MARK DEUTSCHMANN
2025
MARK DEUTSCHMANN
2025
Mark Deutschmann has been developing Nashville real estate for 40 years. He founded Village Real Estate Services, Core Development, and The CityLiving Group. His projects include Werthan Mills Lofts in Germantown, The Finery in Wedgewood-Houston, and Alloy at The Fairgrounds.
Deutschmann built in neighborhoods before other developers saw the potential—12South, Germantown, Wedgewood-Houston. He stayed in those neighborhoods after the projects were done.
Through the Village Fund and CoreFund, he’s put more than $4.5 million back into local housing and neighborhood work. He wrote a book about building from the neighborhood out, not from downtown in. He served as president of the Urban Land Institute Nashville and Greenways for Nashville.
Forty years in Nashville, building neighborhoods that last.
MANUAL CUEVAS
2025
MANUAL CUEVAS
2025
Manuel Cuevas has been making clothes for 60 years. He started sewing at seven in Mexico, learned his craft in Hollywood, then moved to Nashville in 1988 when most people thought that was the wrong direction.
He made the black outfit Johnny Cash wore. He’s sewn for Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Marty Stuart, and The Rolling Stones. Each piece reflects who the person is, not just what they want to look like.
When Cuevas moved his operation from Hollywood to Nashville, he brought jobs and skills that didn’t exist here. He trained artisans. Built a workshop. Showed that Nashville could be more than recording studios.
He’s 60 years in and still sewing.
ROSETTA MILLER-PERRY
2025
ROSETTA MILLER-PERRY
2025
Rosetta Miller-Perry has shown up for Nashville’s Black community for 60 years.
She founded The Tennessee Tribune in 1991 because those stories needed telling. In 1998, she started the Greater Nashville Black Chamber of Commerce and the Anthony J. Cebrun Journalism Center because the infrastructure didn’t exist.
She built the institutions Nashville needed. Published the newspaper every week. Created the platforms for Black businesses and Black journalists to grow.
The National Newspaper Publishers Association recognized her with their Lifetime Achievement Award. Tennessee inducted her into the Women’s Hall of Fame. But the real measure is simpler: she stayed, published, and built for six decades.
AMY KURLAND
Inducted 2022
AMY KURLAND
Inducted 2022
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MARK DEUTSCHMANN
2025
Mark Deutschmann has been developing Nashville real estate for 40 years. He founded Village Real Estate Services, Core Development, and The CityLiving Group. His projects include Werthan Mills Lofts in Germantown, The Finery in Wedgewood-Houston, and Alloy at The Fairgrounds.
Deutschmann built in neighborhoods before other developers saw the potential—12South, Germantown, Wedgewood-Houston. He stayed in those neighborhoods after the projects were done.
Through the Village Fund and CoreFund, he’s put more than $4.5 million back into local housing and neighborhood work. He wrote a book about building from the neighborhood out, not from downtown in. He served as president of the Urban Land Institute Nashville and Greenways for Nashville.
Forty years in Nashville, building neighborhoods that last.
MANUAL CUEVAS
2025
Manuel Cuevas has been making clothes for 60 years. He started sewing at seven in Mexico, learned his craft in Hollywood, then moved to Nashville in 1988 when most people thought that was the wrong direction.
He made the black outfit Johnny Cash wore. He’s sewn for Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Marty Stuart, and The Rolling Stones. Each piece reflects who the person is, not just what they want to look like.
When Cuevas moved his operation from Hollywood to Nashville, he brought jobs and skills that didn’t exist here. He trained artisans. Built a workshop. Showed that Nashville could be more than recording studios.
He’s 60 years in and still sewing.
ROSETTA MILLER-PERRY
2025
Rosetta Miller-Perry has shown up for Nashville’s Black community for 60 years.
She founded The Tennessee Tribune in 1991 because those stories needed telling. In 1998, she started the Greater Nashville Black Chamber of Commerce and the Anthony J. Cebrun Journalism Center because the infrastructure didn’t exist.
She built the institutions Nashville needed. Published the newspaper every week. Created the platforms for Black businesses and Black journalists to grow.
The National Newspaper Publishers Association recognized her with their Lifetime Achievement Award. Tennessee inducted her into the Women’s Hall of Fame. But the real measure is simpler: she stayed, published, and built for six decades.
AMY KURLAND
Inducted 2022
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