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Old 05-31-2008, 08:18 PM
 
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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I still feel Louisville has much better historic architecture overall but the Richland area is definitely posh.
Louisville is a much older city, so it should. In 1900 Jefferson Co had 232,000 residents, nearly double Davidson Co's 132,000
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Old 06-01-2008, 04:26 AM
 
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Louisville is a much older city, so it should. In 1900 Jefferson Co had 232,000 residents, nearly double Davidson Co's 132,000
I would think the difference would be larger than that...to this day, Jefferson County is still SIGNIFICANTLY more in population than Nashville/Davidson. So even though Nashville has a larger metro area, it is only because all the sprawl that surrounds the city in outer counties. If you drive all the neighborhoods, Louisville feels like a much larger city IMO. You woundn't find dense urban areas like Beechmont 6-7 miles from downtown Nashville. Downtown Nashville is definitely much more vibrant than downtown Louisville, and has more to do and more tourists. If Louisville builds all its downtown proposals, the two downtowns should be roughly equal in five years, though. We will see.
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Old 06-01-2008, 06:11 AM
 
Location: Kentucky
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I would think the difference would be larger than that...to this day, Jefferson County is still SIGNIFICANTLY more in population than Nashville/Davidson. So even though Nashville has a larger metro area, it is only because all the sprawl that surrounds the city in outer counties. If you drive all the neighborhoods, Louisville feels like a much larger city IMO. You woundn't find dense urban areas like Beechmont 6-7 miles from downtown Nashville. Downtown Nashville is definitely much more vibrant than downtown Louisville, and has more to do and more tourists. If Louisville builds all its downtown proposals, the two downtowns should be roughly equal in five years, though. We will see.
I kinda wish Louisville would get more "touristy", we need the money.
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Old 06-01-2008, 06:58 AM
 
Location: Kentucky
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As opposed to this mess???






I will say that L'ville does have better bypasses. The Nashville area is larger than L'ville yet they don't have a bypass worth a flip. And don't tell me I-440 is one because that would be a joke.
I just thank God for backroads
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Old 06-01-2008, 07:01 AM
 
Location: Kentucky
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I was just curious and looking at houses for sale in nashville and just wondering why it is so much more expensive? Houses similar to mine are quite a bit more expensive. I paid 100,000 for my brick ranch but ones that are very similar in Nashville are 150,000 and up.
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Old 06-01-2008, 08:10 AM
 
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I was just curious and looking at houses for sale in nashville and just wondering why it is so much more expensive? Houses similar to mine are quite a bit more expensive. I paid 100,000 for my brick ranch but ones that are very similar in Nashville are 150,000 and up.

It depends on what area you are looking in. How long ago did you buy your house?
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Old 06-01-2008, 10:00 AM
 
Location: Kentucky
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It depends on what area you are looking in. How long ago did you buy your house?
a year and half ago but in all fairness this was an estate and not just a seller selling.
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Old 06-01-2008, 10:24 AM
 
Location: Nashville, TN (USA)
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I would think the difference would be larger than that...to this day, Jefferson County is still SIGNIFICANTLY more in population than Nashville/Davidson. So even though Nashville has a larger metro area, it is only because all the sprawl that surrounds the city in outer counties. If you drive all the neighborhoods, Louisville feels like a much larger city IMO. You woundn't find dense urban areas like Beechmont 6-7 miles from downtown Nashville. Downtown Nashville is definitely much more vibrant than downtown Louisville, and has more to do and more tourists. If Louisville builds all its downtown proposals, the two downtowns should be roughly equal in five years, though. We will see.
Louisville is definitely more contiguous than Nashville due to it's history. Nashville's core, however, (Downtown and Midtown) definitely let's you know your in larger metro with more than 1.6 million. The two cities are very different to be so close. Nashville's strength is it's booming downtown and midtown and popular satelite cities (Murfreesboro, Franklin, etc.). Louisville's, rather, is it's old neighborhoods with the bulk of it's population in Jefferson County. I've always thought it was strange how downtown Nashville and midtown and some of West and East Nashville is very dense and then it ends six miles out either way. It's a matter of when these cities matured.

I don't think there's any way Louisville's core can catch up with Nashville's any time in the near future just as I don't think Davidson County's density will ever match Louisville's historic neighborhoods. Although the arena and Museum Plaza amongst others will bring a great new era for Louisville, Nashville has too many more projects already underway or about to start. With that said, I've really enjoyed Louisville the few times I've visited and feel the city has a number of great things going for it such as its arts community. So I look forward to coming up again very soon to see how you guys are progressing.
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Old 06-02-2008, 02:25 PM
 
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too bad signature tower is not gonna get built. sorry nashville.
I wouldn't count Siggy out just yet. Giarratana just announced that he's overhauling the development to make it doable. He plans to decrease the number of condos, increase the number of hotel rooms, and add a commerical office segment of the tower. He apparently already has a very large suitor for the commercial floors that may guarentee this tower gets built. The new tower may have more square footage than before due to the configuration of office space vs residential space. The height, he said, would be the same.

Signature Tower might be more likely to succeed now than Museum Plaza, which is sad because I love the design of Museum Plaza.
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Old 06-02-2008, 02:33 PM
 
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I would think the difference would be larger than that...to this day, Jefferson County is still SIGNIFICANTLY more in population than Nashville/Davidson. So even though Nashville has a larger metro area, it is only because all the sprawl that surrounds the city in outer counties. If you drive all the neighborhoods, Louisville feels like a much larger city IMO. You woundn't find dense urban areas like Beechmont 6-7 miles from downtown Nashville. Downtown Nashville is definitely much more vibrant than downtown Louisville, and has more to do and more tourists. If Louisville builds all its downtown proposals, the two downtowns should be roughly equal in five years, though. We will see.
It's not that significant of a difference, and Davidson County may pass Jefferson County in the next few years.

2000:
Davidson County - 570,000
Jefferson County - 694,000

2007:
Davidson County - 620,000
Jefferson County - 709,000

Davidson grew by 50,000 people in 7 years. Jefferson grew by 15,000 people in 7 years.
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