OT: Under Construction

[adsfan]

My favorite teams are:
NHL: Preds (no franchise titles). As a kid, I was a Bruins fan (1970, 1972)
MLB: Reds (1975, 1976, 1990), second team: Brewers (no franchise titles) Originally, they were in the AL. In 1996, it was the same division.
NFL: Packers (1996, 2010). The Bengals came close in 1982 and 1989.
NBA: I was a Celtics fan as a kid (1968, 1969, 1974, 1976). I just missed out on their string of 8 in a row 1959-1966. I don't watch now.
NPSL: Milwaukee Wave (1998, 2000, 2001) MISL: (2005, 2011, 2012) They would have won more, but I was bad luck in the playoffs.
NCAA: I went to Cincinnati. They were #5 during my HS senior year and it was all downhill from there! My homeboys from Dayton lost in the Finals in 1967 to some guy named Alcindor and won the NIT in 1968. Back then, both tourneys only took 16 teams. I remember UD beating Notre Dame and then Kansas in the finals (Jo Jo White was their star player). They won again in 2010, but it doesn't mean near as much as in 1968.
IHL: Dayton Gems (1969, 1970, 1976)
AHL: Milwaukee Admirals (2004) I wasn't here for the 1976 USHL championship.
NCAA: Badgers men's (1981, 1983, 1990, 2006 (in Milwaukee!)) Badgers women's (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011)

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Depending on how you look at it, congrats on landing a portion of the Amazon chase.

 

[FossilFndr]

CNBC just said that Nashville had a low STEM basis and actually was lowest of the last 20 finalists in that area

 

[Drake744]

Depending on how you look at it, congrats on landing a portion of the Amazon chase.

Take the good with the bad. I'd probably rather have that smaller operations center than one of the HQs.

 

[TitansVolsPreds615]

Take the good with the bad. I'd probably rather have that smaller operations center than one of the HQs.

No doubt. That HQ would have been footprint changing and not sure the city could handle any rapid expansion of that size.

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

No doubt. That HQ would have been footprint changing and not sure the city could handle any rapid expansion of that size.

Getting 1 MSF of new office and 5,000 new jobs is pretty significant, however. Good win for the city.

 

[Drake744]

No doubt. That HQ would have been footprint changing and not sure the city could handle any rapid expansion of that size.

While I was gone I quickly found out that a lot of people in and around Seattle blame the Amazon HQ (and Microsoft) for their spike in housing costs that aren't going away. We're a smaller metro area than they are but I agree that there was probably no good way for us to handle that growth. A blessing in disguise I'm sure. We would've faced some serious issues if we landed one of the big "prizes".

 

[FossilFndr]

Tennessee gave Amazon $102,000,000 in incentives yet is part of a lawsuit trying to get out of covering pre existing health conditions. 32% of Tennesseans have pre existing health conditions.

 

[Marty Party]

Nashville Yards will be their future home. That's where the old Lifeway campus used to be between Broadway and Church. The 5000 new jobs they're bringing are probably just the beginning.

Ernst & Young announced today that they're bringing 600 new jobs to Nashville also.

Alliance Bernstein is moving into the office tower currently being constructed across the street from Bridgestone Arena:

"On May 2, 2018 AllianceBernstein has announced they plan to relocate its headquarters, chief executive and most of its New York staff to Nashville, Tenn., in an attempt to cut costs, according to people familiar with the matter. That largely ends a 51-year presence in the nation’s traditional finance capital."

Rumors of Morgan Stanley coming to town as well. Who knows?

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Nashville Yards will be their future home. That's where the old Lifeway campus used to be between Broadway and Church. The 5000 new jobs they're bringing are probably just the beginning.

Ernst & Young announced today that they're bringing 600 new jobs to Nashville also.

Alliance Bernstein is moving into the office tower currently being constructed across the street from Bridgestone Arena:

"On May 2, 2018 AllianceBernstein has announced they plan to relocate its headquarters, chief executive and most of its New York staff to Nashville, Tenn., in an attempt to cut costs, according to people familiar with the matter. That largely ends a 51-year presence in the nation’s traditional finance capital."

Rumors of Morgan Stanley coming to town as well. Who knows?

The Southeast has been killing it the last couple months. Nashville is on a roll. Atlanta has just announced new HQs for Salesforce (600 jobs) Inspire Brands (Arby’s and B Dubs, 1,100 jobs), a new hub for BlackRock (1,000 jobs), Thyssen Krupp (1,000 jobs) and the new HQ for Norfolk Southern ( the 16th Fortune 500 HQ here), Pandora and Starbucks hubs. All within the last couple months.

