Picture summertime in The Nations.
Young hipsters bike, walk and skateboard past single-story buildings and open spaces on 51st Avenue North while semi-trucks roar by. On either side of the vehicle-heavy thoroughfare of the transitioning West Nashville neighborhood, mothers pushing strollers dodge traffic on sidewalk-less side streets along which developers are busy razing tiny Eisenhower administration-era houses and replacing them, often with two or more homes on a lot.
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