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SOUNDS GREAT Country music is not the only sound putting Nashville on the charts.

WHERE UNIQUE MEETS COSMOPOLITAN Nashville’s one-of-a-kind retail stores make shopping more than a pleasure.

50 STROKES OF GENIUS Public artwork adds to the city’s character and beauty.

52 A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD Sporting events have pumped more than $250 million into the region’s economy.

22 A DAY FOR INDEPENDENTS Nashville Originals helps level the playing ﬁeld for independent restaurateurs.

26 IMPROVING WITH AGE It could be said that Nashville is only as strong as its neighborhoods.

30 UP WITH PEOPLE As Nashville’s diversity has grown over the years, so has the number of festivals. ON THE COVER Staff Photo The Birth of Apollo by artist Casey Eskridge

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The Nashville Predators have scored a good deal of success during their eight seasons as a National Hockey League franchise. In May 1998, the Predators became the 27th franchise in NHL history and hosted their first game Oct. 10, 1998. The team plays their home games at the $160 million Sommet Center, which opened in December 1996 and seats 17,250 for hockey. The Predators practice at Centennial Sportsplex, which is also in Nashville. The franchise has had the same general manager (David Poile) and same head coach (Barry Trotz) throughout its eight-year history, and the Predators made the NHL playoffs in each of their last three seasons.

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Take your shoes off and relax. The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville has been designated as a 2007 Mobil Five-Star property, which is one of the hospitality industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prestigious ratings. Mobil has been evaluating dining and lodging establishments across North America for more than 40 years, and this is the first time that a Tennessee property has been recognized with five stars. The 2007 list contains 37 hotels, inns and resorts in North America, and The Hermitage is also one of only 27 North American properties that holds both the Mobil Five-Star and the separate Five Diamond rating award, which is awarded each year by the American Automobile Association. The Hermitage, which is located at 231 Sixth Ave. N., is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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It was total Vince-sanity in February 2007, when Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young was named Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Year. The University of Texas grad led the Titans to an 8-8 record and within one game of the NFL American Football Conference playoffs. He took over as Titans quarterback in week four and went 8-5 as a starter. Young led all rookies with 12 touchdown passes and ranked second among rookies with 2,199 passing yards. He also rushed 83 times for 552 yards and seven touchdowns.

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The Highest Heights Look out, New York and Chicago. Nashville will soon boast the tallest building outside those two famous cities. Construction on the 70-story Signature Tower began in July 2007 in downtown Nashville and is scheduled for completion in 2010. The $400 million landmark will tower above the downtown area at its location at Church Street and Fifth Avenue North. Signature Tower, at 1,057 feet high, will have 400 condominium units, ranging in price from $428,000 to $659,000, and the 197-room Hotel Palomar will be located next door. Residents will also have access to a chef-driven restaurant, day spa and maid service.

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Look, Up at the Sky The Adventure Science Center at 800 Fort Negley Blvd., has started a $20 million project to construct a new Sudekum Planetarium that will replace the old planetarium demolished in early 2007. The new building will seat 160, compared to its former 116-seat capacity, and will feature a Sky and Space Wing. The wing will include 30 exhibits and 63 interactive stations for people to enjoy. Visitors will be able to experience weightlessness in an interactive Test Bed, step into a void in an Infinity Star Chamber and ask questions about the universe in a Cosmic Café. The planetarium will be completed in spring 2008, and the Sky and Space Wing will open in spring 2009.

Top of the Heap Forbes included Nashville on its 2007 list of the Best Places To Do Business or Start a Career. The city was rated No. 1 in a June 2006 poll by Kiplinger’s magazine of the 50 Smart Places To Live. Magazine officials cited Nashville’s affordable homes, mild climate and a top-notch entertainment scene. The city has more than 180 entertainment venues that feature country music and bluegrass, jazz, pop, rock and soul. Business Week and Sperling’s Best Places also bestowed accolades on Nashville for being one of the Best Places for Artists in the United States, thanks, mainly, to the music scene. Meanwhile, Expansion Management listed Nashville on its 2007 list of America’s 50 Hottest Cities. And it has also been mentioned as the best place in the country for singles and one of 2007’s Best Cities for Relocating Families. For more information about Nashville’s rankings, visit www.nashvilleareainfo.com.

Fast Facts Q Many products are made in the Nashville area, including GooGoo Clusters, Martha White Flour, Gibson Guitars, Nissan automobiles and Bridgestone tires. Q Nashville was rated in the May 2007 issue of Black Enterprise magazine as one of the 10 best cities for African-Americans. Q The city has 21 colleges and universities, with Vanderbilt University being the largest at more than 11,000 students. Q The Nashville Public Library system has 20 branches throughout Davidson County. Q The founding of the Grand Ole Opry in 1925, along with an already thriving music publishing industry, led to Nashville becoming known as Music City.

Home Away From Home Come to America and come to Nashville. The city’s foreign-born population more than tripled in size from 1990 to 2000, going from 12,662 to 39,596. Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish community in the United States, with numbers surpassing 11,000. In fact, during the Iraqi election in 2005, Nashville was one of the few international locations where Iraqi expatriates could vote. The city is also home to a large Hispanic population, along with Vietnamese, Laotians, Arabs and Somalians.

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Doyle Davis, co-owner of Grimey’s New & Preloved Music on Eighth Avenue South, sells a great selection of hard-tofind music. Below: Reggie Wooten, of the Wooten Brothers Band, performs at 3rd and Lindsley Bar and Grill.

efore he moved to Nashville from Los Angeles to open an office for his music production company, David Grow thought of only one thing when his ears turned toward Music City. “I always felt that the real players were in L.A. and New York and that Nashville was just about country music,” says Grow, founder and executive creative director for Howling Music, which produces original music for advertising. “Every time I came out here for a record project, I was always kind of astonished at how [much talent] was here. “Like a lot of people, I sort of held the view that Nashville was all about country and then, little by little, I began to see otherwise. It has been eye-opening.” Grow’s words – and his perception – are being echoed by countless people who are discovering the many other reasons why Nashville is considered Music City. As the home of the Grand Ole Opry, the historic Ryman Auditorium and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville certainly has its roots in country music. And the genre still dominates here, to be sure. But the city’s sounds go far beyond country. “This town is just absolutely bubbling over with amazing musicians,” says Doyle Davis, co-owner of Grimey’s

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New & Preloved Music record store and a sort of guru for the local music scene in Nashville. “And whenever you get that many musicians concentrated in one area, you’re going to have some diverse and interesting music.” Diverse, indeed. With the opening of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2006, the Nashville Symphony has received worldwide attention. Listening rooms for all genres of music thrive here, with the Bluebird Café being a preeminent example. Many noncountry artists – Sheryl Crow, Bon Jovi, Jack White and Michael McDonald, to name just a handful – come here to record. Several choose to live here as well. And there’s an increasing number of rock musicians and bands that are calling Nashville home. “People are starting to realize that Nashville really has great rock bands,” says Davis, who also hosts a radio funk show on Vanderbilt’s WRVU-91. “We’ve always been brimming with talent.” Ethan Opelt, a relative newcomer to Nashville and a graduate of Belmont University, makes his living promoting the local rock scene through an organization he started known as Movement Nashville. It serves as a sort of cooperative that brings bands together in a noncompetitive atmosphere.

“We want to raise awareness to the noncountry scene here in town,” explains Opelt, whose “day job” happens to be in Internet promotion for many country stars. “I love country music. It pays half my bills. But there’s so much more great stuff here to listen to.” Now that Grow has been here for a couple of years, he can truly hear what Nashville has to offer. “A lot of our clients are saying they feel like the best players are really in Nashville,” says Grow, whose company still has an office in Los Angeles as well as one in Dublin, Ireland. “So it makes sense to get music from Nashville.”

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In Harmony With Nashville BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY MOVES ITS HEADQUARTERS TO MUSIC CITY

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all it a harmonious relocation. That may be the best way to describe the Barbershop Harmony Society’s move to Nashville from its longtime headquarters in Kenosha, Wis., in the summer of 2007. Music City simply hit all the right notes in attracting the 70-year-old organization to its new location at 110 Seventh Ave. N. “Nashville is considered Music City, and we’re a music organization,” says Ed Watson, executive director of the Barbershop Harmony Society.

New Zealand’s Musical Island Boys won the 2006 Bank of America Collegiate Barbershop Quartet competition and was the first quartet from one of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s eight affiliates to win any society competition. Inset: This rendering shows the Barbershop Harmony Society’s new headquarters located in downtown Nashville.

