You do realize downtown is where the tourists go, right? Anyway, I live downtown. You know what I'd love? A grocery store. Hell, a questionable bodega would do. Somewhere I could walk to, so I don't have to drive 10 minutes when I'm out of milk (alcohol is within walking distance, but healthy food is not, so downtown is kind of like Dickerson Pike).
Note that this map uses 2000 data. I imagine that the southeast quadrant has changed considerably by now--less red, more yellow, green, and gray.
Ashley, you're in luck, HG Hill has had a grocery store downtown for the past 4 years, the HG Hill Urban Market:
http://www.hghills.com/index_newdesign_urb…
Ashley, you said you don't want to drive to get milk. You need a pushcart for milk? Also, I believe the Dollar General downtown has milk, as well as many other grocery items. So, that's two places to get milk downtown. Oh, and Walgreen's - that's three.
If there are real groceries downtown, I'll get all of my non-veggies downtown. Hence a pushcart. Looking forward to riding it down 4th.
"You do realize downtown is where the tourists go, right? "
That is my point, Dean and the boys tend to spend more on tourists than on locals. At some point someone has to start spending some of these supposed Tourist Richest on the people that have been promised them.
Would be interested in seeing the amounts of government money spent on tourism related activities and infrastructure for the last 25 years compared to the economic growth over the same period.
Anyway, the tourists stay in hotels and the vast majority of hotel rooms are not located in downtown. Yet they get taxed as if they are in downtown. Downtown business groups have hijacked the entire conversations regarding economic growth and progressive image making.
White southerners have bred with blacks and American aborigines to such an extent that most of the red dots should actually be gray. Then you have "people of color", who, in a desire to "integrate", call themselves white when they are a quarterbreed at best. The "Hispanic" population, meaning Central and South American aborigines who are on average 6% Spanish, have moved here in large numbers recently. I'd guess true ethnic whites, meaning 3% or less non-white background (my definition), comprise 17-22% of Davidson county's population. Thus, if this map is based on self-reporting, it gives a very misleading picture. The purpose of the map is very simple. It is designed to make white people feel complacent while they are being cooked in a mambo stew.
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It is amazing to graphically see how sparsely populated Downtown Nashville truly is. The amount of effort and resources spent to prop up this one neighborhood while the others are left for themselves until election time press conference promises is truly tragic. Downtown is an economic vacuum cleaner with out a reverse switch.