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“For the Children”: Doyle and Debbie at The Station Inn; or, the Politics of Space in “The Gulch”

On the south side of downtown Nashville, Music City USA, nestled in a bend on Interstate 40, sits a refreshed, repurposed, re-gentrified urban mixed-use neighborhood called “The Gulch.” The Gulch is home to trendy condos, restaurants, organic groceries, and specialty stores aimed at encouraging a younger, wealthier demographic to move downtown. Once a “bustling railroad yard with origins dating to before the Civil War,” The Gulch fell into “neglect and blight” following World War II until an urban revitalization initiative took hold in the early 2000s.1 Today, The Gulch is, according to promotional materials, a “vibrant urban district and a popular local destination for shopping, dining and entertainment.”2 Those warehouses, industrial buildings, and railroad tracks have been replaced by high rises, high-concept eateries, and, of course, an Urban Outfitters (see figure 4). According to the developer’s website, “The Gulch is the only neighborhood in Nashville governed by a privately controlled land use Master Plan.”3 MarketStreet, a privately held real estate investment and development company, was designated the Master Developer of The Gulch by the city of Nashville in 2001, the only such designation in the city’s history. As such, MarketStreet maintains and updates the so-called Gulch Master Plan, which, according to the website, “serves as a governing document guiding the future development patterns in the neighborhood.”4 The website proclaims that the most recent update of the neighborhood’s strategic plan “envisions greater density than ever before, encompassing over 4,500 residential units, over 1.5 million square feet of commercial office space, and over a half million square feet of retail and restaurants.”5 And the development has simultaneously managed a stellar environmental record, being recognized in 2009 as the first LEED ND–certified green