THIS FROM THE TENNESSEAN
t’s been an anxious couple of years for the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum and its founder and owner, Joe Chambers.

A year or so after he opened the museum on Sixth Avenue South in 2006, Chambers learned it lay in the path of the proposed downtown convention center. But architects then started discussing the possibility of incorporating his 30,000-square-foot venue into the convention hall, and he was thrilled.
That possibility has waxed and waned with changes in the project’s budget, however. It still isn’t guaranteed, though city officials say they want to make it happen — if the convention center gets built.
The uncertainty, coupled with the city’s decision to start legal proceedings to seize Chambers’ property — at a price he’s not happy with — has made him nervous about the future and led him to talk to other cities about relocating his facility.
….More on this issue later.