Nashville Bits and Pieces

[smeagolsfree]

He is a bit of a hypocrite for criticizing Briley for trying to do the same thing. However I did not like Briley's plan completely, but a smart parking system is sorely needed in Nashville to bring us into the 21st century.  

I have been in a lot of other cities where all I do is use an App to park and is as easy as 1,2,3.,  Pittsburg, Omaha, Kansas City to name a few. I also used an App in Boston to park at the Transit lot which is very convenient. 

[jmtunafish]

The Distressed Communities Index (DCI) is designed to provide a single, holistic, and comparative measure of economic well-being across communities throughout the United States. It combines seven complementary economic indicators into a single summary statistic that conveys each community’s standing relative to its peers. The 2020 edition of the DCI is built from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates covering the years 2014-2018 and the Census Bureau’s Business Patterns datasets for the same years.

The methodology includes the percentage of 25+ without a high school diploma, housing vacancy rate, adults not working, the poverty rate, median income ratio, 5-year change in employment, and 5-year change in business establishments.

Counties are ranked:  prosperous, comfortable, mid-tier, at risk, and distressed.  Not surprisingly, the only counties in Tennessee ranked as prosperous are all in the Nashville MSA and Montgomery County, and Moore County (Lynchburg) where I think the entire county works at the Jack Daniels distillery (I'm half-joking).  And with only 2 exceptions, all the counties ranked as comfortable are in other metropolitan areas.  The two exceptions are Franklin County (Winchester and Sewanee) and Putnam County (Cookeville).

https://eig.org/dci/interactive-map?view=county

[TheRaglander]

A while back someone pointed out the Batman building in the Roku screensaver.  I had to do some research and found out the artist is Kyle Jones.  And guess where Kyle is from?  Yep, Nashville!  There are a TON of hidden easter eggs in the screensaver.  More than just buildings.  Anyways, check him out.  

 

http://justkyle.com/

[smeagolsfree]

I had posted the image a while back and this explains a lot. Thanks fort he research.

[PaulChinetti]

https://www.thedutchmountains.nl/en/

This would be an awesome building anywhere in Nashville!

Edited March 9, 2021 by PaulChinetti
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[e-dub]

That's a lovely, yet intimidating,  halfpipe.

[titanhog]

On 3/9/2021 at 10:23 AM, PaulChinetti said:

https://www.thedutchmountains.nl/en/

This would be an awesome building anywhere in Nashville!

Reminds me of the Buckingham Gulch proposal (albeit…two towers instead of one).  You could build this and make sure the that the building of the lady who was worried about her views is placed in the middle between these two buildings. 

[jmtunafish]

The feds are toying around with changing the parameters of what constitutes a metropolitan area and also what's considered an urban area.  Right now, a metropolitan area needs to have a core urban area of 50,000, but they're considering upping that to 100,000.  If so, that means Tennessee will lose 3 metropolitan areas:  Jackson, Cleveland, and Morristown.  I could see Cleveland being folded into Chattanooga's MSA (which might happen anyway), but that means Jackson and Morristown would be downgraded to micropolitan status, and Cookeville would remain a micropolitan area.

But what could affect Nashville is the proposed new definition of an urban area.  Right now, the threshold is 500 residents per square mile.  They're proposing changing that to 385 housing units per square mile which would equal around 1,000 residents.  Given that a large chunk of Nashville's urban area includes some very sprawly neighborhoods out in the country, there's a very real possibility that the population of Nashville's urban area could actually decrease.

Of course, Nashville wouldn't be the only one to potentially see its urban population shrink.  Atlanta would also be hard hit, as would most Sunbelt cities that grew up in the post-automobile era.

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-bismarck-census-2020-north-dakota-sheboygan-ad77e15f0f8cd13b8e398d2ca8339ca7

Edited March 11, 2021 by jmtunafish

[smeagolsfree]

I am actually in favor of this. The article didn't state that larger Metro's would be affected. The parameters of what is called our MSA are really stupid. To have counties like Trousdale, Smith , Macon, & Hickman in the MSA make no sense. I think is comes form the commute patterns.

Please  remember that metropolitan area is being used as a synonym for MSA in the article. One in the same.

A lot of these smaller cities are not really what I would call Metro areas. Cleveland should be combined into the Chattanooga MSA.

I do think that the smaller counties should be dropped Nashville's be combined with Clarksville. Makes a whole lot more sense when you look at the map.

[jmtunafish]

2 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

I am actually in favor of this. The article didn't state that larger Metro's would be affected. The parameters of what is called our MSA are really stupid. To have counties like Trousdale, Smith , Macon, & Hickman in the MSA make no sense. I think is comes form the commute patterns.

Please  remember that metropolitan area is being used as a synonym for MSA in the article. One in the same.

A lot of these smaller cities are not really what I would call Metro areas. Cleveland should be combined into the Chattanooga MSA.

I do think that the smaller counties should be dropped Nashville's be combined with Clarksville. Makes a whole lot more sense when you look at the map.

Nashville could still be affected.  Its status as a metropolitan area of course is secure.  But since areas that don't meet the threshold of 385 homes per square mile could be dropped from the urban area boundaries, the population of Nashville's urban area (not to be confused with the metropolitan area) could decrease, or at the minimum, the number of square miles covered by Nashville's urban area could shrink as less dense neighborhoods are removed from the urban area boundaries. 

Metropolitan areas use county boundaries and don't care about urban areas other than the core/central city (which in Nashville's MSA are Nashville, Franklin, and Murfreesboro), not urban area boundaries, as long as the core urban area has a population of (right now) 50,000.  Rural counties with 0 urban areas can still be part of a metropolitan area if there are enough commuting patterns between the two counties (ie Trousdale County).  I agree that it's a stretch for someone in, say, Woodbury to say he lives in the "Nashville metropolitan area" but technically he's right since probably half of Cannon County works in Rutherford County.

