Nashville Bits and Pieces

[markhollin]

Developer Bruce McNeilage, who has already sold-out 90% of his Solo East prject that features condos for as low as $99,000, is now working on Solo South, Solo West, and Solo North concepts.  Has not announced which locations yet, but has released a rendering and plans to break ground by late spring of 2017.  As soon as specific sites are announced, I'll get that info placed in the appropriate geographic threads:

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/real-estate/2016/10/24/99000-condos-planned-nashville/92679798/

 

[markhollin]

Mayor Barry's office proposes a $375,000 in incentives for Ken Burns' production of the PBS documentary about Country Music that is currently in production. Estimates are that the inaugural broadcast of the premier episode will garner an audience in the 30 million range. It will be an eight-part series.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/10/26/nashvilles-proposed-incentives-ken-burns-country-music-documentary-total-375k/92787410/



 

[BnaBreaker]

30 million viewers for a documentary on PBS?!  I don't think most people even know where PBS is on their dial.  

[CenterHill]

4 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:

30 million viewers for a documentary on PBS?!  I don't think most people even know where PBS is on their dial.  

What's a dial?   

[L'burgnative]

14 minutes ago, CenterHill said:

What's a dial?   

People that watch PBS knows exactly what a dial is.

[BnaBreaker]

3 hours ago, CenterHill said:

What's a dial?   

Ya know, it's that thing you had to turn before they came out with these new clicky do-dads that are attached to the wood grain technicolor TV by a not at all in the way cord!  

[titanhog]

3 hours ago, CenterHill said:

What's a dial?   

I learned the hard way.  It wasn't long before I realized the reason my dad had children was to jump up and change the dial on the tv.

[rookzie]

9 hours ago, CenterHill said:

What's a dial?   

Reckon you never heard Don Pardo say to the TV audience "Don't touch that Dial!", on the older TV game-show episodes of "The Price Is Right" and of "Jeopardy".  Back then "The Price is Right" was hosted by Bill Cullen and on "Jeopardy" it started with Art Fleming.

But the point as others has said it that a "dial" was the "Channel Changer", usually a disk-shaped piece of material, usually some molded plastic, with etched or molded-in numbers and/or letters, these numbers representing a graduation of values.  Dials or the rotary knob used to operate them were used to show or to change some value in control of a device, and the term basically is "vestigial" from the analog age.  Dials were nothing but rotary controls and on TV's they were used primarily to control channel selection.  Dials also can be linear, with vertical or horizontal sliding knob levers which are positioned along a linear dial scale.

On phones, you may or may not have heard of the term "rotary-dial", which had finger holes arranged in circular array for "entering" a phone number.  "Entering" would have been a misnomer for a rotary-dial phone, and the word "dial" was applied to the action of actuating this device, as well as to the object itself.  I recall the first time I saw or used a digital push-button phone was at a phone booth (whats' that!) at the 1964-'65 NY World's Fair.

Now the phrase "dial a number" remains in common use, even though dials usually are in the form of a face-place with buttons, or some form of display screen with an interactive image representation as such, with the values placed on or next to the buttons.  Perhaps the most common current use of a dial in the home today is to control the burners and temperature on a range-oven and to set cooling of many standard refrigerators.  Some children grow up never having to deal with a dial, unless they have to read the dial on a pressure gauge.

TV Channel-changer Dials with standard VHF and UHF selectors

[Will]

Poor use of taxpayer money. The world has enough Ken Burns docs, which have progressively examined less and less interesting topics over the years. And besides, how much can it possibly cost to slowly pan across a bunch of old photos with voiceovers?

[ruraljuror]

2 hours ago, Will said:

Poor use of taxpayer money. The world has enough Ken Burns docs, which have progressively examined less and less interesting topics over the years. And besides, how much can it possibly cost to slowly pan across a bunch of old photos with voiceovers?

I don't understand this perspective at all.  If you didn't like Burns' recent choices of subject matter, then it seems like you'd be thrilled that he's turning his attention toward country music and Nashville.  Even if you're not interested in the history of country, at least you can be happy about the additional spotlight the doc will shine on this town.  That can only help attract more people, which in turn leads to more cool buildings, which you can celebrate as an urban planning enthusiast at the very least.

As for the taxpayer expenditure, we obviously already spend significant amounts of money on marketing/advertising.  The subsidy provided for this doc is a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the audience it'll reach.  If given the opportunity to spend 375k and get a Ken Burns documentary made with their city at the center of the action, how many cites are there in the country that would turn down that proposal? I bet most mid-sized and even small towns would find a way to come up with the money.  It's almost certainly a good investment to say the least.  

 

 

[titanhog]

I went through Leadership Music...and there was so much I learned about Music City and music in Nashville all around...not just country music.  Really, from what I understand, we're Music City because of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (they did a special concert for LM)...and even they had an influence on country music.

I think it will be incredible to have Ken Burns doing this.  You know it will be in-depth and help promote our city and an industry that still makes a lot of things happen in Nashville.

[CenterHill]

Re all of the above and in no particular order: 

1.   Ha.  Yes, I was being tongue-in-cheek about tv dials.   As a child of the 60's myself, I remember the day well when our family got our first remote control tv.  woo hoo!   It had both a dial and a hand held remote so the late adopters (ie, grandparents) could still change the channels by hand.   Never could figure out what purpose that UHF dial served, though.     btw, I love it when Mike Keith tells us the Titans are running "from left to right on your radio dial".  

