Fairgrounds Won't Help Nashville Compete with Williamson County

When the task force Mayor Karl Dean created to "study" the fairgrounds, part of the discussion was having  spots in Nashville that could compete with Williamson County.

Dean's cronies and lapdogs say the Tennessee State Fairgrounds is the ticket. They are wrong. At best the fairgrounds would attract a call center or maybe a company in the industrial sector. But a corporate headquarters of the kind that choose Franklin? Hardly. 

It's a fantastical justification for killing the Tennessee State Fair and the fairgrounds to think that a company of the caliber of Nissan would choose that site over a Williamson County or another corporate-campus like spot in Nashville, if one truly existed. 

If Dean and his cronies succeed, Nashville will have a blank space near downtown, no Tennessee State Fair in the county and a floundering flea market at Hickory Hollow Mall.