Nashville Bits and Pieces

[Rockatansky]

13 hours ago, Pdt2f said:

 It's totally an issue of lack of supply. 

+1. Last I saw the market only had a couple months worth of inventory, which is extremely low.

[markhollin]

If I understand this correctly, the 335 employee Pedestal Foods HQ is relocating to Nashville from St. Louis:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/08/07/st-louis-company-moves-hq-to-nashville.html

[Guest]

Glad we are getting the HQ, but nominal impact at this time.

"As part of the move, three Pedestal employees are relocating from St. Louis to Nashville. The company expects to hire two additional local employees"

 

 

Edited August 8, 2017 by Guest

[TheRaglander]

6 hours ago, nashville_bound said:

Glad we are getting the HQ, but nominal impact at this time.

"As part of the move, three Pedestal employees are relocating from St. Louis to Nashville. The company expects to hire two additional local employees"

 

 

Is this the big economic breaking news coming from the governor as fortold by Channel 4 news 12 hours ago on FB?  Sorry I'm slow to this one. Doesn't really sound significant 

[claya91]

4 minutes ago, TheRaglander said:

Is this the big economic breaking news coming from the governor as fortold by Channel 4 news 12 hours ago on FB?  Sorry I'm slow to this one. Doesn't really sound significant 

No. They announced a direct flight to London.

[jmtunafish]

Has this been an exciting last few weeks or what?  IKEA, huge soccer crowds, the start of a couple of massive downtown developments, British Airways, and another billionaire investor in Nashville's MLS group.  I am soooo glad I moved to the Nashville area 4 years ago from Knoxville.  It's fun being part of such a dynamic and growing community.  I mean, I literally wake up each morning wondering what the Big Development News of the Day will be.  I remember when we used to get a big economic announcement maybe once every other year or so.  Now it seems that every month there's something new.  We've gotten spoiled, and I'm loving it.

[Guest]

We also relocated to Nashville from Knoxville... circa '05

4 hours ago, jmtunafish said:

Has this been an exciting last few weeks or what?  IKEA, huge soccer crowds, the start of a couple of massive downtown developments, British Airways, and another billionaire investor in Nashville's MLS group.  I am soooo glad I moved to the Nashville area 4 years ago from Knoxville.  It's fun being part of such a dynamic and growing community.  I mean, I literally wake up each morning wondering what the Big Development News of the Day will be.  I remember when we used to get a big economic announcement maybe once every other year or so.  Now it seems that every month there's something new.  We've gotten spoiled, and I'm loving it.

 

[e-dub]

and i moved back home from knoxville in february

[jmtunafish]

I remember living in Knoxville for 12 years and watching Nashville's growth from a distance.  And that was before Nashville's growth really started to take off.  In another thread there's a discussion on how many Nashvillians resent Nashville's growth.  Anyone who bemoans this attitude from old-timer Nashvillians would have an absolute fit in Knoxville.  While Knoxville is certainly not doing bad economically, I think most Knoxvillians are content with the way things are and don't really want to see much growth.  They're fine with a small convention center that attracts little more than wedding receptions and Christmas tree festivals.  They're fine with having to drive to Sevierville to see minor league baseball.  They're fine with having a small airport with very limited flight options as long as there's Allegiant Air.  They're fine with having a modest downtown that hasn't seen any new high-rises since 1985 and only one new hotel since the 1982 World's Fair.  They're fine that pretty much all development is happening along the Kingston pike corridor while the rest of the city languishes.  You think there's no smart growth in Nashville?  Try Knoxville, where planners have yet to see a cul-de-sac they didn't love.  Other than the multi-level Walmart/Publix development adjacent to U.T. (which really is cool), Knoxville development follows the slash-and-burn pattern of acres of parking lots in front of nondescript strip malls where forests and farms used to be.  And never, ever do commercial and residential developments mingle in Knoxville.  In fact, I think they intentionally put new housing developments as far away from commercial districts as possible.

Sorry for the rant, and I apologize to those lovers of Knoxville if I offended them.  I'm just glad to be in the thick of things instead of looking wistfully at Nashville's growth from the outside.  I guess part of my chagrin is that I still own my house in Knoxville because it still won't sell for what I paid for it in 2007.  (It's not near the Kingston Pike golden corridor, so it's doomed.)

Edited August 9, 2017 by jmtunafish

[smeagolsfree]

The speed of a plane can vary with a strong tail wind. Ground speed may show 780 mph but the plane speed is 600. Like being on one of those people movers at the airport. You may be walking at 3 MPH but the sidewalk is moving at 2 MPH. So 5MPH is your speed but not really. I know a sub sonic plane cant exceed to supersonic because of design, but a tail wind is a little differing affect. I'm not a pilot, but one tried to explain it to me.

So basically if there is a tail wind of 225 MPH which is not unheard of  and the plane is travelling 590, the ground speed could show 815 MPH. 

Confusing to a novice!

 

I digress, back on topic.

[markhollin]

Downtown visitors spent $8.14 million in Nashville for 4th of July weekend. Up 15% over last year.

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/08/10/heres-how-much-money-july-4th-revelers-spent-in.html

[The ATX]

About time.  There is now a Chrome extension that removes Tennessee as a drop down menu option when selecting a state on an online form so Texans don't have to sort through two states beginning with a "T" before making a selection.