2.   Aw, don't be a PBS hater.   It serves a purpose.   Personally, there are many channels I would gladly trade to keep PBS.   Love me some BBC news.  The recent Hamilton special was top notch.   And of course, Downton Abbey.   

3.   Ken Burns.   His documentaries are thoroughly researched and always get the context right.    If his Country Music piece is as well-done as his Jazz documentary, it will be well worth watching.  Agree it's great for Nashville, although the story of country music is much broader than Nashville.      

[smeagolsfree]

Rookzie,

Don't touch that dial...

Give me a ring..

Maybe you just need a ride in the rumble seat..

It is getting more apparent everyday, that we just show how blasted old we are getting to be. I remember when I was a kid my parents said the same type things.

My Mom referred to airplanes when she was little as flying machine. She said when one flew over everyone would yell and scream...flying machine..flying machine.

That's one I am glad we don't use any longer. It would be funny to see everyone on the street yelling and screaming it.

 

[rookzie]

46 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

Rookzie,

Don't touch that dial...

Give me a ring..

Maybe you just need a ride in the rumble seat..

It is getting more apparent everyday, that we just show how blasted old we are getting to be. I remember when I was a kid my parents said the same type things.

My Mom referred to airplanes when she was little as flying machine. She said when one flew over everyone would yell and scream...flying machine..flying machine.

That's one I am glad we don't use any longer. It would be funny to see everyone on the street yelling and screaming it.

 

I do still find some groups in some locations that use the real old-school phrase "electric stairs" for an escalator ─ Boston and even Seattle, in particular.  That one always "snagged" me the hardest. -==-

[titanhog]

"Roll your window down"

"Pick Up The Phone"

As an older songwriter, anytime we record a song we've just written into our "voice memos" on our iPhones, we still call it a "work tape."

 

[bhibbs]

Hopefully this post from my phone


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Edited October 28, 2016 by bhibbs

[rookzie]

5 hours ago, bhibbs said:

Hopefully this post from my phone

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Ruh-Roh!... Turn the page....
 

EDIT:  According to NewsChannel5....
"He was unsteady on his feet and refused to leave the property at least three times, according to police documents. 

As officers approached him, police said he turned to walk away. Investigators said due to the level of intoxication, he could not take “reasonable care of himself.”  

He was taken into custody and charged with public intoxication.

On Friday afternoon, documents showed the case against Chase had been dismissed. Details on the reason behind the dismissal had not been released."

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Nothing has happened here it seems.  This probably needs to be moved to the Coffee Shop

 

Edited October 28, 2016 by rookzie

[MLBrumby]

The IKEA in Memphis will be opening in six weeks.  This piece includes a video interview with an executive (Joe Roth) who says IKEA is actively looking in Nashville, but they have not found a site ("committed to any location"). The company needs 25-30 acres with high visibility near a major highway for a store. A major issue is the cost of land gets very high the closer it is to the population centers. He mentioned that they may be able to build on a smaller site with a different parking configuration (parking deck/garage/ramp). 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2016/11/01/ikea-lays-out-vision-nashville-location/93139062/

Edited November 2, 2016 by MLBrumby

[WebberThomas4]

12 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

The IKEA in Memphis will be opening in six weeks.  This piece includes a video interview with an executive (Joe Roth) who says IKEA is actively looking in Nashville, but they have not found a site ("committed to any location"). The company needs 25-30 acres with high visibility near a major highway for a store. A major issue is the cost of land gets very high the closer it is to the population centers. He mentioned that they may be able to build on a smaller site with a different parking configuration (parking deck/garage/ramp). 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2016/11/01/ikea-lays-out-vision-nashville-location/93139062/

The east bank by the topgolf would make sense based off their Atlanta location but the price may be too high. Maybe Bellevue or Goodletsville?

[Nashtitans]

1 minute ago, WebberThomas4 said:

The east bank by the topgolf would make sense based off their Atlanta location but the price may be too high. Maybe Bellevue or Goodletsville?

They're not gonna put an ikea literally right next to downtown...I agree with bellevue and goodletsville...Smyrna????

[titanhog]

12 minutes ago, Nashtitans said:

They're not gonna put an ikea literally right next to downtown...I agree with bellevue and goodletsville...Smyrna????

Hickory Hollow / Cane Ridge area...Smyrna if they had the new Rocky Fork exit on I-24 (there's a lot of land around Rocky Fork.

[grilled_cheese]

On 10/28/2016 at 0:31 PM, bhibbs said:

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The first thing I thought when I saw this was 'screw Nate Rau'.  Go Preds.

[TNinVB]

1 hour ago, MLBrumby said:

The IKEA in Memphis will be opening in six weeks.  This piece includes a video interview with an executive (Joe Roth) who says IKEA is actively looking in Nashville, but they have not found a site ("committed to any location"). The company needs 25-30 acres with high visibility near a major highway for a store. A major issue is the cost of land gets very high the closer it is to the population centers. He mentioned that they may be able to build on a smaller site with a different parking configuration (parking deck/garage/ramp). 

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2016/11/01/ikea-lays-out-vision-nashville-location/93139062/

The Ikea in Woodbridge, Va. (outside of D.C.) has a parking garage. The land that it sits on doesn't seem like 25-30 acres.

 

[TNinVB]

IKEA Woodbridge, Va.

Edited November 2, 2016 by TNinVB

[donNdonelson2]

Buchanan Point near the airport, perhaps? (Land costs might be prohibitive this close to downtown.)