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Oracle

NashVillager Podcast: The Oracle wheels sure turn slowly

Nina Cardona

July 5, 2024

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When will construction get underway on the Oracle campus? Plus the local news for July 5, 2024.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Business, Oracle, supermajority

Oracle’s Larry Ellison says planned Nashville campus will be company’s ‘world headquarters’

The Associated Press

April 25, 2024

Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison says the business software giant’s planned campus in Nashville, Tennessee, will serve as its world headquarters and place it in a city that’s a center of the health care industry. Ellison spoke about Oracle’s plans for its Nashville offices during a conversation about health care technology with former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist at the Oracle Health Summit on Tuesday.

Filed Under: Business, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Health Care, Oracle

Nashville rents are increasing at a slower rate. Here’s why it may not feel like it.

Ambriehl Crutchfield

January 12, 2023

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Nashville’s rents have started to increase at a slower rate. 

Filed Under: Business, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, Ken Chilton, Oracle, rental prices

The mayor who ran on improving neighborhoods now wants to build a new one downtown

Ambriehl Crutchfield

August 22, 2022

After resident frustration of downtown Nashville getting the most money from elected officials, Mayor John Cooper ran on improving neighborhoods.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, downtown Nashville, East Bank, John Cooper, Oracle, River North, Titans stadium

Texas developer promises displaced Nashville residents they can return, but right now it’s up in the air

Ambriehl Crutchfield

August 8, 2022

There are six families still living in the Riverchase apartments in East Nashville.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: affordable housing, CREA, displaced, LIHTC, Oracle, Riverchase apartments, Stephen Buchanan

For one family at East Nashville’s Riverchase development, frustration and mixed messages about where to go next

Ambriehl Crutchfield

July 7, 2022

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The future for renters at an affordable housing complex in East Nashville continues to hang in the balance. 

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: affordable housing, development, East Nashville, Housing, Oracle, rentals, rezoning, Riverchase

Displaced: For some at Riverchase, the search for housing remains a major challenge despite offers of help

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 14, 2022

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The last residents of the Riverchase apartment complex in East Nashville have two weeks to move out.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity Tagged With: displacement, homelessness, Housing, Jackie Sims, Oracle, Riverchase apartments, Virginia Holland

Displaced: Riverchase residents feel tension as community groups split on their demands of developer

Ambriehl Crutchfield

June 2, 2022

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On a sweaty Friday morning in April, three P.A.T.H.E. workers and a volunteer are coordinating moves for Riverchase families. One family needs a huge bean bag brought to them in the motel or their storage unit — depending on logistics.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, Race & Equity Tagged With: CREA LLC, displacement, Housing, Jackie Sims, McFerrin Park, Melissa Cherry, Oracle, P.A.T.H.E, Riverchase apartments, sean parker, Stand Up Nashville

Displaced: An affordable housing complex in East Nashville deteriorated in plain sight. Here’s how it happened.

Ambriehl Crutchfield

May 25, 2022

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One by one, the Riverchase Apartments are getting boarded up, forcing residents to move out of the East Nashville affordable housing complex.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: East Bank, Housing, Mayor John Cooper, Oracle, Riverchase apartments, Titans stadium

Nashville is adding thousands of high-paying tech jobs, and that’s more than the local worker pipeline can fulfill

Damon Mitchell

March 24, 2022

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As Oracle and Amazon start to bring tens of thousands of jobs to Nashville, the city’s tech industry is seeing a historic economic boom. But there may not be enough Middle Tennessee residents to fill the jobs.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, economic incentives, economy, jobs, Labor, Oracle

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