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It's like a wake at the Nashville Charrette now that 70 stories are 86'ed.  There was once a pipe dream that was Signature Tower:

BEFORE

Over at the Nashville Charrette, bzorch wonders about the fallout of Metro Council's approval of the Bellevue Mall TIF :

The only thing that I would add to New Towner's Charrette comment is that the design amateurs in S-town promote the degradation of the

The LA Times blog has come up with a map of all of the Starbucks closings scheduled in the Los Angeles and San Diego Metropolitan areas, which bears no resemblance to the map of the growth of Walmart across America during my life span (HT: 

This is a Republic, for crying out loud, not a private birthday ice cream pool-party. If you want to build rubbish, go do it like the rest of the landed gentry: in the middle of a huge estate where nobody will have to deal with it.

"Grouthaus," a real estate broker, has started a debate* over at the Nashville Charrette on the probable sale and demolition of Geist House, a century-old house and forge on Jefferson Street near Germantown.

Paige Clancey tells of a public meeting tonight in her community regarding H2O, an ambitious "new urbanism" plan for a mixed-use development on the river near Charlotte Pike and I-40. According to Paige:

The Tennessean's report on suburban growth mentions Davidson Co. in comparison:

When something regarding new Nashville development comes out in the media, the Nashville Charrette buzz usually heats up about it.