The Nashville Sounds recently hired the former general manager of the Titans, Jeff Diamond. This last week the Sounds stopped a bill in the State Legislature that could help finance a stadium.

http://www.wsmv.com/news/16218602/detail.html

I think that this will open the door for new negotiations between the City adn the Sounds for a new stadium. We will have to wait and see. I have also heard that AAA baseball in Nashville may come to an end too. I think this is a game of poker now between the city and the Sounds,

After looking at images from the Pinnacle construction webcam for a while now, I've grown quite fond of the large patch of green on the left side of the screen. Perhaps the old thermal site should be kept mostly as a green urban park.....a "front yard" for all those new downtown dwellers. Toss in some gardens, fountains, trees and lush turf and it could become an awesome addition to the riverfront.

Saw Tony G on the local Fox news tonight.. didn't hear all of it, but he did mention that the downtown condo market is not saturated, even including all the new projects under construction.. there is still demand for somethin like 2000 more I think?

I talked to some one today, and it seems the best thing to do is type a summary and cite the source.

Word on the street is the Mayors office was succesful in burying the proposed legislation the Sounds backed last week that would allow for useage of State tax dollars to fund a stadium. Guess you shouldn't mess with City Hall when asked to leave things alone. Might Mr. Freeman be the answer to this puzzle?

Ok, I added some stuff to the Pinnacle page. Check it out and feel free to change or suggests changes. I just went to the Pinnacle website and started getting some info from there. Hopefully, I will slowly add more stuff to this page and others.

I"m glad about the restaurant, but I acutually kinda like the skin on that one.... it's unique. You've got to wonder if they could make more by just selling the thing off to development.... it's a great location!

Out of curiosity, if this project does not happen, what will become of the massive hole in the ground where it should have gone?

More bad news? Sisk doesn't say much in this article that we don't already know, but may be confirming that WES isn't gonna take off any time soon.


http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...ESS02/805060335

The Civic Design Center is hosting a workshop soon [maybe this week] on bringing streetcars back to Nashville. I'd post a link but I don't find the info on their website.

LOL!! He's from Alaska so our mountains are his mole hills.

Here's the pano you were talking about.

Ok just two more posts, and I am there! I know, I know, I should pay, but I am currently on the college budget. One day I will be able to pay society back I promise!

Ok I am going to post again so I have 100. I will start contributing to the Wiki now hooray!

edit: ok so it combined my posts oh well I just need one more

The majority of the workforce in Clarksville, and in most of Tennessee, have skill sets that are more in line with manufacturing employment, so it makes sense to me that cities and the state try bring the most and best jobs in this category as possible. White collar jobs are not very useful if folks won't qualify for them or have the skill sets to tranistion into them. Cities of course still need to try to attract white collar jobs to diversify their labor-force and create new opportunties for younger more diversely trained workers entering the labor market, but when the majority of your workforce would benefit from blue collar manufacturing and/or service sector employment, then that's what you have to go after.

My understanding and experience is that most Japanese and German manufacturers treat and pay their employees very well. Unfortunately the examples I can think off the top of my head that use "temps" in the fashion described are all U.S. based manufacturers, which is not to say it's exclusive. It also seems to be mainly the US auto makers, and esp. some of their subsidary supply firms, who are having to cut wages, use temps, etc. to stay competative against their better managed competitors who have not had not incurred "legacy" benefit liabilities from operating within the US labor market for decades.

If Clarksville lands VW I think you will be pleasantly suprised at how good an employer and corporate citizen the city will have landed. I have never seen or heard of a city that has a foreign owned or domestic auto-maker who has not reaped substantial benefits for its local workforce and community. Look at Princeton, IN; Smyrna, TN, Bowling Green, KY; Canton, MS, Spartanburg, SC, etc. I doubt any of those cities would trade their plant for a white collar operation, as that is simply not the right demographic fit for those cities or their workforce at this point.

Looks pretty good to me!

By the way, whats the deal with the "satellite cities"? What are the other 6 besides Berry Hill? Is the Metro gov't, city services, etc. at all involved in them? Just curious...

A friend called me the other day and told me he had heard that the Suntrust parking garage onthe corner of 4th and Commerce was going to get a new skin and possibly a restaurant in the lower level. I hope this is the case. We need more retail in the lower floors of the parking structures DT. No idea what rest. would go in this space. This is the garage right across the street form the new bank building.

Haha, I got a kick out of that dude commenting on your pano picture and asking where the mountains were! Great photos..... very cool view