Posts Tagged ‘butch spyridon’
Downtown needs both nightlife and neighbors
If it’s good enough for Austin, it ought to be good enough for Nashville. I think expecting reasonable limits on late-night noise is an appropriate thing to do:
[T]he 85-decibel standard matches the limit in Austin, another music-driven town, and is much louder than Manhattan’s. The standard actually would give the clubs more leeway than downtown establishments that are outside the central business district, which would violate the proposed ordinance if their music was “plainly audible” from the nearest residence, [Council member Mike] Jameson said.
Manhattan is an amazing city because of its nightlife and its residents. I’m thrilled that Nashville continues to have a vibrant downtown nightlife that attracts locals and tourists, and I want to see residents keep moving to the central part of the city, too. When people live downtown, it makes it a more welcoming a safer place for everyone. There’s room enough for both singing and slumber downtown.
Tags: butch spyridon, community, metro council, mike jameson, nashville, nashville convention and visitors bureau, noise, politics
Hosting a political convention? Good idea, bad timing
It would be great for Nashville to host either the Democratic or Republican Convention in the future, but only if private parties are footing the bill.
“I can’t think of anything that pushes a city up in the world of conventions more than a political convention,” [Former Deputy Mayor Bill] Phillips said. “But you’re talking about two years of commitment. It is a huge burden on the local people to go out and raise that money. A community needs to think carefully about that.”
[Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau CEO Butch] Spyridon said there will be no full-court press to land one of the conventions here any time soon. The Belmont debate, he said, “gives us almost equal exposure for a significantly lower price tag. We’ll have a more focused national and international press.”
With our schools in dire need of improvement, the hotel-motel tax about to increase and the city budget stretched awfully thin, this isn’t the right time for Nashville to take on another big-ticket item, even one that would promise huge positive attention. I think this idea should wait, unless private citizens are willing to step up to fund it.
Tags: bill phillips, butch spyridon, democratic party, gail kerr, metro government, nashville, political convention, politics, republican party, revenue, the tennessean
