NASHVILLE, Tenn. – To reach the main entrance of the Grand Hyatt Hotel where SEC Football Media Days are being held this week, the local DOT detours traffic three blocks north in a single lane traveling between concrete barricades, directs it into a U-turn, then brings it back three blocks in the opposite direction to 10th Avenue. Once inside the 25-floor hotel, one can look west off from the rooftop bar toward the Broadway honky-tonks and find 10 massive boom cranes in immediate view, all of them occupying different construction sites.
The place called Music City is truly a boom town.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is not one miss such a metaphor. The recent recipient of a contract extension, Sankey compared the “pain and progress” the city of Nashville is enduring to massive changes the conference he oversees is undergoing.
