Thursday, June 11, 2009
More on Nashville and Memphis Riverfronts
Posted Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:31 AM
John Branston looks at the two cities' approaches to riverfront projects.
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i lived in memphis for 19 years and now i live in nashville and nashville is very very modern compared to memphis. riverside drive and the bluffwalk are not gorgeous. i can see you thinking that if you are from mississippi, arkansas or have yet to venture far from memphis. memphis is the most depressed feeling city in america as you travel around downtown. when it rains on mud island it smells like a sewer. memphis looks and feels old. nashville developes in order to attract quality young people and execs from all over the world to move here. memphis will only be able to recruit ... everybody with me now ... from mississippi and arkansas.
compare midtown nashville (vandy area) to midtown memphis. one is vibrant with people from all over the country moving there because of vandy and the entertainment industry. the retired titans like eddie george stay in nashville. the ones from memphis can't wait to escape. midtown memphis is just a dump. memphis will always be the capital of mississippi.
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Newer is better? Grow up. Boston, DC, NY, Philly...all pretty old but pretty cool places. I lived in Nashville too- what's around Vandy? Panera, Mellow Mushroom, places for spoiled Vandy students to spend their parents' money. Midtown Memphis has character and soul. As for downtown, Nashville had a strip of honky tonks and the rest of the place was a ghost town after 5...people actually live in downtown Memphis. You also can't even compare Memphis' riverfront to the Cumberland(speaking of sewers). Everyone I know- from places like Seattle and Philly- love Memphis. Nashville and Memphis are two different cities and you have every right to pick where you'd like to live but why bash another? Maybe you just couldn't hang in M-town?
Memphis is losing population to other cities and the suburbs. In its glory days, Memphis was the cleanest and quietest city in the nation. When in another city, and you say that you are from Memphis, you end up defending Memphis. It is perceived as dangerous.
beender, the person who said riverside dr and bluffwalk are gorgeous was not from here, he/she was from........Nashville. learn to read, toolshed. lol.
mellow mushroom and panera are in midtown, but check out lime. also see virago and the miro district. the miro district is located in a condo that was just named the best new luxury condo in america and sold out in march or april despite these tough times. the horizon is going under in memphis. nashville is booming with these amenities. i do love visiting memphis and heading to the rendezvous and walking past the smelly dumpsters on my way to the door. that sums up memphis. disgusting. get real memphians! the most desired place to eat for tourist (the rendezvous) has dumpsters by the entrance. i challenge you to look up these places i just mentioned that are in midtown and i promise their ain't nuttin like it in memphis bubba. downtown nashville does have a honky tonk strip for tourist but it also has NFL stadium & NHL team and far more superior hotels and places to eat downtown such as the palms - www.thepalm.com - downtown nashville also has a morton's.
why do i point this out? those places won't ever consider moving to memphis because it is a bubba city. memphis is what it is. a bubba city!
nashville's midtown has quickly become one of the most desired places to move for people from all over the country. meet ten people in midtown and one of them might be from nashville. meet ten people from midtown memphis and 9 1/2 of them are from memphis. the outside influence in nashville is why it has been destroying memphis. i agree that ny and boston are old, but they also have the new. east boston might be more like memphis. the developers in memphis are just good ole boy duck hunting, dip using rednecks. that is the simple answer as to why memphis is now -- well -- memphis. and those very developers like turley have kept the mayor in their back pockets the good ole boy network way. that's what happens when you don't do the things to get some outside influence into a city. the memphis leaders simply have kept it out. it does pain me because i loved memphis when i first moved to memphis. marie is correct about memphis being the cleanest and quietest cities in america at one time. blame it all on the developers and the mayor.
there you have it...it's all Henry Turley's fault. lol. like I said, what a tool. thanks for some more taste of that superior, our shit don't stink effete nashville attitude.
btw, I noticed a condo project in Rolling MIll Hill going into receivership today, trouble in paradise, beenderdumbdat?
Man, that beenderdonedat dude sure seems to have an inferiority complex when it comes to Memphis. I hopd everyone in Tennessee's second largest city (Nashville) isn't like that. As a native Chicagoan who frequently visits both Memphis and Nashville for business, let me say that Memphis is the more pleasant to visit and the more cosmopolitan of the two cities. Nashville has tried very hard to shed itself of its Hee Haw reputation and they deserve a lot of credit. But even today, if you ask folks here in the Upper Midwest to react to Nashville, more often than not, the toothless hillbilly Hee Haw persona will be mentioned. If you ask us to react to Memphis, you're likely to get all sorts of responses all of them positive from BBQ, to Elvis, to Blues, to funky river town.
Liz, et al, I think Nashville has a lot going for it actually. it's a fine city. We could learn a lot from some of the things they've been able to do (some things, we can't emulate b/c of our relative poverty demographics). It's the attitudes of some people like this jerkoff that is that city's biggest blot. For some reason, they have to build up their weak-assed egos by talking trash about Memphis. Makes them feel better about their own...shortcomings.
yep- nashville is fine, i lived there for a year and have nothing negative to say....i just don't understand their fascination with bashing memphis? memphis has far more large corporations that draw many out of towners and i don't find the majority of the population to be toothless dippers when i visit....by the way, what the hell is a "bubba city??"
I like Nashville. My fiance and I both do. I dont understand the senseless bashing of cities. Why do the two cities have to be in a dick-measuring contest? Nashville is known for country music but has a great indie/underground scene in East Nashville, and Hillsboro/Vandy area/12South is phenomenal. I wish developers in Memphis would take note. However, the home of the blues and more rock and roll than Cleveland is good too. I live in Midtown Memphis and I honestly love it. Tsunami, Bari, Dish, The Beauty Shop, Iris and Paulettes are pretty nice places with a good scene. Memphis might still have a good old boy image and it has a HECK of a lot to work on, but the country music capital calling another city a "bubba city" is a bit much. I love the fact that the two are 3 hours or less apart. I can have two worlds in a day trip drive.
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