The Boring Company hosted a virtual town hall on Monday regarding the Elon Musk-owned venture's Music City Loop airport-to-downtown tunnel project.
The hour-and-a-half-long meeting took place via a livestream on social media platform X, also owned by Musk. The Boring Company president Steve Davis answered questions along with Charles Robert Bone, managing director of real estate investment at Southwest Value Partners, who worked on the Nashville Yards development. The conversation also included comments from Dee Patel, The Hermitage Hotel’s managing director.
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