Nashville the "glamour capital of the South" (construction, architectural)

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From the latest issue Architectural Digest:

For many years, if a non-Tennessean thought about Nashville at all, it was probably in the context of country music, health-care organizations, or the Swan Ball. All that still exists today—the Grand Ole Opry, the medical indus*try, and the old money—but none of it explains why, seemingly out of nowhere, Nashville has become the glamour capital of the South.

The city today is on a tear. It’s one of the nation’s fastest-growing urban areas, with scores of new high-rises rapidly changing the low-lying sky*line. (Joke: What’s the official bird of Nashville? The construction crane.) It’s a place with deep regional roots that has suddenly burst into full bloom.

The rest of the article:

Nashville Travel Guide | Architectural Digest