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CityLab Daily: The Big Stakes in a Fight Over a Little Park

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The new Nashville skyline is booming with development. But the plan to replace one small downtown park with a new condo tower has proved controversial.Dan Reynolds Photography/Getty Images

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Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal

By Andrew Small

December 10, 2018 at 2:15 PM EST

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Grand ole swap-me: Over the last decade, few U.S. cities have transformed as profoundly as fast-growing Nashville. Amidst glittering new condo towers, average monthly rents jumped by more than 60 percent metro-wide from 2011 to 2017. As housing costs squeeze out residents with fewer means, homelessness has also shot up.

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