512Tech Article

[Flatrock]

5 minutes ago, The ATX said:

About time.  There is now a Chrome extension that removes Tennessee as a drop down menu option when selecting a state on an online form so Texans don't have to sort through two states beginning with a "T" before making a selection.

512Tech Article

Heaven forbid Texans spend an extra millisecond working through that exhausting selection. You're all so busy making the world a better place and stuff.....  And here I was thinking our 2 states shared so much intertwined history - and such. How about Davy Crockett? You're welcome. Not feeling the love at all. I was somewhat mollified noting other states under the gun. Though - us and Illinois mentioned in the same drop-down-menu-nixing breath was hard to take. Have to agree that all the states beginning with 'New' seem a little superfluous. 

[Pyramid Scheme]

Have you read the list of names of soldiers who fell in the Alamo on one of the walls inside the Alamo? Lots of Tennesseans.

[Pdt2f]

I love telling Texans that since many of their founding fathers, like Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, were Tennesseans, I consider Texas to be somewhat of a colony of Tennessee's. Usually Texans take that really well

[donNdonelson2]

Without Tennessee there'd be no Texas!

[Griz83]

13 minutes ago, Pdt2f said:

I love telling Texans that since many of their founding fathers, like Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, were Tennesseans, I consider Texas to be somewhat of a colony of Tennessee's. Usually Texans take that really well

Keep in mind though, a lot of our own "native sons" were born in NC.  All of "our" Presidents: James K Polk, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson were born in NC.

[jmtunafish]

2 hours ago, Griz83 said:

Keep in mind though, a lot of our own "native sons" were born in NC.  All of "our" Presidents: James K Polk, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson were born in NC.

That's because Tennessee was part of North Carolina back then.  Even if Andrew Jackson had been born at the Hermitage, in 1767 it was still part of North Carolina.  It's not like Texas broke off from Tennessee the way Tennessee broke off from North Carolina.

Edited August 15, 2017 by jmtunafish

[tragenvol]

Sorry to digress, but must share.  My sister has lived in Texas almost 18 years now...in two years she will be allowed to call herself a Texan.  Early on, as I would often visit her, I would do and say things that weren't so pleasant to Texan soil.  I got over it...the disdain of honoring anything Tennessee from a Texan's point of view, of course, that was my own biased perception.  Texans make a fine brisket, and that...I respect.

[Griz83]

27 minutes ago, jmtunafish said:

That's because Tennessee was part of North Carolina back then.  Even if Andrew Jackson had been born at the Hermitage, in 1767 it was still part of North Carolina.  It's not like Texas broke off from Tennessee the way Tennessee broke off from North Carolina.

True, BUT...Johnson was born in 1808 in Raleigh, NC - after TN statehood.  Polk was born one year before TN statehood, in 1795; but it was in what is now a suburb of Charlotte, NC.  Only Jackson was born well before TN became a state, in 1767; but, his birthplace was in an area along the NC/SC border.

I'm a Nashville native, but also a history buff.

Ok, back on topic now...

[jmtunafish]

2 minutes ago, Griz83 said:

True, BUT...Johnson was born in 1808 in Raleigh, NC - after TN statehood.  Polk was born one year before TN statehood, in 1795; but it was in what is now a suburb of Charlotte, NC.  Only Jackson was born well before TN became a state, in 1767; but, his birthplace was in an area along the NC/SC border.

I'm a Nashville native, but also a history buff.

Ok, back on topic now...

Did Johnson or Polk have much to do with Tennessee becoming a state?  I think what the other posters are (rightfully) saying is that a strong contingency of Tennesseans was influential--and even lost blood--in Texas actually existing as Texas.  I don't think the same can be said about Johnson, Polk, or even Jackson.  But I may be wrong.

[Griz83]

Fairly certain Jackson was involved in local politics in his late 20s.  Although I'm unsure of his involvement in TN's admission to the Union.  Regardless, many of our founders originated from NC, as the territory itself was a part of NC - as you stated.  You are also correct that many Tennesseans were involved in Texas eventually becoming a state.

[Pdt2f]

1 hour ago, Griz83 said:

Fairly certain Jackson was involved in local politics in his late 20s.  Although I'm unsure of his involvement in TN's admission to the Union.  Regardless, many of our founders originated from NC, as the territory itself was a part of NC - as you stated.  You are also correct that many Tennesseans were involved in Texas eventually becoming a state.

Jackson fought in the Revolution so I'm assuming he was at least somewhat political a decade or so before statehood. if I'm not mistaken I believe he was a lieutenant. 

[L'burgnative]

^ I'm pretty sure Jackson was a child during the Revolutionary War.  If he did it would have been at the tail end of the war.

[arkitekte]

8 hours ago, Pdt2f said:

I love telling Texans that since many of their founding fathers, like Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, were Tennesseans, I consider Texas to be somewhat of a colony of Tennessee's. Usually Texans take that really well

 

7 hours ago, donNdonelson2 said:

Without Tennessee there'd be no Texas!

These are my usual go to lines since I live in Texas and am from Tennessee. Someone hit me back with the "And they were all running from something." which if you dig deep enough, it's sometimes true. Sidebar, but I met a man in his 70's originally from Mexico whose great grandfather ran from Hardeman County, TN to San Antonio and then eventually across the Rio Grande. 

Philip mentioned it above, but there are so many Tennesseans' names in the Alamo. My old roommate from college came to visit a few years back and I took him to the Alamo...before entering he was like "I wonder how many names of Tennessee counties are on the wall in there."