I can’t link directly to it, because of the Tennessean’s god-awful web design, but on this article about the fairgrounds hubub, commenter Jablonski suggests:
Proposal: State Fairgrounds should be converted to a park for the under-parked Neighborhoods of South Nashville. Revenues to compensate for NOT putting the property on tax rolls as HCA’s new HQ, would [...]
Commenter njmccune nails it on the fairgrounds controversy:
If this place had been maintained properly and attention had been paid to landscaping and maintenance it would be a local icon and would continue to operate.
If it was making lots of money and still looked as bad as it does it would be a local icon and [...]
we needed about three songs before we got our heads around the fact that yes, we were actually here. In the same room with Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen! And he was onstage singing these songs to us.
Yep, that about sums it up. I’m still buzzing from one hell of a fantastic show.
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