[Nashville, as MLB Expansion Market]

2 hours ago, PaulChinetti said:

I think anytime you have a huge group of people leaving anywhere it's gonna be a nightmare, not sure there is anyway to alleviate that, is there?

 

But yeah, I mean Nissan Stadium has multiple outlets and still gets backed up. It's just the nature of the beast. I've yet to go to any large gathering of people and upon leaving thinking to myself "wow, that was a really well planned departure".  Even Disney has boats, buses, walking paths, ubers, cars and....a monorail, and still has long lines of people waiting to exit. It just be that way sometimes. I just hope if it does go by TSU, it's at least a little better thought out than FirstBank Ampitheater.  

[Nashville, as MLB Expansion Market]

6 hours ago, natethegreat said:

North Nashville is too dangerous for this

"Laughs in Antioch"

[Storyville Gardens]

Does anyone remember Dollywood back in the 80s and 90s? They had what, 3-4 rides that were...well not good. Now look at the park. And I think a lot of people don't realize that theme parks do a lot of business with people that never step foot on rides., they just want a place to escape the real world for a bit. Now would I prefer a ton of thrill rides? Absolutely, but a theme park can still be successful without being the thrill ride capital of the world. As a parent to a young child, we run out of places to go in Middle Tennessee, as there just aren't really that many options for young kids. This would give another awesome option for young families. I know we all have different expectations for a theme park here, especially those of us who remember Opryland, but I see this being a benefit to the area. SHOULD it get built of course...

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

On 4/29/2022 at 6:45 AM, markhollin said:

Wilson County: Mount Juliet is going through the approval process for  a new Panattoni development preliminarily known as Project Jolene that features two large industrial buildings totaling 463,000 sq. ft. on 47,5 acres that is surrounded by Golden Bear Gateway, Rutland Drive, and Athletes Way.  9 acres of the site will also feature commercials uses.

More at The Tennessean here:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/wilson/mt-juliet/2022/04/27/project-jolene-panattoni-plan-golden-bear-gateway-mt-juliet/7414882001/

Panattoni is running as full steam in this area of town. I remember working with them on Under Armour when it was being built,  and now the bulk of our customers in that area are in Panattoni buildings. 

[Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs]

9 minutes ago, Baronakim said:

Because I take maost of the posts fairly seriously and judge accordingly.  I also get quite enough "clever" visual answers like yours.  If you have a problem with me, message me and I will endeavor to answer to your satisfaction.  I get a sufficiency of dog and cat posts on FB, so I tend to be critical of posts here that are essentually "meatless" as far as architecture is concerned.  I do appreciate a humorous post, though many times a large generational age difference may make it difficult to understand that it supposed to be a joke at times. Older folks like me fo not use as much social media as younger folks.

 

I have no problems with you, as I don't know you. Just felt that response was a bit uncalled for. I understand we all have opinions here, but I don't agree with calling someone out like that. I do appreciate this response however, and I agree context is a bit hard to read at times on the internet. 

[Project Thread/New Construction/Photo du jour/Const. CAMs]

2 hours ago, Baronakim said:

Sorry PillowTalk, pasting old core over the sides of the view gives no idea of 20 years hence.  This fails to show the massive growthth we already know is planned in Pietown, especially the new  enormous Paseo towere 3 &$..  There will be much more growth  on the South side adjacent doen Division and Lafayette.and the foreground on the North Also south od West End.  I think you totally missed that.  The massive medical complexes will not be razed for highrises north of Church nor will there will be much from 21st to 31st in the Vandy area.  Pure fantasy/ bad photoshop.

 

[Greer Stadium site/Fort Negley expansion/redevelopment]

On 4/25/2022 at 7:12 AM, titanhog said:

What is the building near the parking?  Is that potentially a Civil War museum of some sort (which it should be)?

It's a new Whataburger. Historically accurate of course.

[New Titans Stadium]

Looks like a big trampoline.

[Nashville, as MLB Expansion Market]

I mean since they're shooting for the new Titan's stadium to be a dome, let's just put the baseball stadium on top of the new football stadium. Let's get some height on the East bank! (yes, I'm a day late for April 1st).

[More Accolades for Nashville]

45 minutes ago, Licec said:

How Nashville is on a best pizza list is beyond me. Nashville is not a food city.

