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ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT GRANTS
OCTOBER 17, 2024 | VOLUME 36 | NUMBER 41
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Green Hills intersection realignment project faces delay
NDOT works through legal process to procure mall land needed for work to align Crestmoor, Glen Echo roads NICOLLE S. PRAINO
The property now offers the current state flags of both the Confederacy and Union states that participated in the Battle of Nashville. PHOTO: HAMILTON MATTHEW MASTERS
Confederate flags removed from I-65-area site
Private property once offered controversial statue of KKK leader WILLIAM WILLIAMS The Crieve Hall property running along Interstate 65 and on which once stood a controversial statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest has seen the removal of 13 flags honoring the Confederacy and the Battle of Nashville. An LLC owns the 3.59-acre property, having paid $420,000 for it in April 2023, Metro records note. The address is 701 Hogan Road. A trust involving the estate of the late William “Bill” Dorris willed the bulk of
the property in April 2020 to the Battle of Nashville Trust (BONT). Dorris died in November 2020, garnering national headlines for setting up the trust, reportedly valued at $5 million, for his border collie Lulu. The Dorris will stipulated that nonprofit organization Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) control the flags and their poles via a 99-year deed (and accessed via an easement on the property). As noted, the Battle of Nashville Trust sold the property 1.5 years ago to an LLC
affiliated with Philip Lindsley, who owns a local business that handles custom auto work and vehicle stereo installation. The 2023 sale stipulated that the flag poles and flags remain on the site, as dictated by the Dorris will and its legally binding contract with the SCV. Years ago, Dorris enlisted Jack Kershaw — a co-founder and board member of the League of the South — to create the statue that has since been removed. This fiberglass art piece offered a sword-and-gun-wielding Forrest sitting astride a rearing >> PAGE 2
The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure is working to procure a piece of The Mall at Green Hills Mall property for its longplanned project to align Crestmoor and Glen Echo roads. Metro councilmembers Jeff Preptit and Sandy Ewing, whose Districts 25 and 34 converge at Crestmoor, told the Post that as NDOT worked to acquire the property, the appraisal process resulted in a price Metro did not agree with. The Mall at Green Hills parent company, an LLC affiliated with Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based The Taubman Company, owns the property, with a main address of 2114 Green Hills Village Drive. The property offers a building home to Carrabba’s, among other businesses, though that structure is not needed. Specifically, Metro needs the northeast segment of the overall property, which serves as a minor entrance via Hillsboro Pike to the mall. Preptit told The News that NDOT is working through the court process of eminent domain to acquire the property. “Both myself and councilmember Ewing are both consistently monitoring the situation and making sure that this does not fall through the cracks because this is something that Metro has been working on for a long time,” Preptit said. “Just because there are delays does not mean that things are not being done.” According to NDOT public information coordinator Brendan Scully, >> PAGE 2
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