More Accolades for Nashville

[Nash_12South]

22 hours ago, markhollin said:

Nashville will be first city in the world with a "mapping video" app designed by local photographer, Nate Vogel, of TripBlazr. It is an interactive video mapping platform that organizes existing YouTube videos, as well as creating its own, for Nashville restaurants, bars, retailers, hospitality entities, tourist attractions, etc. People can click on a location of a map on their smart phone and then a video will appear showing what it is about. The service is free.  I think this will become quite popular with our tourist scene in particular.

A full interveiw with Nate is behind the paywall at Nashville Post here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/people/article/21009624/mapping-video-content-is-important-for-city-exploration

https://www.tripblazr.com/nashville/

 

[markhollin]

Pekka Rinne awarded the Vezina Trophy for best goalie in the NHL in 2017-2018 at NHL Awards in Las Vegas last night.

P.K. Subban picked to be on the cover of EA Sports' NHL 19 video game:

[markhollin]

According to data provided by travel-booking website Priceline, Nashville has the country's largest year-over-year increase in hotel bookings through the site for the upcoming holiday. Music City's 50 percent climb was enough to top not only D.C., which finished second, but also San Diego, New Orleans and San Francisco, which round out the Top 5.

To be sure, many factors could explain Nashville's dramatic uptick in hotel bookings, including the city's growing supply of hotel room inventory. And the data is fairly limited — Priceline did not disclose the total number of rooms booked.

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/06/26/nashville-surges-as-a-july-4-destination.html

[markhollin]

Nashville comes in at #13 on the "Best 50 Best Places to Live in America for 2018" put together by Newsweek:

http://www.newsweek.com/50-best-places-live-us-2018-880794

[MLBrumby]

Actually, I saw 11th, but then again it's another list. And they have Des... oh never mind. 

[jmtunafish]

2 hours ago, markhollin said:

Nashville comes in at #13 on the "Best 50 Best Places to Live in America for 2018" put together by Newsweek:

http://www.newsweek.com/50-best-places-live-us-2018-880794

 

1 hour ago, MLBrumby said:

Actually, I saw 11th, but then again it's another list. And they have Des... oh never mind. 

Yeah it's actually 11th.  For those who don't want to click through endless slides, here's the top 20:

1. Austin
2. Colorado Springs
3. Denver
4. Des Moines
5. Fayetteville AR
6. Portland OR
7. Huntsville AL
8. Washington
9. Minneapolis-St Paul
10. Seattle
11. Nashville
12. Grand Rapids
13. Raleigh-Durham
14. San Antonio
15. Salt Lake City
16. Madison WI
17. San Jose
18. Dallas-Ft Worth
19. Phoenix
20. San Francisco

[markhollin]

The construction frenzy coursing throughout Nashville just will not wilt.

Metro approved $3.6 billion of building permits in its recently ended 2017-18 fiscal year, according to newly released data. That haul of commercial and residential construction is 2 percent greater than the prior fiscal year, and just shy of the all-time record set in 2015-16.

More at NBJ here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/commercial-real-estate/

 

[smeagolsfree]

According to the article some of the increase is due to the rising cost of materials.

[e-dub]

Hah. I moved to Knoxville from 15 to 17 and it just felt like I missed everything here at home. I see on that graph, there, that it wasn't just a feeling!

[markhollin]

The number of Nashville-area June home sale closings increased 3.8 percent compared to the figure from the same month in 2017.  The median residential price for a single-family home during June was $314,900 (+ 7%);  for a condominium, $221,850 (+ 11%) . This compares with median residential and condominium prices of $293,753  and $199,350, respectively, at this time last year.

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/residential-real-estate/article/21012574/nashville-sees-june-home-sales-increase-38

[Tennessine]

On 7/6/2018 at 10:09 PM, e-dub said:

Hah. I moved to Knoxville from 15 to 17 and it just felt like I missed everything here at home. I see on that graph, there, that it wasn't just a feeling!

I get that feeling! I miss my old stomping grounds.

[markhollin]

Nashville is the #3 market in the U.S. for home appreciation values in 2017 at 12.5% growth, according to Activerain.com and Benchmark Realty. 

