In this year's ICBA LIVE host city, booming growth is music to community bankers' ears. By Margaret Litt man here's a number everyone in Nashville knows. No, not the new area code (that's 629). No, not the address of the cheapest parking when headed downtown (2 Victory Ave.). Word around the city has it that, on average, 100 people move to town every day. Whether it's an exact number or not, it underscores the fast growth that Nashville and the middle Tennessee area it sits in have seen in recent years. Folks joke that the new state bird is the crane-the construction crane, that is. The local public radio station even put the " bird " on a fundraising premium. And with growth comes opportunity. There's lending galore, with new commercial and 42 Q ICBA Independent Banker Q February 2019 Photo: Abigail Bobo