Nashville's leadership had drawn up plans for a new courthouse months ago, which has been put off once already, pending funds. Now the substantial project may be put off one more time, as the Dec. 11 deadline for the budget. The House and Senate must make a decision by then not just on the future of the courthouse project, which is set to cost a staggering $181 million over the course of a long construction deadline, but on other fiscal matters to avoid a federal government shutdown. Unfortunately, the current impasse is so strong that tensions are running high regarding potential agreements.
The long-delayed Nashville courthouse plan would set the new building along Church Street between the intersections of Eighth Ave and Seventh Ave. Interestingly,
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