2025 Annual Report by Civic Design Center

MISSion

The Civic Design Center’s mission is to advocate for civic design visions and actionable change in communities to improve quality of life for all.

LETTER FROM THE CEO

When the Nashville Civic Design Center opened its doors in 2001, it was clear that our purpose had to be rooted in a foundational vision. Shortly thereafter a community-based process was launched that became The Plan . I was hired in 2002 as a design assistant and have personally seen Nashville’s tremendous transformation as well as the direct impact of our Mission ever since.

The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City book, published in 2005, and its corresponding Principles have shaped our work in advocating for those civic design visions and creating actionable change in communities to improve livability and quality of life for all for the past 20 years.

Downtown Nashville has grown from less than 1,000 people in 2001 to over 20,000 in 2025 –while creating a vibrant “heart” of the Middle Tennessee Region.

Surrounding neighborhoods have become denser, allowing transportation improvements that are coming and neighborhood placemaking projects that are critical for retaining and expanding our identity as a city. Our exhibition at the Frist Art Museum, Avenues

to a Great City, aimed to educate the public on Nashville’s planning history, celebrate 20 years of The Plan of Nashville and also evaluate what we hope to advocate for over the next 20 years. The exhibition itself ran for five months serving 87,470 attendees, and our team also hosted 3 compendium events that deepened conversations around the past, present, and future.

Our other accomplishments that were rooted in the present included: 1) implementing tactical urbanism installations with middle school youth that promote sustainable transportation and placemaking at 5 schools, 2) implementing a mile-long tactical urbanism neighborway on Antioch Pike complete with a 300 linear foot ground mural in partnership with NDOT, Walk Bike Nashville, Bridgestone Americas, and Glencliff Neighbors, 3) implementing 2 more tactical urbanism ground murals to support intersection traffic calming in Chestnut Hill and South Inglewood, 4) representing middle school students’ neighborhoods on 50 busbenches, and 5) delivering our 3rd permanent parklet in Nashville to Historic Germantown by PARK(ing) Day where we celebrated with a huge block party.

Our other accomplishments that were rooted in the future included: 1) running a community ambassador program for the Jefferson Street Complete Streets Study, and 2) facilitating 41 DASHville workshops for students, teaching them about affordable and sustainable housing.

Thank you for being a dedicated supporter.

Sincerely,

PUBLIC MUSEUM EXHIBITION

CO-CURATED BY VERONICA FOSTER, ANNE HENDERSON, AND MARK SCALA

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Plan of Nashville, we partnered with the Frist Art Museum to co-curate a special exhibit that highlighted Nashville’s history, growth and vision as outlined in the Plan. In addition to the exhibition that ran for 5 months, we hosted several events for expanded community education around the 50-year vision.

87,470 VISITORS

THE PLAN NASHVILLE OF

PAST Present FUTURE

JANUARY 29 | Urban Design Forum—Living the Plan 20 Years Later

@ Civic Design Center

FEBRUARY - JUNE | The Plan of Nashville Book Club

@ HASTINGS Architecture

JULY 10 | Avenues to a Great City Opening Reception + Panel

@ Frist Art Museum

AUGUST 21 | PechaKucha Vol. 50: A 50-Year Vision

@ Frist Art Museum

DECEMBER 6 | Urban Design Forum—Continuing the Vision: A Design Charrette @ Frist Art Museum

ABOUT THE EVENTS

Many of our events focused of The Plan of Nashville, with the hope that we could better reconnect Nashvillians with the 50-year vision. During our opening reception for the exhibition, author and cofounder of the Civic Design Center, Christine Kreyling flew in from California to share her memories and insights from the process of the Plan and turning it into a book. At our 50th PechaKucha,

we invited eight presenters to review a section of the Plan and respond to its present day effects or contrasts. The map on the previous spread showcases the culmination of ideas from a Design Charrette that considers both the successes seen from the Plan and what we should focus on for future planning.

Beyond these focused events, we hosted others that celebrated our city’s Black creatives, advancements along the river, the concept of belonging and more.

