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Steven Hale


Five years after unexplained, destructive bombing, Nashville’s Second Avenue is coming back

It has been nearly five years since Anthony Warner, a 63-year-old computer repair technician living in Antioch, parked his rigged-to-explode recreational vehicle on Second Avenue in the early hours of Christmas morning; nearly five years since the R.V. blew up with Warner still inside, damaging 65 buildings, causing one to collapse and forever altering the architecture and identity of the historic downtown Nashville street.

Nashville's Second Avenue is shown in December 2020 after a bomb exploded. (John Partipillo/Tennessee Lookout file)