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

[nashvillwill]

I don’t think $200/month is all that outrageous. I pay $100/month for a family pass to the Gallatin Rd YMCA. It also includes childcare, which is awesome. The Y is decent, but if the facility was top notch, and amenities were even nicer, I can see spending that. 

[TheRaglander]

http://www.williamsonherald.com/news/article_5c3f9690-df60-11e7-9618-075c5d1e4547.html

With Mars Petcare expanding into Ovation... I thought Ovation was a lame duck for a bit.  

[bigeasy]

I could be wrong, but I thought Mars was always going to be at Ovation? Or was that at another development they announced a year or so ago?

[Pdt2f]

Yeah they were announced a while ago to be moving to Ovation. This was probably just the formal announcement. Ovation’s developers have had financial issues, which I thought could cause problems with the entire project. Hopefully I’m wrong. 

[MLBrumby]

What is being built on the east side of I-65 just north of the junction with I-840? 

Edited December 21, 2017 by MLBrumby

[smeagolsfree]

I think that is the next phase of Berry Farms. The project will be on three of the four sides of that interchange.

[TheRaglander]

11 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

What is being built on the east side of I-65 just north of the junction with I-840? 

It's the new Dave Ramsay campus.  I have tried to snap a pic but it's too risky with the terrible drivers. 

[markhollin]

Spring Hill has officially closed on its largest building purchase in the city's history. The city closed on the Workforce Development & Conference Center at Northfield for $8.18 million on Wednesday, according to a press release. The 38-acre property, just a stone's throw away from the General Motors Spring Hill plant, will allow the city to expand its municipal space.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/spring-hill/2017/12/28/spring-hill-closes-northfield-site-over-8-million/987175001/

 

[MLBrumby]

Hill Center Brentwood Phase II.... http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/brentwood/2017/12/29/plans-proposed-phase-two-hill-center-brentwood/990804001/

Phase two would construct two new buildings for retail with a combined 19,606 square feet, a two-level parking garage with more than 300 spaces, a three-story office building and a four-story hotel with 141 rooms. 

[markhollin]

Two projects in Williamson County:

1)  Heritage Medical Development Group and Heritage Medical Associates offices has broken ground on a 60,000 sq. ft. building at 1622 Westgate Circle, to be completed late this year.

2)  2 story Bell Self-Storage will have 100,000 square feet and be located at 236 Wilson Pike Circle on property previously home to Jim Johnson Landscaping.

Location of the Heritage Medical Building:

[Pdt2f]

Do my eyes deceive me or did I just see them building actual structures on the ovation site? 

[TheRaglander]

Just now, Pdt2f said:

Do my eyes deceive me or did I just see them building actual structures on the ovation site? 

It's the Mars Petcare HQ.  Progress!

[markhollin]

 A bunch of new hotels coming online in Williamson County:

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2018/01/09/new-hotels-franklin-tourism-demand-williamson-county/1007451001/

What's under construction 

• Candlewood Suites, Murfreesboro Road (102 rooms)
• Hyatt House, Mallory Green development,  Mallory Lane (125 rooms)
• Harpeth Square, downtown Franklin (119 rooms)
• Holiday Inn Express, Berry Farms (104 rooms)
• Hilton Hotel, Corporate Center Drive, Cool Springs (244 rooms)

Renovation

• Quality Inn and Suites, Murfreesboro Road

Permit application in review

• Staybridge Suites, Mallory Green development, Mallory Lane

 

[Pdt2f]

^ The Harpeth Square one is probably the biggest for the city. Not only because the project it’s a part of is enormous (for downtown Franklin), but because there’s a complete lack of hotels in Franklin when you’re not right off the interstate. A city of c.a. 75,000 and this is the first hotel that isn’t a 5 minute jaunt off of I-65, if I remember correctly. 

[Pdt2f]

Incidentally, they’re installing the tower crane at Harpeth Square. Some foundational pillars are in, too. 

[FrankNash]

Two cranes for this project.

[MidTenn1]

 

12 hours ago, FrankNash said:

Two cranes for this project.

And downtown Franklin's like.....

[MTFAN]

New transit center planned for downtown Murfreesboro at the corner of W. Main Street and Bridge Avenue.  For those familiar with Murfreesboro, you can see the old railroad station in the background at the top right corner of the rendering.

 

http://www.wgnsradio.com/t-dot-awards-6-million-grant-for-new-rover-home-cms-43451

 

 

[volsfanwill]

I wonder if the location maybe hopeful that csx will eventually allow for passenger service?  

[PruneTracy]

2 hours ago, volsfanwill said:

I wonder if the location maybe hopeful that csx will eventually allow for passenger service?  

The potential for commuter rail on the CSX line was considered but given a low weighting when comparing options. The primary factors were a site less than one mile from the Rutherford County Courthouse, larger than 2.5 acres, with good access and low environmental impacts. So yes, but it's more coincidental than intentional.

[NashRugger]

The biggest issue is the Chattanooga subdivision, which this section of track is under, is one of CSX's busiest and would have to be double-tracked at minimum and be VERY costly.

[opendrawerwhore]

Are these tiny Rover buses even sufficient for Murfreesboro's population? 

[markhollin]

Home values are rising across Sumner County. At the end of 2016, the median price of a home was $259,900. A year later, in November 2017, the price was $316,690, an increase of $56,790, according to figures compiled by the Williamson County Association of Realtors, which tracks prices across the Nashville region.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/homes/2018/01/17/even-prices-rise-sumner-county-attractive-destination-home-buyers/1026600001/

[markhollin]

The Mack Hatcher bypass around the north side of Franklin finally to be completed.  Work to being in March:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2018/01/19/mack-hatcher-parkway-franklin-extended-what-took/945280001/

[Pdt2f]

13 minutes ago, markhollin said:

The Mack Hatcher bypass around the north side of Franklin finally to be completed.  Work to being in March:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2018/01/19/mack-hatcher-parkway-franklin-extended-what-took/945280001/

This is one of those projects that people have been talking about it for so long that it kind of became a joke. I moved to Franklin in 1998 and I’m pretty sure people were already joking about this extension at that point, definitely when I started high school in 2002 at FHS. I just can’t imagine a Franklin where this project actually happens, even when they start building I’ll still be wary and sceptical. It’s like how I felt when the cubs won the series: my eyes just saw it, but I still don’t believe it because I can’t imagine a world where the cubs aren’t hopeless.