Over the past decade, tax increment financing has played a substantial role in the transformation of Nashville’s urban core, helping the city parlay the growth to garner a national spotlight.
But use of the popular public financing tool is poised to pivot from the urban core and into areas some folks contend are neglected and underutilized.
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