{"id":672799,"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.com\/index\/672799","title":{"rendered":"Eminent Domain Strikes Sour Note in Tenn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 269px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12455\" title=\"IMG00202-20100223-1213\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/02\/IMG00202-20100223-1213-259x194.jpg?resize=259%2C194\" alt=\"Musicians Hall of Fame, Nashville\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musicians Hall of Fame, Nashville<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After four years in business, the Musicians Hall of Fame is closing its doors.<\/p>\n<p>A judge ruled that Nashville&#8217;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<p>What remains in dispute is compensation for the private museum&#8217;s owner, Joe Chambers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pay us what it would cost us to replace what we&#8217;ve got where we are,&#8221; Chambers said.<\/p>\n<p>Metro has offered Chambers $4.8 million\u00a0 &#8212; 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&#8217;s bustling tourist district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tourist driven venue,&#8221; Chambers said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t put it somewhere that&#8217;s not where the tourists are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Metro officials said they are sympathetic to Chambers, but also must be good stewards of the taxpayers&#8217; money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to make offers that are based on independent, fair, reasonable appraisals,&#8221; said Metro Attorney Brian Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve managed to reach agreement with the overwhelming majority of property owners that are going to be affected by this project,&#8221; Jackson said. &#8220;So, I&#8217;m confident that at the end of the day we&#8217;ll reach an agreement with Mr. Chambers as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians Hall of Fame, Nashville After four years in business, the Musicians Hall of Fame is closing its doors. A judge ruled that Nashville&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2899,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2P1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}