EXCLUSIVE: Nashville Civic Design Center Announces Call For Design Teams

At a meeting to view a movie on pubic space this evening, officials with the Nashville Civic Design Center announced that a "Call for Design Proposals" was sent out last Thursday to 15 of what they called "the best design teams in the country" to submit design plans for the Cumberland Riverfront along a three-mile section adjacent to Downtown. NCDC report that they expect designs to connect urban neighborhoods around the river in the spirit of The Plan of Nashville. The proposal competition is supposed to last 8 months.