Pilgrims.....Volunteer country. "Been there, done that."
Will start this tonight and finish hopefully tomorrow.
First of all it would help if you are on the same page as I
am, so bring up the following URL, print it off, and you'll
be able to follow me along very nicely.
The URL is:
tennessean.com
Okay.....With this information in hand here we go.
After 700 miles (all of it very hot) the wife an I arrive in
the City limits of Nashville. With City map in hand, an a
compass in the overhead of the vehicle, and being a former
Military Navigator finding the Dell Complex will be no darn
problem. Wrong! We got lost.
Asking directions of a fellow motorist while we were both at
a red light got me back on course. I think I was right in
the first place, but the wife steered me wrong. Yeh, right!
I was in the vicinity of Harding Pl. and McGavock Rd stopped
in traffic when I noticed a sign bearing the Dell logo off
to my left. Checking further we found this to be Dell's
Technical Support Training Center. Approximately 30-35
students are trained in every class an I assume off they go
for OJT as Support Personnel. This Facility isn't huge, nor
does it have to be for the purpose served. IMO this is one
of the Facilities Dell first built in the area. I could be
wrong on this however. Nevertheless!
I talked with one of the student who was leaving, and of
course I asked directions to the Dell Complex. I knew where
it was all the time, I was just checking her out to see if
she also knew. Yeh right again!
We leave Harding Pl. and take a slight jog to the left an
enter Donelson Pk. A very short trip up a slight hill and
we find ourselves with the Dell Complex on our left hand
side where the old Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute
used to be located.
As we pull off Donelson Pk. an into the Dell Complex the
very first thing that we come across is a massive parking
lot with more space to be used as same ready for the black-
top just off to our left.
After driving approximately 100 yards we find two Office
Buildings which are nicely nearing completion. One appears
to be a 3-story Facility, while the other slightly less
finished appears to be a 2-story Facility.
Picture these two Facilities as running North to South on
the map.
Just beyond these two Facilities you cross a 5-lane highway
which I was told used to be a 2-lane highway leading into
the Mental Health Institute from Murfreesboro Rd. The road
is so new that no lane markings have yet been laid down.
Now this road IMO would exclusively be used for the Dell
Complex as the road dead-ends about 1/3 of a mile to the
South.
To the West of this road lies the Dell AM-1 Manufacturing
Facility.
If you have ever seen the Dell Server Facility on West Howard Lane in Austin then you have for all practical purposes seen the Dell AM-1 Manufacturing Facility in
Nashville.
Before leaving for the night here is another URL showing
the Mental Health Institute as it used to be:
tennessean.com
More tomorrow. Best.....J.D. (Detective Clueso) |