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“Another consideration was the fact that Vanderbilt and Belmont universities are both located here. Vanderbilt is a well-respected school, and Belmont has a reputation for being an excellent music business school. “Plus, there’s just a vibrancy about Nashville that we found attractive, especially in the downtown area,” Watson says. “As I’m getting to know Nashville more, I’m seeing other positive things about it that weren’t necessarily part of our decision making when we were considering a relocation.” Founded in 1938 and headquartered in Kenosha since 1957, the Barbershop Harmony Society is the organization that preserves and promotes barbershop quartet singing. Barbershop quartets began in America at the turn of the 20th century and today, the society has 30,000 members and approximately 2,000 quartets. It has more than 820 chapters in the United States and Canada, with an increasing number in other countries. The Barbershop Harmony Society’s new headquarters is a three-story, 36,000-square-foot building near the corner of Seventh Avenue North and Broadway. It houses a staff of about 30, a music and training department, a warehouse for its mail-order merchandise, a printing facility and a small museum that is open to the public. “It’s sort of like the Country Music Hall of Fame,” Watson says of the society’s museum. “It’s interactive. It includes a lot of history but also shows where we’re going in the future.” Nashville was host to more than 9,000 guests at an international barbershop harmony convention in 2001 and will host another gathering in 2008. – John McBryde

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ashville certainly is a place for industrious consumers to shop ’til they drop. But some of the city’s popular – and most eclectic – retail venues eschew traditional shopping malls in favor of neighborhood locales that allow their distinct personalities to come shining through. Savant/Vintage Couture is just such a place, founded in 2003 by owner Beverly Chowning in Nashville’s hip 12South district that includes everything from a yoga studio and pizza joint to a drum shop and Mexican-style popsicle store. “I didn’t pick this location. It picked me, oddly enough,” Chowning recalls. “I thought it had a lot of potential to be individual.” Consistently voted one of Nashville’s top vintage clothing stores by readers of the Nashville Scene, an alternative weekly, Savant specializes in gently worn clothing from the 1920s to the early 1980s. “I sell really exceptional, very wearable, one-of-a-kind works of art,” Chowning says. “I’m very selective. Every piece in here is like an adopted child of mine.” In addition to clothing for women and men, Chowning stocks accessories ranging from handbags to hats. Customers, who include some of Music Row’s biggest names, may buy or rent her wares. “My clothes have been on the CMAs [the Country Music Association Awards] and lots of other awards shows,” she Beverly Chowning, owner of Savant/Vintage Couture in Nashville’s hip 12South district, sells vintage clothing and accessories for men and women at her eclectic shop.

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Located in Hillsboro Village, Pangaea features a mix of funky clothing, gifts, lamps, toys, jewelry and Mexican folk art.

says, adding that she frequently loans her merchandise for video and photo shoots. Finding articles for the store is “a true testament to staying diligent and being an optimist,” Chowning explains. She’s been known to frequent secondhand shops on both coasts, attend estate sales and buy individually from owners. She looks for quality fabric, classic lines and attention to details such as buttons. “If you want to find that one-of-a-kind prom dress, this is the place for me to help you push the edge of who you are and what you’re about,” she says, challenging teenage girls to hone their sense of style. Teenagers and college students looking for that perfect trendy top or necklace flock to Pangaea, located in Nashville’s bustling Hillsboro Village near Vanderbilt and Belmont universities. “In the fall of 2007, I will celebrate 20 years in business,” says Pangaea owner Sandra Shelton, whose business is one in a mix that includes restaurants, a cooking store and a jeweler. She’s been in the Hillsboro Village location for 10 years. “I think I got into the village just as it was taking off as a hot spot again. And it’s just gotten better and better since I moved in,” she says. On a busy Saturday, Shelton needs five salespeople on the floor, not including Chester, her Chesapeake Bay retriever. Pangaea’s out-of-the-ordinary assortment of merchandise includes clothing, jewelry, mirrors and lamps, Mexican folk art, toys, books and quirky gifts that all reflect Shelton’s tastes and travels. A unique assortment of another kind is Spaces, located on NASHVILLE

Highway 100, west of downtown. Spaces is a collection of more than two dozen, high-end boutiques, as well as Escape Day Spa and Salon and The Grape, a tony wine bar and restaurant. Spaces’ upmarket décor and open floor plan surrounding a rock garden encourage an afternoon’s meandering. Soon to enter the market is the Hill Center at Green Hills, which will have an abundance of shops, ranging from Anthropologie clothing store and Merrell shoes to Le Creuset cookware and Swoozie’s paper and gifts.

Day of the Dead figurines line the shelves at Pangaea.

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A Dollop of Ethnic Flavoring INTERNATIONAL GROCERS SERVE UP A VARIETY OF INTERESTING ITEMS

Nashville Farmers’ Market, where baby bok choy and persimmons may be sold alongside locally raised mustard greens. “Throughout the year, we have a number of farmers who bring in things that probably would be considered by many Nashvillians to be ethnic foods,” says Marne Duke, the market’s marketing manager. “Then again, that’s always changing. Ten years ago, the Farmers’ Market was probably the only place where you could find tomatillos, but now you can find those at a lot of your grocery stores.” The market’s vendors lease indoor or outdoor space at the facility on Eighth Avenue North. “Because they are small, independent retailers, they don’t have anybody in their corporate office telling them what they need to order and to wait for something to become trendy before they can carry it,” Duke says. Thus, try the Farmers’ Market for cactus leaves, Middle Eastern figs, jicama, fish oil and pomegranates. “Now pomegranates are trendy, but our folks down here have been carrying them for years,” she says. Other vendors across the city that sell international foods include La Hacienda Mercado, TaKabul Global Foods, International Food Market, The Italian Market, Corrieri’s Formaggeria, Interasian Market and Deli, and Shreeji International Market. – Sharon H. Fitzgerald

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he N ashville area’s ever-growing diversity means opportunities abound to enjoy international cultures, including a variety of interesting food. Whether your culinary fancy is Vietnamese or Ethiopian, Asian or Kurdish, Nashville-area grocers have shelves stocked with the necessary ingredients. Don’t think, however, that ethnic markets are something new to Music City. The granddaddy of them all, Global Market, was founded in 1972 by Ed Moore and his late wife, Sunee, who was from Thailand. When Sunee couldn’t find items for her Southeast Asian recipes, the couple launched Global Market on Church Street downtown. In 2004, the store moved to larger space on Vine Street near the Adventure Science Center. “There are all kinds of ethnic groceries now because of the influx of people from Africa and South America. I even started carrying things from Uruguay just recently,” Moore says. For fresh produce, there’s no better venue than the

The Global Market is one of many ethnic groceries in Nashville catering to an ever-changing population. The market features imported foods ranging from oyster sauce and rice wine to more than 30 different types of olive oil.

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Rick Bolsom’s Tin Angel restaurant is one of the many eateries that make up the Nashville Originals’ growing network.

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hile attending a baking school in France in the mid-1990s, Terry Carr-Hall fell in love with the breads and pastries of the country’s Provence region. Carr-Hall did something about his newfound passion: He returned to the United States and launched Provence Breads & Café, which opened its doors in March 1996 in Nashville’s Hillsboro Village. Today, with five Music City locations, Provence is an active member of Nashville Originals, an organization self-described as “a dedicated band of local restaurateurs, dedicated to the challenge of sustaining the independent restaurant as a feature and a fixture of local culture and community.” Carr-Hall delights in the use of the word “originals” in the group’s title. “That’s what we are,” he says. “We’re the pioneers.” The restaurant owner describes Nashville as “on the cusp of exploding when it comes to cuisine.” “I think now, looking at the food scene in 2007, we’re there,” Carr-Hall says. “We have wonderful restaurants and a high-end clientele that really understands gourmet foods.” That’s why the time was right for Nashville Originals, founded in January 2006 as a chapter of the Council of Independent Restaurants of America, trademarked as DineOriginals™. The organization boasts about 700 restaurants in more than 20 cities. Rick Bolsom, one of the Nashville Originals’ founders, says the structure and guidelines of DineOriginals™ made it easy to take that system and adapt it to Nashville’s eateries. “Essentially, the groundwork had already been laid,” says Bolsom, who owns the neighborhood bistro Tin Angel on West End Avenue. Bolsom says the national organizaNASHVILLE

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tion helped Nashville Originals establish qualifications for members and set up its unique fundraising strategy based on gift-certificate sales. Member restaurants donate gift certificates in denominations of $25 and $50, which are sold quarterly at a discount of 33 to 40 percent via the Web site www.nashvilleoriginals.com. In April 2007, 95 percent of the gift certificates sold in just 65 minutes. “It’s a way to support our organization and also give back to our supporters in the community,” Bolsom says. Nashville Originals members, more than 30 so far, benefit from the Web site, part of a cohesive marketing strategy that also features a job board that advertises members’ open positions. “A year from now, if you’re a person looking for a job in the restaurant industry, we hope that the first place you go to look is the Nashville Originals Web site because those are going to be premier jobs at the premier restaurants in the city of Nashville,” Bolsom says.

