Nashville, TN, the capital and most populous city in the State of Tennessee, is situated on the banks of the Cumberland River in the heart of Middle Tennessee. Two of the nation’s largest interstates, I-65 & I-40, converge into Nashville which has brought in an eclectic blend of businesses and arts. The Nashville area is home to several major headquarters such as, Nissan North America, HCA Healthcare, Inc., Asurion, Bridgestone Americas, United Healthcare, LifeWay Christian Resources, Caterpillar Inc., and many more. These businesses have help Nashville grow at a rapid rate with the population now over 650,000 residents in the Nashville-Davidson County area.
Along with nicknames like Music City USA, Nashville is known as the Athens of the South due in part to the number of universities located in the city, but also because of the full-scale replica of the Parthenon that opened in 1931. Some of the major universities are Vanderbilt, Tennessee State, Belmont, Lipscomb, Trevecca Nazarene, & Fisk Universities.
Nashville is also home to several performing arts centers hosting ballets, plays, musicals, and symphonies. Two prominent locations are the Schermerhorn Symphony Center finished in 2003 and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) which houses three venues named after presidents that resided in Tennessee; Andrew Jackson Hall, James K. Polk Theater, and Andrew Johnson Theater. Other arts include the Frist Center for the Visual Arts which opened in 2001 and has around 200,000 annual visitors. While the Frist Center is a more traditional visual art center; the Nashville Walls Project has been reshaping the city with creative murals across the city.
Besides music and business, Nashville is home to several professional and amateur sports teams most notably the Tennessee Titans & the Nashville Predators. Both teams have achieved success with the Titans making but losing in Super Bowl XXXIV, and the Predators falling short in the Stanley Cup Finals in 2017 to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Nashville is also home to Major League Baseball’s AAA team the Nashville Sounds and the future home of Major League Soccer’s latest expansion team.
Nashville was one of
the first cities in the United States to form a Metropolitan form of
government. Nashville and Davidson County share a border and is actually
made up of a collection of a number of villages, such as (Click to
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You can find anything and everything you want in Nashville and the housing
options are as diverse and the residents who make up this great city.