Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Highland Heights
Highland Heights sits north of Cleveland Park along the Douglas Avenue and Dickerson Pike axis. Its identity has been reshaped almost single-handedly by Highland Yards, the adaptive reuse of a 1920s manufacturing plant at 747 Douglas Avenue.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~3 miles
- Character
- Modest early-century housing around one large adaptive-reuse project
What’s actually there
- Highland Yards at 747 Douglas Avenue, the former Vaughn Manufacturing plant converted to food, retail and fitness
- Early to mid-twentieth-century bungalows and vernacular cottages
- Highland Heights School, built in the 1930s, on the Cleveland Park boundary
- Significant recent infill construction
- The Dickerson Pike corridor, currently the largest development pipeline in East Nashville
The housing stock
Modest early to mid-twentieth-century bungalows and vernacular cottages with a strong industrial-adjacent character, plus a lot of recent infill. No historic overlay covers Highland Heights, so there is no design review here. Zip 37207 showed a median sold price of $426,400 in July 2026 according to RealtyTrac, across the wider zip rather than this pocket alone.
Getting around
Roughly three miles to downtown, eight to eleven minutes off-peak, with Ellington Parkway and Dickerson Pike both close.
Things to do in Highland Heights
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Highland Yards
Adaptive reuse of a 1920s manufacturing plant at 747 Douglas Avenue, now a food, retail and fitness campus.
Flora + Fauna Cafe and Roaster
Coffee roaster and cafe at Highland Yards, 747 Douglas Avenue.
Kisser
Japanese-influenced restaurant at Highland Yards, a James Beard Best New Restaurant semifinalist in 2024.
Southern Grist Brewing
754 Douglas Avenue, the taproom at Highland Yards.
Makeshift
811 Dickerson Pike, a cocktail bar near the McFerrin Park line.
Cleveland Park Community Center
610 N 6th Street, the closest Metro recreation center.
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 Highland Heights
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.
Highland Land Company
The one recorded addition that carries the neighborhood, platted in 1912.
- Recorded May 21, 1912.
- About 252 parcels, every one of them in zip 37207.
- 248 of those 252 are zoned RS5. That is unusually uniform for a Nashville neighborhood.
- Median lot is about eleven hundredths of an acre, the tightest of any East Nashville neighborhood on this site. Inglewood’s median is more than double it.
It is 37207, not 37216
A correction worth making, because the two get swapped constantly.
- Every parcel carrying a Highland Land Company legal description is in 37207.
- Inglewood, further up Gallatin Pike, is 37216. The two are different neighborhoods with different housing and different lot sizes.
- There is also a Highland Heights Acres in Metro’s records that sits about eight miles north toward Goodlettsville. It is unrelated and it shows up in name searches.
- So a search on the name alone pulls in three different places. Filtering to 37207 is what isolates this one.
The adopted planning boundary
The only official line drawn around any of these neighborhoods, and Highland Heights has it.
- Metro Planning adopted the Highland Heights study on June 14, 2018, covering 434.32 acres.
- Bounded by Dickerson Pike, Douglas Avenue, Ellington Parkway and East Trinity Lane.
- Metro publishes no neighborhood boundary layer at all. For nearly every Nashville neighborhood, any line you see is somebody’s editorial choice. Here there is an adopted one.
- Roughly 1,994 parcels in 37207 fall inside that area.
No overlay of any kind
The single most consequential fact for anyone buying or building here.
- No conservation overlay, no historic preservation overlay, and no National Register district covers Highland Heights. I checked Metro’s complete list of all 43 conservation and 97 historic records.
- A spatial sweep of the entire study area returns only the Dickerson Pike sign overlay and a detached accessory dwelling overlay.
- So nothing reviews a demolition, an addition or a new build next door to you. In a neighborhood platted at eleven hundredths of an acre, that matters.
- Compare with Inglewood, five miles up the pike, which has a conservation overlay, or Edgefield, which has the strictest tier Metro applies.
Flood exposure
Zip 37207 carries the highest count of the east side zips.
- Zip 37207 recorded about 703 parcels with damaged structures in the 2010 flood, the most of any east side zip.
- For comparison: 37216 about 341, 37206 about 246, and the small East Bank zip 37213 about 55.
- Davidson County recorded 11,648 in total.
- 37207 is a large zip and that damage is not spread evenly across it, so the number frames the question rather than answering it for a given address.
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 in 2025, so confirm the specific address in the district’s Zone Finder.
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
Highland Yards is genuinely why prices moved here, and its own architects credit it with spurring the development that followed. Two honest cautions. First, tenant churn at Highland Yards has been real: at least one well-known restaurant there has closed and the neighborhood brewery is mid-rebrand under new ownership, so verify any business before you rely on it. Second, there is no historic overlay, so nothing moderates teardowns on the residential streets. Add the Talbot’s Corner plan at Dickerson Pike and Trinity Lane, 61.4 acres phased over roughly 15 years, and you have a neighborhood that will look materially different by the time a 30-year mortgage is a third paid off.
Common questions
What is Highland Yards?
The adaptive reuse of a 1920s Vaughn Manufacturing plant at 747 Douglas Avenue into a food, retail and fitness campus. It is the single reason most people have heard of Highland Heights, and its developers credit it with driving the new construction that followed. Flora + Fauna and Kisser are both there.
Is Highland Heights still affordable?
It sits in the 37207 zip, which showed a median sold price of $426,400 in July 2026 per RealtyTrac, against roughly $644,500 in 37206 for May 2026. So yes, comparatively. The question is whether you are buying before or after the Dickerson Pike pipeline lands, and that is a permits question I can pull for a specific address.
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