The organization is also coordinating food and equipment purchasing partnerships to level the playing field against chain restaurants, which have an advantage. While Bolsom acknowledges that Nashville Originals members are, in fact, competitors, they are also friends. “We are a very close-knit community, with camaraderie and a fellowship of interests,” he says. “For the most part, we are also friends and supporters of each other.” Part of the mission of Nashville Originals is to make friends and supporters of Middle Tennessee restaurant patrons, too. “When you drive down the road and look to the left and look to right, and you don’t know if you’re in Nashville, Omaha or Sault Ste. Marie, I think that’s a sad state of affairs,” Bolsom says. “We’re getting that message out there, so people will say, ‘Yes, that’s important, and I’m going to vote with my tummy to keep my favorite local restaurant in business.’ ” I M AG E S N A S H V I L L E . C O M

All Fired Up NASHVILLE’S HOT CHICKEN IS AN UNRIVALED CULINARY DELIGHT

ven the mild is hot, and the extra hot is, well, blazing, searing, eye-popping and sweatinducing. We’re talking about fried chicken, Nashville-style. “There’s just nothing like it anywhere in the world. It is a unique Nashville food not available anywhere else on the planet,” says former Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell, who left office in September 2007. “Once you’ve had it, you understand that it’s both different and better than any other food.” And he’s not kidding. Purcell is a hot-chicken aficionado who is spotted frequently at Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, the granddaddy of the city’s hot-chicken emporiums. Located north of downtown off Dickerson Road, Prince’s dates back to the 1940s. Other hot-chicken outlets include 400° and Bolton’s Spicy Chicken & Fish. Yes, fish. Nashville hot-chicken lovers leave the little wings and drummettes for the Yankees up in Buffalo. A hot-chicken serving is either a leg and thigh or a breast and wing, fried to a crispy brown in a castiron skillet and served atop two slices of white

bread. Pickles speared with a toothpick provide the garnish. Purcell, a regular at Prince’s for 30 years, describes the bread, sopping with the chicken’s grease and spices, as “kind of like dessert.” While the former mayor recommends sides of french fries and coleslaw, he stresses that “it’s really all about the chicken.” While the spice recipes are closely guarded secrets of the individual restaurants, cayenne pepper and paprika are generally acknowledged ingredients. For Purcell, the hotter the better. “It’s a hot chicken shack. I know they have other temperatures available, but if you want that, you should go to a medium chicken shack or a mild chicken shack,” he quips. Purcell’s hot-chicken ardor prompted Nashville’s first Hot Chicken Festival, which was held July 4, 2007, as part of Celebrate Nashville, months of festivities recognizing the city’s 200th anniversary. “I admit that the festival was my idea,” he recalls, “but it was one of those ideas that was so good, everyone immediately understood that we should do it.” – Sharon H. Fitzgerald WEB SITE EXTRA

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t could be said that the Nashville area is only as strong as its neighborhoods. So, when it comes to recruiting new companies to the area, that may be especially true of the historic neighborhoods that are adjacent to Nashville’s urban core. Just ask Matt Largen, director of business recruitment for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. He happens to live in one of those historic neighborhoods. “I think having these neighborhoods is a huge plus for businesses looking to relocate here, especially those from more urban areas,” says Largen, who lives with his wife and young daughter in Sylvan Park. “It adds to the inventory [of recruiting tools] about Nashville. It makes a big difference to have these historic neighborhoods.” Sylvan Park is one of several distinct neighborhoods near downtown Nashville. Others include Germantown, East End, Belmont-Hillsboro, Lockeland Springs and Richland-West End, to NASHVILLE

name just a few. Each of these offers a variety of housing opportunities and a rich history. “The first thing we liked about Sylvan Park was the location,” says Largen, who moved to Nashville from Little Rock, Ark. “We’re four miles from downtown, and we’re convenient to other parts of the city. “Plus, you can get the urban feel, which we like, yet still have a back yard. We also like the fact that the homes don’t all look the same. They all have character.” Germantown is Nashville’s oldest neighborhood. Founded in the late 1840s, it was the city’s first suburb and now features an eclectic mix of homes built from 1840 through 1930. There is also a renaissance of sorts taking place in Germantown, located just north of Nashville’s downtown. New houses are being built according to the neighborhood’s historic architectural guidelines. “There are several things to like about Germantown,” says Skip Lawrence,

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a resident there who is co-owner of Lawrence Brothers Development, which developed Morgan Park Place and other projects in the neighborhood. “It is a traditional community in its layout, with sidewalks and a street grid. The community itself is real strong and very cohesive and involved. “There’s a wide mix of people here,” he continues. “It attracts artists, empty nesters and young professionals. That adds a nice flavor to it.” Nashville’s smallest historic neighborhood may be its most vibrant. East End, which dates to 1876 and is located between Edgefield and Lockeland Springs, has seen tremendous change in recent years due to the commitment of its residents. “We have a really high level of involvement in community activities,” says Jeff Ockerman, a founding member of the East End Neighborhood Association and a resident since the early 1980s. “There are a lot of highactivism people really interested in the area, people wanting to make positive changes and knowing they really can have an impact on their environment.” Key to East End’s vibrancy is Five Points, a relatively recent commercial development that offers a variety of restaurants and unusual retail shops. “It has made a tremendous difference in terms of making it feel more like a real urban neighborhood,” Ockerman says, “and making it more attractive for people to want to live here more long-term.”

East Nashville and Germantown are being revitalized due to a commitment from residents.

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The Celebration of Cultures in Centennial Park includes music, dance, art, a global market and plenty of ethnic food.

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t began, in a sense, in Historic Germantown. As a way to celebrate a neighborhood – and a heritage – a few folks came together and started a street festival known as Oktoberfest. Now pushing 30 years old, it is Nashville’s oldest cultural event. But it’s not the only one in town. As diversity in the Nashville area has grown over the years, so has the number of festivals. Oktoberfest may have been the catalyst, but the city is now home to many other celebrations, such as the Greek Festival at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the African American Street Festival at Tennessee State University and a Brazilian festival with a parade and activities at Global Café. And then there is the festival that covers all cultures – the Celebration of Cultures festival co-hosted by the ScarrittBennett Center and Nashville Metro Parks. “It’s very important to understand and celebrate the diversity of Nashville, to learn about other cultures and to get to know other people’s traditions,” says Cindy Politte, director of marketing for Scarritt-Bennett Center, which started the Celebration of Cultures in 1995. “It’s a true potpourri of everything that is Nashville.” The Celebration of Cultures started on the grounds of the Scarritt-Bennett Center, but it soon outgrew that location and is now held at Centennial Park on the first weekend of October. To help handle the growth of the festival, Scarritt-Bennett partnered with Nashville Metro Parks. The festival features a variety of musical and dance NASHVILLE

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Rosemary Brown, minister of Monroe Street United Methodist Church, says that makes the event special. “The sweetest, most wonderful thing about the festival is the cooperation between the two churches and the neighborhood association,” she says.

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performances, a global market, visual artists, a children’s area and plenty of ethnic food. “There were over 30 cultures, with about 15,000 attendance [at the 2006 event],” Politte says. “It’s free of charge, so it’s something people can afford and bring the entire family.” Oktoberfest also has been a family-oriented event ever since the first one was held in 1980. John Connelly founded the festival after inviting about a dozen people to his home to discuss starting a homecoming of sorts in Germantown that would involve the two historic churches there – Monroe Street United Methodist Church and Assumption Catholic Church – and later, the Historic Germantown Neighborhood Association. “It’s the oldest festival in Davidson County,” Connelly says, “and not in my wildest dreams did I think it would grow as much as it has. I think it has drawn a lot of attention to the community.” Held on the second Saturday in October, Oktoberfest features a variety of artisans, children’s games and activities, music and dancing, and, of course, plenty of traditional German food and beer. The event begins with a 5K run, followed by worship services at the two sponsoring churches. Proceeds from the festival are shared between the two churches and the neighborhood association, with the funds going toward restoration and improvement to the churches, and repairs and updates to one of the neighborhood’s historic homes.

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The Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ ArtQuest Gallery gives people a chance to experiment with art.

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s director of education for the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Anne Henderson likes it when visitors there behave like busybodies. It’s a sure sign they’re learning about art through the center’s interactive area known as the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. “I think in education, you know that people learn much more when they are able to actually do something,” says Henderson, who has been in her position since the Frist Center opened in 2001. “It makes them have a more concrete learning experience.” That’s the very nature of ArtQuest, a hands-on gallery that was designed for children but sees people of all ages enjoying its 30 different activity stations. The space underwent a redesign in 2006 that includes a new entrance, a reading area and several new stations. Among the highlights of ArtQuest are artmaking stations, where children can experiment with sculpture, watercolor and a printing press. The architectural area, with its myriad of building blocks, is also a big hit – for kids young and old. “It’s a station that we put there for preschool children,” Henderson says, “but I’ve also seen high schoolers in there and having a great time.” What sets ArtQuest apart from similar interactive spaces is the fact that it’s not only interactive but is also a place where participants make their own art. They can develop their own digital portfolio of their creations and access it at the center’s art library or online. The whole experience of ArtQuest gives visitors to the Frist Center a better idea of the artistic process, Henderson says. “What I think is important about ArtQuest is that it does ask our visitors to interact by talking with each other about art or ideas they might have,” she says, “and it gives them an opportunity to have that handson experience.” – John McBryde

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marketing and public relations. “It just keeps climbing. “I think we have more acceptance by the Nashville community,” he adds. “More and more people are starting to think about the zoo when they’re thinking about getting outside with families or when they have out-oftown guests.” The zoo has experienced steady growth since it opened in the Grassmere area of south Nashville in 1996. Its attendance of 529,828 in 2006 was a 3 percent increase over 2005.

Each year, the zoo has taken significant steps in its master plan by adding different animals and exhibits. Some of the more notable additions in recent years include Gibbon Islands, Bamboo Trail and the African Elephant Savannah. In 2006, the zoo added Giraffe Savannah, Alligator Cove and the Red River Hog Habitat. “They look a lot like a punk-rock pig,” Bartoo says of the African-native red river hogs. African wild dogs and lynx were additions in 2007. The zoo is also an attractive destination because of the variety of events held each year. Highlights include Eggstravaganzoo, an Easter egg hunt for children ages 2 to 10; International Migratory Bird Day in May; Ice Day in July, a day in which visitors can see the animals receive ice treats and view ice sculptures; and Ghouls at Grassmere in October. The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is open daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.

