Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in MetroCenter
MetroCenter is an 850 acre master-planned business park announced in 1971, built inside a bend of the Cumberland River about two and a half miles north of downtown. It is offices, industrial space and a growing amount of apartments, it is where the Tennessee Titans have their headquarters and practice facility, and it is dry on the flood map for one reason: the levee.
- Type
- 850 acre master-planned business park, announced 1971
- Flood zone
- Zone X, area with reduced flood risk due to levee, map adopted June 20, 2024
- Tax district
- Urban Services District, $2.814 per hundred for 2025
What’s actually there
- The Tennessee Titans headquarters and the Vanderbilt Health Football Center at 460 Great Circle Road
- The State of Tennessee as the largest occupant, around 2,500 employees across roughly a million square feet
- The MetroCenter Levee Greenway, 3.7 miles running along the top of the levee
- A 3.2 mile levee and stormwater system that held in both the 1979 and 2010 floods
- Mainstead MetroCenter under construction at 407 Great Circle Road, about 750 apartments in three phases
The housing stock
Overwhelmingly rental apartments rather than for-sale housing, alongside office and industrial. Existing communities include Parc at Metro Center on Athens Way and The Duke Metrocenter on Great Circle Road, with hundreds more units in the pipeline. There is no meaningful for-sale single family median here, because for-sale single family is not really what this submarket is.
Getting around
About two and a half miles to Public Square, roughly thirteen blocks by the developer’s own description, in and out on Rosa L. Parks Boulevard and Clarksville Pike. Great Circle Road and Athens Way are the internal streets.
Things to do in MetroCenter
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Vanderbilt Health Football Center
460 Great Circle Road. The Tennessee Titans headquarters and training facility. Note that the new Titans stadium is on the East Bank, not here. This is offices and practice fields.
MetroCenter Levee Greenway
3.7 paved miles along the top of the levee, part of the City Central and Cumberland River greenway systems, connecting to Ted Rhodes Park and Golf Course.
Mainstead MetroCenter
407 Great Circle Road. Under construction by Oldacre McDonald, roughly 750 apartments across three phases with about 30,000 square feet of restaurant and retail, on the fifteen acre former Lipman Brothers warehouse site demolished in 2026. Roughly a $93 million project.
Ted Rhodes Golf Course
1901 Ed Temple Boulevard, 27 public holes next to the river and the greenway.
One MetroCenter
45 Vantage Way, the apartment landmark inside the office park.
Checked against each business as of August 16, 2026. Nashville loses restaurants faster than most cities, so if something here has closed since, tell me and I’ll get it corrected.
Buildings in MetroCenter, and which ones you can actually buy into
Here nobody searches by subdivision, they search by building. So the first thing each of these says is whether the units are individually owned and buyable or whether the whole tower belongs to one company, because several of them are marketed as condominiums and are not. Everything else is durable: what was built, when, and how many.
Metro Centre Condominium Homes is not a condominium
The most misleading building name in Nashville, and it is right here.
- 2333 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard carries the legal description Lot 2 Metro Centre Condominium Homes. The words are in the county record.
- It is one tax parcel, owned by one limited partnership, carrying 90 dwelling units. It is a 90-unit rental building.
- You cannot buy a unit in Metro Centre Condominium Homes. There are no units to buy, because the building was never divided into separately deeded parcels.
- This is the master-condominium wording trap in its purest form. The test that defeats it every time: a real condominium creates one tax parcel per unit with a different owner on each. Check the owner, not the name.
Three ways to spell one name
And the wrong one hides the two biggest buildings.
- A search on METROCENTER returns about 106 parcels. METRO CENTER as two words returns about 7. METRO CENTRE with the British spelling returns about 2.
- The true total is about 115, out of roughly 126 parcels in the whole of zip 37228.
- The nine parcels the one-word spelling misses include The Preserve at Metro Center and Metro Centre Condominium Homes, two of the larger residential buildings in the district.
- So the most common search term here misses the two buildings a buyer is most likely to be asking about. Search all three spellings or you have not searched.
Twelve buildings, about 2,539 apartments, and one house
The honest shape of the housing here.