FEBRUARY 13 | PechaKucha Vol 48: The Impact of Black Creatives @ Frist Art

MARCH 26 | Civic Tour Discovering South Bank (Members Only)

APRIL 24 | PechaKucha Vol 49: Bridges, Barges, and Boats @ Neuhoff District

JUNE 21 | Civic Tour Sketch-E Bike Tour (Members Only)

JUNE 28 | Urban Design Forum Looby Center Retrospective @ Looby Theater

JULY 24 | Urban Design Forum Youth Design Exhibition @ Belmont University

OCTOBER 23 | Urban Design Forum On Belonging @ Civic Design Center

NOVEMBER 7 | Nashville Design Week Whose Design is it Anyway? @ Studio 615

PARKLET DESIGN COMPETITION

Congratulations to our winner—ESa Architects!

Thanks to our newest stewards of public space, The Cupcake Collection, the 3rd Annual Parklet Design Competition brought a new parklet to Historic Germantown.

JE Dunn Construction donated time and materials to build the winning parklet design for The Cupcake Collection. They also hosted a special mentorship program for The Boys & Girls Club to participate in building the platform for the parklet.

Submissions for the Parklet Design Competition were open for one month, and we received over a dozen proposals. The Cupcake Collection owners, our partners at JE Dunn, representatives from the Historic Germantown Neighborhood Group and NOMA Nashville, and last year’s winning designer from EOA Architects reviewed each submission based on the prompt as well as the design’s constructibility. The committee decided on ESa Architect’s “Sweet Relief,” which was built in time for PARK(ing) Day.

Photos by Andrew Keithly

In addition to the formal Parklet Design Competition, we partnered with Belmont O’More College to offer the same challenge to architecture students. In just one month, the students created concepts, built models, underwent critiques, and finally built the winning design, Symphony of Senses, to be installed on PARK(ing) Day for the Block Party.

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How will you be able to navigate each expert’s priorities as the leader of this project?

It’s simple. We would hire a great team. They will sit in a nice conference room with high quality seats, Evians and lots of catering, so they will be comfortable negotiating with the city leaders until everyone gets what they want.

Trust me, if we follow the design principles, the results will follow.

I mean, I am trying to anticipate all of the constraints and plan for them. We have to advocate for the best possible solution for all people or we are failing. Maybe transit is the most equitable solution for improving traffic. Wide sidewalks or promenades could encourage retail activation. Development guidelines and height bonuses create great compromises that turn into community assets. If we can go into this with a good plan then we are in a great position for execution of your dream street.

You think you are so high and mighty... I listen to the numbers. I trust the numbers and I put the numbers first. Everything else comes second to the data and that’s that.

For Nashville Design Week 2025, we hosted Whose Design is it Anyway? featuring a satirical game show called Dream Street. With the prompt for the design festival being “define design,” the goal of our event was to educate the community on the complex nature of decision making in public design projects. Dream Street was modeled after the 70s gameshow, The Dating Game, complete with retro commercials referencing real development ideas from that time that never came to fruition, like The Link. Instead of someone looking to select a date via blind Q&A, we chose a constituent from the audience whose job was to choose a project manager for her “dream street.” The audience and the constituent didn’t know which role everyone was playing, but both were aligned in choosing “the planner” as the winner based on his responses. With a unified vision, we might get closer to our ideal dream streets.

by Daniel Meigs

David Greaves as THE PLANNER

Ali Alsaleh as THE TRAFFIC ENGINEER

AC Pullig-Gomez as THE DEVELOPER

Kaitlyn Jones as THE ARCHITECT

Tera Ashley as THE CONSTITUENT

Ron Yearwood as THE HOST

Veronica Foster as THE DIRECTOR

Photos

GROWING THE PIPELINE

The Civic Design Center’s Nashville Youth Design Team, our high-school internship program, completed its 6th year in action. Many of the Team members continue to participate in extracurricular leadership opportunities.

• Ivie served on a panel for our Urban Design Forum On Belonging

• Esoesa is serving on the 3MP (Multi-Modal Master Plan) Steering Committee

• A handful of them presented at Resilience Con, Ba’hai Vibrant Communities Conference, and the Tennessee APA Conference

We saw our largest cohort of high school seniors graduate to pursue post-secondary careers in design and planning industry related fields. Both Mia and Uma were on the Design Team all four years of their high school careers. Willa pursued an internship with the Nashville Department of Transportation and returned to facilitate the Q&A for the Youth Design Exhibition.

