March 30, 2015
Metro's deal for convention center site: Sweetheart, or sensible?
On Friday morning, I was driving to a press conference downtown about a signed agreement to redevelop Nashville’s original convention center. That’s when I got a call from a leader of one of the four teams that also had bid for the rights to the same site.
Metro instead chose to award the exclusive development rights to a group led by longtime local developer Pat Emery, president of Spectrum|Emery Inc. But the point one of the losing bidders made to me was legitimate still the same: It sure looked…