📀 Is Nashville bringing back the video store?

📀 The Comeback of Physical Media

For anyone who misses Blockbuster Video, this episode is for you. Today, we’re talking with Joe Bass, owner of Press Play Video, about running his mobile video store, why physical media is making a comeback, and how stores like his are creating community in the age of streaming. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🚸 ICE Releases Local Mother

After nearly three months in custody, a Nashville mother of a nursing infant and toddler with Down syndrome has been released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement from a Louisiana detention center. She is home but required to wear a wrist monitor, which her attorneys argue conflicts with ICE policies concerning postpartum and breastfeeding mothers. The woman, who has no criminal record, fled domestic violence in Guatemala in 2022 and has been complying with immigration process requirements. [NewsChannel 5]

• You can read more about her story on the family’s verified GoFundMe page. [GoFundMe]

🏘️ Does Downtown Have Too Many Condos?

While downtown Nashville added almost 25,000 new housing units between 2020 and 2025, more than any other city in the nation, the type of properties built fails to address the city’s housing crisis. The new properties are primarily luxury condos and market-rate apartments, with 75% of listings failing to sell last quarter. According to Metro’s Unified Housing Strategy, Nashville needs homes affordable to households earning 60% or less of the city’s area median income, which is $64,140 for a four-person household. [🔐 Nashville Business Journal]

💰 Tourists Spend Big, But Some Businesses Aren’t Feeling It

Nashville’s tourism industry saw another record-breaking year in 2025, with $11.6 billion in revenue, a 3.5% increase from 2024. About one-third of visitor spending in Tennessee comes from Davidson County. However, many local restaurants and Lower Broadway honky-tonks say business is down. This could be due to an oversaturation of these types of businesses. [🔐 Nashville Business Journal]