{"id":352965,"date":"2010-02-23T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=12405"},"modified":"2010-02-23T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:30:33","slug":"eminent-domain-strikes-sour-note-in-tenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352965","title":{"rendered":"Eminent Domain Strikes Sour Note in Tenn"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Musicians<\/p>\n

Musicians Hall of Fame, Nashville<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After four years in business, the Musicians Hall of Fame is closing its doors.<\/p>\n

A judge ruled that Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency could take possession of the property through eminent domain to build the Music City Center, a $585 million convention facility scheduled to open in 2013.<\/p>\n

What remains in dispute is compensation for the private museum’s owner, Joe Chambers.<\/p>\n

“Pay us what it would cost us to replace what we’ve got where we are,” Chambers said.<\/p>\n

Metro has offered Chambers $4.8 million\u00a0 — the estimated fair market value of the property. But Chambers said he needs nearly twice that amount if his museum is to relocate within Nashville’s bustling tourist district.<\/p>\n

“This is a tourist driven venue,” Chambers said. “You can’t put it somewhere that’s not where the tourists are.”<\/p>\n

Metro officials said they are sympathetic to Chambers, but also must be good stewards of the taxpayers’ money.<\/p>\n

“We have to make offers that are based on independent, fair, reasonable appraisals,” said Metro Attorney Brian Jackson.<\/p>\n

Project managers and Nashville government officials said they are considering a proposal to house the Musicians Hall of Fame inside the new convention center. Chambers said he has set to see any offers in writing, but remains cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n

“We’ve managed to reach agreement with the overwhelming majority of property owners that are going to be affected by this project,” Jackson said. “So, I’m confident that at the end of the day we’ll reach an agreement with Mr. Chambers as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musicians Hall of Fame, Nashville After four years in business, the Musicians Hall of Fame is closing its doors. A judge ruled that Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency could take possession of the property through eminent domain to build the Music City Center, a $585 million convention facility scheduled to open in 2013. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}