It's crazy, people.  Everybody has money, or at least access to credit, somehow.  These photos were taken on Sept 24, 2018 in and along Charlotte Pike, about two miles west of Downtown Nashville. 

 

Rich doctor on Charlotte Pike, where the light rail plan was to be built. 

 

 

 

Jam 'em in there!

 

 

Million Dollar home on the bluff immediately above I-40; that's Tennessee State in the distance:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hold-out:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I-40 looking west toward Bellevue, Williamson & Cheatham Counties:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I mean, you can't make this stuff up:

 

 

 

Yes, the I-40 traffic is very loud:

 

They should put in some sidewalks.  I see lots of townhouses, but no town!

Thank you for confirming my initial assumptions that outside of downtown and the Vanderbilt area, Nashville is one of the ugliest cities in the country

While I enjoy Nashville, this is THE most "Jake" tour of a city I've ever seen (and you know what I mean by that). 

 

In other words, brilliance.

Thank you for confirming my initial assumptions that outside of downtown and the Vanderbilt area, Nashville is one of the ugliest cities in the country

 

The scale of the gentrification is impossible to describe without seeing it yourself.  80% or more of the original housing has been demolished in many Nashville neighborhoods in the last 10 years since the recovery began.  Tens of thousands of infill houses, nearly all of them built on spec.  So they're just thrown up with the same design consideration as a flip.  In other words, they're designed to maximize value based on how appraising and banking work and look good for 60 days.  The complete opposite of having a custom home built. 

 

Also, this video from another neighborhood really illustrates how relentless the progress is.  I'm not exaggerating when I say 80% of what was there in 2008 is gone across vast swaths of the city. 

 

 

 

in other words, these days its another charlotte? austin? flushing/sheepshead for ny?

Many of these would honestly be fine in the right context (not speaking of their actual construction quality, because while they might look fine I suspect most are really poorly built). But that context they'd be appropriate in is a more dense, missing-middle-urban context. With things like sidewalks, proper roads...hell, proper drainage and grading.

 

I know Nashville has done a lot of great things that Ohio's cities could learn from but...this isn't it haha. Thanks for sharing!

No way would I ever buy a new house on a street where the asphalt is in such horrid shape. One of those houses was even built with that BS not seen since the 1940s where they refuse to pave the driveway and instead put in narrow strips of concrete for the tires.

Look at the brand-new concrete cracking:

 

Also, this was a rear alley (albeit one with a 20% grade), and there wasn't any room for anything but the very smallest cars (Fiat, etc.) to turn in and out of the driveways.  At least when this situation has arisen recently in Over-the-Rhine, it was contextual.