It looks to me that if Karl Dean has his way (which he usually does) on the future of the fairgrounds, Metro will sell off nearly all of the non-flood-plain land to private real estate interests while trying to get credit for cleaning up flood-risk creek basin that would not be real-estate-amenable anyway. The big chunks of public property the Mayor intends to privatize for short-term sales tax relief are highlighted below.
I don't have a dog in the fight on the questions of auto racing or an expo center, I just do not think that Metro should jettison valuable public land wholesale to private special interests. And as a taxpaying Nashvillian, I do not appreciate the heavy-handedness used to ram this through, especially with no consideration of Antioch neighborhoods.
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