Nashville Bits and Pieces

[rookzie]

43 minutes ago, Nathan_in_DC said:

Nope, it was a lady. I cannot believe I'm blanking on her name at the moment. She was one of the main plaintiffs in the case.

Wonder if she might have been Rita Sanders Geier, who had been one of those who filed the suit way back in 1968, when I turned a senior in H.S.  When I took a handful of classed at UTN, during the late '70s, I opted for transcripts as UT rather than as TSU, because that's what I had intended when I started.

[Nathan_in_DC]

10 hours ago, rookzie said:

Wonder if she might have been Rita Sanders Geier, who had been one of those who filed the suit way back in 1968, when I turned a senior in H.S.  When I took a handful of classed at UTN, during the late '70s, I opted for transcripts as UT rather than as TSU, because that's what I had intended when I started.

YES! That was her!

[titanhog]

Nashville's record 70 months in a row tourism record comes to an end.  Is this is a sign we've maybe reached critical mass on hotel room prices?  Or...was this just inevitable and we'll pick right back up and start another continuous month over month trend?

The Tennessean reports that Music City’s streak of 70 consecutive months of record tourism numbers, the longest streak in U.S. history, ended in October.

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2016/12/16/report-nashville-s-record-setting-tourism-streak.html

[HGMIII]

5 minutes ago, titanhog said:

Nashville's record 70 months in a row tourism record comes to an end.  Is this is a sign we've maybe reached critical mass on hotel room prices?  Or...was this just inevitable and we'll pick right back up and start another continuous month over month trend?

The Tennessean reports that Music City’s streak of 70 consecutive months of record tourism numbers, the longest streak in U.S. history, ended in October.

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2016/12/16/report-nashville-s-record-setting-tourism-streak.html

The data indicates Nashville set another local record for hotel tax collections in October, the streak of room night records — which measures how many hotel rooms are booked — came to an end, but it still is the second-best month in the history of the city.

[memphian]

Interesting that UTN had an enrollment of 6,000, in the 1970's. I'm guessing this was a total headcount of even non university level students. So much for TSU having the campus, they've not capitalized on it at all. They'd be better off giving it to MTSU or the state should re-charter the University of Nashville as an urban institute (similar to Memphis, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Houston). There's opportunity for higher education downtown.

[MLBrumby]

Tennessee had 5 of the top 25 fastest growing job markets this year: Nashville, Knoxville, Clarksville, Cleveland and Morristown. Nashville came in 11th overall with an increase of 46,000 new jobs!!  http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/money/2016/12/15/tennessee-has-five-cities-most-job-growth/95482730/

"The United States shed tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs between October 2015 and October 2016. In the Nashville metro area, however, employment surged in the manufacturing industry," said the report. "Manufacturing employment grew by 5.9 percent in the past year. Major manufacturing employers in the area include automakers Nissan and General Motors." ...The area had 5.16 percent job growth through the period and grew from 893,361 jobs in October 2015 to the current 939,494. The jobless rate is currently 3.9 percent.

[SEsideguy]

I went to UTN in late 70's. Great faculty, learning, good time. Was working full time, quit after about a year and a half, just too much undergrad work with a full job.

[CenterHill]

Something of a technical question, so putting it in B&P, but is anyone else experiencing random pop up ads on Urban Planet?     This has started happening to me within the last couple of weeks.   I'll be in a thread and audio ads will suddenly start playing.    There doesn't appear to be any accompanying video and there is no apparent way to make the audio stop except to exit out of the thread.   Annoying to say the least. 

[MLBrumby]

Hasn't happened to me yet, but I use Chrome. 

[UTgrad09]

I've had a few redirect ads that have annoyed me. I mentioned it in the mod forum. Haven't heard anything back, yet.

[CenterHill]

6 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

Hasn't happened to me yet, but I use Chrome. 

I use Chrome also.   In fact it only happens in Chrome.   i.e. doesn't happen on my devices.   

[UTgrad09]

2 hours ago, CenterHill said:

I use Chrome also.   In fact it only happens in Chrome.   i.e. doesn't happen on my devices.   

I'm on Chrome as well.

[smeagolsfree]

I sent the post to Neo, so we will see if he can shed some light on the pop up issue. It happened to me a while back and then stopped .

[Neo]

1 hour ago, smeagolsfree said:

I sent the post to Neo, so we will see if he can shed some light on the pop up issue. It happened to me a while back and then stopped .

We use a combination of five different advertising platforms to generate revenue for the site. I do not allow pop-up/pop-under ads or ads with audio on ANY platform. I hate ads but unfortunately they are necessary to sustain the site financially. Unfortunately it is next to impossible to figure out which platform is allowing the pop-up ads or the ads with audio. I can take a wild guess though, which I just did. I've paused the ads from the newest partner so PLEASE send me a private message if you continue to have pop-up ads or ads with audio. I do not and never will allow them on this site and I sincerely apologize for their appearance as of late, it was never my intention.

Sorry @UTgrad09, I thought I replied to the post about this in the mod forum.

[smeagolsfree]

Thanks Neo!

[UTgrad09]

Thanks, Neo. I will let you know if anything else comes up.

We appreciate your hard work keeping this place running!

[CenterHill]

4 hours ago, UTgrad09 said:

Thanks, Neo. I will let you know if anything else comes up.

We appreciate your hard work keeping this place running!

Ditto and thanks! 

 

[WebberThomas4]

[markhollin]

NBJ's Top 5 Development Stories of 2016:

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2016/12/21/year-in-review-nbjs-top-development-stories-of-the.html

[markhollin]

Nashville Post's 10 Most Popular Development Stories of 2016 based on readership:

http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/article/20847616/2016s-top-reads-development

[Canuck87]

Hospitality Net released its list of the top 10 US cities for hotel growth.

Nashville is number 4 on the list, behind NYC, Miami, and Chicago. Nashville is characterized as an "outlier given its status as a smaller city than those above it." There are currently 25 hotel projects that will add 5,085 rooms.

Article: http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4080133.html

Also, wishing everyone on the board a belated Merry Christmas. I can't wait to see what 2017 holds for Nashville!

[titanhog]

^^When you consider the size of the other cities...or their history of tourism...this is pretty heady company to be in.  It not only signals our growth in terms of population, but more significantly, it appears we have become a U.S. destination city when it comes to tourism.

[PruneTracy]

Google Earth has updated their imagery for the Nashville area. New dates are in late October 2016. Featuring new attractions such as the Westin and Thompson hotels, 1212 Demonbreun, SoBro, Skyhouse, Aertson, start of Capitol View, the stupid "TITANS" wordmark in the seats in the Car Hole, and a slightly different water level in Lake Palmer.

[markhollin]

New Year's Eve has turned Nashville into a top tourist destination.  Interesting stats and background:

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2016/12/28/nashville-turns-new-years-eve-into-major-tourism-draw/95879422/

 

Davidson County hotel occupancy for Dec. 31

2008: 59.7 percent

2009: 63.1 percent

2010: 75.7 percent

2011: 90.3 percent

2012: 84.2 percent

2013: 80.5 percent

2014: 86.9 percent

2015: 91.6 percent

Source: Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp.

 

[titanhog]

^^So...it's become a major tourist draw and gets bigger every year...so let's move it from the hotspot and "fix what's not broken."