Nashville is one of the 13 new cities to be added to Google Maps' Street View. The 360-degree imagery provides users with street-level photographs of homes, schools, landmarks, restaurants and more. Users can take "virtual walks" through neighborhoods like Charlotte Park.
Here's a view from American Road:
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To search for your house, click here to go to Charlotte Park and see instructions on how to explore Street View.
The Charlotte Parker reported on Sept. 28, 2007, that a driver for Google Maps was spotted riding through the neighborhood in a car with a roof-mounted camera to collect the images. Included in the report is a video from Google explaining how Street View works.
Nashville blogger Rex Hammock was among the first to discover that the Nashville Street View was up and running. Google announced the Street View expansion Thursday.
Some critics of Street View have complained about the privacy implications of the photographs. Google posted a statement on Street View and Privacy on Sept. 24, 2007.
March 29, 2008
March 21, 2008
Updated: H.G. Hill grocery store to close
By Kate Wingate and Paige ClancyUPDATE March 24, 2008: Jimmy Granbery, chief executive officer of H.G. Hill Realty Co., the owner of the Charlotte Hill Center property, responded Monday morning to questions about the future of the property.
"The H.G. Hill Realty Co. still owns the 7.5 acre tract and will be exploring our options for redevelopment of this property and will keep the neighborhood and all concerned informed of our plans as they develop in the near term," Granbery said.
When asked if the realty company is considering selling the property to the developer of the adjacent Nashville West shopping center, he said H.G. Hill Realty is not selling to the developer. As for the Bank of America branch situated on the Charlotte Hill Center property near the H.G. Hill grocery store, Granbery said, "hopefully Bank of America will be part of our plans as they have been a very loyal long term tenant."
Original post follows ...
On the heels of the high-profile closing, razing and redevelopment of the Green Hills and Belle Meade H.G. Hill grocery stores, the H.G. Hill Food Store at 6604 Charlotte Pike will close on April 5.
H.G. Hill Realty Co., the owner of the two Hill Centers in Green Hills and Belle Meade, also owns the Charlotte Hill Center property, which includes the 33,000-square-foot retail building occupied by H.G. Hill and a vacant retail space formerly occupied by Advance Auto Parts. The Charlotte Hill Center is adjacent to the new Nashville West shopping center.
Charlotte Park neighbors have speculated that a Publix grocery store might replace the H.G. Hill store on Charlotte Pike, but officials at Publix said the only planned new store in the area is the store currently under construction at the Belle Meade Hill Center at 4340 Harding Pike.
The H.G. Hill grocery store on Charlotte Pike has been owned by S&C Foods Inc. since the company bought it in April 1999. S&C Foods currently operates nine H.G. Hill grocery stores in the Nashville Area. According to S&C Foods, its lease with property owner H.G. Hill Realty is running out and will not be renewed. The store owner is working to help place affected employees in positions at its other H.G. Hill stores.
To read the history of H.G. Hill Food Stores, click here.
Employees at H.G. Hill grocery store on Charlotte Pike. Photos by Paige Clancy.Juanita Johnson, Dorothy King and Ron Porter, store manager. Johnson has worked for H.G. Hill for 34 years, first in Hillsboro Village and then, for the last 18 years, at the Charlotte location. King and Porter have worked at the Charlotte H.G. Hill for the past decade.
Judy Holland, employee for nine years, and Kathy Reeves, employee for "four years and two months."
Map of H.G. Hill at 6604 Charlotte Pike, yellow basket icon indicates store location:
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March 15, 2008
World Market, other Nashville West stores open
Home entertaining and gifts retailer World Market opened last week in the Nashville West shopping center on Charlotte Pike, and today the store was buzzing with activity surrounding a Mix 92.9 radio promotion and Carol Fay, Loveless Cafe's "Biscuit Lady," who was signing copies of the book "Southern Country Cooking from The Loveless Cafe."
Oakland, Calif.-based World Market operates two other Middle Tennessee stores in Hendersonville and Murfreesboro. The store sells a wide range of products including indoor and outdoor furniture, packaged gourmet food, "beers of the world," coffee and tea, housewares, home decor, jewelry and picture frames.
World Market joins Red Robin burgers as the most recently opened stores at Nashville West.
To help readers keep up with store openings at Nashville West, the following list of stores and their status is based on a Saturday drive through the retail center, combined with information about planned stores on the site plan of developer Newton Oldacre McDonald. According to the plan, the retailers listed within are "subject to change."
Target - open
Dick's Sporting Goods - open
Best Buy - open
Ross Dress for Less - open
Marshall's - open
Cost Plus World Market - open
Lane Bryant - open
Cacique - open
Old Navy - open
Justice Just for Girls - open
Bath & Body Works - open
Children's Place - not yet open
DSW shoes - open
New York & Co. - open
Kay Jewelers - sign reads "coming soon"
Claire's - sign reads "coming soon"
Books-A-Million - open
Marble Slab - on site plan only
Kinnucan's - on site plan only
LensCrafters - on site plan only
Red Robin burgers - open
T.G.I. Friday's - on site plan only
Costco - open
Party City - open
Staples - open
Golf Galaxy - new on site plan
PetSmart - open
March 14, 2008
Bring back the Blue Boxes!
This just in from the Charlotte Park Neighborhood Association:
O.K. folks. All of you have been waiting on getting the Nashville West U. S. Mailboxes back into the Shopping Center. Now here is your own chance to get this thing moving once and for all.
