Nashville: Music City Center#

Opened: 2013. Exhibit space: 353,000 sq ft. Walk Score: 83–86.

The convention center that works — built on a community that was erased.

What Was Here Before#

Black Bottom — Nashville’s first African American business and residential district. Center of Black business life by 1900. Destroyed by urban renewal and highway construction; gone by 1960. 200,000+ cubic yards excavated.

Convention centers have a history of being built on cleared communities. Nashville is one of the most documented cases.