$100 Million Investment Will Bring Jobs, Opportunity to Hendersonville

 Music City Studios, with a capital investment set at more than $100 million, is fully funded and the planned facilities are more than 60 percent preleased, according to an announcement detailing the project.

Developers say the campus will create more than 800 jobs — either through expansion, relocation, or new directly because of production and facility capacity – within the next five years.

As a comparison, Xtend Healthcare, the city’s largest employer, currently employs around 800 full-time employees. MGM Industries, the city’s largest manufacturer, has around 265 employees.

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A Comeback ... Eventually

Jolly Ollie's WILL be back. Just a little later than planned ... because of COVID-19, of course.
The Hendersonville Standard has more:

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Jolly Ollie’s has been unable to schedule their final inspection for re-opening. 

An original reopen date of July 12 will need to be pushed back until Aug. 12 to give the electrical company enough time to have their final inspections. 

“As soon as we can get those inspections done, we will be ready to reopen,” Jolly Ollie’s owner Dilya Knight told the Hendersonville Standard. “I don’t foresee this taking four weeks to get an inspection, but I want to give us enough leeway if any problems arise.”

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Davis Named City Administrator

Hendersonville’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted Tuesday night to appoint Carmen Davis as City Administrator. Here’s more from the Hendersonville Standard:

A former county administrator who also spent a decade as a city planner in Detroit, Mich., has been picked to be Hendersonville’s first city administrator.

Carmen Davis, who served for nearly 10 years as the county administrator in Hinds County, Miss., until a new Board of Supervisors voted her out earlier this year, was appointed to the newly created position by a 9 to 4 vote on Tuesday.

The appointment by the city’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen via Zoom followed a nearly two-hour discussion about the problems the city is having with Waste Pro, the company responsible for trash pick-up.

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County Moves to Save Comer Barn

The Hendersonville Standard reports that the Sumner County Commission is moving forward with steps to preserve the Comer Barn:

County leaders took a small step on Monday toward preserving the Comer Barn, a historic structure between Hendersonville and Gallatin that was deeded to the county nearly four years ago. 

The 8,500 square-feet Tennessee Walking Horse barn built in the 1930’s was deeded to Sumner County by Rogers Group, which operates an adjacent quarry, in March 2016 contingent on several conditions. The county also leases the Comer House next to the barn from Rogers Group for office space for the Sumner County tourism and visitor’s bureau.

During a budget committee meeting on Monday, Chairman Chris Taylor proposed a resolution to hire a consultant to evaluate the aging structure and determine what’s needed to protect it from further deterioration.  

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Clary's Magical Meeting

Perhaps nothing better demonstrates Hendersonville Mayor Jamie Clary's incompetence than the recent exchange over whether or not and when to have a BOMA meeting.

The Tennessean has more on this situation that is an embarrassment to our fair city:

There was much ado about a special-called meeting of the City of Hendersonville Board of Mayor and Alderman held Friday to appropriate funds for repairs to Mary's Magical Place, which was damaged in recent flooding.

The board voted to appropriate general funds for the repairs, which will be reimbursed by insurance.

Dozens of emails were exchanged between Mayor Jamie Clary and aldermen regarding the need — or lack thereof — to cancel the board's regularly scheduled March 26 meeting.

Canceling the March 26 meeting was not necessary. Enough board members for a quorum responded to Clary affirming they could attend.

But Clary canceled anyway, scheduling a special-called meeting for March 18.

Not enough board members attended that meeting for a quorum, but many reiterated they could attend the regular meeting. Clary instead scheduled a second special-called meeting for March 22, going so far as to email Fire Chief Scotty Bush to ask him to have firefighters on hand to assist one of the aldermen facing health issues into City Hall from his car.

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