What Metro Nashville and urban placemaking experts at Perkins Eastman — the design firm of Battery Park City renown — termed an “interactive East Bank study,” community organizers criticize as insufficiently interactive, asking the city to slow things down.

Stand Up Nashville earlier this week led a coalition of like-minded community and worker groups to organize a press conference held between Nissan Stadium and the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge to state their grievances with the ongoing East Bank Planning Study, a community engagement effort launched by Metro Nashville’s Planning Department on May 11 to determine how best to incorporate the redevelopment of the Cumberland River’s East Bank, an area some consider a part of Nashville's urban core.