- Twelve parcels in zip 37228 carry more than twenty dwelling units. Every one of the twelve is a single tax parcel under a single owner. Not one is divided into for-sale units.
- The largest run 322 units on Athens Way, 320 on Vantage Way, 313 and 301 on Great Circle Road, and 282 more on Great Circle. The twelve together come to roughly 2,539 apartments.
- The number of parcels in the entire zip code carrying exactly one dwelling unit is one. Not one percent. One parcel.
- So the honest statement about MetroCenter is that it holds roughly 2,539 apartments and essentially no for-sale housing stock. It is a place to live, and it is not currently a place to buy a home.
The section and tract plats
A master development platted in numbered pieces rather than named subdivisions.
- Section 2 is recorded in plat book 5200 at page 237, Section 16 in book 5190 at page 520, Section 20 in book 6200 at page 7.
- Tracts are numbered separately again: Tract 37 in book 5190 at page 221, Tract 5-B in book 5190 at page 42, and Block H of Section 1 Tract 11A in book 4885 at page 33.
- The Cumberland Bend Business Park at MetroCenter Section 9 is recorded in book 8250 at page 79, and a first revision of Section 16 in the same book at page 702.
- The early book numbers cluster tightly, in the 4885 to 5210 range, which is what a single master development platted in sections over a short period looks like in the record. Recent resubdivisions in 2019 and 2020 show the ground is still being redrawn.
The levee, and the number from May 2010
The most counterintuitive verified figure on this site.
- In the May 2010 flood, about 11,648 parcels countywide were recorded with a damaged structure. In zip 37228, which is MetroCenter, the number was two.
- Neither of the two was residential. One was a Metro park parcel on Freelands Station Road and the other a distribution warehouse on Great Circle Road.
- Not one apartment building, office building or dwelling inside the levee was recorded as flood damaged in the flood that put Opryland and Bellevue under water.
- FEMA’s own zone description for the interior reads 500-Year Floodplain, Protected by Levee. Read that carefully. The land underneath is floodplain and the levee is what changes the rating. Reduced risk is not no risk, and that is exactly why I tell people to buy the coverage anyway.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
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Metro Nashville Public Schools serves MetroCenter. Metro assigns by address and runs choice and magnet applications alongside zoned assignment, so confirm any address with the district 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
MetroCenter is dry on the flood map only because the levee is accredited, and accreditation is a status rather than a permanent condition. Metro’s own flood hazard layer returns Zone X for the middle of MetroCenter with the subtype area with reduced flood risk due to levee, on a map adopted June 20, 2024. Three things follow that cost people money. No lender will require flood insurance here, because the parcel is outside the special flood hazard area, and buyers read that as no flood risk and decline coverage. Metro Water says plainly that property outside the special flood hazard area is not guaranteed to be safe from flooding, and a standard Tennessee homeowners policy does not cover flood in any zone. Second, the designation depends on FEMA continuing to accredit the levee, which has to be periodically recertified, and the Corps of Engineers has done settlement, slope and vegetation work on this levee over the years. If it were ever de-accredited, the interior remaps into a special flood hazard area, mandatory insurance attaches to every federally backed mortgage inside it, and premiums land on property bought on the assumption they never would. Third, the levee-protected area has edges, and a parcel just outside it can sit in Zone AE. My advice here is simple: buy the flood insurance voluntarily. It is inexpensive in a non-special-hazard X zone, which is exactly why declining it is the expensive mistake. And check the flood zone at the specific parcel, not the district.
Common questions
Is the new Titans stadium in MetroCenter?
No. The stadium is on the East Bank. What is in MetroCenter is the Titans headquarters and their practice facility, the Vanderbilt Health Football Center at 460 Great Circle Road. People mix these up constantly.
Do I need flood insurance in MetroCenter?
You will not be required to carry it, and I would carry it anyway. Metro’s flood layer puts MetroCenter in Zone X, specifically an area with reduced flood risk due to levee. That means no lender mandate, and it also means the whole designation rests on the levee staying accredited. A standard homeowners policy covers no flood damage in any zone, and coverage in an X zone is inexpensive.
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