 

[LCPreds]

Preds just rang that cash register along with anyone else who might benefit from these high paying jobs. Will be interesting to see just how crazy pricing gets in the next few years.

 

[jwhouk]

Hey y'all! So... what's been happening since I've been gone?

 

[Viqsi]

Hey y'all! So... what's been happening since I've been gone?

Team played some hockey games. Won some. Lost a couple too. Guys have been okay. The Human Rocket Ship is still awesome. You know. The usual stuff.

 

[Drake744]

Hey y'all! So... what's been happening since I've been gone?

It's cold as f***

 

[BigFatCat999]

I drove in a large snowstorm with my brakes failing.

 

[bdub24]

I learned you can, in fact, eat your feelings.

 

[Drake744]

I drove in a large snowstorm with my brakes failing.

Fair enough, but low 30s in November here is enough to send everyone off the deep end.

 

[BigFatCat999]

Fair enough, but low 30s in November here is enough to send everyone off the deep end.

8 inches expecting and a brake caliper broke mid drive. LOL

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

Hey y'all! So... what's been happening since I've been gone?

The lake (more the size of a pond but it's 15 feet deep at its deepest point so they call it a lake I guess) at my apartment has been frozen for a few days. Miss Wisconsin yet?

 

[jwhouk]

(Checks thermometer: 68F)

Not one damn bit.

 

[BigFatCat999]

(Checks thermometer: 68F)

Not one damn bit.

*sighs and looks at the snow*

Screw you!

 

[adsfan]

Fair enough, but low 30s in November here is enough to send everyone off the deep end.

It hit 17 in Milwaukee. That is January weather for us, not mid-November! Our high temp was 30.

 

[jwhouk]

Your high today was (almost) our low this morning. It's that time of year.

It is a bit chilly right now at 57F, but we are supposed to get up to 74 this afternoon.

Something I learned over the incredibly long, hot summer: the hottest time of the day here isn't at noon; it's around 4-5 PM, when the sun has been in the sky for six-seven hours and is still a couple hours away from setting.

That and monsoons here are nothing to mess with. First major one was preceded by dust, then torrential rain for a good 15 minutes straight. Everything dries up pretty quick, but it's still amazing to see that much water all at once.

Still - wouldn't change it for anything. I can suffer through a hot summer and incredibly outrageous electric bills to have a winter where I won't see white stuff and the only ice I'll see is either in my glass or over at the rink in Glendale.

On that note: I may be in the same state as an NHL team now (and even in the same county), and I may be closer than I've ever been to a real live NHL arena (only 41 miles), but it might as well be in Timbuktu. I-10 is completely messed up due to the construction of the 202 extension, and there's this other thing in the way between me and Glendale: the fifth largest city in the United States.

Anyways. I think I'm gonna go back to lurking for a while.

 

[Drake744]

Your high today was (almost) our low this morning. It's that time of year.

It is a bit chilly right now at 57F, but we are supposed to get up to 74 this afternoon.

Something I learned over the incredibly long, hot summer: the hottest time of the day here isn't at noon; it's around 4-5 PM, when the sun has been in the sky for six-seven hours and is still a couple hours away from setting.

That and monsoons here are nothing to mess with. First major one was preceded by dust, then torrential rain for a good 15 minutes straight. Everything dries up pretty quick, but it's still amazing to see that much water all at once.

Still - wouldn't change it for anything. I can suffer through a hot summer and incredibly outrageous electric bills to have a winter where I won't see white stuff and the only ice I'll see is either in my glass or over at the rink in Glendale.

On that note: I may be in the same state as an NHL team now (and even in the same county), and I may be closer than I've ever been to a real live NHL arena (only 41 miles), but it might as well be in Timbuktu. I-10 is completely messed up due to the construction of the 202 extension, and there's this other thing in the way between me and Glendale: the fifth largest city in the United State.

I know a guy that I see typically at least once a week who travels to Nashville for work but he lives in Mesa. I almost moved to Phoenix for a job covering sports for a now-defunct newspaper before the economy, and more importantly, that industry went down the drain about 10 years ago. I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I had done that. But yeah the guy I know out there talks about how there's basically no reason for him to go that far out of his way for a Yotes game.

 

[Adz]

So, today is my family Thanksgiving. Of course last night would be the night that the oven element decided to burn out. If you've never seen it, it's pretty spectacular in both show and inconvenience. It's like a big sparkler in your oven.

For future reference it is possible to "bake" biscuits on Lo Broil. You have to cover them and you have to turn them midway. They're not pretty but they work for my purpose which was to make dressing for the turkey. Glad I'd already made the cornbread. I will have to heat it up at my mother in law's, since you can't really turn a casserole dish over mid way through.