SAVE CHEEKWOOD: Say NO to the Radical Effort to Shut Down Nashville’s Beloved Historic Landmark

For 66 years, Cheekwood Estate & Gardens has been a sanctuary of art, culture, and nature for families, students, and visitors across Tennessee and the world.

Now, a group of neighbors, led by Jackson Moore, is trying to strip this public treasure away from our community. A formal legal appeal has been filed with the Metro Board of Zoning Appeals demanding that the city issue a Stop Work Order to halt ALL further public use of Cheekwood's property.  This group has chosen to rely on blatant misrepresentations about Cheekwood to pit the community against it. This includes claiming the institution is expanding parking capacity when it is in fact reducing it; and alleging Cheekwood opposes the creation of a shared-use Highway 100 access drive to help alleviate local congestion, when, in fact, it supports the project.

If this group succeeds, Cheekwood as we know it will be forced to close its gates. This means an end to free school field trips for thousands of children, the cancellation of beloved traditions like Holiday LIGHTS and Cheekwood in Bloom, and stopping a city-mandated on-site parking facility designed to end Cheekwood’s reliance on Metro Parks land for overflow parking.

We, the undersigned citizens, members, and supporters of Cheekwood, call upon the Metro Board of Zoning Appeals and our city leaders to soundly reject this self-serving, radical overreach. Cheekwood belongs to all of Nashville, not an exclusive few.

Protect our history, protect our culture, and SAVE CHEEKWOOD.