[Updated]: Nearly 100 Residential Acres To Go Commercial In Oak Hill

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[Updated, Dec. 13, 2013]
The City of Oak Hill public hearing and scheduled vote regarding the proposed commercial development district ordinance scheduled for Dec. 19, 2013 has been cancelled, according to the city’s website.
The item will still be on the agenda for discussion at the city’s regular monthly Board of Commissioners meeting on Thurs. at 5pm.; however, the commercial development ordinance cannot be approved without the required public hearing.
 
[Previous story, Dec. 5, 2013]
Only three votes separate 94.51 acres of the Southeastern portion of Oak Hill from becoming a “General Retail and Mixed-Use development area.”
The neighborhood, near the intersection of Franklin Pike and Old Hickory Blvd. in Brentwood, TN, is a sought after locale for many musicians, songwriters and industry executives. The peaceful and scenic surroundings are adjacent to Radnor Lake State Natural Area. This parcel of homes also include a residence once lived in by Country legend Waylon Jennings.
According to the City of Oak Hill website, a public hearing will be held next Tues., Dec. 10, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the City Office (5548 Franklin Pike, Suite 101) to focus on the potential commercial development district.
MusicRow has also confirmed with City Manager, Kevin Helms, that a second public hearing and expected vote on the ordinance will be held on Thurs. Dec. 19th, two business days before Christmas Eve. According to Helms, the three votes needed for the ordinance to pass will be made by Mayor Austin McMullen (Austin.McMullen@oakhilltn.us), a lawyer with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, Vice Mayor Jennifer Claxton (Jennifer.Claxton@oakhilltn.us), a licensed Realtor with Pilkerton Realtors, and Commissioner Kyle Felts (kylefelts@gmail.com), owner of Felts and Jackson Real Estate.
MusicRow inquired with several of the homeowners in the area who were not aware of the pending ordinance or scheduled hearings and vote. According to the City office, officials have been working on this for two years.
Click below for more detailed information or contact City of Oak Hill office at (615) 371-8291.
General Retail and Mixed-Use Map
Ordinance No. 13-16 Commercial Zoning Document
General Retail Zoning District Document
Mixed-Use Zoning District Document

Industry Ink (12/5/13)

photo-1Oklahoma brothers The Swon Brothers have been hard at work in the studio on their debut Arista Nashville CD, due out next year. The Voice favorites from season 4 of the popular singing competition recently gave label staffers a sample of their new song “Later On,” which the duo will perform when they return to the show on Dec. 10 on NBC.

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Brandon Lay


Jackson, Tenn. native Brandon Lay has inked a worldwide publishing agreement with Warner/Chappell Music.
Lay has built a strong following around the SEC and is an up-and-coming artist.

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Don Murry Grubbs


Don Murry Grubbs has relocated his Absolute Publicity offices to 800 18th Ave S, Nashville 37203. Phone number remains the same.
 

Cumulus Refinances $2.23 Billion Debt

cumulus-logo-222featuredYesterday (Dec. 4), Cumulus Media Holdings set terms on a $2.23 billion loan to refinance debt within the company. According to Thompson Reuters, LPC, Cumulus is marketing a $200 million five-year revolver and a $2.025 billion seven year first lien term loan.
Cumulus has set pricing of LIB +325-350 with a 1% Libor floor and 99.5 issue discount on the new loan. The company hopes to refinance its first and second lien loans. As of September’13, Cumulus owed $1.24 billion on its first lien loan due Sept’18 and $785.5 million on its second lien loan due Sept’19.
Carl Salas, VP and Senior Credit Officer at Moody’s Investors Services, commented on the company’s situation, saying, “It’s a meaningful improvement in their annual debt service. They will save upwards of $30-35 million in interest costs which adds nicely to their free cash flow generation.”
Moody’s has given Cumulus a B2 corporate family rating and the new $2.025 billion first lien term loan a B1 rating.

