Reactivating Nashville's Downtown

A strong residential component in an urban mixed-use neighborhood is completing Nashville's downtown renaissance.

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October 30, 2001, 5:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen


Downtown Nashville today is a world apart from that of just ten years ago, when the city center labored through the urban schizophrenia of many downtowns. By day, it was a bustling central business district for banking, commerce, law, and government services. By night, it was a place that people fled for their havens in suburbia. Most windows in the city’s office towers fell dark after nightfall. The evening cityscape was punctuated by the blinking of a few neon signs along Lower Broadway, a once-proud boulevard tracing west from the Cumberland River that became weighted with pornography shops, souvenir vendors, and honky-tonks. [Editor's note: The full text of this article is only available to ULI members.]

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