You can see scans of the original "A Master Plan" feature to the right — below, we have a look at what we did (and didn't) accomplish from that list.
Bike Paths: We’re getting there.
A City Art Museum: The Frist Center for the Visual Arts — it isn’t technically a museum, but it’s a step in the right direction.
To Plant 100,000 Dogwoods By Year’s End: Not sure about dogwoods, but the city is six years into a 2009 program to plant 100 cherry trees each year as a backdrop for the Japan-America Society of Tennessee’s annual Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival.
To Make Hillsboro Village Work: The article calls for renovating The Belcourt — still a commercial theater in 1990 — while touting such anchor tenants as the restaurant Multi-Bob and Mills Bookstore (sob!). Still, we can probably agree Hillsboro Village is doing OK.
To Revise The Metro Charter So We Can Get Stuff Done: Calls for shrinking the Metro Council on then-Mayor Bill Boner’s suggestion — to 12.
A Bakery: Think we’ve got it covered (or frosted).
To Treat The Music Industry As Something More Than Mere Entertainment At The Next Charity Ball: That is, court music-biz bigwigs as aggressively as we would any relocating business. See, children, back in the day there were these things called “record sales” ....
A Record Label That Does More Than Country: Meaning one with both African-American and white artists — e.g., Third Man Records.
A High School For The Performing Arts: Nashville School of the Arts, which received its own facility in 1996.
Cleaner Water, Cleaner Air: Needs work.
An Experimental Bus-Rail Line: Twenty-five years later, we’re still wishing for light rail.
Urban Homesteading Downtown For Artists: Ryman Lofts on Rolling Mill Hill.
Hydrofoils On The Cumberland River: Proponents: A Venetian boat to be used from Opryland to downtown. Skeptics: The monorail of the sea.
More Shopping: Calls for — dare to dream — our own Banana Republic. Still no Lord & Taylor, though.
The Nativity Scene At The Parthenon: No such luck, as the old Harvey’s display collapsed in Cincinnati sometime around 1970, but the park does light up pretty at the holidays.
A Jazz Club: The lavish Caffe Milano didn’t last in the ‘90s, but the Nashville Jazz Workshop’s Jazz Cave survives.
Flights To Foreign Countries From Our International Airport: Does Canada count?
More Sidewalks And Other Pedestrian Walkways: See number 14 here, although the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge counts as a coup.
To Be Able To Buy Wine In Grocery Stores: Coming in 2016.
A Hip Radio Show: Defines “hip” as A Prairie Home Companion hosted by Lamar Alexander. We do not kid. These days you’ll find good stuff on Lightning 100, Nashville Public Radio, Radio Free Nashville, WFSK, Hippie Radio and WANT, but no citywide signal has filled the hole left by 91 Rock.
More Low-Income Housing: See numbers 5 and 26 here.
A Contemporary Novel About Nashville: Asking for Nashville’s own roman à clef a la Bonfire of the Vanities, and for John Bridges to write it. We’d still love to read that.
A Master’s Degree In Filmmaking At Vanderbilt: No master’s program, but a greatly expanded cinema and media studies curriculum. The area also has a variety of film studies and production programs at institutions such as Belmont, Columbia State, Lipscomb and Watkins.
Major League Baseball, Pro Basketball And A Place For Somebody To Play: Somehow we picked the two pro sports we didn’t get.
Curbside Recycling: See number 11 here.
To Do Something With The East Side Of The River From Downtown: It looks a little different these days.
To Do Something About The Union Station Shed: Yeah, we did something, all right. R.I.P.
Close Otter Creek Road Around Radnor Lake To Cars On Weekends: The eroding road kinda did that for us.
Something For Tourists To Do: Check and double check.
A Lot Of People To Stop Talking About Leadership And Start Providing Some: Consider this your reminder to vote.
