Wednesday, January 09, 2013

New York Times: Nashville Is the New 'It' City

The New York Times says Nashville is cool.

Believe it!  (Especially East Nashville):

NASHVILLE — Portland knows the feeling. Austin had it once, too. So did Dallas. Even Las Vegas enjoyed a brief moment as the nation’s “it” city.

 Now, it’s Nashville’s turn...
 
Mayor Karl Dean, a Democrat in his second term, is the head cheerleader.“It’s good to be Nashville right now,” he said during a recent tour of his favorite civic sites, the biggest of which is a publicly financed gamble: a new $623 million downtown convention center complex that is the one of the most expensive public projects in Tennessee history...

 Flush with young new residents and alive with immigrants, tourists and music, the city made its way to the top of all kinds of lists in 2012.

 A Gallup poll ranked it in the top five regions for job growth. A national entrepreneurs’ group called it one of the best places to begin a technology start-up. Critics admire its growing food scene. GQ magazine declared it simply “Nowville.”