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Four North Nashville residents receive $28,000 for arts, food and transportation projects

Paige Pfleger

December 22, 2021

A total of $28,000 was doled out to a North Nashville yoga studio, artist residency, school transportation company and program to help feed kids.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 37208, North Nashville

Three North Nashville councilmembers ask for $70M in covid relief for minority-owned businesses

Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 20, 2021

After input from North Nashville residents, councilmembers are asking the city’s COVID-19 financial oversight committee to funnel $70 million toward minority businesses.

Filed Under: Business, Metro, Race & Equity Tagged With: Brandon Taylor, Jefferson Street, Jefferson Street Cap Project, Kyonzte Toombs, Nashville Metro Council, North Nashville, Sharon Hurt

Some North Nashville residents can vote on which project should get $2M, but the rules are limiting some ideas

Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 15, 2021

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The city is trying to empower residents to create the rules and process for funding community projects in an area the city has historically neglected.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Fabian Bedne, North Nashville, participatory budgeting, Sekou Franklin, Whites Creek

What a proposed complex in North Nashville illuminates about affordable housing and systemic racism

Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 2, 2021

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Claudia Wright moved to the Clay Mill Station subdivision eight years ago.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Housing, North Nashville

Metro hits pause on Jefferson Street cap project after community pushback

Juliana Kim

November 9, 2021

The Jefferson Street Cap project hopes to reverse the economic harm done by the construction of Interstate 40 and make way for more green space and foot traffic. But this month, public forums about a future land bridge in North Nashville have been postponed.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Jefferson Street, Jefferson Street Cap Project, North Nashville

Nashville artist pieces together his memories and the rubble of a historic home in new Parthenon exhibit

Paige Pfleger

October 29, 2021

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Henry L. Jones says he wants people to see the found objects from Monroe Street in his art and remember that the start of gentrification and development was rooted long ago.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Monroe Street, North Nashville, Parthenon

Affordable artist housing celebrates new community building in North Nashville

Rose Gilbert

October 25, 2021

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The new center is located at the heart of the 26th and Clarksville Pike apartment complex. Hundreds gathered at the North Nash Fall Bash to celebrate its opening by spray painting pumpkins, getting their COVID shot and listening to live music.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: North Nashville, Urban Housing Solutions

First community meeting for North Nashville’s Jefferson Street cap project brings turnout, and some skepticism

Paige Pfleger

October 10, 2021

About 200 residents, business owners and city leaders met in North Nashville this weekend to discuss the proposed Jefferson Street Cap project, a land bridge that would extend across Interstate 40.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Jefferson Street, Jefferson Street Cap Project, North Nashville

Nash In The Know: Who Is Buying All These Expensive New Homes — And What Does That Mean For Renters?

Ambriehl Crutchfield

September 28, 2021

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The average homebuyer in the Nashville area is around 40 years old and the median household income is $92,691. But rising incomes is just one of the factors making housing more expensive for buyers and renters.

Filed Under: Business, Metro, Metro Questions Answered, Race & Equity Tagged With: Buena Vista, Columbia, Franklin, Housing, Nash In The Know, North Nashville, Spring Hill, Tennessee State University, Thompson Station, Williamson County

Despite Some Pushback, Cane Ridge Marker Will Publicize More Of Nashville’s History Of Lynchings

Ambriehl Crutchfield

September 20, 2021

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A 15-year-old Black boy was lynched by a white mob on Dec. 15, 1924. Despite a grand jury investigation, public outcry and a reward, no one was ever charged. Now, a new marker at the site of Davidson County’s last known lynching aims to share Samuel Smith’s story.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, History, Metro, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Davidson County, General Hospital, Germantown, historical markers, lynching, Metro Historical Commission, North Nashville, Rutherford County, Saint Thomas

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