A 5.8-acre property near GEODIS Park is slated for a major makeover, with a four-story mixed-use building called Vintage Fair Park planned for the site at 492 Craighead St. Construction is expected to begin by the end of the year, bringing new development to south Nashville.
The project will be developed by Murfreesboro-based TDK Companies and Nashville-based Imagine1co., according to Nashville Post. TDK describes itself on its own website as a third-generation, privately held firm based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, that has “built value” since 1959 and handles the development, construction, and ownership of each of its projects.
Plans call for a mixed-use project, per the Nashville Post report.
A New Development Near the Fairgrounds
The development brings fresh density to a corner of south Nashville already anchored by GEODIS Park, home of Nashville SC.
Nearby, the city has separately pursued infrastructure meant to knit the Fairgrounds area together for people on foot or bike. The Wedgewood Avenue extension provides what the Fairgrounds Nashville infrastructure project page calls the first multimodal connection through the Fairgrounds property with a dedicated route for pedestrians and bicyclists.
TDK and Imagine1co.'s Track Record in the Region
TDK lists Vintage Edge among its completed projects and gives it 191 apartment units.
TDK lists Vintage Station North as a project with 192 units.
TDK's History and Portfolio
Founded in 1959, TDK has completed more than 10,000 units valued at over $1.2 billion.
Fairgrounds Housing Plans in Broader Context
The Vintage Fair Park project arrives as the surrounding Fairgrounds area has been the subject of other housing discussions. A Fairgrounds Nashville mixed-use development plan previously included 160 units of affordable housing, according to the Tennessean. That same report noted that nearly half of the apartments in the first block of an $80 million Fairgrounds development, which was awaiting final approval for construction at the time, would be affordable to Nashvillians earning less than $47,280 per year. Those figures apply to a separate Fairgrounds plan rather than to Vintage Fair Park itself, but they illustrate the kind of growth already reshaping the area around Geodis Park.
