Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Cleveland Park
Cleveland Park is a streetcar-era neighborhood on the northwest side of East Nashville, bounded by Dickerson Pike to the west, Cleveland Street to the south, Ellington Parkway to the east and Douglas Street to the north. It is one of the fastest-redeveloping pockets in the city.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~2.5 miles
- Character
- Streetcar-era stock under heavy redevelopment pressure
What’s actually there
- Boundaries of Dickerson Pike west, Cleveland Street south, Ellington Parkway east and Douglas Street north
- An urban streetcar neighborhood developed chiefly in the late 1800s and early 1900s
- The McGavock House, dating to about 1840, and the Montgomery House, about 1910
- Highland Heights School, built in the 1930s
- Cleveland Park, with a community center and a seasonal pool
The housing stock
An urban streetcar neighborhood built chiefly between the late 1800s and the early 1900s, with individual structures ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Named historic buildings include the McGavock House from about 1840 and the Montgomery House from about 1910. Zip 37207 showed a median sold price of $426,400 in July 2026 according to RealtyTrac, up from $369,000 the previous August, across the wider zip rather than this pocket alone.
Getting around
About two and a half miles to downtown, seven to ten minutes off-peak, with Ellington Parkway on the eastern boundary giving a fast run in.
Things to do in Cleveland Park
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Wilburn Street Tavern
Neighborhood bar and restaurant at 302 Wilburn Street.
Cleveland Park Community Center
Metro Parks facility serving the neighborhood.
Cleveland Park Pool
Seasonal public pool at the community center.
Cleveland Park Fall Fest
Annual neighborhood festival with vendors and live music, run by the neighborhood association.
Checked against each business as of August 14, 2026. Nashville loses restaurants faster than most cities, so if something here has closed since, tell me and I’ll get it corrected.
Subdivisions and named developments in Cleveland Park
Once you are actually looking, you stop searching by city and start searching by subdivision. These are the names that come up, and what is true about each one that will still be true in three years. No prices, no dues, no days on market, because those change and this page would go stale telling you about them.
The Lindsley additions
The plats that actually cover this ground, none of which is named Cleveland Park.
- Nothing is recorded under the name Cleveland Park. The ground is covered by Dr. V.S. Lindsley’s Addition to Edgefield and a run of later subdivisions of the Lindsley land.
- Those include Sharpe and Horn’s First Addition, Sharpe and Horn’s Second Addition subdividing Lindsley recorded May 16, 1895, Crutcher’s subdivision of Lindsley on May 12, 1904, George W. Stainback’s on March 7, 1905, and Benedict Land Company’s on May 8, 1907.
- About 326 parcels carry a Sharpe and Horn legal description, with a median lot around seventeen hundredths of an acre, split across 37206 and 37207.
- Also recorded here: East Nashville Real Estate Company’s Plan of Lots, Crutcher Brothers Plan, J.M. Eatherly’s Addition, Oakwood Park and Humphrey Pierce’s Addition.
Only the east end of Cleveland Street is regulated
An easily missed line that decides whether anyone reviews what gets built beside you.
- The Greenwood conservation overlay, ordinance BL2008-191 effective June 2, 2008, names Cleveland Street in its ordinance text.
- But Greenwood’s boundary only reaches the eastern end of the street. Cleveland Street runs west well past where the overlay stops.
- So two houses on the same street can be under completely different rules, and the address alone will not tell you which.
- A conservation overlay reviews new construction, additions, demolition and relocation. It does not review paint, roof color or replacement roofing.
West of that line, nothing reviews anything
The practical situation across most of the neighborhood.
- A full spatial sweep of the overlay layer across the western neighborhood returns only the Dickerson Pike sign overlay, the citywide urban zoning overlay and a River North subdistrict.
- No conservation overlay, no historic preservation overlay, no National Register district.
- So on most of this ground a teardown next door goes through no design review at all.
- About 1,281 parcels in 37207 sit between Dickerson Pike and Ellington Parkway in this area.
The zoning tells you what is coming
Residential blocks with commercial and mixed use zoning along the pike frontage.
- The residential streets are largely RS5 and R6.
- The Dickerson Pike frontage carries CS, CL, OR20, MUG-A and specific plan districts.
- Mixed use general and specific plan zoning on a corridor is what precedes redevelopment, and the Dickerson Pike corridor is under active Metro planning.
- That combination, unprotected residential blocks beside a rezoning corridor, is exactly the situation where knowing the zoning on your own parcel and the ones behind you is worth an hour of your time.
Flood exposure
The zip number, for scale.
- Zip 37207 recorded about 703 parcels with damaged structures in the 2010 flood, the highest of the east side zips.
- Zip 37206, which covers part of this area, recorded about 246.
- Davidson County recorded 11,648 in total.
- These are zip level figures across large areas. The FEMA panel on the specific parcel is the only thing that answers the question for a house you are actually buying.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
Look up an address with the district →
Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools, assigned by address, with a separate choice and magnet application alongside zoned assignment. Metro approved a zone change affecting this part of the city as recently as 2025, so use the district’s Zone Finder on the specific address rather than any list you find online.
I publish district and school zoning as published fact and nothing more. No ratings, no rankings, no comparisons. School zones are set by the district, assigned by address rather than by subdivision or city name, and they change. Confirm any address with the district itself, and evaluate the schools yourself against what matters to your family.
What a buyer needs to know here
This is the teardown pocket, and that is not my opinion. Historic Nashville has publicly documented Cleveland Park as one of the city’s most rapidly redeveloping neighborhoods, with community concern about original structures being demolished for new luxury housing. Cleveland Park carries no historic zoning overlay, so there is no design review acting as a brake on any of it. Add the Dickerson Pike pipeline: a project of roughly 1,081 units at 237 Lemuel Road was approved by Metro Council, with a first phase of 395 units on about 37.6 acres before the Planning Commission in early 2026. If you buy here, buy knowing what is entitled around you. That is a permits question, not a house question, and it is the one I would be running for you.
Common questions
Is Cleveland Park a good investment?
It is one of the fastest-changing pockets in Nashville, which is exactly what makes it both interesting and risky. There is no historic overlay, so nothing restrains demolition and infill, and the Dickerson Pike corridor has more than a thousand approved units in the pipeline nearby. Whether that is upside or a problem depends entirely on which parcel you buy and what is entitled around it. I would pull that before you write.
What is being built on Dickerson Pike?
The largest approved item nearby is a roughly 1,081-unit project at 237 Lemuel Road, approved by Metro Council, with a first phase of 395 units on about 37.6 acres in front of the Planning Commission in early 2026. There is more in the corridor. If you are buying within a few blocks, this changes traffic, sightlines and value, and it is worth knowing before rather than after.
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