As football season kicks off and a new $2.2 billion Tennessee Titans stadium rises in Nashville, the city is running an experiment few others have dared: building the neighborhood around it with affordable housing first.
Developers of stadium-anchored megaprojects typically lead with market-rate housing, retail, hotels and entertainment. The goal is to pack in enough scale upfront to make a stadium district feel like a real neighborhood, game day or not.
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