The worn brick building on the corner of Fifth Avenue South and Franklin Street in downtown’s SoBro area has been in Fred Allen’s family since his dad built the place in 1958. Between the proposed $635 million downtown Convention Center and the proposal to extend the age-old Gateway Corridor project to Eight Avenue South, odds are Allen is going to become a victim of the city’s gung-ho efforts to redevelop SoBro. More
Nashville’s public schools have a lot of problems. Just ask anyone today it seems. Schools in close suburbs are nearly always better. That’s the formula thinking anyhow. More
Before the Bredesen Bunker battle, Oak Hill fought with a real estate developer over a quarter of an acre, a long legal battle that went all the way to the Tennessee Supreme Court. More
Ding! The announcement of a $4 billion development at Bells Bend has sounded the bell for yet another round of neighborhoods fighting a developer. More
Headline after headline has the banking industry reeling from not only the subprime mortgage mess but also from residential real estate developers having difficulty repaying their loans as newly built houses sit unsold. More