Nashville's metropolitan area population is (2019) just shy of 2 million.  But its urban area population (2018) is about 1.1 million.  That latter number is the one that is in question right now.

I know that's all very confusing, and I don't know if I explained it very well.

[PruneTracy]

To be clear, 385 housing units per square mile works out to about 1 2/3 acres per house or unit, which is not very "urban", even taking into account space used for right-of-way, commercial/institutional uses, etc. Of course the existing standard is even less so than this.

[BnaBreaker]

On 3/2/2021 at 8:56 AM, markhollin said:

Mayor Cooper solicits private partner to overhaul underperforming on-street parking system.

More at The Tennessean here:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/02/nashville-parking-mayor-john-cooper-seeks-new-on-street-system/4575811001/

Get ready for "WeGo Parking!"

[markhollin]

When the SEC Men's Basketball Tournament returns in 2023, here's how different Nashville will look:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/vols/2021/03/14/nashville-hotels-downtown-restaurants-sec-basketball-tournament-2023/4666517001/

[nashvylle]

2 hours ago, markhollin said:

When the SEC Men's Basketball Tournament returns in 2023, here's how different Nashville will look:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/college/vols/2021/03/14/nashville-hotels-downtown-restaurants-sec-basketball-tournament-2023/4666517001/

Can you please share some of these photos for those who do not subscribe? Thanks

[markhollin]

35 minutes ago, nashvylle said:

Can you please share some of these photos for those who do not subscribe? Thanks

There are very few photos...it's a rundown of all the large projects that are in the pipeline.  

[chris holman]

2023 will be a different city by then.

 

 

Edited March 15, 2021 by chris holman

[markhollin]

Tech workers in six major U.S. markets are about to feel some love from Nashville — in the form of a marketing blitz aimed at persuading them to move to Music City.

The Greater Nashville Technology Council is starting a campaign this month to recruit tech talent from the Boston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., areas. Brian Moyer, the group's president and CEO, said he's seeking to raise as much as $500,000 from corporate donors in order to sustain the advertising and outreach over many months.

The campaign stems from the council's ambition to double the region's tech workforce by 2025, to 92,000 people. Nashville's tech industry is one of the smaller ones in the nation but also one of the fastest-growing — posting 36% job growth from 2014 to 2019, a pace well above the 23% national average, according to an MTSU report.

More at NBJ here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2021/03/10/tech-council-ad-campaign.html

[Flatrock]

Found this nugget today. Hope you enjoy the clip. My main takeaway is  "All roads lead to Nashville", LOL. Thinking about 1985 compared to now - wow. But I still mourn the loss of Opryland...

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2021/03/15/this-nashville-tourism-commercial-from-1985-is-a-blast-from-music-citys-past/

[Rockatansky]

On 3/11/2021 at 1:09 PM, smeagolsfree said:

To have counties like Trousdale, Smith , Macon, & Hickman in the MSA make no sense. I think is comes form the commute patterns.

I disagree. If the data show that these areas are functionally tied to Nashville, M'boro or Franklin (via commuting or other economic measures), they should be part of the MSA.

Edited March 16, 2021 by Rockatansky

[KJHburg]

average rental prices in the top US markets from National Association of Realtors.  You can see Nashville is slightly more expensive than Charlotte or Raleigh but less than  Atlanta about equal with Austin. 

[MLBrumby]

From NBJ online, NTT Data expects to hire more than the 350 stated in their announcement this week of their plans to open a new Tech Hub at Capitol View.   https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2021/03/17/tech-recruit-sprinted-through-site-search.html

They're finding it is easy to recruit to Nashville, which won out over 14 other 'finalist' cities. 

"It's hand-to-hand combat to find and retain IT talent these days. We wanted a city where we could make a splash," said Naquin, senior vice president of integrated delivery and operations. "Could we recruit from all over the U.S. and convince people to come here? Easy – it’s a hot city. It sells itself. We wanted a destination city. Our clients will want to come see the innovation center and see who’s doing work for them. What client wouldn’t want to come to Nashville?"

[downtownresident]

56 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

From NBJ online, NTT Data expects to hire more than the 350 stated in their announcement this week of their plans to open a new Tech Hub at Capitol View.   https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2021/03/17/tech-recruit-sprinted-through-site-search.html

They're finding it is easy to recruit to Nashville, which won out over 14 other 'finalist' cities. 

"It's hand-to-hand combat to find and retain IT talent these days. We wanted a city where we could make a splash," said Naquin, senior vice president of integrated delivery and operations. "Could we recruit from all over the U.S. and convince people to come here? Easy – it’s a hot city. It sells itself. We wanted a destination city. Our clients will want to come see the innovation center and see who’s doing work for them. What client wouldn’t want to come to Nashville?"

Read through the article, and reading between the lines from Bob Rolfe, we may see additional announcements soon. 

[smeagolsfree]

There is a lot of reading between the lines. I expect some very good things to come from this........

[Binbin98]

5 hours ago, downtownresident said:

Read through the article, and reading between the lines from Bob Rolfe, we may see additional announcements soon. 

Open your third eye!

No but seriously Nashville’s tech sector has growth at an insane rate recently, I think the arrival of Amazon fully soon will help speed it up even more. In Miami things are the same way, California needs a lifeline.

[downtownresident]

Here is the recruiting video that NTT Data put together for their new Nashville office. It most focuses on NTT Data the company, but features comments from Bob Rolfe, the state ECD director and Mayor Cooper, as well as shots of different areas of the city and Broadway.