This story was co-reported in partnership with the Nashville Banner. It is also part of the Nashville Banner’s ZIP Code Project. The yearlong community engagement effort assigns Banner staffers to various ZIP codes across the city, where they spend significant time listening to residents and elevating stories directly from the community.

The first interruption came just five minutes into the developer’s virtual presentation. The next two hours would feature plenty more.

One anonymous “concerned citizen” asked for developer Patrizio Murdocca’s home address in a not-so-veiled personal threat. Another meeting attendee, Edna Cano, asked Metro Councilmember Russ Bradford if he was getting “a kickback.”

“Build this somewhere else,” a resident named Jennifer wrote in the meeting chat.

“The an

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