BOOM
FILLING IN THE BLANKS Nashville’s building boom brings with it new questions and ideas
Even the most optimistic observers of Nashville real estate wouldn’t have predicted the speed of recent development in SoBro and the ever-growing Gulch area. Growth many had considered might require a generation or more has taken less than a decade. And broad, long-term guiding documents have essentially turned into draft blueprints for dozens of apartment blocks and office and hotel towers. On the next few pages, we’ve taken a little license to extrapolate today’s trends and revisit past proposals that haven’t (yet?) made it to groundbreaking. The result is a view into the downtown Nashville of the near future, a much more continuous urban mass whose parts will be more interwoven than ever before. To go with our sketches, we’ve asked some industry pros a few big questions about how this denser, more connected district might — and should — function.
ILLUSTRATION BY LEE FERRIS
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