How Nashville is Transforming Itself Into a Global City

Worth.com ^ | Undated | Jennifer Justus

[Bonemaker]

At a recent fundraiser for restaurant workers struggling with addiction at the Nashville restaurant City House, Kamal Kalokoh, a chef with Jamaican roots, handed out plates of roast; a soul singer backed by a horn section belted out tunes; and Trevor Moran, an Irish chef who came to Nashville from Copenhagen’s Noma—often called the best restaurant in the world—stood behind a rickety table making Japanese kakigori, piles of matcha-dusted shaved ice hiding surprising hunks of greens or kiwi.

[Bonemaker]

"...Japanese kakigori, piles of matcha-dusted shaved ice hiding surprising hunks of greens or kiwi..."

Yummy, just what I wanted in Tennessee ...Japanese cacagori. Nash-vile is gone.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

If it makes you feel better: Nashville fried chicken is the latest foodie trend in global Los Angeles.

[Dr. Sivana]

I only went to Nashville once. The highway was backed up and family members needed to go to the bathroom. tHe only place around wasa Dollar General, and the whole area was like a global city alright, a global city in the Third World.

[max americana]

That’s the trend now. I dont know where this started but I’ve been to a few of these “Nashville” chicken outfits in L.A. It’s alright, but I wont go out of my way to plan for it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Swell. It's, it's, its, so … metrosexual.
 

[wjcsux]

Every time I went to Nashville, the streets were torn up for construction.

[a fool in paradise]

Is Nashvegas going to start pimping K-pop bands?

[wardaddy]

Sounds like you got off at eighth avenue south which is projects and hood but within shouting distance of second avenue and downtown neon and glitz

That area is where the natives burned down the dollar general in a tizzy over a police shooting so dollar general built it back bigger and better

Even that area is now gentrifying at the edges

I detest Hipster ethnic fetishized food

Japanese or Burgers ...it’s tiresome and overpriced

Farm to table

Sustainable

Kiss my ass

[wardaddy]

It’s still is

440 is under revamping right now

It’s a mess

Now everyone chokes downtown trying to go east and west and avoid downtown

It’s not like Los Angeles or Atlanta or DC traffic

But it’s much worse than it used to be

When everything went 10/8/4 lane around the city in the late 90s it helped immensely

Now that’s filled up

[Dilbert San Diego]

This article begs the question as to whether it is a good thing to see a city transformed into a global City.

Considering the situation with many of our big cities nowadays, some of the so-called less sophisticated Backwater cities are looking better and better.

[wjcsux]

I lived in Huntsville AL 32 years ago and I would take my young family to Nashville for a family outing. It looks like nothing has has changed.

[TomServo]

Damn....they're redoing 440...

Spring Hill filled up yet? I gave up on possibly moving to Franklin.

[wjcsux]

If a city is turning into a “ global city “, my gut reaction is to stay away.

[wjcsux]

I don’t know how Franklin is these days, 30 years ago, it was a very nice place.

[Bommer]

Going to a Kroger around here in Nashville is like walking into a Star Wars Cantina. Used to be associated with Country Music and now, no one knows what the hell its associated with..other than its crowded as hell.

[buckalfa]

"I only went to Nashville once. ------- a global city in the Third World. "

You have described just about any metro area in the United States. Even small metro areas have their third world zones.

[wardaddy]

My parents moved from Jackson Mississippi to Murphreesboro Tennessee oddly enough July 4 weekend 1978 when I was at Ole Miss

Nashville metro population then was 700,000

Now it’s likely north of 2M

I moved here in mid 1997

You’re dead wrong it hasn’t changed

It’s incredible actually

Folks are disappointed to find it’s not very southern

It’s still country though in parts

[wardaddy]

Franklin and Williamson county still have plenty room

But it’s expensive

May drive me further out county

My home unexpectedly is becoming my biggest net asset

I’m doing rounds now from Goose Creek to downtown to west Nashville then to mount Juliet and Lebanon

Dearth of traffic

Amazing

There is a lot of traffic going into Downtown for the fireworks display i supposed

[Bonemaker]

Any city that is turning cosmopolitan is going to be a shithole as it slowly loses its soul. Nashville/Davidson County is a blue chancre in an ocean of red Tennessee.

[Bonemaker]

Any city that is turning cosmopolitan is going to be a shithole as it slowly loses its soul. Nashville/Davidson County is a blue chancre in an ocean of red Tennessee.