Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Lenox Village
Lenox Village is a 208-acre traditional neighborhood development off Nolensville Pike in south Nashville, started in 2001 and one of the first projects in the region built on new urbanist principles. It has narrow tree-lined streets, underground utilities, a walkable town center with real shops, and a design code written into Metro zoning rather than only into private covenants.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- 10 miles
- Rules
- Metro design overlay plus HOA covenants
What’s actually there
- A 208-acre planned community started in 2001, with more than 1,400 homes at buildout
- A walkable town center on Lenox Village Drive with shops, restaurants and services
- About 15 acres of parks and green space, including Village Square with a pavilion, pocket parks and a playground
- Narrow tree-lined streets, underground utilities and mixed-use buildings with homes above shops
- Creek restoration carried out during development, including relocating a rare crayfish species
The housing stock
Built from 2001 onward in phases, with a deliberate mix rather than one product: roughly 341 condominiums, 458 attached single-family townhomes and 266 detached single-family homes, plus mixed-use buildings combining residential with retail and office. That mix is exactly why I would not lean on a single published median here. A monthly figure for Lenox Village mostly tells you which product type happened to close that month, not what your house is worth. Ask me for the comparable set on your specific type.
Getting around
Ten miles from downtown Nashville and twelve from the airport, with access to both I-24 and I-65, realistically eighteen to twenty-two minutes off-peak. Inside the community itself, the town center is genuinely walkable, which is rare at this distance from the core.
Things to do in Lenox Village
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea
Coffee house in the town center at 6900 Lenox Village Drive.
Burger Republic
Restaurant at 6900 Lenox Village Drive, suite 22.
The Cupcake Collection
6900 Lenox Village Drive, the second location of the Germantown bakery Mignon Francois started in 2008. Known for the sweet potato cupcake.
Village Square
The community green with a pavilion, at the center of the plan.
The Lenox Village town center
A cluster of shops and services including a pharmacy, a gym, a pediatric practice and a nail salon, walkable from most of the community.
Checked against each business as of August 18, 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 Lenox Village
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.
Nipper’s Corner
Not a subdivision. Nipper’s Corner is the crossroads at Old Hickory Boulevard in 37211, right at the Davidson County line, and people here use it as shorthand for a location the way they use Green Hills or Bellevue. The name belongs to a shopping center and to the man who built it.
- 15544 to 15580 Old Hickory Boulevard, built in 1993, with about 83,000 square feet of leasable space.
- Named for Walter Nipper, who founded Nashville Sporting Goods Co. Nipper Properties, meaning Walter Nipper and Jim Lattimore of Franklin, owned the center until Nipper died in 2001. It sold to Baker Storey McDonald Properties in 2002.
- Anchored by Publix, with Regions Bank and a long run of restaurants: Las Palmas, Toyama Japanese Steak House, Villalba Italian, plus Jet’s Pizza, Bojangles, Subway and Smoothie King.
- The center originally included a ten screen cinema, which had already gone dark by the time the property changed hands in 2002.
- It sits minutes from the Brentwood line, which is the practical reason the name gets used as a location: it tells another local roughly where you are without naming a subdivision.
Bradford Hills
The large 1990s subdivision directly across Nolensville Pike from Lenox Village, and the biggest single name in this pocket.
- 537 lots across seventeen recorded sections between March 1990 and June 1998. About 563 parcels today.
- All single family, zoned R15, with no condominium, zero lot line or duplex classification anywhere in it. That uniformity is unusual around here and it makes comparable sales genuinely comparable.
- HOA. The Bradford Hills Homeowners Association holds parcels of record.
- Section 14 was recorded last, in June 1998, out of numeric sequence behind sections 15, 16 and 17. If you are ever chasing a chain of title here, that is why it does not line up.
- Bradford Hills Drive meets Nolensville Pike directly opposite Lenox Village, which is how Metro’s own planning documents describe the location.
Holt Hills
A small acreage subdivision on Holt Hills Road and Mt Pisgah Road, platted in the late 1970s and never built out at volume.
- About 40 parcels. The 1977 plats overlap and share instrument numbers, so the platted lot count is genuinely ambiguous. The parcel count is the number to trust.
- Platted from July 1977 through 1981, with small additions in 1996 and 1997.
- All single family, zoned R20, which is a larger minimum lot size than most of this pocket. No condominium, zero lot line or duplex.
- No HOA appears in Metro ownership records.
- The plat index carries a cluster of Holt family filings in this immediate area: Laura Holt Subdivision, Holt Meadows in 1972, Holt Property in 2007, Holt Hills and Holt Woods. That is the pattern of one family landholding subdivided across decades.
Holt Woods
The larger Holt subdivision next door, built out in a concentrated run in the late 1990s.
- 277 platted lots. Section 3 was recorded first in June 1985, then everything else came between January 1995 and September 1998. About 288 parcels today.
- All single family, zoned R20. No condominium, zero lot line or duplex classification.
- HOA. The Holt Woods Homeowners Association owns seven common parcels of record, on Bryce Road, Cobble Street, Argo Lane, Crosswind Drive, Holt Hills Road, Fogle Street and Call Hill Road.
- Those seven parcels are hard evidence that common open space exists. What is actually built on them is not in the public record, so ask.
Brentwood Knoll
Fifteen lots off Bryce Road and Mt Pisgah Road, and a name that misleads people every single time.
