Carothers Crossing

Happenings
600-acre New Urbanism community slated for southeast Davidson
Bill Harless; The City Paper
4/20/2006
Website: http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com...

Transformation of 511 acres in southeast Davidson County — and an adjoining 92 in Rutherford — from empty farmland to a network of four villages may begin with a country-cooking restaurant.

Developers Don Smithson and Ed Richey envision their project — Carothers Crossing — as a self-contained, walkable community whose commercial activity will be limited mostly to locally owned shops and restaurants.

The project will start, hopefully, with the restaurant, a grocery store, and, in a confined space, a few houses, cottages, townhomes and mixed-use buildings with offices or shops on their first floors and flats above, according to Smithson.

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