FACTS VS. MYTH
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Myth:
ParchMay Farm Center is a great idea, but the former Tennessee State Penitentiary is the wrong place for it.
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Fact:
ParchMay Farm Center is an idea whose time and place have come. What better place to stop corporate flight
than a site that stopped criminal flight for nearly one hundred years?
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Myth:
ParchMay Farm Center is incompatible with the Reston-inspired "Glass-Walled Skyscrapers Overlooking Big
Pools of Water With People in Suits Walking Around, But Only Until 5 PM, When They All Leave" vision.
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Fact:
Some people claim their hopes to build a second Reston in the middle of a cow field will be dashed
if they can't pave over half of Bells Bend. Well, it is true: ParchMay Farm Center won't involve
paving over half of Bells Bend. But people who love pouring concrete, seeing their reflection in big
shiny glass-walled buildings, walking around in suits, or leaving at 5 pm will still find plenty to
entice them in ParchMay Farm Center.
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Myth:
This project will destroy the last remaining former state penitentiary in Tennessee.
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Fact:
On the contrary, through the 8 bajillion dollars in additional tax revenues ParchMay Farm Center
is expected to bring in each year, this project will help Tennessee maintain its prison-industrial
complex for years to come!
