Nashville Riverfront Renovations Have Begun

November 11, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

The consulting firm that came up with Nashville’s riverfront master plan three years ago will be returning to town to design $30 million worth of downtown projects on both banks of the Cumberland River. The Metro Development and Housing Agency voted Tuesday to hire Hargreaves Associates for up to $2,126,000. Ed Owens, MDHA’s waterfront development director, [...]

Nashville Convention Center Gets Support & Resistance

October 24, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

It’s clear to me that the new Nashville convention center is going to be built and all of the pubic opinions trust upon us by the media is simply entertaining noise. Of course, this is only my educated opinion and not the collective  opinion of the entire city. Well, when I read headlines like, “Nashville [...]

Nashville Sues to Seize Convention Center Land

October 20, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

Thanks to the Tennessean for breaking the story about the metro Nashville eminent domain filings. On October 20th, 2009 in the article entitled “Nashville files suit to seize 7 properties for convention center“ Michael Cass writes: “Metro government officials have taken the first steps toward seizing downtown property for a proposed convention center. The Metro [...]

Nashville Named Friendliest City in America

October 12, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

Nashville has once again been named America’s Friendliest City from Travel + Leisure magazine after receiving the same honor in 2004 and 2005. The publication asks readers to rate 30 U.S. cities based on culture, shopping, restaurants, nightlife and more. The survey is conducted each summer. This year, Nashville also ranked second in the nation for [...]

New Nashville Convention Center Already Booking

July 6, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

This article entitled “2 large groups book Music City Center” appeared in the Nashville Business Journal on June the 18th, 2009. The Journal reports:   “Two large associations representing 40,300 booked room nights in all have signed on to hold their conventions at the yet unbuilt Music City Center.   The American Trucking Association will [...]

Medical Trade Center May Come to Nashville

May 18, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

This article entitled “Dallas company plans huge medical trade center in Nashville” appeared in the Tennessean on May the 18th, 2009. The author is Naomi Snyder: “A subsidiary the real estate conglomerate owned by the Trammell Crow family plans a medical trade center in Nashville that would rival the size of the planned Nashville convention [...]

The Gulch in Nashville Featured in USA Today

April 9, 2009 by admin · View Comments 

  This article entitled “Nashville works to liven The Gulch” appeared in the USA Today on April the 8th, 2009. Larry Copeland wrote:   “NASHVILLE – For decades it was little more than an eyesore, a sunken warren of freight railroad tracks and run-down brick warehouses that was home mostly to vagrants and a bluegrass [...]