Inglewood is the 37216 half of East Nashville, north of Eastland and Greenwood Avenues and south of Briley Parkway, with Gallatin Pike running up its spine and the Cumberland River wrapping its eastern edge. It was built out mostly after the war, so the housing stock is different from the bungalow neighborhoods closer to Five Points: one-story brick ranches and cottages from the 1940s through the 1960s, on lots that are often a quarter acre or more, with driveways, carports and backyards that the older neighborhoods simply do not have.
That is the trade Inglewood offers. You give up a little of the walk-to-dinner density of Lockeland Springs; you get space, a yard, parking, and — on many streets — mature trees and a settled, residential feel. Riverside Village, the small cluster of restaurants and shops at Riverside Drive and McGavock Pike, is the neighborhood’s center; Gallatin Pike carries groceries and errands; Shelby Bottoms Greenway and the river are a short drive or bike ride south. Downtown is roughly five miles: 15 to 20 minutes by Ellington Parkway or Gallatin Pike outside rush hour.
Inglewood is also where new construction and original homes sit side by side most visibly. The deeper lots invite full rebuilds and large new homes — the Shelton Avenue house pictured above is one I built and sold — as well as “tall-and-skinny” pairs where a single ranch stood. South Inglewood, between Eastland Avenue and the heart of the neighborhood, has seen the most of this, and it is where several of my own listings and sales are.