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[e-dub]

i rented there from 2009 to 2012. it's weeeeeird.

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Destination 360:

 

[markhollin]

From "Welcome to Nashville" video, Nov. 2017:
 

[Alley]

4/20/18

[timmay143]

Beautiful pictures of a beautiful city!  Tough loss though...ugh...

[BnaBreaker]

4 hours ago, timmay143 said:

Beautiful pictures of a beautiful city!  Tough loss though...ugh...

Yeah, that one stung... although we still have two chances to close it out, the pressure is decidedly on us now... I mean, it always was, but especially now that the possibility of an upset is more present... I must admit, I had my concerns about how the Preds would perform this postseason as the team with the target on their back.  They're used to being the scrappy underdog that everyone underestimates that has to fight and claw for every win... now the Avalanche have kind of taken on that role and it seems to have thrown the Preds for a bit of a loop.  Hopefully they shake it off for game 6!

[timmay143]

Agreed.  We have seen the Preds in the Avs shoes many times.  The majority of the times those Preds teams trying to hang with the "big boys" were eliminated.  Hope that holds true this round (i.e. the higher seed prevails, for those hockey gods listening )!

[MagicPotato]

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This would look so much better as one color, instead of the zebra lines.

[e-dub]

i much prefer the current paint job to how it looked before, honestly.

[timmay143]

Use to sort of be.  I think it looks pretty good in the picture by @Alley

[TNinVB]

Another bustling Saturday night in Music City. I love the layers in the first picture. You’ve got lower Broadway with its honky tonks, the Schermerhorn, the CMHoF, the Arena, and MCC looming large at the top. So much going on in such a small area. It amazes me how much that area has changed in the past 20 years. I really can’t wait to visit home this summer!

Edited April 22, 2018 by TNinVB

[MagicPotato]

1 hour ago, e-dub said:

i much prefer the current paint job to how it looked before, honestly.

 

1 hour ago, timmay143 said:

Use to sort of be.  I think it looks pretty good in the picture by @Alley

Instead of white, a flat black color would look better.

[Buildtall]

I think the current look is much better than what we had before. The old white color always had all those small rust streaks that ran down the side of building everywhere. Not sure if I was the only one that ever noticed but there was a lot of them.  

 

[e-dub]

nope, @Buildtall. it looked really rough.

[jmtunafish]

52 minutes ago, TNinVB said:

Another bustling Saturday night in Music City. I love the layers in the first picture. You’ve got lower Broadway with its honky tonks, the Schermerhorn, the CMHoF, the Arena, and MCC looming large at the top. So much going on in such a small area. It amazes me how much that area has changed in the past 20 years. I really can’t wait to visit home this summer!

I was downtown tonight, and believe me it was crowded.  I was thinking the same thing as you:  I remember how few people ventured downtown just 20 years or so ago, and especially at night.  It was fun to see just how busy it was tonight.  I lost count of all the pedal taverns, and I think I saw three different Honky Tonk party buses.  I love what downtown Nashville has become and is becoming.

[Pdt2f]

@TNinVB when you come home make sure you ride north on 65 from the south side and go west into south loop, taking it all the way through. It’s really insane how urban and different it looks from that angle. You get a great view of downtown before the split, and it sends you right between midtown and the Gulch in south loop (where they’re building endeavor directly next to the interstate) before passing by Capitol View after the Charlotte ramp. It’s one of my favorite little drives to take in the city, it’s simply stunning. 

[MagicPotato]

19 minutes ago, Pdt2f said:

@TNinVB when you come home make sure you ride north on 65 from the south side and go west into south loop, taking it all the way through. It’s really insane how urban and different it looks from that angle. You get a great view of downtown before the split, and it sends you right between midtown and the Gulch in south loop (where they’re building endeavor directly next to the interstate) before passing by Capitol View after the Charlotte ramp. It’s one of my favorite little drives to take in the city, it’s simply stunning. 

I drove through that area and the angle really shows how much Nashville has grown. I had to do a double take for a second while driving. I was thinking  "When did Nashville get all these buildings?" 

The view looks something like this. Probably more construction today, this photo's about  a year or old. 

Edited April 22, 2018 by MagicPotato

[NashvilleObserver]

4 hours ago, jmtunafish said:

I was downtown tonight, and believe me it was crowded.  I was thinking the same thing as you:  I remember how few people ventured downtown just 20 years or so ago, and especially at night.  It was fun to see just how busy it was tonight.  I lost count of all the pedal taverns, and I think I saw three different Honky Tonk party buses.  I love what downtown Nashville has become and is becoming.

I live downtown, and as annoying as the traffic sometimes is (I can ALWAYS tell when there is a Predators game) it makes me happy to see so many people come downtown for a Nashville event. Makes me proud of my city. Even on random weekdays when nothing big is happening I always wonder "Why are all of these people downtown? Whats going on today?" 

[nashvylle]

9 hours ago, jmtunafish said:

I was downtown tonight, and believe me it was crowded.  I was thinking the same thing as you:  I remember how few people ventured downtown just 20 years or so ago, and especially at night.  It was fun to see just how busy it was tonight.  I lost count of all the pedal taverns, and I think I saw three different Honky Tonk party buses.  I love what downtown Nashville has become and is becoming.

I know some people hate the pedal taverns, but as a kid witnessing a vacant downtown 20 years ago, I’ll take the pedal taverns any day of the week. 

[markhollin]

I know it's a few years old, but what a spectacular backdrop:

 

[Neigeville2]

13 hours ago, Buildtall said:

I think the current look is much better than what we had before. The old white color always had all those small rust streaks that ran down the side of building everywhere. Not sure if I was the only one that ever noticed but there was a lot of them.  

 

I liked the brutality of the old appearance, and especially the rusty streaks on the concrete.   Nothing is more beautiful to me than gracefully aging materials:  mossy stone, vine covered old walls, stained concrete.   People used to brush a yogurt solution on garden ornaments and pavers to encourage moss to grow, nowadays it's the height of the suburban aesthetic for everything to look like it just came off the truck from Lowe's.  It's gross.

My theory is that the rapid rise of income inequality has created a huge wave of nouveaux riches who have pervaded our society with a "look what I just bought" mentality.  It used to be a matter of pride how long something had been around.

[bnacincy]

14 hours ago, Buildtall said:

I think the current look is much better than what we had before. The old white color always had all those small rust streaks that ran down the side of building everywhere. Not sure if I was the only one that ever noticed but there was a lot of them.  

 

Honestly I wished they had torn it down along with the rest of the old CC.  Regardless of the color it's gonna look dated compared to the rest of the new development.

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Nashville Post:
 

[Andrew_3289]

[PillowTalk4]

On 4/22/2018 at 2:08 PM, bnacincy said:

Honestly I wished they had torn it down along with the rest of the old CC.  Regardless of the color it's gonna look dated compared to the rest of the new development.

Do you want everything to look brand spanking new?  Some of the older buildings, even those built in the 80's will keep the skyline from looking monotonous with glass towers everywhere.   I love glass towers, but I also like to see diversity in the architecture of a skyline.  While I wish we had substantially older skyscrapers like those found in New York, Chicago and Philly, I don't think we need to do away with those that represent various eras in our history.  Decades from now there might be people who think the L&C Tower should come down....