UPDATE 1 AT&T HOME INTERNET IS OUT. Appears related. Didn't go out until several hours later and is still out. Based on the evidence so far this appears to have been a very targeted attack on infrastructure and not people. Very odd still leaves actual motive in question. Vunity which is a business ISP is apparently in that building as well. Some are stating they have something to do with COVID tech.
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Update 2: Very good ariel footage from local news channel and witness who lives across the street sounds believable from her account The building that appears to be the target is supposedly an ATT data center. No markings on the building and I've never know that to be the case so can't confirm. Hopefully another TN pede can confirm.
Update 3: new video showing a different angle cannot confirm authenticity, but expert analysis by combat veterans (not me) says its a rocket plum.
OP: Being familiar with the area i can assure you that if someone was going to bomb DT nashville they picked the stupidest area possible. Just blocks over were all the areas packed with bars, capital buildings, residential areas, etc... where that bomb went off was a shitty area of DT begging to be revived. The area hit is typically busy in tourist seasons but was dead last night and is a shit hole compared to the rest of DT.
What's oddly suspect is that the Mayor (cuck dem) and a developer recently (last week) came to agreement to revitalize that adjacent area (river front) of DT with multi million dollar funding. Definitely pulling on conspiracy theory strings here but its very odd....that was basically the last area of town that hadn't gotten a face lift and was likely being held by the owners who i bet are far more likely to let it go now that its all fucked up and may even be able to cash out on insurance. We should dig...
EDIT: Comments for the shill fucks below who keep trying to paint the picture that 2nd Ave is Time square NYC level of busy. The area this bomb went off in is lively in tourists season but in the off season and as of LAST NIGHT WHEN I WAS FUCKING THERE IN PERSON it was a ghost town due to it being off season, 27 degrees, and snowing. So everyone trying to make it seem like this was time Square has no idea what the fuck they are talking about.
Also the development from the article below while focused on an area across the river and further north is part of a larger effort to revitalize the river front as a whole. There is a fucking four seasons being built just down the road and that area where it went off is all older buildings with prime realestate that is water front but all the building backs face the water so any realestate developer who has a brain is staring at those buildings and seeing dollar signs for their water front view potential.
RELATED ARTICLE TO WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT: News article about river front project
OP is mistaken.
Looking at photos, this bomb went off on 2nd Ave. between Commerce St. & Church St., one of the most developed and touristy blocks in town.
The area of 2nd Ave. he is thinking about is well to the northwest, on the other side of the Metro courthouse.
No I'm fucking not. I was there last night it was dead as fuck.
It was Christmas Eve. The area is usually extremely busy on normal weekend nights. It might not be as busy as it was 20 years ago but it is not dead all the time.