If you have not tried Marche in east nashville try it. I was there with 18 people for New Years. The food is incredible, the prices are reasonable and the service is awesome. Open for all meals, try my two favorites, french toast and the brie on toast with apples
I hope everyone had a great New Years. I will be doing a much better job of blogging this year. So watch my blog for real estate info and more.
Students at Scales Elementary School are learning early how to give back to their community.
Every year, the students and parent-teacher organization raise money to purchase needed items for the school. They have condensed their fundraising efforts into one event — Step Up and Serve — but they have added a twist to it. Rather than using all of the money for the school, they give 10 percent to a local service agency.
“Every grade adopts a service agency,” said Catherine Stephens, the school’s principal.
Classes will do at least one community service project for that organization during the school year, she explained.
All day Friday, each grade level walked or ran laps around the school parking lot for 30 to 40 minutes. The students were joined by MTSU Lady Raiders basketball players and Mary Scales, an honoree for whom the school is named.
Students will collect pledges for each lap they run and turn their donations in Tuesday and Thursday.
“Our goal is $47,750,” Stephens said. “That’s $1,000 per class and $250 per special needs class.”
So far, the school has raised $46,641.87, leaving a little less than $1,000 to go.
Stephens is optimistic the school will reach its goal.
In 2006, the school placed second in the state for the Junior American Citizens Community Service Project for its Step Up and Serve project.
In October, representatives from the service agencies will come to the school and receive their checks.
“They get to see where their money goes,” said Brenda Lowe, PTO president.
Lowe said the school will give a Heart and Soul award to the child who gives the best, but not necessarily biggest, donation.
Third-grader Nolan Myers said he hopes to raise $1,000 and looks forward to supporting the local agency his class adopted.
“There’s a lot of other people who can’t do things. I think it’s important to help them feel like they can do them,” he said.
Laurie’s Thoughts; Wouldn’t this be nice if it this was done in all schools!
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School addition. Value: $11.9 million. David Brown took out a permit to build an addition to Freedom Intermediate School at 840 Glass Lane.
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FRANKLIN — CBL & Associates Properties, Inc., owner of three Nashville-area malls, announced plans today to build an open-air shopping, dining and entertainment area called The District at CoolSprings Galleria.
The 200,000-square feet of space would feature “a targeted selection of junior anchors, an array of high-fashion boutiques and quality sit-down restaurants in a luxurious outdoor atmosphere,” according to the announcement this morning. The first phase would be ready in 2011.
It would be built on existing parking lots to the north and west of the mall.
“We are pleased to announce plans for this latest enhancement to CoolSprings Galleria, which builds on the success of the center and will cater to the growing upscale demographic,” said Stephen Lebovitz, president of CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.
The annoucement follows development of open-air “streetscape” type centers in Murfreesboro, in west Nashville, and adjacent to the Green Hills Mall.
CBL owns the mall, which was extensively remodeled in 2006, and retail areas to the north, called Cool Springs Crossing.
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Check out the new restaurant Miro located at the bottom if the Adelicia. Try the awesome grilled peaches.
Mayor Karl Dean has reached a deal with developers who plan to revitalize the long-struggling Bellevue Center Mall, offering them $12 million in Metro assistance in exchange for construction of a 32,000-square-foot public library branch on the site.
The Metro Council still has to approve the deal before it can proceed. The council ’s Budget and Finance Committee will discuss the issue at 4 p.m. today.
Foursquare Properties Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif., wants to turn the mall into an open-air “lifestyle center.” Under the tax-increment financing plan, Metro would sell bonds to finance part of the developer’s improvements, then use property taxes from the mall to pay off its debt, meaning the city couldn’t use that money for schools, police or other services until the debt was repaid.
In exchange for the financing, Foursquare would build a Bellevue branch of the Nashville Public Library. Metro Finance Director Rich Riebeling said the developer has agreed to spend up to $4.5 million of the $12 million to build out the old Dillard’s store as a library. Metro will have a 20-year, $1-a-year lease on the space, with four five-year renewal options.
Dean and his aides insisted on getting direct public benefits in return for the city’s assistance, arguing that tax-increment financing for a purely retail project would open the floodgates to demands from developers.
LAURIE’S THOUGHTS; This would be a wonderful addition to our city if done well and would add some much needed tax dollars to Nashville