NASHVILLE
The musical city best known for Big Health is finding its voice as an emerging tech and fashion hub.
STARTUP NEIGHBORHOODS
• The creative class clusters in East Nashville, where WeWork and Launch Pad recently planted stakes. The Idea Hatchery incubates niche retailers; and a former church is now home to digital agency SnapShot Interactive.
• Local tech darling Emma, recently acquired by Insight Venture Partners, was an early tenant in two of the six revamped redbrick trolley barns in the Rolling Mill Hill neighborhood. Other businesses, including a host of nonprofits and architecture firms, 2 followed.
• Wedgewood-Houston remains a relative bargain as its warehouses and factories—many colonized by artists—are redeveloped