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ost people come to the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, of course, for the animals. Others enjoy visiting during the many special events that take place at the 200-acre site. And then there are the countless school groups that head to the zoo for what must be a favorite field trip. No matter what the reason might be for visiting the zoo, it is one of the city’s leading destinations. “We’ve seen record attendance every year for the past eight or nine years,” says Jim Bartoo, the zoo’s director of

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affairs specialist for the Corps of Engineers. “They’re near the freeway, and they’re not hard to get to.” J. Percy Priest Lake has 31 recreation areas, nearly 500 camping sites, eight swimming areas and 31 boat docks. Old Hickory has 65 recreation areas, 590 camping sites, 11 swimming areas and 56 boat ramps. “They run the full gamut of recreation opportunities,” Treadway says. “We discourage risky behavior, but everything else is permitted.” Since the main mission of Radnor Lake is wildlife preservation, “we list ours as passive recreation,” says Steve Ward, the park’s ranger. “People come here for different reasons, but the primary reason is quantity and quality of wildlife here.” Radnor Lake has six miles of hiking trails, and jogging and bicycling are allowed on the park’s paved road. Visitors can also take ranger-led canoe floats on the lake from late April to early October in addition to other scheduled events.

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, offer a variety of activities such as boating, fishing, swimming and camping. Radnor Lake, which is run by Tennessee State Parks and is located eight miles south of downtown Nashville, is ideal for the peace and quiet of passive recreational pursuits. “As they say in real estate, it’s basically location, location, location that makes both J. Percy Priest and Old Hickory so popular and wellattended,” says Dave Treadway, public

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or those seeking a wide range of water-related recreational opportunities, the best bet is to head north or east of Nashville. Those looking for a more serene lake experience should motor south of town. Regardless of what might float your boat, Davidson County is home to three lakes that will surely satisfy one’s thirst for being on or near the water. J. Percy Priest and Old Hickory lakes, both of which are managed by

J. Percy Priest Lake is a great place to spend an afternoon on the water.

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ike all the trails that wind through Nashville-area designated green space, the Richland Creek Greenway has several benefits. The two-and-a-half-mile scenic trail offers visitors ideal recreational opportunities, provides alternative trans portation options and is environmentally friendly. And, for good measure, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rather historic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From a design perspective, Richland Creek has a lot of history to interpret,â&#x20AC;? says Shain Dennison, director of the Greenways Commission of Metro Parks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are subtle nods to the history of that area.â&#x20AC;? The Richland Creek Greenway winds around McCabe Golf Course, which was the site of Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first airport. Dennison says the trail, which connects the neighborhoods of Sylvan Park and Cherokee Park with the shopping centers and entertainment areas of White Bridge Road, is designed sort of like an airplane propeller. It also passes by the site of Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worst-ever

train wreck, and users can pause to read a plaque that tells the story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing how much use it is already getting,â&#x20AC;? Dennison says of the Richland Creek trail, which opened in summer 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It feels like you are out in nature even though youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a densely populated area.â&#x20AC;? Richland Creek is just one of the greenways Nashville has developed since the commission was created in 1992. The Harpeth River Greenway at Morton Mill Road was the first, and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crown jewel is the Shelby Bottoms Greenway and Nature Park. It offers five miles of paved multiuse trails and another five miles of primitive hiking trails. The 810-acre park is a haven for migrating birds and other wildlife. Nashville has more than 40 miles of greenways, and the Parks and Greenways Master Plan has identified up to 210 miles of greenways over the next 25 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The public loves them,â&#x20AC;? Dennison says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t build them fast enough.â&#x20AC;?

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t’s an organization that promotes country music, but the CMA could almost use “Downtown” as its theme song. Downtown Nashville, after all, is where the 50-year-old Country Music Association now holds its two major annual events – the CMA Awards and the CMA Music Festival. The lights are much brighter there, so to speak. “It just made so much sense to come downtown,” says Tammy Genovese, the CMA’s chief operating officer, of the decision to hold the CMA Awards at the Nashville Arena (now called The Sommet Center) in 2006 and again in 2007. “There’s just so much going on there. [For instance], we had block parties on Broadway. There is so much about downtown Nashville that allows us to build into all the activities that surround the awards.” The CMA Awards, which had been held for years at the Grand Ole Opry House, moved to The Sommet Center in 2006 for its 40th annual show after a one-year hiatus in New York City. “We really loved the intimacy and the feel of the Opry House,” Genovese says. “But our business is growing so much and our event is growing so much, and that has really added another dimension to what we do.” The CMA Music Festival, which began as Fan Fair in 1972 and had been held at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds until 2001, is also more of a community event since moving downtown. “It was more of a tourist event when it was at the fairgrounds,” Genovese says. “We have worked really hard to make it more of a Nashville event, as well as bringing in people from out of town.” Held in June each year, the CMA Music Festival allows fans to hear and meet top country artists. Half of the net proceeds from the event goes toward funding music education in the city’s public schools.

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hink of it as flower power. Visitors to Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art may have a variety of reasons to make the 55-acre site their destination, but they are bound to be lured by the botanical garden once they’ve arrived. Young and old can find solace – and a good bit of education – among all the plants, pools and fountains that make up Cheekwood’s gardens. “Cheekwood’s botanical garden is enjoyed by more than 145,000 people each year,” says Leigh Anne Lomax, the botanical garden and horticulture manager for the west Nashville institution. “Gardens inherently can be enjoyed by a diverse group of people. On any given day here, you can see children running around, a couple strolling in peace, a person sitting reading a book or someone else studying the flowers. “Cheekwood attracts not only avid gardeners but also those who want to learn more about gardening or people trying to get ideas for their own gardens,” she adds. The botanical garden has a variety of gardens, each of which represents a particular group of plants or a unique style. It is also the site of several different garden shows and lectures that are sponsored by groups from around the Midstate. “Most of them are organized through the Horticulture Society of Middle Tennessee,” Lomax says, “and they definitely have a following.” Cheekwood, which was built as a mansion for Leslie and Mabel Cheek in 1932, has been open to the public since 1960. The mansion also features a 30,000-square-foot art museum. “There are few places like this in the country,” says Jack Becker, Cheekwood’s president and CEO. “Every major city has an art museum, a botanical garden or a historical house, but few have anything like Cheekwood. You may come here for the art and stumble upon the gardens. There is always something to discover.” – Stories by John McBryde

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hen it comes to its impact on the Nashville area’s economic development, the growth of a company can be just as important as the relocation of a company. “If you recruit good, quality companies that are going to be good corporate citizens, then the sky’s the limit,” says Janet Miller, chief economic development and marketing officer for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. “What’s really important is once you get them here, you keep them here. You had better keep your hand on the pulse of the companies that are here.” Dell Computer Corp. is a prime example of how that approach is working in Nashville. The company’s announcement in 1999 that it would launch operations in Middle Tennessee was obviously significant, but its growth here is what has truly made for a success story. Dell’s most recent spurt, which began in the summer of 2006 and added around 1,000 employees, has brought the number of employees to its three Middle Tennessee facilities to approximately 4,000. “We are very pleased with the quality of employees we have hired,” says Ken Bissell, senior communications manager for Dell. “It has gone very well. We have a very productive workforce with employees that are committed to our business.” Miller says those same sentiments are echoed across several businesses that are either relocating to Nashville or experiencing growth here. Middle Tennessee is simply thriving with a diverse economic base. “There are really about six to eight different industry sectors [that are highly active here],” Miller says, “and there are very few cities in America that have that kind of strength in so many different sectors.” Several components make the Nashville area attractive to businesses, and key among them is higher education. In the chamber’s recent study on higher ed in the Midstate, officials discovered that that sector of the economy accounts for 75,000 employees and a $5.5 billion economic impact. It also produces a very viable workforce. “I think the higher education piece is one of our leading

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selling points from a recruitment standpoint,” Miller says. “There are 100,000 college students within an hour’s drive of Nashville, and over 10,000 are staying here each year after they graduate.” The Chamber sponsors a couple of programs that help keep employers and employees on the same page in terms of career choices and quality of life issues. One of those is Cool School, a seminar designed to point out Nashville’s various “coolness” factors to human resource representatives. “When [participants] walk away from Cool School, they are loaded with information that shows what a good city Nashville is,” says Brian Taylor, a local real estate agent who helps present the program. Young Professionals Day, a part of the Chamber’s 20/20 Leadership Alliance, is another popular program. It connects young professionals with diverse opportunities for networking, professional development and community involvement. “YP Day really celebrates the impact that young professionals have,” says Adam Small, who heads the program and is CEO of Strategic Business Network. “It brings together a diverse group of people that otherwise wouldn’t have had a chance to interact in the course of their normal routines.” NASHVILLE

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SHOP AND GO It’s easy to identify the typical customers of the H.G. Hill Urban Market in downtown Nashville. They’re the ones you might miss if you blink. “The demographics of our consumer are a younger, more urban clientele,” says Bob Durand, director of store operations for S&C Foods Inc., which owns the market that opened in February 2007 in the Viridian residential tower. “They’re young professionals on the go.” To fit the needs of these customers, the H.G. Hill Urban Market offers items not necessarily found in suburban grocery stores. Among the more popular are ready-to-eat meals. “They don’t have a whole lot of time to spend preparing meals,” Durand explains, “so it became a sort of natural fit to offer prepared meals.” The 5,000-square-foot store is the first full-service grocery store in downtown Nashville. Its customers are not only residents of the Viridian, but also downtown workers and residents.