I beg to differ.

[More Accolades for Nashville]

The top 3 should be New York, Chicago and Detroit in no particular order. The majority of that list is ridiculous, especially with New York not even making it.

[Storyville Gardens]

19 hours ago, Baronakim said:

I am trained in botony and landscape as well as historical world architecture.  While my comments on the zoo do suggest some areas of  tropical jungle in Africa may be recreated here, the African area that previous Stroryville sketches seems to want to create is savvanah.  A dense equitorial jungle is MUCH easier to fake.  The vast vistas and tree species involved with savvanah are really not going to work in our climeate.  They depicted baobob trees, which even in plastic  would be unconvencing IMO.  The scale factor works gainst them.  Baobobs are massive, fat and tall; the sketched huts in reduced scale are ludicrously dinky.  The Arabian area is worse.  The only way I could see this work marginally is for them to have Disney scale budgets.  The most successful and recent theme parks in Florida, the Hogwarts, Diagon Alley and Star WarsIt areas  are quite successful, but they did not attempt to receate a landscape setting.  The buildinga are full scalle and very compactly sited.  With the StarWars set,  they had the advabntage of an alien ecosystem of which basically anything goes .   Storyville may open, but it will IMO be an abandoned ruin much like the overgrown  Land of Oz park in  Carolina within two years.  If you caught my recent rencering of the Eurosphere  I designed 40 years ago (Stadium thread), you can see I did not attempt landcape accuracy, nor were my buildings mere snippets of architecture but fullly functional buildings.  Go ahead and believe Storyville will be a great success, but I remain highly skeptical until I see otherwise.

I don't believe the average park goer is going to to be going into the park with the same historical and botany training as you. They're looking for something fun to do or looking for an escape from reality. As far as comparisons to Oz, that park had one ride and was built in the middle of nowhere in the mountains of North Carolina. I still remain fairly optimistic that should this get built, it will be successful. 

[Storyville Gardens]

On 3/17/2022 at 1:04 PM, Baronakim said:

Still, I think this is very underwhelming.  I was very unimpressed with the  early concept sketches.    I can not imagine how they expect to divide the facility into zones for Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.   Reduced scale, sketchy buildings with bits and pieces of dubious architecture and landscaping seems entirely optomistic.  Our climate here is ttotally unsuited to recreate very much of the fell of these areas.  For instance, I think The "African village" will have to depend on a lot of fake plastic treeslook covincing with a bunch of tiny round huts and a single cental structure.  I think ultimately the Nashville ZOO does a better job... it has sufficient scale.  The palms and vegetation of the "Arabian" area will be hard pressed to stay alive in our winters too.   The European structures and gardens will look too dinky and insufficiently detailed.  The historical granduer of that period of European design relies on large scane and big vista.  I think it will be difficult to produce the tranquility and detail nescessary for Japanese or Chinesse images. As this will be mainly and outdoor experience, I think our wet  and cold Winteres and scorching Summers will limit having enjoyable visitation.  This looks about as appealing as the World of Sid and Marty Craft was in Atlanta or as successful ast he Speedway was nearby.

 

I think you're underestimating what theme parks are able to do with their theming. There are tons of theme parks that are outside of Florida and California where it's not warm 100% of the year, yet they manage to keep the theme up. The European parks are excellent with this and have a cooler climate than we do. Will it be more challenging? Of course, but it's definitely not unheard of for a theme park designer to make it work. There are many tricks to make what you're walking into appear real, even using fake plants and smaller buildings with forced perspective. I mean if the Nashville Zoo can pull it off, as you said, then I have little doubt a theme park with the backing of some of the new companies involved can't. We're talking about sketches too. Those just convey what the general idea is, and hardly have all the fine details that we want to see. I think this park will be a great addition to Middle Tennessee and am looking forward to it. 

[New Titans Stadium]

11 hours ago, grilled_cheese said:

The mental gymnastics the oilers fans have been doing is hilarious.

 

Like a 16 year old wanting a new car because the one they got needs new tires and an oil change.

Except the tires and oil change don't cost half as much as a new car. 

[New Titans Stadium]

Actually surprised at this news, but would love to see an indoor stadium with a retractable roof here. The money it could attract would be substantial. 

