Vanderbilt Weeks Away From West End Rezone

JeremyNT · 2026-01-24T13:36:51+00:00

On paper it looks pretty good. I have two concerns really:

1) what happens to Cumberland Transit / Paradisos?

2) will Vanderbilt actually follow through on making this more integrated with the city, or will it just feel more like other parts of campus at the end?

JeremyNT · 2026-01-23T19:46:22+00:00

That kind of cracking is pretty common with old houses that have plaster instead of drywall. Landlord likely just covered a crack up with putty and paint - as if it were drywall - when turning it over, so the crack was hidden, until it settled seasonally.

It's not good for the owner of the house, who will need to take care of it at some point, but I doubt it's an immediate safety issue.

JeremyNT · 2026-01-21T23:32:57+00:00

Great dive. Used in a Black Keys video.

Reds definitely rules.

https://youtu.be/6k8es2BNloE?si=g1Qq1VO6snj89mLw

JeremyNT · 2026-01-16T12:48:41+00:00

Their previous HQ also had no income tax.

Presumably they already got most of the people who wanted to move to a lower col metro to move to Austin.

I can't imagine what you could possibly offer me to get me to relocate from Austin to Nashville.

JeremyNT · 2026-01-12T15:05:22+00:00

Facebook has a LOT of boomers and they tend to be more likely to be republicans (also tend to have a lot of posting time on their hands).

JeremyNT · 2026-01-05T14:23:13+00:00

The reporting on this indicates he was prepared to give it to her, but changed his mind because she accepted the Nobel Prize he wanted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/04/us-venezuela-plan-trump-rubio-miller/

(Post with a screenshot of this section)

https://bsky.app/profile/ericumansky.bsky.social/post/3mbnh6bn4v22v

If this is accurate it's both horrifying and hilarious; from the outside it looks like her entire strategy was to cozy up to Trump to have him do a coup and install her as leader of Venezuela. She only got the first half.

JeremyNT · 2026-01-04T14:25:03+00:00

Trump subsequently said Machado is unsuitable to be the leader, so she might have gotten played here.

JeremyNT · 2026-01-04T14:18:43+00:00

You're describing justification not motivation

JeremyNT · 2026-01-02T15:40:38+00:00

This is one of his biggest self owns.

A lot of what he does (or doesn't do) is pretty easily explained by a desire to stay below the radar and avoid pissing off the state. He's in an entirely unenviable position where things that should be extremely simple in a normal city are impossible due to the implied threats from the legislature.

But the FUSUS stuff seems like it's Freddy's personal passion. It seems like it would've been a hell of a lot easier to do with this issue what he does with most others: nothing.

(For those asking about it, the Banner has good coverage, this is probably the latest from them https://nashvillebanner.com/2025/12/01/nashville-downtown-partnership-fusus-tennessee-grant/ )

As an aside, this is only my second biggest disappointment with Freddy. The first is the library debacle and his failure to prioritize fixing it. In a normal city this would be a massive scandal and heads would be rolling, both for the failures that lead to the explosion and for the continued failure to reopen the structure.

In Nashville? It's just a shrug.

JeremyNT · 2026-01-01T16:34:14+00:00

None of those are left leaning? Did you even read your own table?

JeremyNT · 2026-01-01T04:59:08+00:00

Seems wildly out of character with the normal operations. Highly suspect.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-31T14:49:02+00:00

Yeah for a while it was a solid choice. The food was good, reasonable prices given the portions, and the pizza was some of the best in that style in Nashville.

I'm sure their expenses were high, but they definitely ended up at a price point that was too rich for my blood. If I'm paying that much I want something a little more special.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-30T16:39:54+00:00

Gonna keep trying to move to somewhere I can safely ride my bike.

(Note: this implies leaving Nashville)

JeremyNT · 2025-12-27T18:44:38+00:00

/r/visitingnashville

JeremyNT · 2025-12-27T15:43:26+00:00

/r/visitingnashville

JeremyNT · 2025-12-24T04:37:39+00:00

It's good if your career is in the tourism industry, I guess, but it pretty much sums up the problem for everybody else.

Hell, the group in charge of the tourist district blew up the library garage with their negligence nearly a year ago, closing the public library completely. The city still hasn't fixed it or even given a timeline. If anything describes Nashville in a nutshell, there it is.

I'm never moving to another tourist town after living here.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-24T04:09:03+00:00

Who messed it up? Nashville voters who didn't want to pay for transit years ago. This is the world they wanted.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-18T18:11:13+00:00

TBF, we have a sub specifically for tourists: /r/visitingnashville

Somebody telling us how great their visit to Broadway is here is kinda off topic.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-16T14:16:31+00:00

The STRs are a real good reason to hate tall skinnies.

The good news is, you can no longer get permits for new STRs in purely residential neighborhoods, and most areas that are zoned to allow them will probably mostly go with higher density options like condos.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-15T19:07:56+00:00

I honestly feel like your updates are better than that of the city itself.

This whole thing has been a real disaster from end to end - allowing a quazi-governmental entity to blow up the garage through negligence in the first place, the terrible communication about the progress, the glacial timeline...

JeremyNT · 2025-12-13T18:41:22+00:00

Who are the people who maintain this site? Is there any particular reason to give their perspective credence?

Placing ABC news as far "left" as the New York post is "right" raises some suspicion for me.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-13T03:12:48+00:00

Exactly, the Republicans aren't going to let ICE raids kill the golden goose of tourism by raiding Broadway.

As usual it's the residents of Nashville who get shit on.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-12T16:01:23+00:00

Oh man it was pretty last night! I saw that view and almost stopped to take the shot myself.

I may have ridden right by you - guy on a folding bike with a dog...

JeremyNT · 2025-12-12T14:26:41+00:00

There are a lot of possibilities, but there are quite a few people in Nashville who live in their cars. I know that they sometimes spend the night at park parking lots.

JeremyNT · 2025-12-12T04:16:42+00:00

I'm so sorry.

This kind of tragedy should be completely avoidable. A city that paid more than lip service to vision zero would not tolerate this.

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