http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2009/12/07/when-will-convention-center-supporters-abandon-the-misleading-claim-that-only-tourists-will-pay-for-it Comments On: When Will Convention Center Supporters Abandon the Misleading Claim That Only Tourists Will Pay for It? by Bruce Barry en-us Copyright 2013 Nashville Scene. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Nashville Scene readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Nashville Scene. wil@desert.net (Nashville Scene Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Gene Simmons]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:36:08 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by jaliviOriawax]]> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:52:18 -0600 Nashville Scene Any redevelopment of this area will be a fantastic boost the Nashville economy on many levels. The actual jobs created will help stimulate a lot of the peripheral support industries and the mere visual representaion of a major project taking place will install a renewed consumer confidence which again will trickle down to boost the cities economy.
As a realtor in Nashville, having a conference center that would be attractive to users from all over the country, can only onloy have a beneficial effect on the real estate value and sales in Nashville as more people become aware of the appeal of Nashville and the surrounding areas.
Overall I'm looking forward to seeing this area being redeveloped and effectively giving the city of Nashville a facelift.
Posted by gary ashton]]> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:30:44 -0600 Nashville Scene Wanna hear your opinion
Posted by Insignia]]> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:37:03 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by i typed airplane]]> Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:22:01 -0600 Nashville Scene "The e-mails do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus . . .
Posted by muscle relaxer]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:50:29 -0600 Nashville Scene It appears that YOU are the one who doesn't understand economics.
Government doesn't "create" jobs - or anything else. All government does is redistribute wealth that has already been created by the private sector.
The first dollar that government ever spent on anything came from a tax on wealth that had already been created by the private sector.
Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:33:45 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by producer2]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:41:01 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by Moost]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:01:13 -0600 Nashville Scene "When Will Convention Center Supporters Abandon the Misleading Claim That Only Tourists Will Pay for It?"
"Yes, visitors will fork up most of the cost"
Posted by producer2]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:27:07 -0600 Nashville Scene You will probably get your chance to vote for Evans at some point in the near future. She is clearly got ambitions and to her credit has always stayed on one side of the fence.
Posted by producer2]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:03:04 -0600 Nashville Scene Don't see a whole lot of interest in "investing" in those other forgotten industries. Of course they usually don't go around asking the government to build them things with tax money from other people.
This statement is patently false, Moost.
Posted by Anonymous]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:00:51 -0600 Nashville Scene Work hard, my little Moost. You may help me get that judgeship I so deseperately crave (and Lew promised me if I would do Gaylord's bidding).
Posted by Kevin (NotSo) Sharp]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:13:29 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by jv]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:49:48 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by Moost]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:49:15 -0600 Nashville Scene If you wanted to build the two largest and strongest industries in Nashville you would have to skip over a lot of others to get way down to tourism.
Posted by Moost]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:48:48 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by Cheetos Bastardo]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:41:59 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by FloydR]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:27:41 -0600 Nashville Scene Tennessean and on other blogs for years. In fact, I read your blog and know that you are an adamnant opponent of the new convention center.
I would not call Emily Evans above reproach.
Posted by FloydR]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:25:22 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by Moost]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:21:56 -0600 Nashville Scene How hard it must be to expose your actual identity and stand by your words in public. Unless I have missed my guess about such trollish behavior, I am inclined to write you off as a mercenary for convention center forces.
As for your insinuation about how Megan Barry might vote, I would frankly be shocked if she voted against Karl Dean.
Posted by S-townMike]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:36:19 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by FloydR]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:15:26 -0600 Nashville Scene Posted by HippyDippyChick]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:14:19 -0600 Nashville Scene It is far from inconceivable that the revenue generated in the TDZ that includes the MediMart could bring in enough extra to cover this $14 M.
You are free to imagine that, but since no specific financials or pro formas on the medical mart have been made public, there is no concrete basis for drawing such a conclusion. The working TDZ revenue projections in the new HVS Consulting analysis in year 6 of MCC operation are $9 million without a hotel and $11.6 million with a hotel.
Posted by bb]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:57:36 -0600 Nashville Scene Its not that Grant needs to build the center himself; but it does seem interesting that the Mayor is so bent on developing this project using only public money.
What is the downside to letting an interested private party invest their own money to develope a complex that will be mutually beneficial for the city and the investor? It seems that if a group thought it was a good enough idea to invest their own money the Mayor would get a convention center and the taxpayers wouldn't be left holding the whole bag.
At least one of the current property owners has expressed an interest in working with the city on the MCC, but they have been met with condemnation proceedings.
Posted by Tom]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:52:53 -0600 Nashville Scene