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Basement East concert venue tornado damage repair update.  New walls and roof in place.  : ) Looking NE from Woodland St., 1/2 block east of South 9th St:

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Since many of you liked the old family  photos of Shelby Park  back in the 1940s, I thought I would share with you some of my memories of the places in Inglewood to Madison that have vanished since th

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Envision Cayce, Red Oak Townhomes (2, 3, & 4 stories, 50 units?) update: complete. Looking NE from Lenore St., 1/4 block east of South 7th St: Looking NW from Lenore St, 1/2 blo

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The hill district that is just to the west of Dickerson Highway and just to the east of I-65 continues to percolate with new activity that includes single family homes and town homes.  Beautiful, unobstructed views of downtown are the primary reason.  For every home shown here along Fern and Ligdon Avenues, there are at least twice as many recently cleared lots that have imminent plans.

 

Fern and Ligdon 1, off Dickerson Pike, Aug, 2016.JPG

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Just a sample of the empty lots that will soon be filled:

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Looking up to the NE at the ridge where Ligdon Avenue is.

Fern and Ligdon 6 off Dickerson Pike, Aug.JPG

 

Even at the base of the ridge, there are still some wonderful views of downtown from Whites Creek Pike (that is I-24 heading south along the right side):

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Does anyone know why Brett Withers voted against the One Touch thing? This seems to be such a clear-cut case of what's best for Nashville (minimize friction for new providers to enable competition) vs. what's best for two companies (allow AT&T and Comcast to make it prohibitively expensive for anyone to encroach on their territory). I'd love to know what Brett's thinking was in opposing it. I was prepared (if frustrated) to see him in the "defer" camp, which was AT&T's strategy to run out the clock on this. But I was amazed to see he was even among the 7 in the 32-7 final vote, when most every had to go on the record for or against it.

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Does anyone know why Brett Withers voted against the One Touch thing? This seems to be such a clear-cut case of what's best for Nashville (minimize friction for new providers to enable competition) vs. what's best for two companies (allow AT&T and Comcast to make it prohibitively expensive for anyone to encroach on their territory). I'd love to know what Brett's thinking was in opposing it. I was prepared (if frustrated) to see him in the "defer" camp, which was AT&T's strategy to run out the clock on this. But I was amazed to see he was even among the 7 in the 32-7 final vote, when most every had to go on the record for or against it.

I haven't talked to Brett (he's an occasional poster on this board and could if he chooses answer your question directly), however, I watched the proceedings and in listening to the arguments put forth by various Council members Tuesday night, I believe CM Withers was one of several members advocating for a 4 month deferral of the OTMR bill to (a) allow the affected parties additional time to work out a solution and (b) avoid the taxpayer expense of the imminent lawsuit that will be drafted and ready to be filed as soon as Council approves OTMR on final reading.   The motion to defer was voted down, allowing the vote on the OTMR bill itself to proceed.   The deferral group, as whole, was not anti-Google, they were seeking to avoid litigation.    

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A deferral would have likely meant a suspension or cancellation of Google Fiber's roll-out in Nashville--Portland's has already been cancelled--and a win for the AT&T/Crapcast duopoly. Google Fiber and it's parent company Alphabet have already cancelled plans in several other markets due to bureaucratic red tape, and are now pivoting to an attempt to use wireless technology to reach users instead of wired fiber infrastructure. This could take some time as the technology is only in the development/testing stage. 

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I haven't talked to Brett (he's an occasional poster on this board and could if he chooses answer your question directly), however, I watched the proceedings and in listening to the arguments put forth by various Council members Tuesday night, I believe CM Withers was one of several members advocating for a 4 month deferral of the OTMR bill to (a) allow the affected parties additional time to work out a solution and (b) avoid the taxpayer expense of the imminent lawsuit that will be drafted and ready to be filed as soon as Council approves OTMR on final reading.   The motion to defer was voted down, allowing the vote on the OTMR bill itself to proceed.   The deferral group, as whole, was not anti-Google, they were seeking to avoid litigation.    

