2012 Housing & Community Development Tours
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housing & community development tours
Explore how the industry’s strategies and successes are being implemented in and around Nashville. Gain new perspectives and ideas to implement in your community.
Tickets are required for these tours. An additional fee and advance registration is also required. Tickest will be availalbe for purchase at the Special Events & Activities counter in the NAHRO Registration area. Participants should arrive 15 minutes prior to tour start time.
All tours will depart from the Nashville Convention Center -Commerce Street exit.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 
Rolling Mill Hill
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
This interactive bus tour will showcase Rolling Mill Hill, a recently profiled community in the real estate section of the New York Times. Rolling Mill Hill is an urban neighborhood developed by Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency. Named for the flour mills which used to turn locally harvested grain into flour for loading onto riverboats, Rolling Mill Hill was the site of Nashville’s only public hospital for almost 100 years. In 2003, development as a residential and commercial neighborhood began with the adaptive reuse of striking Victorian and Art Deco buildings, along with the construction of new affordable housing with an emphasis on sustainability.
The Story of SoBro
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
This tour will showcase Nashville’s south of Broadway (SoBro) neighborhood, which is in the process of revitalization. Primarily through the construction of Music City Center, a 1.2 million square foot convention center slated for opening in Spring 2013. Tracking for LEED Silver certification, the Music City Center has become a catalyst for added development in SoBro. In addition, you’ll see new projects like the 800-room Omni Hotel under construction, as well as the area slated for expansion of the Country Music Hall of Fame. The tour will also include a discussion of issues facing SoBro in a symposium setting at the historic Trolley Barns on Rolling Mill Hill, a 1930’s era Work Progress Administration (WPA)constructed garage transformed into Nashville’s coolest office space.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30
Parthenon Towers
Tuesday, October 30
10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Tour Parthenon Towers, a residence for elderly and disabled tenants. This renovated building, owned by Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency is one of more than a dozen high rise residence turned into loft-style units over the past decade. Parthenon Towers was among the first MDHA buildings to be renovated with an eye toward sustainability. The roof of the building houses solar panels and the building’s units are heated and cooled by a variable refrigerant volume system, reducing heating costs by 60% and cooling by 30%. In three years, MDHA-installed solar systems have generated more than 500,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and reduced carbon emissions by 1.2 million pounds.
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