Walking around Nashville, TN - Downtown & Germantown

jmecklenborg · #1 Posted **Dec 13, 2020, 5:01 AM**

These photos were taken Nov 27 & 28, 2020.

New dorm at Vanderbilt University:

A friend of mine is building this house in East Nashville:

Downtown...

New viaduct connects SoBro & The Gulch:

A new mountain bike trail network:

fern · #2 Posted **Dec 13, 2020, 12:08 PM**

Nashville looks like it's booming , some of those new build homes are stunning

dc_denizen · #3 Posted **Dec 13, 2020, 4:58 PM**

I don’t mind the infill , great pics !

Urban Enthusiast · #4 Posted **Dec 13, 2020, 8:34 PM**

I like the modern infill development. And wow, Nashville is booming with all of its shiny new buildings downtown. I wish Tulsa could see some nice new shiny glass buildings in our downtown. Thanks for sharing!

BnaBreaker · #5 Posted **Dec 13, 2020, 9:41 PM**

Thanks for the pics! Always nice to see updated shots... the place almost looks like a different city everytime I come home! Please correct me if I'm wrong but many of those Germantown shots look to be more on the fringes of the neighborhood, is that accurate?

Also, I love The Gulch. I mean, the neighborhood itself is up and coming and trending upward, but I'm talking about the railroad yard itself and all the elevated roads that extend over top it. I think it gives Nashville an overall more gritty and established urban feel than some of it's primary competitors offer.

KennyDubz · #6 Posted **Dec 13, 2020, 9:55 PM**

This is a spectacular catalogue of housing of Nashville. Is there another city of this size transforming the most right now? I'm not sure. Maybe Austin?

BnaBreaker · #7 Posted **Dec 13, 2020, 9:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by KennyDubz

This is a spectacular catalogue of housing of Nashville. Is there another city of this size transforming the most right now? I'm not sure. Maybe Austin?

Agreed, and that was just a showcase of a portion of one neighborhood (not counting the downtown/gulch pics)... I'd say you're right that Austin is probably transforming at an even faster rate, not to mention growing much taller than Nashville currently is. At any rate, we'll definitely take the growth and are grateful for it!

KennyDubz · #8 Posted **Dec 13, 2020, 10:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by BnaBreaker

Agreed, and that was just a showcase of a portion of one neighborhood (not counting the downtown/gulch pics)... I'd say you're right that Austin is probably transforming at an even faster rate, not to mention growing much taller than Nashville currently is. At any rate, we'll definitely take the growth and are grateful for it!

At that growth is showing on the national spotlight now. Congrats!!!

xzmattzx · #9 Posted **Dec 14, 2020, 3:30 PM**

Nice pictures. That dormitory looks nice!

NYbyWAYofGA · #10 Posted **Dec 14, 2020, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by KennyDubz

This is a spectacular catalogue of housing of Nashville. Is there another city of this size transforming the most right now? I'm not sure. Maybe Austin?

Charlotte maybe...

EastSideHBG · #11 Posted **Dec 14, 2020, 6:32 PM**

Nice!

JMKeynes · #12 Posted **Dec 14, 2020, 7:02 PM**

Very nice. Nashville and Charlotte always vie to be the No. 2 city in the S.E. after Atl. (though, personally, I think that Charleston and Savanah blow them all away).

N'Ville has two advantages over Clt: (1) It has a lot of beautiful, old buildings; and (2) It has a great university (though Duke and UNC aren't too far from Clt).

Chef · #13 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 8:19 AM**

Nashville looks like it is in the process of transforming from a sprawly town into and urban big city in one fell swoop without the in between stages. It looks kind of disjointed now but eventually they will run out of vacant lots and strip malls to redevelop and it will arrive, fully formed.

BnaBreaker · #14 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 1:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chef

Nashville looks like it is in the process of transforming from a sprawly town into and urban big city in one fell swoop without the in between stages. It looks kind of disjointed now but eventually they will run out of vacant lots and strip malls to redevelop and it will arrive, fully formed.

Yeah, we are definitely in that 'awkward teen' stage in every district outside of downtown in regards to urbanity, but eventually it'll start to fill out and resemble a cohesive urban environment.

boden · #15 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 2:35 PM**

Enjoyable thread!

edale · #16 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 6:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by JMKeynes

Very nice. Nashville and Charlotte always vie to be the No. 2 city in the S.E. after Atl. (though, personally, I think that Charleston and Savanah blow them all away).

N'Ville has two advantages over Clt: (1) It has a lot of beautiful, old buildings; and (2) It has a great university (though Duke and UNC aren't too far from Clt).

Um, where? Nashville very little in the way of historic, walkable neighborhoods.

mrnyc · #17 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 6:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by JMKeynes

N'Ville has two advantages over Clt: (1) It has a lot of beautiful, old buildings; and (2) It has a great university (though Duke and UNC aren't too far from Clt).

i would say n'ville easily wins that with two straight up decent ones, vandy and fisk. they are pretty neutral, but duke carries too much baggage of the silly wannabe ivy league dukies it turns out and unc doesn't register outside of hoops.

i was around the 'vuhl in grad school for 2 semesters in the 80s and then went back only recently and i have to say the changes are very, umm, i wish i could say amazing, but more like disconcerting. its true though it will fill out over time if it continues. its the new austin after all. which was the new portland. which was the new seattle. etc. -- so good for them.

#18 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 7:40 PM**

LOL at "n'ville". you're saving a whole 2 keystrokes.

BnaBreaker · #19 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 11:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by edale

Um, where? Nashville very little in the way of historic, walkable neighborhoods.

Mostly downtown at this point in time, and I'm assuming he means that Nashville has a lot of historic buildings relative to most of it's sunbelt 'boomtown' peers, which it does, but that is obviously a bit of a low bar. Nashville is a fairly old city by American standards and had quite a respectable collection of historic architecture throughout the older part of the city, but unfortunately most of that which wasn't destroyed over the years by fires, flooding, and tornadoes was destroyed by urban renewal. *sigh*

Nomad9 · #20 Posted **Dec 18, 2020, 3:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by JMKeynes

N'Ville has two advantages over Clt: (1) It has a lot of beautiful, old buildings; and (2) It has a great university (though Duke and UNC aren't too far from Clt).

Wake Forest and Davidson are both closer to Charlotte (Davidson might be within the metro), although both are smaller than Duke/UNC.