[More Accolades for Nashville]

6 hours ago, donNdonelson2 said:

Now you’ll have to move to Bucksnort, TN to escape. Lots of fresh air and not too many people moving there.

I've heard they have a fantastic bookstore. 

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

5 hours ago, Bark At The Sun said:

I stopped at the one in Warner Robbins GA a month or so ago and i was in awe of the amount of everything..........gas pumps, food, bathrooms, etc.   Was also impressed that they dont allow 18 wheelers there (except to deliver food and petro).

I'm have my CDL, but luckily don't have to drive anymore, but not allowing 18 wheelers is huge. Not having people temporarily living somewhere (for a night at least) does wonders for cleanliness. They are extremely clean for a gas station. We went to that one at Warner Robbins on our way back from Disney this summer and felt like we were still at Disney due to the huge crowds and magnitude of it all. The crazy thing is that while it felt massive, it's still going to be 23,000 sqft smaller than the one planned for Murfreesboro. 

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

On 12/18/2021 at 7:26 PM, Digital Dust said:

Looks like Murfreesboro is getting the next Buc-ee's.  It will be by Elam Road and Joe B. Jackson Parkway by I-24. Key high light: "Although no site plans have been submitted, the concept proposes a 76,245-square-foot building with 120 fuel pumps, 490 parking spots and room for 15 RVs and buses." A lot more info in the link below.

https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2021/12/16/bucees-convenience-stores-gas-stations-murfreesboro-tennessee-locations/8924994002/

I'm pumped (120 times over) about this. Buc-ee's is such an obscene place, but it's got Beaver Nuggets and a wall of beef jerky. Buc-ee's is currently building the world's largest convenience store in Sevierville at 74,000 sqft and this one will overtake it by 2,000 more. So I guess this will make up for us losing the worlds largest cedar bucket.

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

2 hours ago, glamdring269 said:

 

I've lived in Murfreesboro since the mid-90s and have been in the Gateway area near Blackman schools for a little over 15 years. Would not trade living on this side of town for any other location in Murfreesboro. With that said, you're absolutely right. Pretty sure they will do everything they can to never put any kind of city supported park or recreation center on this side of town.

Yeah, I'm over in the Rockvale area and much rather prefer to stay on the west side of I-24. I know that in 10 years though Veterans is going to be as bad as Medical Center or Old Fort.

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

3 hours ago, TheRaglander said:

Very interesting.  Richard Seigel park in M'boro has around 20 soccer fields.  And they've been spending a fortune replacing about 10 of them with artificial turf and an indoor soccer arena.  They just held a national soccer showcase that brought several hundred college recruits and teams from pretty much every state.  Good for M'boro!

I kinda thought the same thing about Richard Seigel park, but with how many people live in Rutherford Co now,  they'll probably still have plenty of soccer events there. 

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

And now for the bad Murfreesboro news, it looks like the park idea for Veterans and Burnt Knob is getting the shaft once again.

https://www.murfreesboropost.com/community/murfreesboro-plans-land-exchange-with-middle-tennessee-electric-for-park/article_e4cbdd8c-5443-11ec-8f96-df25802f2b98.html

I swear, it feels like the Murfreesboro City Council just absolutely does not care about the people who live in that area of town.

[Surrounding Counties - Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, Maury, etc.]

A massive $350 Million sports and entertainment complex was just announced for Murfreesboro. 

https://amp.dnj.com/amp/6447326001

Very interested in this. Great location as well since it's right off of the 840 exit. I would expect traffic lights to be installed however because the median there causes bad traffic issues.

[Nashville Bits and Pieces]

So my cutting abilities aren't great...

[Nashville Bits and Pieces]

Found this interesting

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-nashville-campaign-for-chicago-tech-workers-20211125-icmnhu6alngtharwuprr5ero7q-story.html?outputType=amp

[Rebuilding Second Avenue]

I want to see it become a wall of shame for the city of Nashville. A mural with things like Bill Boner, Woo Girls, Vanderbilt Football, Opry Mills, Mass Transit (just leave that part blank), etc. Screw posing in front of a set of wings for social media, show people you've REALLY been to Nashville by standing between a mural of the Nathan Bedford Forrest monument from I-65 and the PSC Scrapyard!