CAO International Inc. cigars have earned several national awards.

A FINE SMOKE You don’t have to be an expert to enjoy a CAO International Inc. cigar. And if you are an aficionado of fine cigars, you’ll enjoy a CAO even more. “Our cigars have a broad appeal, whether it’s someone who’s a new smoker or someone who is really into it,” says Tim Ozgener, president of the company his father started some 40 years ago. “We have a great array of different flavors and different strengths. 44

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We have cigars that will satisfy a lot of different maturities of palate.” It actually took Cano A. Ozgener more than 25 years to add cigars to his CAO company. Ozgener started his business in 1968 by selling meerschaum pipes. CAO then began manufacturing solid wood humidors in the late 1980s, and the company entered the cigar business in 1994. CAO cigars have earned several awards, notably through Cigar Aficio-

ROUND-THE-CLOCK CARE Diabetes never sleeps. So to help keep the disease in check, thousands of patients throughout the country have turned to AmMed Direct in recent years. It’s a company that was founded in Nashville in 1999 and started a free support community in 2003 known as the Better Care Program. “Diabetes is a 24-7 issue,” says Tom Milam, general manager of AmMed Direct. “A person with diabetes will see their physician three or four times a year and get 10 to 15 minutes of face time on each visit. But 90 days is a long time to go [between doctor visits], so we’re there to support the physicianpatient relationship. We talk about things like lifestyle, meal planning and just reinforce what the physician is saying.” AmMed Direct provides diabetes testing supplies and, in many cases, medications. Members of the Better Care Program receive free home delivery and insurance filing, a wide choice NASHVILLE

SAY YES TO YAZOO What’s better than a Yazoo beer? Getting a refill of Yazoo beer. “It’s kind of an old-fashioned idea,” explains Linus Hall, who opened the Yazoo Brewing Co. in 2003 with his wife, Lila. “Before there was bottling, people would just go down to the local tavern and get what they wanted to take home.” Patrons of Yazoo beer can visit the brewery’s taproom at 1200 Clinton St., purchase a half-gallon jug known as a growler, and then use that container for subsequent refills. “We give a discount for refills,” Hall says. Yazoo brews six different beers that are available at many retailers and in more than 100 bars and restaurants throughout the Middle Tennessee area: Amarillo Pale Ale, Onward Stout, Dos Perros, Hefeweizen, Yazoo ESB and Sly Rye Porter. “I think people were ready to get behind a good local beer,” Hall says.

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of products and brands, and several other benefits.

Linus Hall’s Yazoo Brewing Co. has its taproom on Clinton Street downtown.

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Business | Biz Briefs “They have sort of gotten turned off by the over-marketed, massproduced beers.”

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A CUE FOR SUCCESS The Nashville area pretty much ran the table when officials with Olhausen Billiards Manufacturing Inc. were considering where to relocate from their headquarters in San Diego, Calif. “We were trying to move to an area that would entice more of our employees to move with the company,” says Sue Doyle, the company’s marketing director. “Everyone is pretty darned happy with the move. Everything here has been just excellent.” Olhausen Billiards, the country’s largest and most popular brand of pool tables, moved to a 250,000-squarefoot facility in Portland in late summer 2006. Sixty-five of its employees made the move as well, and the company – which was founded in 1972 – hired another 100 from Middle Tennessee to get the plant in full operation. “After spending your whole life in California, with how expensive everything is there, it was kind of refreshing to come here and not have the stress,” Doyle says. – John McBryde

Olhausen Billiards Manufacturing Inc. is headquartered in Portland, Tenn.

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Education

A Uniquely Nashville Education UNIVERSITIES OFFER NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED, PEERLESS PROGRAMS

to education to law enforcement to medicine to risk management, has a conflict component, and very little has ever been done to teach people how to deal with conflict as a discipline,” says Larry Bridgesmith, associate professor and the institute’s executive director. “When you stop to consider the breadth of our conflict-intense culture, you can see clearly that there’s no discipline that really is immune.” While most conflict-resolution programs in the country are housed within law schools, Bridgesmith says the Lipscomb approach is multidisciplinary. “Our approach is to try to expand knowledge rather than constrict knowledge, as most graduate programs tend to be far more specialized,” he says. – Sharon H. Fitzgerald

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Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management offers a rigorous health-care program. Above: “American Idol” 2007 finalist Melinda Doolittle returned to her alma mater, Belmont University, for a live performance.

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hen “American Idol’s” Melinda Doolittle returned with network cameras in tow to her Nashville alma mater in May 2007, Belmont University found itself on one of America’s largest stages. It’s a familiar place for a school known worldwide for its music programs and alumni that include Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith and country artists Vince Gill, Trisha Yearwood and Brad Paisley. “Our biggest advantage at Belmont over any other school in the country is that we’re in Nashville, Tenn.,” says Belmont President Bob Fisher. “It is called Music City for a very good reason.” Belmont boasts both a College of Visual and Performing Arts, which includes the School of Music, and the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, named by Time magazine as one of the top two music-business schools in the nation. “We do have some great supporters on Music Row, with Mike Curb and Curb Records leading the pack,” Fisher says. Belmont also is carving a niche in Nashville’s vibrant health-care sector, with programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy, social work and nursing, which enjoy significant support from Nashville-based HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit health chain. Belmont recently announced it will open a School of Pharmacy and is enrolling students for the 2008-09 academic year. Belmont is just one example of the 20 colleges and universities that add to the cultural and economic atmosphere in the Nashville area, bringing students, faculty and staff from around the world. Education and health care got a shot in the arm in 2005, when the Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management launched its health-care master’s degree in business administration. “The Owen School was looking for ways that it could differentiate itself and could put truly exceptional programs out in the market,” explains Jon Lehman, Vanderbilt associate dean for health care and a professor at the Owen School. “We felt there was definitely a need for a very rigorous, broadbased health-care program.” The specialized MBA prepares students for health-related positions in a variety of areas, Lehman says, including hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms and even Wall Street. To learn about conflict resolution in the workplace, including the health-care arena, Nashville’s Lipscomb University features the Institute for Conflict Management, founded in 2006 and offering both master’s and certificate programs. “Our sense is that virtually every enterprise, from religion

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A Harmonic Convergence NASHVILLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOSTERS TEENS’ TALENTS IN MANY AREAS

ance, guitar, vocal music, piano, theater, visual art, instrumental music and mass media may sound like options for electives at most public high schools, but at the Nashville School of the Arts, they’re programs of study. “This is a place where artistic students can come feel fulfilled and gain in confidence,” explains Principal Robert Wilson, known to his students as “Principal Bob.” “There are so many opportunities to develop and become what they want to be. Many times, they’re denied this in regular school settings.” With the idea of nurturing Nashville’s budding artists, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools launched the School of the Arts in 1993 as a magnet program within one high school. In just three years, the program’s growth warranted its own facility. The school moved to its present Foster Avenue location in 2003 and will boost the number of students from 650 to 700 for the 2007-08 school year. Students audition for their chance to attend and, while grades aren’t a factor for admission, Wilson says the school’s scholastic achievements are rivaled only by the system’s academic magnet schools. Seniors have the opportunity to take college courses at the Nashville State Community College Southeast Center, just 600 yards away. Wilson says the school’s “infectious” atmosphere prompts alumni to return. “Once you’re part of the NSA family, you’re always a part of

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it,” he adds. “That’s really true. Former students come back and share what they’re doing and really feel a part of what they had here for four years.” Some of the school’s graduates are on the Broadway stage, some work behind the scenes in theater and film, and one alumna dances with Celine Dion at

Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. A college speech and theater major, Wilson has been at the school’s helm since 2001 and calls himself lucky to have the job. “I don’t have fights here,” he says. “I don’t have gangs. No, wait, the jazz ensemble is a gang. That’s about as close as we get.” – Sharon H. Fitzgerald

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Strokes of Genius NASHVILLE’S PUBLIC ART PROGRAM REFLECTS COMMUNITY’S CHARACTER AND RICH HISTORY

his is a ghost story that’s not a bit scary. In July 2007, New York City artist Alice Aycock completed work on her contemporary sculpture, Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks, which graces the east bank of the Cumberland River between LP Field and the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge. The $250,000 sculpture is the first of what art enthusiasts hope will be many public art projects funded by a program of the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission. In 2000, then-Mayor Bill Purcell introduced, and the Metro Council approved, a public-art funding mechanism “to integrate art into the community so that all of our residents and visitors can enjoy what it adds to our urban fabric,” explains Sandra Duncan, director of the commission’s Public Art Program. The strategy sets aside 1 percent of the established budget for public art when the city builds a new building; major renovations are also included. Norree Boyd, the commission’s executive director, credits the Nashville

Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual InterCity Visits, when city leaders get a firsthand look at other communities, with prompting Nashville’s public-art initiative. “They went to cities that were already on the map for their public art programs,” Boyd says. “While they were on those visits, they said, ‘Nashville deserves this. How do we do it?’ ” Commission research resulted in the 1 percent legislation and then establishment of a citizen-based Public Art Committee with a charge to select potential sites and then artists. The location along the East Bank Greenway was “overwhelmingly” chosen as the first locale, Boyd adds. “Public art is site-specific, and when we sent out the first call to artists, it was actually a request for qualifications to determine artists who would be interested in coming to Nashville and developing a site-specific piece of art,” Boyd explains. The national call resulted in more than 150 responses, and the committee narrowed the field to six. Aycock’s Ghost Ballet won out for reflecting the

city’s heritage, particularly industries that dominated the river since the mid-1800s, and for capturing Nashville’s energy today. The artwork – 100 feet tall, 100 feet wide and 60 feet deep – sits on the remnant of a gantry crane once used by the Nashville Bridge Co. to build and launch bridges. Aycock calls the work “static animation,” meaning that although the piece doesn’t move, its lines and structure evoke movement. She says the piece “capture[s] the athleticism of a performer and the confidence of a city that is comfortable with its identity as the home of American music and one of this country’s true emerging cities.” Boyd says Ghost Ballet and future public art “put us on the map as being one of those wonderful cities in the country that has embraced public art to give it a distinction, to give it a personality, to actually join in with those art-friendly cities. This puts us another rung higher.” The next public art site probably will be the new Courthouse Public Square downtown. – Sharon H. Fitzgerald

Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks by Alice Aycock is the city’s newest piece of public art. The sculpture, located on the east bank of the Cumberland River, was funded by a new Metro Nashville Arts Commission program.

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ive-time Tony winner Julie Harris said in 1979, “God comes to us in theater [in] the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting or a play. It’s a way of expressing our humanity.” In Nashville, those human expressions are rich and varied, and include the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, Tennessee Repertory Theatre and a host of smaller community and professional thespian troupes. Nashville Ballet is another one of the city’s cultural treasures. Founded in 1981 as a civic dance company, the ballet earned professional status in 1986. The Nashville Ballet employs 22 dancers, both members and apprentices, and 21 trainees who are paid per performance while continuing their educations. For some residents, Nashville Ballet is synonymous with its annual performances of The Nutcracker. “For most ballet companies, The Nutcracker is a linchpin,” says Andrea Dillenburg, Nashville Ballet executive director. “It is definitely a family favorite. Thousands of people still come every year, and every year, they come out smiling and happy.” During its 2006-07 season, the company also performed The Legend of Lizzie Borden, Swan Lake and the unique Bluebird Café at the Ballet. The Bluebird Café, located in Nashville’s Green Hills area, is known internationally as a performance locale for established artists as well as aspiring country musicians. The Nashville Ballet has twice

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teamed up with Bluebird favorites to interpret their music on the stage of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The ballet also operates two schools and has an extensive community-outreach program that includes performances at area elementary and middle schools. – Sharon H. Fitzgerald

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Sadie Harris and Jon Upleger are dancers with the Nashville Ballet.

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A Level Playing Field THE NASHVILLE SPORTS COUNCIL HAS BIG GOALS FOR THE CITY

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“Look at events like the Country Music Marathon,” Ramsey says. “I can virtually guarantee you that prior to that event, you probably didn’t see the number of people on the streets training and running like you do today. That has helped to promote awareness of having a healthy lifestyle.” Nashville’s sports growth has also had a trickle-down effect on the number of youngsters who are involved in

sports activities. The city has a wide variety of year-round youth sports leagues, from soccer and golf to softball and basketball. One of the components of the Nashville Sports Council is the Good Sports Program, which is partially designed to motivate young people to be active. Even the Country Music Marathon has an event tailored for kids grades K-6. – John McBryde

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he numbers are impressive. Since it was formed in 1992, the Nashville Sports Council has hosted more than 100 events that have pumped more than $250 million into the Middle Tennessee economy. To run these events, the council has enlisted more than 600 individuals, approximately 170 corporations and 8,000 volunteers. But to really understand how the Nashville Sports Council has reshaped the city’s image as a key player in amateur and professional sports, you’ve got to look beyond the numbers. “The intangibles of having a strong sports landscape really helps put a community on the map,” says Scott Ramsey, executive director of the Nashville Sports Council. “When companies are looking to relocate their business, sports is a huge driver in the decision-making process. “Take the Music City Miracle and the international exposure that presented,” adds Ramsey, referring to the Tennessee Titans’ dramatic win over Buffalo in the 1999 NFL playoffs, which took place in early January 2000. “A city can’t buy that kind of marketing, so I think there’s a definite value in having sports in your community.” The addition of the Titans and the Nashville Predators within the last decade has given rise to Nashville’s place as a professional sports city. But collegiate and amateur events have also played a huge role in shaping the sports image of the Nashville area. The city hosts such major events as the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, NCAA basketball tournaments and the Country Music Marathon, as well as other events such as AAU girls’ basketball tournaments and the Music City Hits fast-pitch softball tournament. All of these events bring in vast revenues for the city, and they also generate active participation from the community – both in the number of people who volunteer and those who adopt healthier lifestyles.

Nashville hosts an array of major sporting events, including the the Country Music Marathon and the Music City Hits fast-pitch softball tournament.

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Health & Wellness

Growing Life Sciences BIOMIMETIC THERAPEUTICS LEADS THE CHARGE IN THE BIOTECH FIELD

he Nashville area enjoys an international reputation in the health-care field and that, in turn, lures other world-class professionals in scores of related enterprises, from disease management and medical devices to pharmaceuticals and healthinformation technology. Dr. Samuel Lynch is a prime example. Lynch founded BioMimetic Therapeutics Inc. in Williamson County in 1999. “We had the opportunity to start BioMimetic in Boston or New York, just about any place we chose,” Lynch recalls. “In fact, our investors were both from the East and West Coasts and from Europe. We chose to start it here because of the excellent quality of life, the low cost of doing business here compared to either coast, the low rents and the available expertise in the biosciences.” Today, BioMimetic is a successful keystone of Middle Tennessee’s emerging life-sciences industry. The company develops and commer-

cializes drug-device combinations that speed the healing of bone, cartilage, ligament and tendon injuries. BioMimetic has one product on the market, GEM21S, to treat periodontal bone defects and gum recession that’s common with periodontal disease. Trials for orthopedic uses are under way in the United States, Canada and Sweden. “We’re also looking at additional product opportunities in sports medicine, such as advancement in the healing of rotator cuff injuries, and also in the spine by basically reversing osteoporosis on a localized level – giving a shot of our product directly into the spine to enhance the density of the bone there as opposed to taking a pill regularly,” Lynch explains. To meet anticipated demand for its products, BioMimetic launched construction in June 2007 on a manufacturing facility that meets rigorous requirements for medical production.

The plant should be in operation by 2009, when all the production will move from the BioMimetic facility in the United Kingdom to Middle Tennessee. “With our headquarters in Williamson County, we want to be able to, quite candidly, have more control over our manufacturing operations,” Lynch says. “To us, it was a matter of gaining more control of our own destiny.” BioMimetic Therapeutics is located at the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center, a 10-acre campus that will eventually be the site of three buildings. “I would like the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center to be a very vibrant medical research and biosciences campus that houses a number of academic, university-based research programs, as well as commercial entities that are developing exciting drugs and medicines and devices to help treat human diseases and injuries,” Lynch says. “Nashville is an excellent place to do that.” – Sharon H. Fitzgerald

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or proof that Nashville is America’s healthcare capital, look no further than the three new headquarters announcements in the span of just five months in late 2006 and early 2007. “The decisions by Little Clinic, Guardian Home Health, Cogent and others to move their headquarters to the Nashville area underscore Nashville’s position as a world-class healthcare location,” says Matthew Gallivan, president of the Nashville Health Care Council, founded in 1995 to promote and nurture the city’s astounding assortment of healthrelated enterprises. Texas Home Health of America moved its headquarters to Williamson County in late 2006, changing its name to Guardian Home Health Holdings to reflect its business interests in Texas, Georgia and Tennessee and its aggressive expansion plans. Williamson County also landed the headquarters for The Little Clinic, which was previously based in Louisville, Ky. The company manages walk-in clinics

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in retail locations, mostly grocery stores. In March 2007, Cogent Healthcare announced the move of its California headquarters to Nashville. Cogent provides hospitals in 16 states with hospitalists, or physicians who care for patients during a hospital stay. Nashville is also home to Hospital Corporation of America, otherwise known as HCA, which owns and operates about 180 hospitals and surgery centers in 21 states, England and Switzerland. Middle Tennessee boasts about 300 healthcare companies, and about half of them involve professionals who cut their teeth at HCA. “Nashville has continued to experience very, very strong industry growth,” Gallivan says. “I think largely it’s a recognition of the healthcare industry talent that we have here and the entrepreneurial spirit of people who go out with new ideas, create new companies and bring new approaches to some of the key challenges facing health care.”

