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« "How'd That Work Out?" | Main | Segway Segue » March 30, 2005Wednesday Barn Blogging
This is perhaps the most famous barn in Brentwood, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. The barn is one of three or four barns on a 579-acre horse farm owned by Cal Turner Jr., founder of the Dollar General retail stores. The property may be the most valuable large piece of real estate in Tennessee, and one of the most valuable anywhere in the South as it is one of the last large undeveloped tracts of land in the wealthy city of Brentwood, where residential lots can go for well north of $200,000 an acre, and there's a subdivision of dozens of homes just across the road from this barn that sell for $1 million, $1.5 million and more. The farm property is not completely undeveloped - Turner and his family live on homes on the property, and it is a working horse farm. Turner had proposed to develop the property as a mixed-use "new urban" style development, but the city shot the idea down last year. More on that here. The barn pictured above, visible from highly-trafficked Franklin Road, sports a beloved Christmas display every year. Click image to enlarge. Comments
Don't forget to mention the unique and noteworthy WSM radio tower that you can see part of on the right hand edge of the photo! Posted by: sbk at March 30, 2005 3:18 PMPost a comment
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