Luxury Apartment Development Coming To Division Street

logoMore luxury apartments will be available in the downtown area soon when Charlotte, N.C.-based Crescent Communities breaks ground on a new 280-unit luxury apartment development off Division Street, according to the Tennessean. Crescent reportedly has plans to purchase the project’s needed properties, including a building at 1205 Division St. where property management firm First Management Services is headquartered.
The development will include five levels of residential apartments over 7,500 square feet of retail space on the first level. There will be 195 one-bedroom units, 84 two-bedroom units and one large three-bedroom apartment. The area is seemingly becoming the hot new area for housing, with several other apartment projects planned or already going up in the area. A luxury complex helmed by Ray Hensler is now under construction in the Gulch, and SoBro is getting a similar project from Tony Giarrantana as well.

Primetime 'Nashville': "Tired Of Pretending"

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Season 2, Episode 9:
“Since when is Layla allowed to give herself an encore?” says Juliette Barnes from her backstage dressing room during a tour stop. So begins another round of the Juliette-Layla catfight. Juliette retaliates by flipping Layla’s and Will’s opening sets–ensuring that country stud Will plays to more fans each night than the brunette television music competition darling.
Meanwhile, rich media mogul Charlie Wentworth joins Juliette on the road again, determined to get her back. He even divorces his wife Olivia to prove his loyalty to the country singer. Meanwhile, Layla becomes intent on getting into Wentworth’s good graces–and further angering Juliette–by flirting with him in front of Juliette. The move doesn’t go over well, and Will Lexington gets a shock during his next performance. As he turns to welcome Layla onstage to perform a song with him, Juliette grabs the mic from Layla and walks onstage for duet and praises Will in front of the crowd.
One of Will’s business execs is watching from the side of the stage and later shares his observation with Will: “You’re dealing with a diva and a diva-in-training.” Juliette’s manager, who has been trying to work with Layla’s manager to resolve issues between the two singers is none too happy, either. Once again, we see hints of Juliette’s own lingering immaturity as she responds, “She started it!”
Things get heated between Deacon Claybourne and Teddy Conrad as each grapples with how to be part of Maddie’s life. Maddie asks biological father Deacon to give her guitar lessons and he reluctantly agrees. This angers Teddy, who sees Deacon as unstable and a bad influence. “He wasn’t there for the ups and downs. I was,” said Teddy. Teddy’s anger peaks during a performance at Nashville’s Two Old Hippies, when Maddie brings Deacon onstage to sing one of his old songs, “A Life That’s Good,” with her. As Deacon leaves the venue after the performance, Teddy follows and an argument ensues. Teddy says Deacon needs to pay for the damage he’s done to their family, while Deacon takes Teddy to task for marrying his mistress and then asking his daughters to sing at the wedding. Of course, Maddie sees all of this and runs away, later telling Rayna she’s not sure if she wants to know either man.
Rayna lays down the law with Deacon and Teddy, telling them that Maddie loves them both and they need to work things out. They both agree, but Teddy has his own plans. At the end of the episode, Mayor Teddy quietly makes a call to have Deacon’s name taken off the list of performers at the upcoming Music City Music Festival in Nashville.
While both Scarlett O’Connor and Gunnar Scott are on the Luke Wheeler tour, Scarlett begins to envy the close relationship that Gunnar, Zoey and Avery Barkley have forged from working together at the Bluebird. When Zoey and Avery visit during a tour stop, lovebirds Gunnar and Zoey decide they should tell Scarlett about the relationship. Unfortunately, that confession doesn’t come quickly enough; Scarlett walks in on Zoey and Gunnar kissing at the hotel.
Lamar Wyatt pushes the court for house arrest instead of spending his time behind bars. He asks daughter Rayna to be a character witness. Rayna tries to pawn the job off on her sister Tandy, citing Tandy’s generally closer relationship with Lamar. Of course, Rayna doesn’t know that Tandy is the one who leaked the information that led to Lamar’s arrest. After Tandy is a no-show to the court appearance, Rayna stands and testifies that despite her strained relations with father Lamar, he is not a flight risk. The judge denies his request for house arrest anyway.
According to next week’s promo, Layla gets revenge on Juliette by leaving an anonymous tip with the press that Juliette is the reason behind the Charlie and Olivia Wentworth divorce. In a dramatic ending, the announcer reveals that another character will die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6wqnJgsD2A

