Williamson Inc. has been involved in many initiatives and programs in Fairview for years, and now the two entities have come together as the Fairview Chamber of Commerce has unified with Williamson Inc.

The Nashville area saw 3,459 home closings in July, a 19 percent decrease from the mark of the same month in 2021.

Gresham Smith co-founder Batey Gresham Jr. has died at the age of 88, the Nashville architecture firm announced Tuesday.

When officials with the Southern lifestyle retailer Palmetto Moon considered opening a store in Franklin, they looked beyond the numbers.

There have been some intriguing real estate developments as of late!

A Brentwood office building located across the street from the Maryland Farms YMCA has sold for $6.1 million.

Franklin-based Pencilish Animation Studios started its second round of investment going live on July 16 on StartEngine. 

A new breakfast spot is coming to Brentwood to replace a former mainstay. 

Meritage Homes and the Franklin Chamber of Commerce celebrated the opening of new office spaces in Franklin this past Thursday.

Belmont University announced Friday its 2022 class of Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame inductees. 

The Lower Broadway building home to iconic retail business Ernest Tubb Record Shops has sold for $18.3 million — more than three times the figure for which it changed ownership hands 24 months ago.

Shareholders are calling for an investigation into allegations of Medicare fraud at HCA Healthcare. 

The Tennessee Children's Home broke ground for its new administrative and maintenance buildings this past Friday.

International real estate firm Lincoln Property Company announced on Tuesday that it acquired a 200,000-square-foot industrial facility in Franklin.

Shares of locally based Community Health Systems were trading down nearly 50 percent after hours following the release Wednesday of the hospital company’s second quarter earnings report.

The Tennessee Hospital Association has named Lacey Blair vice president of state government affairs, effective Aug. 1.

The owner of Sperry’s Restaurant and Sam’s Sports Grill is suing a spice blend manufacturer, alleging that the out-of-state company is holding the local restaurants “hostage” by refusing to disclose the recipes for spice blends Sperry’s and Sam’s have used for years.

HCA Healthcare has released its second quarter earnings results, which surpassed Wall Street expectations but did not reach the Zacks Investment Research estimate of $14.87 billion in revenue. 

Popular makeup and beauty store Sephora is setting up shop in two of Williamson County's Kohl's locations. 

Brentwood-based managed telecom services company C Spire has named veteran employee Allen McIntosh managing director for Tennessee.

Saint Goose, a wine and spirits shop that opened in downtown Franklin last fall, has filed a lawsuit against the executive director of the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission after he had sent a “cease-and-desist” letter to the retailer earlier this year.

Wesley Mortgage, will celebrate its multi-year title sponsorship of Freedom Friday for the Aug. 5-7 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix with entertainer Aaron Lewis headlining a multi-performer concert lineup at the Nissan Stadium campus, per a release. 

Coming off a trend-busting 2020, charitable giving behavior reverted somewhat to pre-pandemic trends in 2021, according to Franklin-based advisory firm Lighthouse Counsel’s annual Giving USA report produced in conjunction with The Giving Institute.  

Officials with Glenview, Illinois-based Highland Ventures Ltd. announced the company — perhaps best known for its Marco’s Pizza — will relocate its headquarters to Brentwood.

The Spring Hill Chamber of Commerce celebrated the opening of Towhee Club and its restaurant Birdsong Social with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday.

The members of Nashville-based rock band Kings of Leon have paid $2.2 million for a South Nashville warehouse located near used vinyl retailer Phonoluxe and Mexican restaurant La Hacienda Taqueria — and in which the rock band seemingly will operate a music studio.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffery Frensley ordered Nashville attorney Daniel Horwitz to delete tweets about locally based prison company CoreCivic, the defendant in a lawsuit Horwitz filed on behalf of a deceased former inmate at a CoreCivic facility.

The beloved Brentwood restaurant and bakery Puffy Muffin started in a family’s kitchen.

Company Distilling will host a grand reopening of its Thompson's Station location on Aug. 25-27, per a release. 

The Brentwood-based contractor company Route Consultant is FedEx Ground’s largest contractor in the United States, and its founder and president is urging the transport company to provide financial remedies to its base of 6,000-plus Contracted Service Providers (CSPs). 

Home inventory is increasing in the Nashville market, leading to a balancing of the off-kilter home sales market, according to a RE/MAX report.

Expected openings this fall for a Scout’s Pub in Nashville and a Puckett’s Gro. & Restaurant in Cullman, Alabama, will bring the number of A. Marshall Hospitality restaurants to 14.

Tractor Supply Company appointed Kimberley Gardiner as its new senior vice president and chief marketing officer to replace the soon-to-be-retired Christi Korzekwa. 

The Faurecia auto industry plant in Spring Hill has sold for $52 million.

Local businessman David Lee England died July 15 at his home in Franklin at the age of 84.

Goodlettsville-based retailer Dollar General Corp. announced Tuesday that CEO Todd Vasos plans to step down, effective Nov. 1.

Construction is set to begin on the interior space for a Chanel Fragrance and Beauty boutique at The Mall at Green Hills — to be the state’s first standalone shop for the global fashion retailer.

The Nashville area saw 4,257 home closings in June, an 8 percent decrease from the mark of the same month in 2021 — with the dip attributed, in part, to home loan interest rates.

Hunt Brothers Pizza co-founder Lonnie Hunt died Wednesday. He was 85.

The downtown building housing the closed The George Jones museum, restaurant and bar has sold for $28.5 million — only seven months after it changed ownership hands for $21 million.

I must warn you, I recently started watching the Netflix reality real estate show Selling Sunset and now I’m pretty sure I know everything there is to know about contingencies, million dollar contracts and Botox.

Nashville businessman Darrell Freeman died Tuesday, his family said in a statement.