Comments on: 16-months, Four-hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, and a Perfectly Good Plan Goes Down the Drain http://www.liberadio.com/2009/03/10/16-months-four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollars-and-a-perfectly-good-plan-goes-down-the-drain/ with Mary Mancini & Freddie O'Connell Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Nashville residents angry at Mayor Dean over Riverfront plan « Nashville Is Talking http://www.liberadio.com/2009/03/10/16-months-four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollars-and-a-perfectly-good-plan-goes-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-150808 Nashville residents angry at Mayor Dean over Riverfront plan « Nashville Is Talking Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:27:07 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=2982#comment-150808 [...] Liberadio(!) Consultants are paid a lot of money - in the case of this riverfront redevelopment plan, upwards of $450,000 - to come up with innovative ideas on improving vastly underutilized and/or contaminated public lands. Hargreaves Associates, the company hired to develop Nashville’s riverfront redevelopment project, was charged with the task of establishing a plan that included a well-thought out sequencing of projects. A project sequence cannot solely be based on what a city might want to build first. Instead, it must take into consideration other specifics like cost and environmental impact. And when changes to a plan are considered, a consultant is usually the first person called to reevaluate the sequence, keeping in mind both the environmental impact and the potential for an increase in expense. [...] [...] Liberadio(!) Consultants are paid a lot of money – in the case of this riverfront redevelopment plan, upwards of $450,000 – to come up with innovative ideas on improving vastly underutilized and/or contaminated public lands. Hargreaves Associates, the company hired to develop Nashville’s riverfront redevelopment project, was charged with the task of establishing a plan that included a well-thought out sequencing of projects. A project sequence cannot solely be based on what a city might want to build first. Instead, it must take into consideration other specifics like cost and environmental impact. And when changes to a plan are considered, a consultant is usually the first person called to reevaluate the sequence, keeping in mind both the environmental impact and the potential for an increase in expense. [...]

]]> By: A Few Things that Freak Me Out « Tiny Cat Pants http://www.liberadio.com/2009/03/10/16-months-four-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollars-and-a-perfectly-good-plan-goes-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-150797 A Few Things that Freak Me Out « Tiny Cat Pants Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:10:55 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=2982#comment-150797 [...] 2.  So, we spent a bunch of money and time as a city to come up with a plan for what to do with the river front and we’d settled on something everyone seemed happy with (including a forest, which tickles me so much because it seems to have just a little touch of whimsy to it in a way that appeals to me) and the Mayor is being a giant douchebag. [...] [...] 2.  So, we spent a bunch of money and time as a city to come up with a plan for what to do with the river front and we’d settled on something everyone seemed happy with (including a forest, which tickles me so much because it seems to have just a little touch of whimsy to it in a way that appeals to me) and the Mayor is being a giant douchebag. [...]

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