Music Row is the symbolic heart of Nashville's music and entertainment industry. In January 2015, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced Music Row as a National Treasure. Since 2015, Metro planners have been working with Music Row stakeholders to understand historical assets and define challenges threatening Music Row. Extensive community outreach and analysis have been undertaken to further clarify core issues affecting the area.
Over the last four years, Metro Planning staff has worked closely with community members, music industry leaders, and other stakeholders to create the Music Row Vision Plan. This document identifies the significance of, and pressures facing Music Row, and contains a broad range of recommendations and action steps to pursue. The overarching theme of the Vision Plan is to ensure that Music Row continues to be a vital hub of music business and innovation, and a unique creative cluster within Nashville. It is a planning document, but also a call to action for the public and private sectors, neighbors and developers, and all those who support and strengthen the Row.
The purpose of the Music Row Vision Plan is to guide and inform the preparation and consideration of implementation tools and development proposals.
Planning Commission Approves Plan
The Planning Commission approved the Music Row Vision Plan by a 7-0 vote during the June 27, 2019 regular meeting.
Supporting Information
- Music Row Transfer of Development Rights Feasibility Study released by Economic and Planning Systems in September 2018.
- Analysis of Music Row public infrastructure presented by Planning Department staff to Music Row Steering Committee in February 2018.
- November 2017 Progress report to community stakeholders presented by the Planning Department, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Economic and Planning Systems, explores possible implementation tools for Music Row
- On December 9, 2017 the Planning Commission adopts a Music Row Detailed Design Plan to serve as a policy framework for Music Row (now replaced by the Music Row Vision Plan).
Music Row Cultural Industry District Summit Presentation, hosted by The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Planning Department, Historical Commission, and Music Row Neighborhood Association, with additional support from the Arts and Business Council on October 6, 2016.- A New Vision for Music Row: Recommendations and Strategies to create a Cultural Industry District (2016), released by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and consultant Randall Gross, Development Economics.
- Music Row designated a National Treasure on January 12, 2015 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.