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titanhog Metropolitan Area

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I drove I-40 coming from Memphis around downtown at dusk yesterday for the first time in awhile and after I turned the corner headed towards the Charlotte / Church exit, the city didn't even feel like Nashville anymore.  It was as if I was in another much larger city...and I-40 felt like it was actually in a bit of a canyon.  Not only did the east side (downtown) feel  and look much larger...but midtown seemed like a totally different area.  There's just no way to capture on camera what it's like and how much it's changed.  

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So Nashville added another resident last night... Turner Wallace Chinetti 9 pounds 6 ounces. 20 inches.  Mom and baby are doing great! He’s ready to argue about scooters, height re

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Took this yesterday.  Wanted to make it longer but it was quite windy yesterday. Some random thoughts...  How much room there is between Lafayette and the Interstate

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After watching the video Ron posted somewhere (can't remember which topic) about the most stagnant skylines in the US, I wanted to do some research into which skylines have been the most dynamic and g

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If you venture over to the Raleigh forum you'll see that one of the tinderbox apartment buildings we love so much burned to the ground overnight in a massive inferno. The building was under construction and the fire spread to adjacent buildings as well. I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before an incident like this occurs in our city. There's a reason constructing buildings of this scale out of timber is essentially banned in cities like Chicago.

http://abc11.com/news/monstrous-fire-destroys-building-in-downtown-raleigh/1804792/

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4 minutes ago, SoundScan said:

If you venture over to the Raleigh forum you'll see that one of the tinderbox apartment buildings we love so much burned to the ground overnight in a massive inferno. The building was under construction and the fire spread to adjacent buildings as well. I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before an incident like this occurs in our city. There's a reason constructing buildings of this scale out of timber is essentially banned in cities like Chicago.

http://abc11.com/news/monstrous-fire-destroys-building-in-downtown-raleigh/1804792/

Saw that on the news late last night / this morning.  Very scary.  If you had a bunch of stick-structure buildings surrounding one like this, they'd probably all go up in flames and burn block after block.

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17 hours ago, TheRaglander said:

Not a bad spot but wouldn't it be better on the other side of the river?  I feel like there won't be much of a view from the east side. Picture it somewhere in SoBro where you can see the entire downtown, all the buildings in West Nashville, south towards the airport...

Given the terrain of East Nashville and depending on the height of the wheel, from this spot on the East Bank a rider at the top of the wheel could perhaps see both the airport and Opryland in one direction and a nearly perfect straight shot down the Broadway canyon in the other direction.  That's not a bad view by any means.

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I know it's not news that housing prices are up and inventory is tight around here, but Trulia has some interesting rankings. Nashville comes in at #4 on 5yr change in inventory. Behind Salt Lake City, Seattle, and San Diego.

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% Change in Total Inventory, 2017 Q1 - 2012 Q1: -66.0%
Housing Stock Value Relative to Pre-Recession Peak:  121.3%

"Trulia: U.S. Home Inventory Hits Record Low Since Housing Market Began Turnaround In 2012" http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trulia-us-home-inventory-hits-record-low-since-housing-market-began-turnaround-in-2012-300427543.html

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53 minutes ago, 21jump said:

Looks like 2016 Census Metropolitan Area estimates are out today.  Metropolitan Nashville is still growing steadily adding approximately 36,000 new residents between July 2015 and July 2016.

That's 98 (and two thirds of a) people per day--sounds a lot like the estimate we've all heard kicked around in earnest these past few years!

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smeagolsfree Gigalopolis

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Much better!

 

We need to get to the 3 % growth rate to really make an impact. We have been hovering around 2% for the longest. At least we are tied with Charlotte as far as % goes, but still a full % point behind Austin.

Just glad we are not dropping population like Cleveland Ohio.

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18 minutes ago, smeagolsfree said:

Much better!

 

We need to get to the 3 % growth rate to really make an impact. We have been hovering around 2% for the longest. At least we are tied with Charlotte as far as % goes, but still a full % point behind Austin.

Just glad we are not dropping population like Cleveland Ohio.

I think there has been plenty of impact. I love seeing Nashville grow up and develop into a bigger city, but I don't want it to be an all out sprint. Austin, sets the bar high, but that doesn't mean we need to reach that growth rate to be "important". The important thing is that growth is happening.

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An article from Forbes today: the best cities in the U.S. to buy residential real estate.  There's a slide show...Dallas at #1 and Nashville at #8. Many of the usual suspects with a few surprises thrown in. 

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https%3A//www.forbes.com/pictures/eedh45gfjdf/1-dallas-texas/&refURL=&referrer=

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On 3/24/2017 at 5:54 PM, Flatrock said:

An article from Forbes today: the best cities in the U.S. to buy residential real estate.  There's a slide show...Dallas at #1 and Nashville at #8. Many of the usual suspects with a few surprises thrown in. 

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https%3A//www.forbes.com/pictures/eedh45gfjdf/1-dallas-texas/&refURL=&referrer=

A buddy of mine came close to a DFW relocation earlier this year. No doubt about it, on paper, housing is cheaper out there, but you pay significantly more in property taxes (I'm talking 2-3 times)

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