- It is not in the City of Brentwood and not in Williamson County. Metro’s own parcel records list the city as Nashville, zip 37211, Council District 31, Davidson County. Metro tax rate, Metro schools.
- The same warning applies to a whole family of nearby plats: Villages of Brentwood, Highlands of Brentwood, Brentwood Oaks, Brentwood Downs, Brentwood Cove and Brentwood Hampton are all in this Davidson County pocket too.
- 15 lots recorded May 2008, plus a four lot resubdivision in August 2011. About 17 parcels today.
- All single family, zoned RS10. HOA, with the Brentwood Knoll Homeowners Association holding parcels of record.
Barnes Cove
Immediately east of Lenox Village and physically interlocked with it, though it is a separate plat, a separate association and a different zip code.
- 170 platted lots across four sections recorded between April 2002 and February 2006. About 181 parcels today.
- All single family, zoned RS10. No condominium, zero lot line or duplex.
- Zip 37013 with an Antioch mailing address, and yet the jurisdiction is Metro Nashville, GSD tax district, Council District 31, the same council district as Lenox Village. The mail says Antioch, the county says Davidson.
- HOA, with the Barnes Cove Homeowners Association holding common parcels on Barnes Road, Thistle Down Lane and Sunnywood Drive.
- Alteras Drive and Sunnywood Drive run through both this subdivision and Lenox Village, and Lenox Village I LLC, the Lenox Village development entity, is an owner of record inside Barnes Cove.
Barnes Bend Estates
South of Barnes Cove on Barnes Bend Drive and Turfway Lane, platted over nearly a decade.
- About 145 lot entries across six plats recorded between August 2005 and February 2014. About 132 parcels today.
- All single family, zoned RS10.
- HOA, with the Barnes Bend Estates Homeowners Association holding common parcels on Turfway Lane.
- Zip 37013 with an Antioch mailing address, Davidson County, Council District 31. Same trap as Barnes Cove.
Cambridge Park at Barnes Road
The newest subdivision in this pocket, and the one with its own custom zoning rather than a standard district.
- 78 platted lots: 43 recorded September 2012 and 35 in June 2016. About 80 parcels today.
- Zoned SP, a Specific Plan district. That means Metro Council adopted site specific development standards for this property, and those standards live in the SP document rather than in the zoning code. If you want to know what can be built or altered here, that document is the answer.
- All single family, on Somerset Valley Drive and Worthington Avenue off Barnes Road.
- Zip 37013, Antioch mail, Davidson County.
- Do not confuse this with Cambridge Forest, which is a real subdivision but sits several miles away on Rural Hill Road in the Cane Ridge area.
Sugar Valley
The long runner of this pocket, platted continuously from 1998 into 2024, and connected to Lenox Village by Sunnywood Drive.
- About 575 lot entries across nineteen plats recorded between August 1998 and January 2024. About 612 parcels today. A house here can be twenty five years apart in age from one two streets over.
- Single family throughout the residential parcels, mostly zoned R20, with RS10, RM4 and RM6 splits on Sunnywood Drive and Tarmac Way. Those multifamily splits mean apartment entitlement exists on some frontage, so check the specific parcel.
- Two separate associations, not one: the Sugar Valley Homeowners Association and the Sugar Valley Place Homeowners Association. One document set does not cover the whole name.
- Sunnywood Drive is the connector that ties this whole pocket together, running through Sugar Valley, Lenox Village, Barnes Bend Estates and Barnes Cove, and crossing the 37211 to 37013 zip line as it goes.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
Look up an address with the district →
Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools. Assignment follows the address. Metro also runs an application-based choice and magnet process on top of zoned assignment, and the two are not the same thing. Check the 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
You are buying into three layers of rules here, and most listings mention one. First, Metro created an urban design overlay for this project, essentially a custom zoning code, which is what allowed the narrow streets and the traditional layout in the first place. That means the design controls are public and enforced by Metro, not just by neighbors. Second, there is a homeowners association with its own covenants. Third, given the split between condominiums, townhomes and detached homes, there are almost certainly layered sub-associations with different dues and different responsibilities depending on which product you buy. Before you write an offer here I would get the current dues schedule, the covenants and the architectural review procedure from the management company, and confirm which overlay or specific plan governs your exact parcel, because that also determines whether any form of short-term rental is permitted. This is a lovely place to live and it is genuinely more regulated than a conventional subdivision. Going in knowing that is the difference between loving it and being frustrated by it. One more note: Lenox Village sits right at the outer end of the Nolensville Pike transit corridor, so confirm the final terminus with Metro rather than assuming it reaches this far.
Common questions
Is it Lenox Village or Lennox Village?
Lenox, one N. The developer, the homeowners association and the Urban Land Institute case study all use that spelling. Almost everyone types it with two, which is why this page answers to both.
What are the rules like in Lenox Village?
Tighter than a normal subdivision, and layered. Metro wrote a custom design overlay for the project, which is what allowed the narrow streets and the traditional layout, so some of the design control is public zoning rather than private covenants. On top of that there is a homeowners association, and with condominiums, townhomes and detached homes all in one community there are almost certainly sub-associations with different dues. Get the covenants and the current dues schedule before you write, not after.
Why is the median price here all over the place?
Because the community is about 341 condominiums, 458 townhomes and 266 detached houses, so a single monthly median mostly tells you which type sold that month. Do not read a headline number here as your value. Tell me which product you are looking at and I will pull the comparable set that actually applies.
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