Greyhound moving

[smeagolsfree]

The permanent site will be the old Trailways location on Lafayette according to what I have seen in the media. They will probably tear the old building down and replace it. This is their current maint. facility.

[jice]

Looks like you're right.. that's the rumor...

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100713/NEWS01/7130324/2066/news03

The former Trailways building, at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue South and Ash Street is believed to be the likely permanent site.

[MTSUBlueraider86]

I don't understand the NIMBYism. I could understand when they wanted to put the methadone clinic in a neighborhood a few years ago. (I forgot what area of town that was.) This is a bus depot. It is sales revenue. It is tax revenue. It's 125,000+ people coming to Nashville a year. I don't get what they are upset about, unless they don't want what they think or perceive to be as people that ride the bus like blacks, latinos, working class, lower middle class, immigrants etc... coming through their neighborhood. Well, I have news for them. Bus riders are all over the racial, ethnic, and economic spectrum. This NIMBYism sounds like racism to me.

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[MTSUBlueraider86]

The old bus depot is gone. They are already excavating and placing charges to dynamite the bedrock for the convention center. You can see it on the oxblue camera.

http://oxblue.com/pro/open/clarkconstruction/nashvilleconventioncenter

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[jice]

Greyhound moving again.. as was mentioned earlier in this thread.. to 5th & Lafayette..

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2011/04/27/greyhound-finds-its-new-nashville-home.html

[jice]

The new Greyhound terminal (which is almost complete) will be the first LEED-certified Greyhound 'prototype' in America.

..and it's apparently going to have a restaurant, too.

http://nashvillepost.com/news/2011/12/15/greyhound_terminal_to_open_in_early_2012

[smeagolsfree]

I remember as a kid that the Greyhound station in my hometown had a restaurant. Then it moved to a suburban location with no restaurant and now interestingly enough back to having a restaurant. Funny how things change they become the same as they were in the fifties and sixties.

[timmay143]

The ebb and flow of time, the cycle. Sometimes we venture out one way to find out that we had it right from the beginning.