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09/14/10--05:40: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

THE FAIRGROUNDS WAS NOT MAKING ANY MONEY AS THE MAYOR CLAIMS SO IF BECOMES A PARK IT WILL MAKE TONS OF MONEY WRONG THE TAX PAYERS WILL FOOT THE BILL FOR THE UPKEEP
Posted by BOB


09/14/10--06:39: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

It will be a nice place for all the HCA employees to walk during their lunch hour. Karl Dean's reckless ambition is what Imperialism looks like on a local level.
Posted by so what


09/14/10--07:52: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

Parking lots=increased runoff=greater risk of flooding. The buffer should be green and growing and/or the parking lots should have porous surfaces with berms.
Posted by stellabardo!


09/14/10--07:58: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

On the radio this morning it was said that while the city wants to develop the land but there are no takers so far. I personally think they should have built the new convention center on the fairgrounds that way they would not have had to steal...I mean exerise emenent domain over... any land.
Posted by milkman


09/14/10--08:20: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

From my understanding, in attempts to better route the creek in the '50s they built concrete walls lining parts of it. Unfortunately during heavy rains this only serves to move the water forward faster until it swells around Craighead, Bransford & Nolensville Rd, making the flooding worse.
Posted by JenniNash


09/14/10--08:52: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

JennieNash, that's an excellent point. Often, letting waterways shrink and expand and move around some and soak into the surrounding area does help with flooding tremendously.
Posted by Betsy Phillips


09/14/10--10:36: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

I don't know that using acreage that cannot legally be built upon anyway as a "park" is really such a magnanimous gift to the city (a gift the city already owns). How about using the entire Fairgrounds as a park instead?
Posted by Eat the Rich


09/14/10--14:52: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

Heh, as long as I can open my windows without adding a NASCAR soundtrack to whatever movie I'm watching (3 miles away!), I don't much care what they put there instead.
Posted by auntie warhol


09/15/10--10:24: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

Is it large enough to develop an "amusement" park? Nashville seems to have given up on that idea.
Posted by PillowTalk4


09/18/10--01:54: Re: Cautious Optimism About a New Park at the Fairgrounds (chan 1495988)

Keep On Raci'n at the Fairgrounds speedway!!! Put up special sound deadening walls around the track (Simular to the ones found along side many interstates) so people wont bitch and complain or piss and moan about the noise, Bunch of damn whiners!

Don't let this track die and turn into a park like so many have in the past from the community acting like a bunch of snot nosed little kids whining because they noise is too loud when there is an easy solution to the issue that dosent involve re development or track demolition and the track can still remain operational with the sound deadning walls surrounding the track so the little whiners that live in the area wont cry because of the noise.

If anything the track should be added to the national historic registry of historical places as a historical site given all the history of the track.
Posted by B.Smith