Yeah, I know that there's a (in my opinion bad) case to be made for the deferral. What I'm curious about is why, once that question - specifically designed to give CMs a way to give AT&T what they want without being obvious - had been decided, and everyone had to come clean as for or against this, Brett made the baffling decision to side with AT&T/Comcast in a 32-7 route.

There's not a million of us tech guys in East Nashville, but there are a few, and we take this stuff pretty seriously. :) I've had the (non)pleasure of working with telecom service providers quite a few times over the year, and one thing that becomes eminently clear is that they spend the vast majority of their creative energy figuring out ways to try to milk more money out of their existing network base with minimal effort towards new services. They invent new fees, new up-charges, and new impediments to stop competitors from getting a toehold. If anyone truly thinks that keeping this in front of the council for a few more months was going to enable AT&T to help devise a plan that's in the best interests of the citizens of Davidson county, they are astonishingly naive. AT&T and Comcast are not even institutionally capable of participating in this discussion in good faith. But what they are capable of, and are 100% focused like a laser on, is lobbying governmental institutions at all level to protect their golden geese. Which is how they would spend those three months (and will be furiously spending the couple of weeks before the 3rd reading).

Maybe Brett is that naive, or isn't tech savvy about how important this can be for Nashville going forward, or whatever, I don't know. Or maybe it's the union thing. I was just curious if anyone's come across any comments he's made. I was a supporter of his, and this is a big hit.

As far as AT&T's threat/intention to sue, it strikes me as a huge dereliction to bring that up as a key justification for shelving this, as did Bob Mendes et al keep doing. Our council is there to provide for our interests as residents. Doing that effectively is commonly going to step on toes, sometimes resulting in lawsuits necessary to defend our interests. If their point is that the law is not in our favor and we'll lose the lawsuits, then that's a relevant debate to have. But that's not what they're saying. Can you imagine the precedent that sets for other businesses and interest groups that don't like a particular bill? It basically incentivizes everyone to go out and muster the biggest and most plausible threat for litigation possible so they can to try and tip the scales in their favor.

(I apologize for this over-long and excessively passionate rant and will stop now)

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Do you mean the one up by Margot?  Yeah, according to the neighborhood association, that side of Woodland is in Lockeland Springs.  The other side is in East End.  They also poached several swaths north of Eastland Ave from Eastwood several years ago.  They so fancy.  ; )

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Bailey and Cato's has sold and will be shutting their doors in the next few weeks, according to East Nashville News. Also, several of the homes behind Fond Object have sold and are slated for demolition in the next few weeks. It will be interesting to see what's going to happen with that corner. Almost 2.3 acres to work with if the sales are related. 

Also, here are some renderings of the retail in front of the old WalMart. Courtesy of Southern Athena's Facebook page. 

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On 9/16/2016 at 9:24 AM, WebberThomas4 said:

Bailey and Cato's has sold and will be shutting their doors in the next few weeks, according to East Nashville News. Also, several of the homes behind Fond Object have sold and are slated for demolition in the next few weeks. It will be interesting to see what's going to happen with that corner. Almost 2.3 acres to work with if the sales are related. 

Also, here are some renderings of the retail in front of the old WalMart. Courtesy of Southern Athena's Facebook page. 

 

Sad to hear about B&C's but that has been rumored for a while.  The house directly behind FO was demo'd a couple months ago and the rumor is that FO will be safe for "a while", we shall see.  RE:  The wallyworld renderings, meh. Should be multiple stories with residential.

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2 hours ago, grilled_cheese said:

Fat Bottom Brewing to Close Oct. 1

http://nashville.eater.com/2016/9/14/12921200/fat-bottom-brewing-closing-oct-1-east-nashville

Not really that upset that they are leaving the neighborhood.  The beer was never that great.

Just wait. New facility has some neat stuff in store. Can't divulge into anything though. 

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