Creating Places: A Citizen Observer's Look at Nashville's Built Environment


Writer's Note: William Williams' interest in the manmade environment dates to 1970, at which point the then-young Williams started a collection of postcards of city skylines. The collection now numbers 1,000-plus cards. Among the writer's specific interests are exterior building design, city district planning, demographics, signage, mixed-use development, mass transit and green/sustainable construction and living. Williams began his Creating Places column with The City Paper in February 2005. The column in its original form was discontinued in September 2008 and reinvented via this blog in November 2008. Creating Places can be found on the home page of the website of The City Paper, at which Williams has worked in various capacities since October 2000.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Creating Places: The Square...Madison

I drove through Germantown this past Sunday and noticed what seems to have been some recent work on the site of the proposed The Square at Fourth & Madison. Do any of the five of you who read this blog have any updated info on this project?


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8 comments:

  1. Chad GroutOctober 12, 2010 at 11:18 PM

    WW - You're hilarious my man. It's moving forward, just dealing with a great deal of ROCK onsite. Keep it in your crosshairs!

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  2. William WilliamsOctober 13, 2010 at 9:47 AM

    C-Grout,

    Oh, so you're one of the five readers. Nice.

    Good to hear about the project. I've seen some progress. Was curious.

    Thanks, my brother,

    WW

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  3. jonOctober 13, 2010 at 2:46 PM

    Keep up the great work WW, it's much appreciated. Count me in as someone who is more excited about a new sidewalk addition or the restoration of a historical building as opposed to just about any commercial development in the burbs. Thanks for not writing about the new Applebees being built in Bellevue. Yep, they're going to have two out there about 3 miles apart...

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  4. William WilliamsOctober 13, 2010 at 9:39 PM

    Jon,

    Thanks for the kind words. I did not know about the second Applebees coming to Bellevue. Oh boy. Well, it least it will provide jobs to folks. That's a positive.

    On the Bellevue and sidewalk themes, have you noticed the two sidewalks on either side of Colice Jeanne Road and near Bellevue Middle School and the library? They were installed in the mid-2000s (as I recall). I like having one, but two is overkill. Wish the city had spent that money (for the unneeded sidewalk) on a sidewalk elsewhere.

    WW

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  5. UnknownOctober 14, 2010 at 8:19 AM

    Here I was thinking that you meant in Madison. O well....
    How about checking out the renovated train station in downtown Madison?

    Yeah, sidewalks would be nice in places other than downtown but of course TPTB don't think life exists outside of downtown and the West End/Green Hills areas.

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  6. jonOctober 14, 2010 at 6:15 PM

    Did not notice the sidewalks near the Bellevue Middle School. Bellevue could really use some type of centrally located town center (to give residents a meaningful place to walk/bike to). I guess that's what they're hoping a developer will provide at the former mall site with an added new library. Two neighborhoods that have a glaring lack of sidewalk access are Inglewood and Sylvan Park. Pretty sad since they are older inner ring type neighborhoods...

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  7. John S. Hagewood (aka. Fragile Forest)October 15, 2010 at 10:55 PM

    LOL, cuz!

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  8. William WilliamsOctober 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM

    Jon,

    Good points about Inglewood and Sylvan Park. I also feel the following neighborhoods are prime for sidewalks: Rains, Radnor, Sylvan Heights, Woodbine, parts of Crieve Hall and Green Hills, Cherokee and The Nations. All have an "old school" feel with older homes and smaller lots.

    WW

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