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

[bmkTN]

Love this updated look for Ovation and really glad to hear that it's finally starting this summer.  The southern part of Cool Springs should be really booming by the end of this year.  Ovation, Mallory Green, Northside at McEwen, Resource Center development, continued buildout of Franklin Park, Mosby Cool Springs, and on and on.  That's gonna be a WHOLE lot of office (and a good amount of residential) coming online there in 2019-2020.  Really like to see that a lot of this new stuff is heavily mixed-use as well and not just office.

Edited March 1, 2017 by bmkTN

[smeagolsfree]

14 hours ago, Nashtitans said:

Anybody have pics of ovation lately? Has any progress been made?

I drove down there a couple of weeks ago and they were still moving dirt around.

[21jump]

I'm excited for the new "B. B. Lean" store to open up, haha.

[volsfanwill]

yea, what a great clothing and outdoors store.  Is their headquarters in Portfree ME?

[kc8501]

Overview of 7 apartment projects going in in Williamson County:

http://williamsonsource.com/7-new-apartment-projects-in-williamson-county-retreat/

[MLBrumby]

According to NP, the Predators and Montgomery County, and Austin Peay, are in early discussions on partnering for a new multi-event arena with seating of 25,000. No location identified. 

Boclair writes: "Austin Peay State University is also part of the talks for the proposed venue, which, according to studies, would feature a regulation hockey rink and seating capacity of up to 25,000. The ice surface could be converted to a basketball floor, convention or event space as needed. The site also could house one or two secondary rinks, more than a dozen executive suits, plus meeting and club rooms."

Behind paywall: http://www.nashvillepost.com/sports/sports-business/blog/20855084/predators-pursue-downtown-clarksville-development-opportunity

[Jamie Hall]

8 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

According to NP, the Predators and Montgomery County, and Austin Peay, are in early discussions on partnering for a new multi-event arena with seating of 25,000. No location identified. 

Boclair writes: "Austin Peay State University is also part of the talks for the proposed venue, which, according to studies, would feature a regulation hockey rink and seating capacity of up to 25,000. The ice surface could be converted to a basketball floor, convention or event space as needed. The site also could house one or two secondary rinks, more than a dozen executive suits, plus meeting and club rooms."

Behind paywall: http://www.nashvillepost.com/sports/sports-business/blog/20855084/predators-pursue-downtown-clarksville-development-opportunity

So is this a possible option for a Preds preseason facility, or is Clarksville big enough to support a minor league hockey franchise?

[jmtunafish]

8 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

According to NP, the Predators and Montgomery County, and Austin Peay, are in early discussions on partnering for a new multi-event arena with seating of 25,000. No location identified. 

Boclair writes: "Austin Peay State University is also part of the talks for the proposed venue, which, according to studies, would feature a regulation hockey rink and seating capacity of up to 25,000. The ice surface could be converted to a basketball floor, convention or event space as needed. The site also could house one or two secondary rinks, more than a dozen executive suits, plus meeting and club rooms."

Behind paywall: http://www.nashvillepost.com/sports/sports-business/blog/20855084/predators-pursue-downtown-clarksville-development-opportunity

An arena larger than Bridgestone, FedEx Forum, Rupp, and Thompson-Boling?  In fact, at 25,000 seats it would be the 2nd largest basketball arena in the country, after the Carrier Dome in Syracuse.  I just don't see it.

[timmay143]

Austin Peay, Frozen Four?

[MidTenn1]

25,000 is ridiculous. A 10,000 seat minor league hockey arena along 101st Airborne Highway however, would be a great addition to the city. It would have easy access from Fort Campbell and the City of Clarksville (150,000 +/- population). I think something of that scale would work and draw the soldiers and families who come from all over the USA to serve. And Clarksville itself is full of transplants. Clarksville desperately needs some form of home grown attraction and not rely on Nashville for entertainment so much. I can see a Single A minor league ballpark going there some day. Bowling Green already has one. 

Austin Peay has a very nice, 10,000 max seating arena, but struggles to draw more than 3,000 a game in a good year.

[MidTenn1]

This is from a portion of a USA Today article published in the subscription portion of the TENNESSEAN this morning of which I subscribe to and why I am unable to provide a link.

Quote

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - After an 18 month study, Montgomery County leaders proposed Thursday that the county consider building a multipurpose event center in downtown Clarksville. .....

A specific location for an event center site hasn’t been determined, and there are no conceptual drawings, said Durrett and Truitt. The County Commission will be asked in the spring to include an estimated $200,000 in the county mayor’s portion of the budget for further study and refinement. .....

Predators connection

Potential commitments in an event center for the Predators might include hosting youth camps and tournaments and offering community-based recreation hockey leagues.

The Predators’ leadership is in early discussions to manage the facility, as they do for Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, Durrett said.

“The well-oiled machine that the Predators have put into place to run the (Bridgestone Arena) competes for the top entertainment options with New York, Los Angeles and other, much-larger cities,” said Durrett......

Arena features

Durrett said the initial, phase 1 process would include:

» Main arena with 25,000 square feet of regulation hockey surface, with the ability to convert to hardwood for basketball games, flat floor space for trade shows, stage setup for concerts and dirt, perhaps for rodeos.

» One or two additional rinks of 22,500 square feet each, seating about 500 people and convertible to turf.