These NYDT alumni not only gained the knowledge of design thinking, but they have years of experience influencing actionable change. These students know the power that these fields have in communities, but they also know the power of youth perspective. As they continue down the pipeline into their professional careers, these alumni will also be youth advocates. Grace, an alumnus from 2024, has already put this into practice. Like Willa, she also participated in the Nashville Department of Transportation internship, focusing on creating youth-specific engagement tools. She then tested them out on the 2025 NYDT cohort and led a training.

All of our newest Design Team members, entering 9th grade, participated in our Design Your Neighborhood curriculum in middle school where we start the process of molding future advocates and experts.

Clockwise from left: Resilience Con; alumni Willa, Chris and Grace supporting their peers at the Youth Design Exhibition; Ivie leading a focus group for 2892 Miles to Go

When you are trying to inform decision making—considering youths’ opinions and allowing youth to speak for themselves—you get a sense of what the future wants, but you also get a sense of the perspective that you probably wouldn’t be thinking of as an adult. The Nashville Youth Design Team also provides career choices that as high school students, we probably wouldn’t have considered. Yeah, I want to become an urban planner.

-GRACE, 2024 ALUMNUS

AMPLIFYING VOICES

The Civic Design Center’s middle school STEAM curriculum, Design Your Neighborhood, is in its 8th school year! Our project-based learning opportunities can be either teacher-led or co-led with our staff as facilitators. Our DASHville workshop has continued to be a teacher favorite, the Sustainable Transportation Paint Challenge brought 5 additional youth-led tactical urbanism ground murals to school zones and the Transit Art project brought neighborhood identity art to 50 bus benches across the county. Four bus bench artworks were also featured in our exhibition at the Frist Art Museum, celebrating The Plan of Nashville, to mark the importance of youth perspectives in future visioning.

2025 also marked the return of our Advocacy Podcast project where youth learn about parks, affordable housing and active transportation then report on how these issues relate to their experiences. The students also use the platform to present their ideas to improve the experience for youth. By sharing these short podcasts widely, we can demonstrate how valuable youth perspective can be when it comes to

critical city issues.

I usually get from one place to another by someone driving a car for me. My neighborhood has only really car infrastructure compared to bike or bus. I feel unsafe because all of the cars come without caution because of the lack of bus and bike infrastructure. One way transportation could be improved for the youth is by giving -ALICE,

6TH GRADE

The photos on the previous page depict 6th graders at Wright Middle School recording their active transportation podcast; the central photo features the Inglewood Elementary paint challenge; the images above show winning bus benches from the 2024-2025 school year

Croft Middle School

LEAD Academy

JFK Middle School

Isaac Litton Middle School

STUDIODesign

2023-2025

LOOBY Center Project feature

This two year project aimed to create a vision and community-centered plan for the Looby Park and Community Center, including the surrounding community assets, like schools and parks. Throughout the process, we heard from stakeholders and community members, leading with listening before vision. The project was funded by One Community Titans Foundation.

According to Plan To Play, a 2015 study found that Looby is the 3rd most visited of the 26 listed community centers in the middle Tennessee area. To evaluate how we could uplift this community center and gain more support, we started with an intentional, thorough, and interactive engagement process. This included North Nashville community events, like Open Streets, to get thoughts about the future of the space in and around

The community pointed out that the Looby Center already had unique assets on site to enhance, like the outdoor pool. Simple improvements like safe pedestrian connections and beautification of the site are a few ways to make big impacts in the quality of the campus.

Visiting Korean design fellows, Misong Kim and Seyu Kim, created architectural visions for the Looby Community Campus

Metro partner + stakeholder walk audits

OCT MAY AUG Advisory Committee formed + Public engagement kicks off

Nashville Youth Design Team lead youth engagement

Design Center hosts Community Office Hours at Looby Center

Looby Charrettes

Hull Jackson Montessori student design concepts

Design

South Korean architectural interns design concepts for Looby Campus

MAR JUN

Tactical urbanism

installations with support from NDOT, Parks, and MNPS

Design Center presents final campus plan and architectural concepts

Charrettes

with the LOOBY Center

The Nashville Youth Design Team consulted with the Design Studio at several stages of the Looby Community Campus project. In the Spring of 2025, the interns hosted a pop-up basketball tournament at the Looby Center, demonstrating that a permanent basketball court would be a significant improvement from the current conditions where there are half court hoops in a parking lot that is often empty.

