Nashville Bits and Pieces

[Mr_Bond]

A couple of weeks ago water began to accumulate in the Terrazzo garage because our two sump pumps kicked on at the same time and were on the same circuit.  The sudden power pull of two pumps starting at once flipped the breaker.  The next day we put in a new circuit for one of the pumps.  Problem fixed.

The pumps put water into the storm drainage system.  Since other buildings are doing this, the water must be rapidly flowing into the Cumberland.  The buildings that are downhill and closest to the river would be the first to see water accumulate in their garages should the river rise that high, especially with all that water flowing into the storm water system from other buildings downtown and midtown.

[OnePointEast]

Due to Nashville's urban sprawl, what cities does Nashville look bigger than but in reality is smaller than? I ask this because I had a client from New Jersey see Nashville for the first time and said Nashville looks much, much bigger than the population suggests. Is this size illusion only exclusive to Nashville and Atlanta?

Edited March 9, 2019 by OnePointEast

[fishsticks176]

It’s probably also owing to the fact that half the people roaming the streets are here on vacation and half the buildings are hotels. 

[markhollin]

10 hours ago, OnePointEast said:

Due to Nashville's urban sprawl, what cities does Nashville look bigger than but in reality is smaller than? I ask this because I had a client from New Jersey see Nashville for the first time and said Nashville looks much, much bigger than the population suggests. Is this size illusion only exclusive to Nashville and Atlanta?

Atlanta actually IS big: 5.6 million population in the metro, compared to Nashville's  which is just now getting to 2 million.

[Tennessine]

Middle Tenn. is under a tornado watch. Be safe out there, Nashville UPers. The threat is stronger in Southern Middle than in Davidson, but I can't rule out the possibility of rotation in isolated cells around Nashville as the afternoon progresses. Any tornado in this system will be rain-wrapped and hard to see.

 

Tornado warning in Hardin Co., SW of Nashville. I expect more to fire up as the day heats up temperatures to the upper 60s.

[e-dub]

Definitely a day to stay inside and clean some records. Be safe, errbody.

[Skyscrapergeek]

I was in Miami last week and was angered to see they stole our guitar building.  At least it’s a Les Paul.  Of course, it’s a Hard Rock. 

[e-dub]

They can keep it, too.

[BnaBreaker]

2 hours ago, e-dub said:

They can keep it, too.

Agreed.  That thing just looks awkward and goofy.

[Tennessine]

18 minutes ago, BnaBreaker said:

Agreed.  That thing just looks awkward and goofy.

Thank you, that thing looks so tacky... That's even too tacky for Pigeon Forge

[Buildtall]

I think it is actually going to look nice when finished. Maybe we can get a 70 story microphone obersevation tower

[chris holman]

7 hours ago, Skyscrapergeek said:

I was in Miami last week and was angered to see they stole our guitar building.  At least it’s a Les Paul.  Of course, it’s a Hard Rock. 

 

[titanhog]

I think it's cool...and perfect for a Hard Rock near Miami.  I think it would be too cliche' to ever look right in Nashville.

[Skyscrapergeek]

11 hours ago, titanhog said:

I think it's cool...and perfect for a Hard Rock near Miami.  I think it would be too cliche' to ever look right in Nashville.

Agree completely. 

[jmtunafish]

I saw this article which made me think of a lot of the stuff being built around Nashville.  "Developer Modernism."

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-call-this-style-of-building

[titanhog]

^^I agree it gets old really quickly...but I have to say it's better than the barracks-style brick box buildings built after WWII.

[jmtunafish]

I got to see one of my favorite skyscrapers yesterday.  The Tour CMA CGM in Marseille, France, was designed to look like it rises up out of the sea.  It's also built right up against a freeway so that as you drive in from the airport it looks like you're going to drive right into the lobby.  It's nice to see such cool architecture in this very old, very beautiful city.

[MidTenn1]

6 hours ago, jmtunafish said:

I saw this article which made me think of a lot of the stuff being built around Nashville.  "Developer Modernism."

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-call-this-style-of-building

Future tenements.

[markhollin]

Marriott has 53 hotels in the Nashville region today.  Nearly half have opened in the past 5 years.  And they have 28 more hotels in the works. 

"We probably have more hotels in the pipeline here than any other market in the U.S.," says Tom Onken, Chief Franchise Office for Marriott International, Inc. Within Marriott, Nashville generated the highest revenue per available room (a common performance metric in the hospitality industry) in the U.S. for the past three years, Onken said. "The airport continues to set records. You have Amazon and all the other office moves happening here. Tourism won't wane here. Broadway is a phenomenal experience for middle America, and so many people don't even have to fly to get here."

More behind the NBJ paywall here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2019/03/11/marriott-has-28-hotels-in-the-local-pipeline-and.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

[dReAmWiELdEr]

I saw this article which made me think of a lot of the stuff being built around Nashville.  "Developer Modernism."

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-call-this-style-of-building

I wouldn’t be caught dead living in crap like this.

[e-dub]

I haven't heard the word "Normcore" in ages!

[PruneTracy]

3 hours ago, PHofKS said:

Future tenements.

That's what they are right now, though. They serve the exact same purpose: cheap, simply-constructed mass housing for the proles. It's just that these have aerobics bars and infinity pools to distract from it. I'm not sure why everyone on here expects any sort of architectural novelty from them.

As an aside though, I bet if you took an old 19th-century tenement and threw in some quartz countertops and exposed ceilings the millennials would be all like:

[markhollin]

50% of the Nashville chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization believe Middle Tennessee's economy will improve this year, and 47% think it will stay about the same. Only 3% think it will worsen.
 

More at NBJ here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2019/03/11/will-nashvilles-economy-keep-booming-heres-what-a.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

[smeagolsfree]

When we post the good news we need to post the bad news or in this case the not so good news.

Nashville ranks near the bottom # 84 for best places in the top 100 to live according to https://livability.com/best-places/top-100-best-places-to-live/2019.

This from the NBJ. https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2019/03/11/nashville-near-bottom-100-best-places-to-live.html

 

[fishsticks176]

“Hollywood Squares” spin-off “Nashville Squares” coming to CMT

 

https://www.thewrap.com/cmt-nashville-squares-hollywood-squares-hip-hop/