Amazon is raising the stakes when it comes to delivering packages in Middle Tennessee. The e-commerce behemoth announced plans Friday to bring its one-hour delivery service Prime Now to Nashville and surrounding areas. What that means: Amazon Prime members can…
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Downtown Pedal Bar Business Booming
Traffic lights, annoying to some motorists, are reasons to celebrate for those aboard the Nashville Pedal Tavern. “Red light social!” the driver calls out. “Whoo!” his eight passengers shout back before downing cans of beer and cider and bottles of…
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Car Vending Machines Come to Nashville
A first of its kind, five-story car vending machine has come to Nashville. The multi-level car tower can be seen by drivers from Interstate 65. Carvana CEO, Ernie Garcia, said it is the first complete online auto retailer in the…
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Local Non Profit Is Worth $500 Million to Middle TN
You may think of used shoes and home goods when you think of Goodwill, but the nonprofit’s local branch has an economic impact of nearly a half-billion dollars. That’s according to the results of new research released today by Goodwill…
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Growing Numbers of Yankees Discovering Nashville
Kerry Graham, CEO of Nashville ad agency Bohan, nudges a visitor: “Elvis is in the building.” Technically, he was outside the Tennessee city’s Ryman Auditorium, the morning sun glinting off his rhinestones and full dark sideburns on a late September…
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Nashville Real Estate Hottest in 10 Years
Nearly 3,445 Nashville-area residential properties changed hands in September, contributing to a 15 percent overall gain in home closings for the third quarter. That’s the best third-quarter growth in two years and nearly doubles sales recorded for that same July…
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Nashville’s Startups Get National Attention
Nashville is world famous for its music industry, which boasts an economic impact of some $10 billion on the city and its surrounding region each year. But perhaps what’s even more impressive is its thriving health-care scene, which nearly quadruples…
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Lyft Corporate Offices Coming to Nashville
For years, Nashville’s tech and venture capital leaders clamored for more connections to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area: Be it a nonstop flight or outpost offices, building relationships with the tech world’s home base was considered critical to solidifying…
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Will a Robot Steal Your Job?
Scientists have created a huge, in-depth analysis of what jobs are under threat from robots — with salesmen, chefs and even models all in the firing line. Researchers have assembled a full list of all the things that robots are…
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Conde Naste Discovers EastNasty
If you only have a day to spend in Music City, leave the hordes of tourists behind on Lower Broad and venture instead a couple miles across the Cumberland River to East Nashville’s Five Points neighborhood. Here, you’ll get a…
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