Nashville Bits and Pieces

[Nashville Cliff]

1 hour ago, MLBrumby said:

That Covington one is striking, but I think it's not pretty. It's curved, and as you can see the windows are randomly set. IMHO, it makes a better picture than it looks up close. It was being built about ten years ago when I was doing a lot of travelling to Cincinnati, and stayed across the street from that building at an Embassy Suites. 

Agreed.  But a great location right near the Roebling Bridge.  BTW, I'm a big fan of Covington.  Sort of Germantown meets East Nashville feel, and all right across the river from downtown Cincy.

[tragenvol]

1 hour ago, Nashville Cliff said:

Agreed.  But a great location right near the Roebling Bridge.  BTW, I'm a big fan of Covington.  Sort of Germantown meets East Nashville feel, and all right across the river from downtown Cincy.

Not to highjack this thread too awfully much for CVKY, but I too am a big fan of Covington.  Mainstrasse Village is much preferred over Newport and its tourists.

Edited May 9, 2016 by tragenvol

[markhollin]

The NBJ's list of the Top 5 building contractors in the Nashville area:

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/subscriber-only/2016/05/06/general-contractors.html

In the adjoining article was this graphic from a larger survey of ALL area contractors asking them when they thought the Nashville construction boom was going to level off:

Edited May 9, 2016 by markhollin

[Nash_12South]

I prefer that 52% don't see it leveling off until 2019 or beyond....

[UTgrad09]

10 hours ago, nashville_bound said:

Hume Fogg is the academic magnet in Nashville.... Nashville School for the Arts is the arts-oriented magnet school

 

 

It doesn't matter how they are oriented. All I know is they are

[MidTenn1]

14 hours ago, UTgrad09 said:

It doesn't matter how they are oriented. All I know is they are

Nerd? Bettie Page was a Hume-Fogg alumni.

 

I will let you google her name rather than provide a link, but be aware it may not be safe for work!!!   

[Pyramid Scheme]

2 hours ago, PHofKS said:

Nerd? Bettie Page was a Hume-Fogg alumni.

 

I will let you google her name rather than provide a link, but be aware it may not be safe for work!!!   

Just because she's awesome as hell doesn't mean she's not also a nerd. Haven't you ever seen cosplay girls?

[markhollin]

The surge of new business start-ups in Nashville area is huge. "Statewide there were 9,546 initial business filings in 2016’s first quarter. Davidson County accounted for almost 24 percent of those new business starts."  Also, "Nashville's new business starts to begin 2016 were 50 percent higher than the totals during the first quarter of last year."

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/2016/05/just-how-much-new-business-does-nashville-have-a.html

[MLBrumby]

Four years was about two years more than I gave it when it first aired...  http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2016/05/12/abcs-nashville-cancelled/84298550/

[TNinVB]

I was a little surprised considering the president of ABC said at the beginning of the year that the network had no intentions on canceling the show. Conventions pulling out, and now this. I hope it wasn't anything to do with the therapist law. It's bad enough that the city will probably loose more conventions because of it. 

[UTgrad09]

I wouldn't be surprised if another network (like a cable network) picked it up.

I didn't particularly care for the show, but it seemed to have some great city shots and was basically an hour long fairytale tourism ad.

[titanhog]

6 hours ago, UTgrad09 said:

I wouldn't be surprised if another network (like a cable network) picked it up.

I didn't particularly care for the show, but it seemed to have some great city shots and was basically an hour long fairytale tourism ad.

I guarantee CMT would love to have it...but I'm not sure if they'd be willing to pay enough to keep it.  CMT has started doing original scripted programming (not just reality shows)...so it would easily fit their new programming agenda.

[Titans10]

So I was checking out pictures of US Bank Stadium in Minnesota which will open this season and can't help but notice that the seating setup is almost identical to LP Field. I know we talked at one point about throwing a dome over the stadium and it looks like that could totally work. I thinking scrapping the stadium after 30 years is dumb, if we keep putting money into it over time like we've done with Bridgestone it can still be a great venue!

 

 

 

Edited May 13, 2016 by Titans10
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[fieldmarshaldj]

1 hour ago, Titans10 said:

 

Gee whiz, if they put wheels on that sumbittch and it'll look like a Jawa Sandcrawler.

[MLBrumby]

Oh it is entirely doable.  I talked with one of the engineers with Bovis at the time, which built most of the stadium. He said it had been "value engineered" out of necessity, but it was intended to be adaptable to a roof.  I don't recall that "retractable" was in our discussion, but seems to me that would all be part of the exoskeleton, not what already exists. 

[titanhog]

So basically, it looks like we'd just have to have a structure built over the stadium...kinda like putting the stadium inside of a garage...correct?

[MLBrumby]

Not an engineer here, but I'd assume the current structure would not support a dome.  The whole thing would have to encircle the stadium and be self-supporting. So it would still be very very expensive. However, for that reason it seems it could be phased in over 2-3 years without interrupting the NFL schedule. 

[Titans10]

53 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

Not an engineer here, but I'd assume the current structure would not support a dome.  The whole thing would have to encircle the stadium and be self-supporting. So it would still be very very expensive. However, for that reason it seems it could be phased in over 2-3 years without interrupting the NFL schedule. 

Yeah it would definitely have to be built around the current stadium and it's still going to cost several hundred million but that's way better than a billion or more dollars for a brand new one 

[Nashville Cliff]

I wonder if the Titan's ownership could afford it?  

[MLBrumby]

Hop on/Hop off tour bus now in Nashville. You guys may know if there were already these there, but we used them in several European capitals and they are just great. http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/odds-ends/article/20630952/of-note-13-may-2016

 

[VSRJ]

^ I may be a tourist for a day and hop on for a ride.

[markhollin]

Colin Reed, CEO of Ryman Hospitality and one of the co-creators of "Nashville," says the show is far from done. Could have a long life in syndication in 100 other countries.

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2016/05/13/colin-reed-nashville-is-far-from-dead-it-went-so.html

[markhollin]

Fred Hall of Oklahoma is Pat Emery's newest investment partner.  In this article he announces that they are "actively exploring prominent, mixed-use development opportunities throughout Nashville."

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2016/05/13/meet-the-oklahoma-man-who-is-pat-emerys-new.html

[satalac]

On 5/13/2016 at 1:45 PM, titanhog said:

So basically, it looks like we'd just have to have a structure built over the stadium...kinda like putting the stadium inside of a garage...correct?

Since we're Nashville, let's just put one big pole barn over it.

[titanhog]

5 hours ago, satalac said:

Since we're Nashville, let's just put one big pole barn over it.

Maybe a tobacco barn with smoke coming out from between the slats?