Hull Jackson Montessori Elementary is within the Looby Community Campus, so as an offshoot from our Design Your Neighborhood curriculum, the Youth Initiatives team worked directly with local artist, Romeres Greer, who envisioned a mural for a tactical urbanism installation that would make it safer for students to navigate between school and the Center. Since their mascot is a dove, the Greer engaged youth to “draw something that brings them peace,” where he used these as inspiration for the final design.

Finding a real world problem, designing a solution and kind of seeing it come out in real life is really cool, and also being able to do that specifically for youth, and not just like forcing ideas on them—they are actually telling us what they want to see.

-UMA PETERS, 2025 ALUMNUS

From left counterclockwise: Romeres Greer makes finishing touches on ground mural; final ground mural with student hand prints; NYDT at the pop-up b-ball tournament; youth playing during the tournament.

During the Summer of 2025, the newest cohort of interns with NYDT used research collected from peers to consult on youth-centered spaces that could improve an underutilized commercial site at the gateway of the Bordeaux neighborhood which connects to the dangerous Clarksville Pike Bridge.

With Clarksville Pike being a 7-lane major corridor that serves as the primary thoroughfare through Bordeaux, it has a large focus on vehicles rather than pedestrians. Youth depend on adults to drive them around when the infrastructure in their communities are not safe to navigate on foot. To address this, their designs included enhanced bus shelters and crosswalk connections with signalization.

The team envisioned their site as an enriching third space that includes opportunities for intergenerational socializing with plenty of shade and green space for active and passive activities that include playing, exercising, shopping, eating, and socializing.

Bordeaux with the

Bordeaux / Haynes

This was a rapid 6-month project as part the REACH grant in partnership with Cumberland River Compact. It was accelerated because much of the community engagement work was already complete. We focused on addressing health disparities in predominantly Black communities through visions for safer active transportation, climate-resilient green streets, and accessible open spaces. This project was made possible with support from the Tennessee Department of Health.

Present visions for Lock One Park at PechaKucha Vol.

Green Streets Policy and Active Community Design Plan Drafts

| Buena Vi t Pik

Project feature

While Cumberland River Compact focused on a Green and Complete Streets Policy and the Nashville Youth Design Team focused on youth-centered spaces in Bordeaux, the Design Studio worked on a vision for Lock One Park. Lock One Park is a quiet historic green space tucked within the Haynes neighborhood. Once a fort then turned into a lock system, there are many surprising ruins on the site and a platform that neighbors use to fish is regularly underwater when the Cumberland is high. Neighbors, formalized as the Lock One Committee, envisioned the site as a landing for small watercraft, a space to play, and a classroom in the open air.

Lock One Park also has the opportunity to make a new greenway connection easily between the Pages Branch and River North Greenways, and even the Cumberland River Greenway if we implemented a pedestrian bridge over the river. We envisioned the park itself to celebrate its connection to the river with small boat and kayak docking for fishing, gathering, and swimming in a river pool. During our PechaKucha Vol. 49 Bridges, Barges and Boats, we presented this idea, engaged attendees, and heard from other advocates about their riverfront advancements.

2024-2025

Antioch Pike

Healing Antioch Pike began with data collection and recommendations for a lane reduction in 2024. By partnering with the Nashville Department of Transportation, Walk Bike Nashville, and a collection of excited neighbors, we were able to implement a onemile tactical urbanism lane reduction by using repurposed tires. Bridgestone was instrumental to implementing this installation at this huge scale.

Pre-installation public life study and speed checks

Quick Build lane reduction installation with repurposed tires

Community engagement with Glencliff, Cosecha Gardens, Wright Middle etc.

Tactical urbanism design feedback with community

Project feature

Dozens of volunteers come out to install

300 foot ground mural

The tactical urbanism installation showed great success after just a handful of months. Compared to just 3% of drivers driving below the speed limit during school hours, we received data from NDOT that 97% of vehicle speeds were lower than the 35 mph speed limit at all times of day. WeGo Public Transit also announced that the #52 Nolensville Route would extend down Antioch Pike to connect directly with Glencliff High School. To make this connection even stronger, we partnered with WeGo and NDOT to install a temporary bus stop along the corridor.