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Calendar of Events ONGOING

PERFORMING ARTS CHAFFIN’S BARN DINNER THEATRE (615) 646-9977 (800) 282- BARN www.dinnertheatre.com

GRAND OLE OPRY (800) SEE-OPRY www.opry.com

NASHVILLE BALLET (615) 297-2966 www.nashvilleballet.com

MISS MARPLE’S MYSTERY DINNER THEATER (615) 242-8000 (800) 261-6756 www.missmarples.com

VISUAL ARTS FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS TRAVELING EXHIBITS (615) 244-3340 www.fristcenter.org

THE PARTHENON (615) 862-8431 www.nashville.gov/parthenon

COMMUNITY EVENTS TENNESSEE STATE FAIRGROUNDS FLEA MARKET (615) 862-5016 www.tennesseestatefair.org

NASHVILLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE (January-May) (615) 254-9103 www.nashvillechildrens theatre.org

NASHVILLE NIGHTLIFEDINNER THEATER (615) 885-4747 (800) 308-5779 www.nashvillenightlife.com

MONTHLY

JANUARY NASHVILLE BOAT & SPORTS SHOW (314) 567-0020 www.nashvilleboatshow.com

FEBRUARY ZOOPERBOWL

TIN PAN SOUTH (615) 256-3354 www.tinpansouth.com

ANNUAL MAIN STREET FESTIVAL (615) 595-1239 www.historicfranklin.com

CMT’S FLAMEWORTHY VIDEO AWARDS (615) 335-8400

COUNTRY MUSIC MARATHON & HALF-MARATHON (615) 742-1660 www.cmmarathon.com

EGGSTRAVAGANZOO (615) 833-1534 www.nashvillezoo.org

GOSPEL MUSIC WEEK & GMA MUSIC AWARDS (615) 242-0303 www.gospelmusic.org www.doveawards.com

NASHVILLE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (615) 742-2500 www.nashvillefilmfestival.org

SOUTHERN WOMEN’S SHOW (704) 376-6594 (800) 849-0248 www.southernshows.com

MAY

NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION

(615) 833-1534 www.nashvillezoo.org

(October-April) (615) 832-5242 www.nashvilleopera.org

ANTIQUE WEEK

(615) 859-3678 www.cityofgoodlettsville.com

(800) 657-6910 www.visitmusiccity.com

IROQUOIS MEMORIAL STEEPLECHASE

NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (615) 783-1212 www.nashvillesymphony.org

TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (615) 782-4000 www.TPAC.org

APRIL

MARCH NASHVILLE LAWN & GARDEN SHOW (615) 876-7680 www.nashvillelawnand garden.com

COLONIAL FAIR

(615) 343-4231 www.iroquoissteeplechase.org

SPRING FLING (615) 880-2001

TENNESSEE CRAFTS FAIR (615) 385-1904 www.tennesseecrafts.org

TENNESSEE REPERTORY THEATRE

TENNESSEE RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL

(615) 244-4878 www.tnrep.org

(615) 395-9950 www.tnrenfest.com

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JUNE AMERICAN ARTISAN FESTIVAL (615) 298-4691 www.american-artisan.com

CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL (800) CMA-FEST ww.cmafest.com

HISTORIC EDGEFIELD TOUR OF HOMES (615) 254-6664 www.historicedgefield.org

JULY

SEPTEMBER AFRICAN STREET FESTIVAL (615) 251-0007

FALL FEST (615) 356-0501 (800) 270-3991 www.bellemeadeplantation.com

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ASSOCIATION POW WOW (615) 232-9179 www.naiatn.org

OKTOBERFEST (615) 256-2729 www.historicgermantown.org

NOVEMBER

GREEK FESTIVAL (615) 333-1047 www.holytrinitynashville.org

HOME DECORATING & REMODELING SHOW

A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS (615) 871-6169 www.gaylordopryland.com

CHRISTMAS VILLAGE

(615) 748-9980 (800) 343-8344 www.nashvillehomeshow.com

(615) 256-2726 www.christmasvillage.org

MUSIC CITY J.A.M.

INSPIRATIONAL COUNTRY WEEK

(615) 578-2691 www.nbl4u.com

(615) 742-9210 www.ccma.cc

TACA FALL CRAFTS FAIR (615) 385-1904 www.tennesseecrafts.org

DECEMBER

TENNESSEE STATE FAIR (615) 862-8980 www.tennesseestatefair.org

OCTOBER CONFEDERATE CEMETERY ILLUMINATED WALKING TOUR (615) 780-3598

FRANKLIN ON THE FOURTH (615) 794-1225 www.visitwilliamson.com

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION (615) 862-8400 www.nashville.gov

GHOULS AT GRASSMERE (615) 833-1534 www.nashvillezoo.org

HAUNTINGS AT THE HERMITAGE (615) 889-2941 www.thehermitage.com

UNCLE DAVE MACON DAYS (800) 716-7560 www.uncledavemacondays.com

AUGUST TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE NATIONAL CELEBRATION

CELEBRATION OF CULTURES (615) 340-7500 www.celebrationofcultures.org

JACK DANIEL’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BARBECUE COOK-OFF

DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS (615) 595-1239 www.historicfranklin.com

GAYLORD HOTELS MUSIC CITY BOWL (615) 743-3130 www.musiccitybowl.com

NASHVILLE GAS RUDOLPH’S CHRISTMAS PARADE (615) 734-1754 www.nashvillegas.com

THE NUTCRACKER

(931) 759-6180 www.jackdaniels.com

(615) 255-9600 www.nashvilleballet.com

WILSON COUNTY FAIR

MUSIC & MOLASSES FESTIVAL

(615) 443-2626 www.wilsoncounty.com

(615) 837-5197 www.tnagmuseum.org

TRIBUTE TO AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE BATTLE OF NASHVILLE

(931) 684-5915 www.twhnc.com

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Community Profile

NASHVILLE Nashville is known as Music City, the Athens of the South and the birthplace of investor-owned health care. It is the capital of Tennessee and a vital transportation, business and tourism center. The Nashville economic market, in the state’s center, comprises 10 counties for a total population of just under 1.6 million.

SUPERLATIVES Best Cities for African-Americans

COST OF LIVING

New York

214.7

Nashville is ranked the as the fifth-best city for blacks nationally based on career mobility, affordable housing and overall quality of life.

San Francisco

172.9

Black Enterprise, April 2007

Los Angeles

147.0

Washington D.C.

138.8

Boston

134.5

Baltimore

120.4

Chicago

109.8

Denver

103.4

Raleigh

99.1

Tampa

98.2

St. Louis

98.0

Atlanta

95.6

Nashville

90.9

U.S. average = 100

Source: American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association Cost of Living Index, fourth quarter 2006

CLIMATE Average annual temperature, 58.8 F Average January high, 46.9 F Average January low, 28.4 F Average June high, 86.4 F Average June low, 65.1 F Record high, 107 F (July 1952) Record low, -17 F (January 1985) Average annual precipitation, 59.5" Average annual snowfall, 9.9" Average relative humidity 70 percent Source: National Climatic Data Center

The area code for Nashville is 615 .

Best Places for Business and Careers Nashville ranks ninth nationally as one of the best places for business and careers based on job and income growth, business and living costs, education of the workforce, migration trends and qualityof-life issues such as crime rates and cultural opportunities. Forbes, April 2007 Best Places for Artists in the United States Nashville ranked seventh on a Top-10 list of the nation’s best cities for artists in the U.S. BusinessWeek.com and Sperling’s Best Places developed the list by developing the metro areas that have the highest concentration of artistic establishments. Business Week, February 2007 Best Cities for Relocating Singles Nashville ranked second on a Top-10 list of the nation’s best cities for singles planning to relocate. The list, compiled annually by Washington, D.C.based Worldwide ERC and Memphis-based Primacy

Relocation, was based on singles’ preferences on a range of criteria, such as gender balance among cities’ residents, a climate analysis, occupancy rates for temporary housing and availability of collegiate and professional sporting events. Worldwide ERC & Primacy Relocation, October 2006 Top 50 Smart Places To Live Nashville was named the No. 1 smartest city in Kiplinger’s ranking of the Top 50 U.S. metros to call home. Low cost of living, high quality of life and reasonable home prices helped secure Nashville’s spot at the top. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, June 2006 America’s 50 Hottest Cities For the third year in a row, Nashville was named one of the nation’s top metros for business expansions and relocations by Expansion Management magazine. The Hottest Cities poll measures the perceptions of 80 professional site location consultants who help companies select the best place for future facility expansions. Expansion Management, February 2006

MEDIA From print to broadcast to online sources, the region’s abundance of media outlets makes it quick and easy to keep up with local, national

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Embassy Suites Nashville Airport www.nashvilleairport.embassysuites.com Executive Travel & Parking www.exectp.com Father Ryan High School www.fatherryan.org Franklin Road Academy www.frapanthers.com French Christianson Patterson & Associates www.homesinnashville.com Fridrich & Clark Realty, LLC www.fridrichandclark.com Gilda’s Club of Nashville www.gildasclubnashville.org

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GlobaLink www.globalinksolutions.com Governor’s Books From Birth Foundation www.governorsfoundation.org

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Grubb & Ellis/Centennial www.centenn.com Historic & Distinctive Homes www.historictn.com IDS www.ids-tn.com Laurel Cove www.discoverlaurelcove.com Loews Vanderbilt Hotel www.loewshotels.com Mansker Farms/Vastland Realty www.vastland.com McKendree Village www.mckendree.com Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority www.ﬂynashville.com Nashville Symphony www.nashvillesymphony.org Peerless Pinnacle Company www.peerlesspinnacle.com Prudential Woodmont – Brian Taylor www.downtownmusiccity.com Re/Max Elite – Michele Niec www.tnprop.com Robert W. Baird & Co. www.rwbaird.com Shirley Zeitlin & Company Realtors www.shirleyzeitlin.com SmartSpace www.smart-space.com Southern Land Company, LLC www.southernland.com Tennessee Bank & Trust www.tennbank.com The Lipman Group – Sotheby’s www.thelipmangroupsothebysrealty.com The Tennessee Credit Union www.ttcu.org Tennessee Technology Center www.ttcnashville.edu Vanderbilt Hospital www.mc.vanderbilt.edu Vastland Properties www.vastland.com Worth Properties www.worthproperties.com Worth Properties – Beverly Spellings www.bevspellings.com

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Community Profile and international news. Always mindful of the area’s metropolitan status, most of Nashville’s major outlets give in-depth coverage on what’s happening throughout the 10-county region. Additionally, smaller publications focus on specific geographic areas or special interests. USA Today’s regional issue is also printed in Nashville. In addition to the publications listed below, Nashville is home base to many music and religious publications.

