Peer city comparison: will lack of rapid mass transit stunt Nashville’s future population growth?

–Receiving Urban Land Institute’s coveted top spot for real estate and investment activity for the third consecutive year (a record no other city has reached), Nashville is poised for continued growth in the coming years.

–Nashville remains one of the sole major metropolitan cities of its size in the Southeast that does not have rapid mass transit serving its growing population base. However, nearly five years after a failed transit funding vote, there is a new push by local government officials surrounding the future of transit in Nashville.