delivered to the Embrey site. Embrey plans to break ground this summer. The other apartments that Ward is developing will break ground in the fall. Finally, The State Archive Library will stay at the corner of 5th and Jefferson and will come before The State Museum.

I know of a great place to put all those truck loads of soil, just over on broadway/west end, I think they were going to build something there at some point.

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Interesting bit of news from the Tennessean.  Archaeological dig at the new ballpark site unearths artifacts from a thousand years ago.  

 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2014/04/03/nashville-ballpark-build-unearths-ancient-finds/7272935/

 

 

Also, just wondering how much total will be invested in this project, including the apartments and garage buildings.  If I'm not mistaken, it's $80M for the park and two garages adjacent... and $37M for the apartments along left field.  The apartments in the block between Jackson and Jefferson are $50M (?).  That last one which I understand is the Embrey project is the one I am quite unsure about. 

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That is yet to be seen. Within about three blocks you will have the Embry project, and the Sounds residential and mixed use project. They have already purchased the land for that. It looks like two buildings for them. The parking garage just south of the project has started. Then across Jefferson is land between 4th & 5th HGHill owns and is planning a mixed use project that may start by the end of the year. The the Meeks project on Jefferson between 2nd & 3rd. The RD Herbert land is not too far away and I know of something else that may happen as well. The total between all of this could be around 300 million.

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I'd add the Geist property to that list. Lots going on in this area.

I left that one off and the Peafowl theater project too.

On a related note too, is that Darren Hall the Metro Sheriff is proposing moving all of the jails out of downtown to Antioch. Basically the land value is high and could be used for something else. At some point the North end of the downtown area will take off with some new construction.

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On a related note too, is that Darren Hall the Metro Sheriff is proposing moving all of the jails out of downtown to Antioch. Basically the land value is high and could be used for something else. At some point the North end of the downtown area will take off with some new construction.

 

If that happened, there would likely be an exodus of bail bondsmen from the area, too.  We'd be "free at last" of those places downtown.  

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On a related note too, is that Darren Hall the Metro Sheriff is proposing moving all of the jails out of downtown to Antioch. Basically the land value is high and could be used for something else. At some point the North end of the downtown area will take off with some new construction.

Great, I love when Metro takes a giant dump on us. :angry:

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