Nashville-based Southern Land Co. has entered the world of corporate blogging in a different way.

The company has hired a reporter to write about the real estate market and housing trends on a separate Web site from its own. The site address is www.whatsforreal.com.

New apartment development hopes to capitalize on influx of workers

Development on Williamson County's first apartment community in 10 years is under way in Cool Springs just off the McEwen interchange on I-65.

The 10-acre development, to be known as Dwell, will include 14 apartment buildings and 258 upscale units in the middle of Southern Land Company's mixed-use McEwen development.

FRANKLIN — Development on Williamson County’s first apartment community in 10 years is underway in Cool Springs just off of the McEwen interchange on I-65.

The 10-acre development, to be known as Dwell, will include 14 apartment buildings and a total of 258 upscale units in the middle of Southern Land Company’s mixed-use McEwen development.

D Magazine rates Keller as the number 9 suburb in Texas because of home prices and cool projects like ArtHouse.

FRANKLIN —A Clarksville man won a $650,000 home in Westhaven on Sunday, helping Southern Land Co. and media partners WZTV-Channel 17 and WSIX-FM raise $1.6 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a new fundraising record.

This is the fourth year that St. Jude has operated a campaign in Middle Tennessee and the fourth year that a Westhaven home has been the grand prize. According to a press release from the Memphis hospital, the volunteers' and community sponsors' participation and amount of money raised are unprecedented on a national scale.

In their 30 years of marriage, Julie Tarrents has always had more of a knack for winning tickets than husband David.

But that changed Sunday when David's $100 ticket purchased online was drawn as the winner of the Nashville St. Jude Dream Home contest. 

The Clarksville couple won a new home valued at $650,000 in the Westhaven community of Franklin.

The Westhaven Realty sales team moved into their new offices in the Westhaven Town Center on June 18th. Located at 1001 Westhaven Blvd., Suite 100, just a few steps from the Vanderbilt Medical Group Offices and The Spectacle Shoppe, the new office is up and operational! Be sure to stop by on your next visit to Westhaven!

At Home Tennessee magazine has published the results of their annual reader’s poll in the June 2008 issue. LaurelBrooke was voted the “Best Subdivision” in the state of Tennessee. LaurelBrooke was noted for its dazzling homes, safe environment and true sense of camradrie among neighbors.

Tickets are still available for a chance at winning the St. Jude’s Dream House constructed in honor of Murfreesboro resident Ally Cameron.

The goal of the 2008 St. Jude Dream Home campaign is to raise $1.6 million for the internationally known research hospital dedicated to finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.

There is still time to purchase a ticket for a chance to win the St. Jude Dream Home, which will be given away Sunday. The four-bedroom home is in Westhaven and is valued at approximately $650,000.

Fewer than 2,000 tickets remain for the Middle Tennessee Dream Home — one of 34 in the country — to raise $1.6 million for the children's hospital, making it the nation's largest Dream Home campaign to date.