In the fourth quarter of last year, homes sold for an average of 51 percent more than what the sellers originally paid, which is even more than the highest profits during the last housing boom.

Interestingly, a real photo/editorial goof in the article as they showed Melbourne, Australia's skyline instead of Nashville's (Melbourne has a structure that looks similar to the AT&T Tower which must've thrown them off).

https://activerain.com/blogsview/5246024/nashville-among-top-cities-for-home-appreciation

[markhollin]

Before last fall, not once had the hotels in Greater Nashville ever sold 1 million rooms in a single month.

October 2017 was the first month ever when the region's hotels sold more than 1 million room nights. This year, it's already happened three times: March, May and June.

More behind the NBJ paywall here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/07/25/a-million-hotel-rooms-suddenly-thats-no-big-deal.html?s=print

[MidTenn1]

2 hours ago, markhollin said:

Before last fall, not once had the hotels in Greater Nashville ever sold 1 million rooms in a single month.

October 2017 was the first month ever when the region's hotels sold more than 1 million room nights. This year, it's already happened three times: March, May and June.

More behind the NBJ paywall here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/07/25/a-million-hotel-rooms-suddenly-thats-no-big-deal.html?s=print

So if I divide one million by 30 (number of days in the month and multiply times 2 (number of people per room), that's just under 70,000 people staying in our fair Metro area each night?

And if each put $100 every night into the local economy, that's $7 million. And over a year, that's a roughly estimated $2 billion? Or more?

Build more rooftop bars!!!

[markhollin]

Nashville has added 8,800 tech workers in the past five years, a 43.3 percent increase, making it the most rapidly growing small market for tech talent in the U.S. and Canada, according to CBRE’s 2018 Scoring Tech Talent report, released this week. CBRE defines a small market as a city with fewer than 50,000 tech workers. Nashville employed a little more than 29,000 tech workers in 2017, according to the study.

More at NBJ here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/07/26/new-report-finds-nashville-tech-talent-rising.html

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/odds-ends/article/21015214/of-note-27-july-2018
 

[markhollin]

Shaquille O'Neal was in Nashville for a couple days to shoot an episode of a new TV show:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2018/08/13/shaq-visit-nashville-restaurants-new-big-chicken-show/983545002/

[donNdonelson2]

Party Fowl Donelson 

[japan]

9 minutes ago, donNdonelson2 said:

Party Fowl Donelson 

Of course he picks the worst Hot Chicken place in Nashville....

[donNdonelson2]

I think he hit several of them

[grilled_cheese]

I bet he's gonna go hard in the Hattie B's line and box some people out.

[volsfanwill]

I like party fowl the most. I prefer a regular restaurant to counter service. 

[MidTenn1]

3 hours ago, japan said:

Of course he picks the worst Hot Chicken place in Nashville....

Enlighten me. Who is this? Ben Rector?

[markhollin]

Nashville is #5 out of "Top 10 Boomtowns in America" according to MagnifyMoney.com.  The designation based on things such as wage growth, population gains and economic vitality.

1. Austin, TX

2. Provo, UT

3. Raleigh, NC

4. Charleston, SC

5. Nashville, TN

6. Denver, CO

7. Dallas, TX

8. Boise, ID

9. San Antonio, TX

10. McAllen, TX

Also, LinkedIn.com states in a new article that of Nashville's new arrivals, 6.6 percent are from Chicago, 4.06 percent are from the Knoxville area and 3.59 percent are from New York City.

More behind the NBJ paywall here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/08/14/nashville-is-among-the-fastest-growing-cities-in.html

[markhollin]

Vanderbilt Hospital rated #17 in the country out of 5,000 considered by U.S. News and World Report.

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/08/14/nashville-hospital-ranked-among-the-elite-by-u-s.html

Full report here:

https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings

[markhollin]

Tennessee ranked #2 State in Nation for Small Business Friendliness according to Thumbtack.com.  

More at NBJ here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/08/15/analysis-tennessee-among-friendliest-states-for.html

The full article/study here:

https://www.thumbtack.com/survey#/2018/1/states