'CMT Artists of the Year' Earns High Ratings Marks

Pictured (L-R, Seated): Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, Brian Kelley (Florida Georgia Line), Tyler Hubbard (Florida Georgia Line), Hunter Hayes, Luke Bryan; (Front): Ron White

Pictured (L-R, Seated): Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, Brian Kelley (Florida Georgia Line), Tyler Hubbard (Florida Georgia Line), Hunter Hayes, Luke Bryan; (Front): Ron White


CMT Artists of the Year made its first-ever live telecast from Nashville’s Music City Center on Dec. 3, and posted the highest ratings in the show’s four-year history. According to early numbers from Nielsen, ratings were up 81 percent over last year among persons 18-49. CMT.com also saw its streams rise 277 percent from 2012.
White hosting, CMT Artists of the Year celebrated the achievements of Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes and Tim McGraw in 90-minute live special which included special appearances and performances.

[Updated]: Office Tower, Entertainment Venue Confirmed for Nashville Convention Center Site

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A rendering of the redeveloped space at the site of the old Nashville Convention Center.


Nashville’s downtown convention center site will soon be redeveloped. A proposal from Cushman & Wakefield/Cornerstone, and a team led by Pat Emery, has been accepted by Metro, and will require the demolition of the existing convention center, to then be replaced by a tower boasting between 480,000 and 840,000-square-feet of office space. The new building will also include underground parking and entertainment complexes. A plaza-like setting along Fifth Avenue will provide a new showcase for the Ryman Auditorium. The projected cost for the new tower and plaza is $230 million.
“This plan maximizes this prime location in the heart of our downtown tourism and entertainment district by bringing in more places to shop, eat, visit and work,” said Mayor Karl Dean. “The retail component and office tower will round out what we know could make our downtown an even more vibrant destination. There is growing demand for high quality office space, and we also know that conventioneers, visitors and local residents want to do more shopping while they’re downtown.”

The project has a commitment to meet or exceed 20 percent minority or disadvantaged business throughout development and construction. The building will feature a 50,000-square-foot National Museum of African American Music and a 69,000-square-foot conference center. Two levels will feature up to 244,000 square feet of retail, entertainment, dining and activity space. The entire development is projected to top of 1.2 million square feet.
Emery-led Cushman & Wakefield/Cornerstone will oversee marketing and leasing of the office space portion of the building, while other team members include engineering company Gresham Smith and Partners, general contractor Skanska, PR firm Hall Strategies and landscape architecture company Hawkins Partners.
Construction is estimated to begin in 2017, with an opening tentatively slated for 2019.

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A rendering of the redeveloped space at the site of the old Nashville Convention Center.

Danielle Bradbery The New Face of Skechers

danielle bradbery111Big Machine Label Group’s Danielle Bradbery, the 17-year-old winner of Season 4 of NBC’s The Voice, has been named the new face of Skechers. Bradbery will appear in the company’s global marketing and social media campaigns through 2015. She will make her first appearance in the Spring 2014 television and print ad campaign for the footwear line, BOBS from Skechers.
“Danielle [Bradbery] is a breakout star and we’re thrilled to have SKECHERS at the starting gate of her incredible career,” began Michael Greenberg, President of Skechers. “With a Top 20 hit under her belt, she’s clearly talented and definitely one to watch. We see the same massive potential in Danielle as we did in Carrie Underwood when we signed her several years ago, and we are excited to be a part of Danielle’s career from the start.”
“This has been an incredible year—I never thought I would have a record deal so quickly and appear in campaigns for Skechers,” said Bradbery. “BOBS shoes have helped so many children in need with their donation program and I love the fact that it really is a simple way for anyone to give back. There is so much need out there and it’s wonderful to be part of such a positive movement that impacts people’s lives.”