THE CHANGING FACE OF NASHVILLE ASIAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN/ PACIFIC ISLANDER 1.9%

AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE 1.4% OTHER RACE 0.3%

HISPANIC ETHNICITY 4.6%

65+ 10.4% BLACK 16.3%

18 – 24 9.6%

45 – 64 24.4%

0 – 17 24.6%

WHITE 80.1% 25 – 44 31.0%

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AGE

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The Tennessean www.tennessean.com The City Paper www.nashvillecitypaper.com The Daily News Journal www.dnj.com

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Weekly All the Rage www.nashvillerage.com Community Ledger

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Hermitage Ledger Nashville Business Journal www.bizjournals.com/nashville Nashville Record www.nashvillerecord.com

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Nashville Scene www.nashvillescene.com Nashville Today The Belle Meade News

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The Green Hills News The News Beacon

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The News Herald

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The West Meade News The Westside Story The Westview www.westviewonline.com BARNES

The Williamson Herald www.williamsonherald.com

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Community Profile Contempora Magazine www.contemporamagazine.com La Campaña www.lacampana.us La Noticia http://la_noticia.tripod.com Nashville Pride Out & About in Nashville www.outand aboutnewspaper.com The Tennessee Tribune www.thetennesseetribune.com Magazines American Profile www.americanprofile.com Business Tennessee

www.businesstn.com Nashville Parent www.parentworld.com Nashville Medical News www.medicalnewsinc.com Key Magazine www.nashvillekey.com Nfocus www.nfocusmagazine.com The Senior Sentinel Nashville Lifestyles www.nashvillelifestyles.com Regional Newspapers Brentwood Journal www.reviewappeal.com

Dickson Herald www.dicksonherald.com Fairview Observer www.fairviewobserver.com Madison Messenger Mt. Juliet News www.mtjulietnews.com Portland Leader Robertson County Times www.rctimes.com The Ashland City Times www.ashlandcitytimes.com The Chronicle of Mt. Juliet www.thechronicleofmtjuliet. com The Gallatin Newspaper The Daily Herald www.columbiadailyherald.com The Daily News Journal www.dnj.com The Hendersonville Star News www.hendersonville starnews.com The Leaf Chronicle www.theleafchronicle.com The Lebanon Democrat www.lebanondemocrat.com The News Examiner www.gallatinnewsexaminer.com The Review Appeal www.reviewappeal.com The Rutherford Courier The Wilson Post www.wilsonpost.com Online News & Guides Citysearch www.nashville.citysearch.com Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce www.nashvillechamber.com Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau www.visitmusiccity.com Nashville Digest.com www.nashvilledigest.com Nashville Post.com www.nashvillepost.com Television CMT – Channel 30 www.cmt.com Great American Country – Channel 31, www.gactv.com Government Access TV – Channel 3, www.nashville.gov Trinity Broadcasting Network www.tbn.org

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WETV Channel 11 www.1450wgns.com WHTN Channel 39 www.ctntv.org WKRN (ABC) Channel 2 www.wkrn.com WNAB Channel 58 www.wnab.com WNPT (PBS) Channel 8 www.wnpt.net WSMV (NBC) Channel 4 www.wsmv.com WTVF (CBS) Channel 5 www.newschannel5.com WUXP (UPN) Channel 30 www.upn30.com

Offers information for the Hispanic community; information provided by a bilingual staff

Tennessee Department of Revenue, 741-3580 www.state.tn.us/revenue Information on taxes

Tennessee Department of Education, 741-2731 www.state.tn.us/education Education information, including private schools

Tennessee Department of Safety, 741-3954 www.state.tn.us/safety Driver license information Tennessee Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 251-3585 www.tnhispanic.com Newcomer assistance information for the Hispanic community provided by a bilingual staff

Tennessee Department of Higher Education, 741-3605 www.state.tn.us/thec Information on junior colleges, colleges, universities and vocational schools

WZTV (FOX) Channel 17 www.fox17.com WNPX (PAX) Channel 28 www.ionline.tv/stations

RELOCATION RESOURCES Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, 743-3071 211 Commerce St., Ste. 100 Nashville, TN 37201 www.nashvillechamber.com Access Ride, 880-3970 Elderly and disabled transportation service Davidson County Clerk 862-6050 Information on automobile tags and registration, business licenses and marriage licenses Greater Nashville Black Chamber of Commerce 876-9634 Metro Nashville Public Schools www.mnps.org General information 259-8400 Elementary schools 259-8768 Middle schools, 259-8401 Magnet schools, 259-4636 High schools, 259-4636 Metro Transit Authority 862-5950 Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 216-5737

The area code for Nashville is 615 .

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Community Profile COUNTY PROFILES MAJOR EMPLOYERS Company

Product/Service No. of Employees KENTUCKY

Vanderbilt University and Medical Center

Orlinda

R OB E R TSO N

Education and health care

Portland

SU M N ER

Springfield

Clarksville

20,000

Gallatin 31E

White House

M O N TG O M E RY Y

Nissan North America

HQ and auto manufacturing 10,000

HCA

HQ and health care

C H E AT H A M

Goodlettsville

Ashland City Lebanon

8,503

D AV IDS DA D O ON N Charlotte

St. Thomas Health Srvs.

Health care

6,300

Saturn Corp.

Auto manufacturing

5,800

Mount Juliet

Nashville

DICKSON O

Watertown

Dickson La Vergne ne ne

Brentwood 100

Fairview

WI L S ON

Smyrna

Franklin

RUTHERFORD W I L L I A M SO N 41 70S

Spring Hill

Bridgestone Americas Holding

HQ and tire manufacturing

4,900

Dell Computer

Computer manufacturing

4,500

Wal-Mart Stores

Retail

4,500

Gaylord Entertainment

HQ and hospitality services

Shoney’s

HQ and restaurants

4,000

CBRL Group

HQ and restaurants

3,350

Electrolux Home Prod.

Electric/gas range manufacturing

3,300

YMCA of Middle Tenn.

Health/wellness services

3,100

Ingram Industries

HQ and distribution

3,081

Century II Staffing

HQ and office staffing

3,000

Kroger

Retail

2,649

United Parcel

Transportation logistics

2,500

BellSouth

Telecommunications

2,388

Murfreesboro

840

MAU RY

Eagleville 231

431

Columbia

Mount Pleasant

4,150

Randstad Work Solutions Office staffing

2,230

Asurion

2,100

HQ and telecomm. services

POPULATION GROWTH County

2000

Cheatham

2005

% Change

35,912

38,603

+7.5

569,891

602,679

+5.8

Dickson

43,156

45,894

+6.3

Maury

74,845

76,292

+1.9

146,353

147,202

+.6

Davidson

Montgomery Robertson

54,433

60,379

+10.9

Rutherford

182,023

218,292

+19.9

Sumner

130,449

145,009

+11.2

Williamson

126,638

153,595

+21.3

Wilson

88,809

100,508

+13.2

1,453,577

1,588,453

+9.3

5,689,283

5,962,959

+4.8

Nashville Economic Market Tennessee

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The 10-county region that makes up the Nashville economic area is an increasingly attractive destination for companies looking to relocate. Each county has its own unique qualities that set it apart. For more information on each county, visit imagesnashville.com. Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce A private, nonprofit organization founded in 1847, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce is one of Middle Tennessee’s largest business federations, representing some 2,500 member companies. The Nashville Area Chamber provides its members business development programs, resources, marketing opportunities and business advocacy at all levels. Its economic development initiative serves as the lead business recruitment and expansion team for the 10-county Nashville region. Together with its affiliate partners, the Nashville Area Chamber works to strengthen the region’s business climate and enhance Nashville’s position as a desirable place to live, work, play and visit.

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Community Profile 2006 NASHVILLE AREA OCCUPATION MIX Industry

Number of Jobs

Manufacturing

84,523

Trade, Transportation, Utilities

154,082

Information

20,172

Financial Activities

46,323

Professional & Business Services

100,473

Educational & Health Services

100,539

Leisure & Hospitality

78,247

Government

98,040

Nashville MSA

753,039

Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development

Chamber affiliates include: Nashville Downtown Partnership, Nashville Technology Council and Nashville Health Care Council. For more information, visit the Chamber’s Web site at www.nashvillechamber.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce 211 Commerce St., Ste. 100 Nashville, TN 37201 (615) 743-3000 Fax: (615) 256-3074 www.nashvillechamber.com

Sources: www.nashvillechamber.com www.nashvilleareainfo.com

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