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But the Southern magnolia treethat once shaded the Franklin Pike property is gone. Carol Ashworth, a landscape architect who started a campaign to preserve the award-winning magnolia, even want to pass by the Melrose-area site, which is being redeveloped into a partment and retail space. The magnolia won the 2010 Ole award from the Nashville Tree Foundation. just extremely Ashworth aid. you look arc hitecture, trees, old houses coming own, and what made the city have its own unique character and history is being The Colonial Bakery projectis in the emolition stage, according to develop- ent partner Bobby Kirby.

He ant to comment on the tree, but he said the graffiti that appeared last week was upposed to be cleaned up. Ashworth said the felling of the tree earlier this month is representative of the tug-of-war between redevelopment a nd preservation going on across Nashville. She thinks the graffiti is a manifest ation of some frustration over preservation issues. think people are getting angry, and nothing feels like safe A shworth said. should be a ay that development can happen a longside keeping what we She does believe the petition, signed by more than 1,000 people, to save the tree has brought attention others that may be at risk in the ity.

Ashworth hoped to parlay that a ttention into Berry Hill and Metro tree protection ordinancesbut has een discouraged by the lack of response. Ashworth giving up, and she plans to offer her expertise to help the unicipalities draw up landscape and tree preservation policies. Reach Holly Meyer at 615-259-8241and on Twitter JOHN PARTIPILO THE TENNESSEAN The redevelopment plan for the former Colonial Bakery site on Franklin Pike eliminated the ong-standing magnolia tree on the property. All that is left of the 50-foot tree is a stump. graffiti protests axed magnolia SHELLEY MAYS FILE THE TENNESSEAN The magnolia won the 2010 Ole award from the Nashville Tree Foundation.

Holly Meyer The victim in a high-profile rape trial i nvolving four former Vanderbilt University football players has filed another legal brief ahead of a state Supreme Court hearing Thursday, arguing against the release of police records related to the crime. Two former Vanderbilt football players, Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey, were convicted in January on four counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery of an unconscious woman in a dorm room. They await sentencing June 15. Two other former players, Brandon Banks and Jaborian McKenzie, await trial on similar charges. The Tennessean, eight media organizations and the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government filed suit against Metro in the fall of 2013 seeking access to records in the hands of police, including text messages between coaches and football players.

The media groups are not seeking access to images of the assault or the victim that were captured on cellphone video or in pictures. In a 12-page brief filed with the highest court Tuesday, the victim argued hat rights afforded to all crime victims nder Tennessee law bar disclosure of he records under the Public Records Act in two specific circumstances: when the records are to lead to intimidation, harassment, and abuse of a crime and when the release of records is with treating the victim with dignity and The new legal filing noted as one example that the evidence collected by police includes the contents of the personal cellphone evidence that is routinely gathered by police in such cases. It argues that a ruling in favor of media groups could potentially make public personal information contained on her cellphone that has nothing to do with the case. The Tennessean is not naming the woman because she is a victim of sexual assault. Reach Anita Wadhwani at 615-259-8092 and on Twitter Rape victim fights release of records Media sued for access to Vanderbilt crime records Anita Wadhwani The closing deadline on the sale of Nashville Superspeedway in Wilson County by Dover Motorsports Inc.

to NeXovation Inc. has been extended for a eventh time to July 27. eXovation Inc. announced in May 2 014an agreement to purchase the race track from Dover Motorsports and its ubsidiary Nashville Speedway U.S.A. Inc.

for nearly $46 million $27 million in cash and the assumption of about $18.8 million in bond obligations owed to ilson County. NeXovation made a nonrefundable 400,000 payment for the most recent extension, according to a recent filing by Dover Motorsports to the Securities and Exchange Commission. A prorated amount can be applied a gainst the purchase price depending when closing takes place, according to the filing. NeXovation also agreed to replenish the escrow by depositing $1.5 million as earnest money by June 1. he previous deadline extension was et for May 27, which NeXovation had eferred to as a final closing period when it was made in March.

Efforts to reach epresentatives of NeXovation for this story were unsuccessful. NeXovation has now invested about $2.9 million in the racetrack. he Nashville Superspeedway opened in 2001, but it attract a print Cup Series NASCAR race and largely shut down in 2011. Nashville Superspeedway losing extended for 7th time Andy Humbles.