O.K. folks. All of you have been waiting on getting the Nashville West U. S. Mailboxes back into the Shopping Center. Now here is your own chance to get this thing moving once and for all.
Nashville West is ready to put the mailboxes up, but they need help from us in getting the U. S. Postal Office West Station to get the approval papers signed so this can be done. Here's what we need you to do.
Call the West Station Post Office: 383-2056, ask for Walter (he will probably answer the phone). When he does tell him you would like to have your mailboxes put back in the Nashville West Shopping Center as soon as possible it's been long enough and you miss having them there, and ask him to send your request to his supervisor. (His supervisor has the paperwork, and everybody is waiting for him to approve this to be done.)
Or, if you don't want to call, then write:
Postal Manager Walter
West Station, U. S. Post Office
4501 Charlotte Pike
Nashville, TN 37209
And, tell him the exact same thing as I said above for the phone call. I was called this week by the development contact for all of you to make your phone calls and write your letters, so let's all get busy, if you want those mailboxes back.
Janice Lampley
Charlotte Park Neighborhood Association
Kate here again. I called the Post Office today and Walter was not there. The woman I spoke with said that she believed the blue box replacement for Nashville West was in the works, but it can't hurt to let them know you are looking forward to their prompt return.
Kate here again. I called the Post Office today and Walter was not there. The woman I spoke with said that she believed the blue box replacement for Nashville West was in the works, but it can't hurt to let them know you are looking forward to their prompt return.
March 12, 2008
March 11 Bell's Bend meeting notes
I just wanted to report in on the neighborhood meeting held last night at St. John's Methodist Church regarding the Bell's Bend development plans and, more specifically, the plans to build a bridge connecting Charlotte Park to the proposed "mini-city."
Tony Giarratana, the developer, started off by giving a presentation about the history of the project, now called the May Town Center, and outlining the proposed structure of the development. More about this can be found here. He also explained the focus of the project -- job growth (approx. 40,000 new jobs will be created), corporate retention, economic development, and land preservation.
In short, he said that of the 1500 acres controlled by the May family, 453 would be developed and 900+ acres will be preserved by the Tennessee Land Trust. Within the 453 developed acres, there would be a 113-acre core, where the bulk of the new structures will be; these will include offices, residences, retail, and hotels. This "mini-city" would accommodate approximately 44,000 people -- 40,000 workers and 4,000 permanent residents.
In his words, the development of the land across the river, comprising 1500 acres, "will happen one way or another." The issue now is access -- where to put a bridge. The attendees of last night's meeting, most of them residents of Charlotte Park and surrounding neighborhoods, including residents of Bell's Bend, strenuously voiced their opposition to the construction of a bridge through this neighborhood. Plans for the proposed bridge, located between Upton (in Beacon Square) and Annex, can be found here. Instead, neighbors encouraged Giarratana to build the bridge in the Centennial Boulevard area, near the prisons, where there are fewer homes which would be affected by the noise and traffic. He assured the neighbors that he and his partners would heed their request and investigate that possibility.
No plans were made for subsequent meetings, although several neighborhood associations, including the Charlotte Park Neighborhood Association, were present and will keep their neighbors informed. To receive updates from the May Town Center developers directly and/or to leave a comment/ask a question, go here to sign up.
The Charlotte Park Neighborhood Association has its next regular monthly meeting on Thursday, March 20 at 7pm, at the West Nashville police precinct on Charlotte, located in front of Nashville West. These meetings occur monthly, on the third Thursday of the month.
Kate Wingate
Tony Giarratana, the developer, started off by giving a presentation about the history of the project, now called the May Town Center, and outlining the proposed structure of the development. More about this can be found here. He also explained the focus of the project -- job growth (approx. 40,000 new jobs will be created), corporate retention, economic development, and land preservation.
In short, he said that of the 1500 acres controlled by the May family, 453 would be developed and 900+ acres will be preserved by the Tennessee Land Trust. Within the 453 developed acres, there would be a 113-acre core, where the bulk of the new structures will be; these will include offices, residences, retail, and hotels. This "mini-city" would accommodate approximately 44,000 people -- 40,000 workers and 4,000 permanent residents.
In his words, the development of the land across the river, comprising 1500 acres, "will happen one way or another." The issue now is access -- where to put a bridge. The attendees of last night's meeting, most of them residents of Charlotte Park and surrounding neighborhoods, including residents of Bell's Bend, strenuously voiced their opposition to the construction of a bridge through this neighborhood. Plans for the proposed bridge, located between Upton (in Beacon Square) and Annex, can be found here. Instead, neighbors encouraged Giarratana to build the bridge in the Centennial Boulevard area, near the prisons, where there are fewer homes which would be affected by the noise and traffic. He assured the neighbors that he and his partners would heed their request and investigate that possibility.
No plans were made for subsequent meetings, although several neighborhood associations, including the Charlotte Park Neighborhood Association, were present and will keep their neighbors informed. To receive updates from the May Town Center developers directly and/or to leave a comment/ask a question, go here to sign up.
The Charlotte Park Neighborhood Association has its next regular monthly meeting on Thursday, March 20 at 7pm, at the West Nashville police precinct on Charlotte, located in front of Nashville West. These meetings occur monthly, on the third Thursday of the month.
Kate Wingate
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