If you don't mind, I've done a re-ping of your informative post to wardaddy, whom I believe lives in Williamson County. His take would be most interesting. One of my friends in the music industry there tells me that Music Row (16th and 17th Avenues) is virtually dead and that most of the records are now made in the far-flung suburbs and he's mentioned Cool Springs to me.
When I lived in Davidson County, my area, up near Madison but south of Old Hickory Blvd, was considered the "other side of the tracks" by the well-to-do in Green Hills who considered we East Nashville people a bunch of hillbillies. I kid you not! I wonder what's become of East Nashville, Inglewood and Madison? I haven't been to that part of the county in decades and all my friends from that part of town no longer live anywhere near it. In fact, come to think of it, you're my sole connection anymore with Davidson County, fieldmarshaldj.
Thanks so much for the response and it's sure helped me catch up on the old stomping grounds!
Wardaddy is fairly well-versed on this.
As far as I know, there’s still a lot of activity in the Music Row area (a lot of new construction, so much so that there’s a moratorium on it at the moment because of concerns of losing whatever is historic (little) left there). The Record Companies have demolished a lot of the old houses that contained the earlier recording studios and built office buildings over the past 4 decades.
East Nashville, Inglewood and Madison... I’m not from that part of the county and never went there too often. Parts of it are being gentrified by the hipsters these days, because of its urban layout and proximity to downtown. Property values are through the roof.