When Henry Neuhoff brought German immigrants to town to build a meat-processing plant on the banks of the Cumberland River in 1906, he wasn’t thinking about their commute. It would have been unimaginable that the revitalization of his buildings would be heralded as a pinnacle of sustainable design.

Indeed, for some it is hard to reconcile the site’s past as a slaughterhouse and center of industrial Nashville with a nature-centric vision forward. But thanks to the tenacity of those who wanted better for the city, the planet and the river, that’s exactly what Neuhoff District is becoming. Read article