» Seating for up to 6,000 people in the arena.

» 15 to 20 executive suites.

» Four club rooms for parties and weddings.

» Four meeting spaces for conferences, seminars and classes.

HVS, the consultant, preliminarily calculates that, over a 20-year period, the facility could generate $289 million in net spending for the community.

 

My takeaways from this are that the Predators connection is because of their ability to manage an arena which they have done super well in Nashville. Sounds like minor league hockey might be in the plans. And the seating is only to be 6,000. That makes a lot more sense. As I said before, Clarksville is a big City and still growing and accordingly will need better entertainment options. I hope this comes to fruition.

[NashvilleObserver]

11 hours ago, PHofKS said:

25,000 is ridiculous. A 10,000 seat minor league hockey arena along 101st Airborne Highway however, would be a great addition to the city. It would have easy access from Fort Campbell and the City of Clarksville (150,000 +/- population). I think something of that scale would work and draw the soldiers and families who come from all over the USA to serve. And Clarksville itself is full of transplants. Clarksville desperately needs some form of home grown attraction and not rely on Nashville for entertainment so much. I can see a Single A minor league ballpark going there some day. Bowling Green already has one. 

Austin Peay has a very nice, 10,000 max seating arena, but struggles to draw more than 3,000 a game in a good year.

A 25,000-seater is way too ambitious for Clarksville. It would only be filled if there's a rodeo, or if Trump visits.

 

Edited March 17, 2017 by NashvilleObserver

[opendrawerwhore]

2 hours ago, NashvilleObserver said:

A 25,000-seater is way too ambitious for Clarksville. It would only be filled if there's a rodeo, or if Trump visits.

 

25,000 sq. ft of surface.  Not seats.  6000 seats.  

[jmtunafish]

51 minutes ago, opendrawerwhore said:

25,000 sq. ft of surface.  Not seats.  6000 seats.  

That makes a lot more sense.  I would love to see minor league hockey in Clarksville. 

[smeagolsfree]

A few pix from Berry Farms.

 

[TNinVB]

Please forgive my ignorance, but where is Berry Farms? It is so easy to loose track of where everything is back home. It's been way to long since I have lived in TN.

[smeagolsfree]

In red on the map link below. The boundaries are off some.

 

South of Franklin

 

 

 

[kc8501]

On 3/25/2017 at 2:37 PM, TNinVB said:

Please forgive my ignorance, but where is Berry Farms? It is so easy to loose track of where everything is back home. It's been way to long since I have lived in TN.

It's the Goose Creek exit off of 65, opposite side of the highway from the AgExpo center.  If you haven't been that way lately, it is booming big-time.  I've heard it said that it's becoming "cool springs south."  

[TheRaglander]

11 minutes ago, kc8501 said:

It's the Goose Creek exit off of 65, opposite side of the highway from the AgExpo center.  If you haven't been that way lately, it is booming big-time.  I've heard it said that it's becoming "cool springs south."  

It certainly can be.  Dave Ramsey already has plans for a new HQ campus and the side by Lewisburg Pike has a lot of great places opening up.  It "looks" like they are moving ground a little on the east side of 65.

[claya91]

5 hours ago, kc8501 said:

It's the Goose Creek exit off of 65, opposite side of the highway from the AgExpo center.  If you haven't been that way lately, it is booming big-time.  I've heard it said that it's becoming "cool springs south."  

Holy crap! Seems like yesterday that was a 2 lane road and a gas station.

[smeagolsfree]

Maybe not yesterday, but certainly last week.

[markhollin]

Plans starting to formulate for the roughly four-acre targeted site at the northeast corner of West McEwen Drive and Mallory Lane near the Toyota of Cool Springs car dealership. Franklin-based Parkes Development Group and its partners (who also developed the Melrose project 8th South and the Nashville West shopping center paid $7.3 million for the land.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/real-estate/2017/03/29/melrose-nashville-west-co-developer-plans-cool-springs-project/99766526/

[markhollin]

Hill Center Brentwood aerial updates.

Looking NW from above intersection of Franklin Rd. and Chadwick Drive:

 

Looking SW from above intersection of Maryland Way and Franklin Rd:

 

Looking east from above Maryland Way Park:

[MLBrumby]

MontCo's population article from the Leaf-Chronicle:  http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/local/clarksville/2017/04/03/montgomery-county-population-tops-195000/99984412/

From the article: Montgomery County’s population was 195,734 as of July 1, 2016. The increase from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2016, means the county gained 2,440 new residents. 

My observation: With an increase of 23,372 from 2010-2016, it appears that growth slowed a bit from an annual pace of around 4200 for the first five years. So if that was an aberration, then the county could break 200,000 very soon. If that's a new downward trend, it should happen in the next year. 

[MLBrumby]

Clarendale, $48.5 Million senior living community to be built at Maple and Indian Lake Blvd. and open next year. 

Minneapolis-based Ryan Companies US Inc. has acquired in Hendersonville an 11-acre property on which it plans a $48.5 million senior living community.

According to a release, the facility will be located at the southwest corner of Indian Lake Boulevard and Maple Drive in Hendersonville’s Indian Lake area. It will offer 189 residences for independent living, assisted living and memory care services, according to a release.

http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/article/20857176/hendersonville-site-slated-for-485m-senior-living-facility