The Stadium | Ep 2: The Flyover
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The Stadium | Ep 2: The Flyover
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The easy version of Nashville's stadium story is either "it was worth every penny" or "it was a giveaway to a billionaire."
But the truth is more interesting than that.
In The Flyover, we walk through what Nashville actually signed in 1996 — the $294 million package, the buckets engineered to sound narrower than they were, the two-word phrase buried in a 43-year lease that quietly committed the city to a moving target.
Then we go up in Phil Bredesen's imaginary helicopter and look at what the bet bought.
And come back to the ground. To the 57 acres of asphalt across the river. To the riverfront that sat silent six days a week while Nashville boomed all around it.
To the final bill that arrived in 2022 — sent to a Nashville that was no longer the city that signed the original deal.
Episode 2 of Loophole City | The Stadium That Changed a City
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