Finally, our team supported Glencliff Neighbors, Cosecha Community Gardens and Wright Middle School to elevate the install further with a 300 linear foot ground mural within the lane reduction area adjacent to the school.

Artist, Leah Samuelson, designed 30 unique bays with flowers and wildlife that represent countries from around the world. She also hand-cut dozens of large stencils to make it easy for Wright Middle School students to participate in painting the mural. This project was truly a celebration of local spirit demonstrating the powerful impact of collaborative design.

Artist engagement with Wright Middle students to inform ground mural

During a Block Party on Halloween, volunteers complete a crosswalk in front of Wright Middle

In partnership with NDOT, two incredible tactical urbanism installs came to fruition. The top two photos feature the lane reduction and roundabout installation in Chestnut Hill. The artist, Hailey Miller Beiden, and maker, JJ Galipeau, were both recruited through the Nashville Design Week Community Design Project in 2024. The lower two photos feature a bulbout installation in Riverside Village that was led by South Inglewood Neighborhood Association with art by Kellie Lee.

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CELEBRATING SPONSORS

While our sponsors were especially invited to all of our events celebrating The Plan of Nashville this year, we also had two special events just for them. Our sponsors’ young professional reception brought a fun raffle, lively advocacy discussion, and a DJ, while our major reception in the Fall had a stellar buffet, an open bar, and talk of collaboration.

MAY 15 | Young Professionals Reception @ Studio 615 Building B

NOVEMBER 20 | 2026 Sponsor Reception @ 5th & Taylor’s The Back Corner

ANNUAL SPONSORS

July 2024 - June 2025

PRESENTING SPONSORS

PROGRAM SPONSORS

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EOA Architects

Forvis Mazars, LLP

Greater Nashville Realtors, Inc. (GNR)

Greater Nashville Regional Council (GNRC)

Historic Germantown Neighborhood Inc

HNTB

I.C. Thomasson Associates, Inc.

Metro Planning Department

Metro Water Services

NAIOP

Nashville Chamber of Commerce

Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT)

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Rita Hoke

L.J. Hoke

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From left: At our Presidents’ Council Breakfast, we welcomed Vice Mayor Angie Henderson to host a special Q&A with our biggest supporters; Presidents’ Council members, Hunter Gee, Kim Hawkins, and Christian Paro, chat at the Avenues to a Great City opening reception; Presidents’ Council member, Hayden Sears sketches a building during the Sketch E-Bike Tour; a group of members walks down the brand new greenway link adjacent to the Peabody Union development

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I love how Civic Design Center equips everyday Nashvillians to advocate for sustainable urbanism on their neighborhood. Becoming a member of Civic Design Center led me on my path to a career in community engagement and transportation planning in Nashville.

-KOBY LANGNER

Design Your Neighborhood. It introduces urban design, architecture, and planning to youth who may never be exposed to those possible professions. It has changed the trajectory of kids who never before dreamed of being able to shape their community.

-HUNTER GEE

Through the work of the Civic Design Center, I came to more fully appreciate Stroud Watson’s legacy and the idea that cities are living, evolving expressions of our shared values. The Design Center's existence is one of the single most important things that kept me in Nashville. It continues to be a crucial space for public dialogue, design advocacy, and education. It fosters a kind of civic literacy in the design process, reminding both professionals and the public that good design should be inclusive and forward-thinking.

-NICK DRYDEN

Your focus on action!

-MARY VAVRA

Bringing together people from all walks of life, age, socio-economic and bipartisan backgrounds to envision and create a better quality of life for all.

-CYRIL STEWART

I like that the Design Center is separate from the government so it can do different things without the influence of politics. Many ideas may not go anywhere but they're authentic.

-DJ SULLIVAN

Community! The guiding principles of what led to the formation of the Civic Design Center still holds true today.

-SHARON EMERSON

The commitment to making Nashville better for citizens of all lifestyles, socioeconomic status, and transportation methods.

-HAYDEN SEARS

Getting to zoom out and look at the development of the city of Nashville as a whole and learn about new projects and efforts outside of my own office.

-KINNA DUTTON

Advocacy for the future of Nashville

-BRIAN NOCK