Neil Orne

Nashville

Freelance Writer, Producer, and Host at Freelance

Father, Former News anchor, pilot, media consultant, podcast host tba

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North Nashville business owner reflects on changes in the neighborhood over the years

Aug 8, 2024 | wkrn.com | Neil Orne

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — David Swett knows all about the restaurant business and whipping up some tasty chicken. “The seasonings you got to get a seasoning, right? What we do, we season it actually the day before, and they marinated in the season, and that helps out the whole process baked or rotisserie,” explained Swett. For decades, the Swett family has served southern classics. The smell when you walk in the door makes your mouth water, but apparently, you get used to it after a few decades.
Realtor details impact of gentrification in North Nashville

Aug 8, 2024 | wkrn.com | Neil Orne

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Jerrold Smith has been at the real estate game for now 36 years. He knows the ups and downs and he’s seen it all, North Nashville included. “I got my original license in 1988, if you could believe it or not. This was vacant land a couple of years ago. This is a house that we sold. And what happened, if you’ll remember, the crunch in 2021-2022, when interest rates were real low, everybody was buying houses,” recalled Smith.
Growing pains continue in Edgehill neighborhood

Aug 8, 2024 | yahoo.com | Neil Orne

Neil OrneAugust 8, 2024 at 8:27 AM·2 min readNASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Edgehill is a neighborhood with major challenges, growing universities to the west, downtown, north, 12South and south. New homes and commercial development are everywhere in Music City with no signs of slowing. “The median home price is $900,000 and 50% of our residents are under $42,000 a year.
Growing pains continue in Edgehill neighborhood

Aug 8, 2024 | wkrn.com | Neil Orne

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Edgehill is a neighborhood with major challenges, growing universities to the west, downtown, north, 12South and south. New homes and commercial development are everywhere in Music City with no signs of slowing. “The median home price is $900,000 and 50% of our residents are under $42,000 a year.
MTSU houses artifacts from Tennessee's World War II efforts

Jun 6, 2024 | wkrn.com | Brittney Baird |Neil Orne

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Hand-made pillowcases, sold to soldiers, supporting families whose sole source of income was off fighting in World War II. This is just a glimpse back in time at the Tennessee Maneuvers collection housed in Middle Tennessee State University’s Gore Center. “They’re creating something that people want and for which they can make a little extra money during the wartime period.
MTSU's Gore Center brings Tennessee's World War II history to life

Jun 6, 2024 | wkrn.com | Brittney Baird |Neil Orne

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — “And this is Smyrna bulletin number 9 and it’s dated 11 June 1944, so right after the invasion. Dear boys, last week was an eventful one in our lives. America had waited for D-Day anxiously. It was glad when the news came, and that the big star had been made. The country had never been so preferably revered as then.
Camp Forrest: Middle Tennessee’s role in training soldiers during WWII

Jun 6, 2024 | wkrn.com | Neil Orne

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The legacy of D-Day has strong roots in Middle Tennessee. Thousands of American soldiers trained in the Volunteer State for the invasion of Europe. “It’s history that no other state in the United States has and it’s so rich, it’s disappointing that more people don’t know about it,” said author and historian Dr. Elizabeth Taylor.
Artist spends lifetime documenting ever-changing Nashville

Apr 25, 2024 | wkrn.com | Brittney Baird |Neil Orne

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — PONDER: /pŏn′dər/ To think about (something) with thoroughness and care. To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care. That “something” to artist Phil Ponder is the city he has called home for decades. Ponder believes Nashville is just loaded with different architectural styles. His legendary landscapes of Nashville are both beautiful works of art and mesmerizing in detail.
New Pinnacle building to tower over Nashville Yards

Apr 25, 2024 | wkrn.com | Brittney Baird |Neil Orne

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Riding the construction elevator at the stunning new tower at Nashville Yards does not prepare you for the view once you arrive at the 34th of 35 levels. It’s breathtaking to look “down” on Nashville’s skyline. “It’s just when you can see the roof of the 34-story JW Marriott that you realize, yep, we’re up in the air quite a bit with this. This structure, it’s unique. This is the first supertall in town that was built under the modern code,” explained developer Joe Bucher.
Origin story behind Nashville's original skyscraper: the L&C tower

Apr 25, 2024 | wkrn.com | Brittney Baird |Neil Orne

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — It was called the Life and Casualty Building and it’s the very first skyscraper in Nashville . The L & C tower has been standing tall over Music City for 67 years and while once prominent, it is now shrouded by bigger, newer construction. News 2’s Neil Orne looks back at a building that was ahead of its time as it even forecast the weather. Thirty-seven years before the AT&T Batman Building became a defining feature, the L&C tower dominated the Nashville skyline.

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