Six of this year's great public spaces are traditional parks. The rest are harder to define but share one trait—their significance to the entire city and, in one case, the state. That's true of Nashville's Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, which opened in 1996.The park immediately transformed a landfill site into a unique civic space modeled after the National Mall in Washington, D. C.rnGov. Bill Haslam said it best: The 19-acre linear park, created to commemorate the bicentennial of statehood, "taps into our unique history, geography, and culture." Tuck-Hinton Architects led the master planning team for the park, which was paid for with $23 million in federal transportation "enhancement" dollars and $5.8 million in local matching funds.
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