No. 1 Party: Billy Currington's "Hey Girl"

Pictured (L-R, Back row): Combustion's Chris Van Belkom, Sony/ATV's Josh Van Valkenburg, BMI's Leslie Roberts, ASCAP's LeAnn Phelan, producer Dann Huff, Combustion's Chris Farren, Warner/Chappell's Steve Markland and UMG's Mike Dungan. Pictured (L-R, Front row): Songwriters Rhett Akins and Ashley Gorley, Billy Currington and songwriter Chris DeStefano. Photo by Ed Rode.

Pictured (L-R, Back row): Combustion’s Chris Van Belkom, Sony/ATV’s Josh Van Valkenburg, BMI’s Leslie Roberts, ASCAP’s LeAnn Phelan, producer Dann Huff, Combustion’s Chris Farren, Warner/Chappell’s Steve Markland and UMG’s Mike Dungan. Pictured (L-R, Front row): Songwriters Rhett Akins and Ashley Gorley, Billy Currington and songwriter Chris DeStefano. Photo by Ed Rode.


ASCAP, BMI and the Country Music Association celebrated the creative team behind ASCAP songwriter-artist Billy Currington‘s eighth No. 1 song, “Hey Girl,” during a celebration at the CMA offices on Tuesday, Dec. 3. ASCAP songwriters Ashley Gorley and Chris DeStefano celebrated their 12th and 3rd chart-toppers, respectively, while BMI songwriter Rhett Akins was honored for his 14th. Combustion Music’s Chris Farren, Sony/ATV’s Josh Van Valkenburg and Warner/Chappell’s Steve Markland, as well as UMG Nashville’s Mike Dungan, were among those in attendance to honor the songwriters. Avenue Bank made a donation to the Boys and Girls Club of Tennessee on behalf of all the song’s writers.
The CMA office’s main hallway was already decked for the holidays, adding to the party’s festive atmosphere.
Producer Dann Huff was feted for earning his 37th chart-topper as a producer. “The understatement is how great this demo was. It was nearly a record handed to us,” said Huff. Huff first worked with Currington on Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee album.  “I don’t know how you got that voice, but the first time we stepped into the studio, it was electric,” he told Currington.
Dungan thanked the entire label radio promotions staff, and commented on Currington’s vocal talents. “I always knew Billy was a great singer,” said Dungan,”but until I worked with him, I didn’t realize what an incredible vocal stylist he is.”
Akins recalled first meeting Currington several years ago in Nashville. “He was new to town and had this jacked up pickup truck. He kept asking me for advice about things–‘Should I hire an agent? Should I get a manager?’ The only advice I have now for him is to keep cutting my songs,” Akins quipped.

Kenny and Dolly Get Personal In Great American Country Special

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Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton share the secrets to their chemistry and their 30-year friendship in a new GAC special, Kenny & Dolly: An Intimate Conversation, set to air Monday, Dec. 9. at 9 p.m. ET.
The two chat about their instant rapport while recording their first song, “Islands In The Stream,” together three decades ago, and how their relationship has endured through 30 years of changes. Their new duet, “You Can’t Make Old Friends,” seems tailor-made for their friendship, and Parton says the song instantly struck a chord with her the first time she heard it. “When I heard the demo I cried because I thought so much about us and so much of many of my other dear friends.”
“To bring viewers a truly unique and remarkable chat between these amazing artists is incredible in and of itself,” said Suzanne Gordon, vice president of programming for Great American Country. “What makes this even more personal is that it isn’t moderated. You have these performers who transcend genre and category, who are larger-than-life figures in American pop culture, just sitting together and having a conversation. It’s really special.”
In a humorous moment during the taping, Parton reveals the secret to their long friendship and enduring relationship. ““It’s like with my husband; we’re not together that much so it works.”