{"id":7964,"date":"2019-09-13T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:36:05","slug":"lighting-dispute-gets-a-little-honky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/lighting-dispute-gets-a-little-honky\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting Dispute Gets a Little Honky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The spotlight is shining on country music star, Blake Shelton; and not for the reason you might think. \u00a0Due to the results of a recent lawsuit, Shelton must alter his bar and restaurant\u2019s red exterior lighting.\u00a0 Old Red Nashville is placed at the heart of Lower Broadway in Nashville, among the various honky tonks and restaurants that line the street.\u00a0 Shelton opened two other restaurant \/ bars of the same name in Tishomingo, Oklahoma and Gatlinburg, Tennessee.\u00a0 While each establishment has their own unique designs and characteristics, all of the restaurants follow the same red color palette and lighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Metro Historic Zoning Commission in Nashville did not seem to care about maintaining the entertainment spot\u2019s intended outside aesthetic, and filed a lawsuit in February 2019 against Ryman Hospitality, the parent company of Ole Red.\u00a0 The Commission argued that the red lighting against the exterior compromised<\/a> the integrity of the historic building.\u00a0 According to court documents, in August 2017, the city of Nashville enacted restrictions for historic overlay districts in terms of outside colored lighting.\u00a0 Old Red was subject to this change in regulation and was asked to change the lighting on the building.<\/p>\n

Ryman Hospitality attempted to fight back with the reasoning that the developers of the restaurant \/ bar had come to the decision about the lighting prior to the Commission\u2019s decision.\u00a0 Since one decision preceded the other, the idea was for Old Red to be grandfathered into using their own plans for lighting rather than succumb to new guidelines. \u00a0A change in lighting would affect the overall design of Ole Red.\u00a0 Shelton and Ryman Hospitality lost that argument.\u00a0 The building that houses Ole Red is the Broadway National Bank building, as has been around since the early 20th<\/sup>century, more than 100 years old.\u00a0 As a way of preserving historic Nashville, the lawsuit concluded with an injunction, requiring the restaurant establishment to change its lighting from red to white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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