The Murfreesboro City Council agreed Thursday to pursue a long-term park and school on the west side that is another through a proposed land change with Middle Tennessee Electric.
The city would industrialize about 116 acres of usable land for what had been planned as “Blackman Park” adjacent to Interstate 840 and Veterans Parkway for about 149 acres consistent with the mile south of veterans’ east face, Mayor Shane McFarland said.
“We would take their assets for a park and a site,” said McFarland, who chairs the seven-member council meetings.
The City Council will allow city staff to negotiate the land swap during 6 p. m. Thursday Assembly Session at city hall.
City officials discussed earlier this year reducing the zoning for Blackman Park to 15 acres. That plan included rezoning remaining advertising assets to attract offices to what a city representative ranked as Murfreesboro’s first economic progress site.
McFarland said he came up with the concept of a land change to allow the city to build a larger network park closer to the citizens of Murfreesboro on the fast-growing west side.
“We get an asset that’s only around the city’s neighborhoods and we have a network park where other people can walk,” McFarland said, adding that existing MTE assets are adjacent to the residential subdivisions The Cloister and Berkshire.
“It’s a deal for everyone. “
MTE President Chris Jones, the proposed land swap.
“We are more than pleased to explore this with the city,” said Jones, who is also MTE’s executive leader. “This turns out to be a mutually favorable concept that can have a positive effect on our community. “
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In 2016, the city council bought the city’s assets for more than $4. 9 million. Elected also spent around $1 million on the design of Blackman Park and held network meetings for land also delimited through Blackman, Burnt Knob and Vaughn Roads.
City officials, however, laged behind in the schedule structure due to allocation prices rising from about $27 million to more than $40 million. , multi-purpose courts for tennis, basketball and other sports, an amphitheater and a 1. 5-mile walking trail.
The city is expected to have about $8 million to pursue new designs and initial structure plans for the park on MTE’s existing property, the mayor said.
“It takes us out of the industry,” McFarland said.
MTE purchased its land in 2014 to build a new headquarters before the City Council’s Murfreesboro electric branch in 2020.
The app serving 750,000 citizens of Williamson, Wilson, Rutherford, Cannon and surrounding county spaces would have a greater ability to market the city’s existing assets for offices, according to a calendar report through City Manager Craig Tindall.
“Because City Parcel is very visual from I-840 with the launch of Veterans Parkway, its highest use is obviously business progression,” the Tindall report said. “MTE also works extensively in the domain of economic progression with TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), the state, and the Middle Tennessee Industrial Development Board. “
The City and rutherford County Chamber of Commerce will continue to seek economic progress for the property, Tindall said.
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