Innovative Development - Best Spot!? (Memphis, Knoxville: buying, bankrupt, school)

[thebruiser500]

Interested in buying like 50-300 acres and developing it. The key is doing it differently. Not doing the cookie-cutter suburban stuff where it gets subdivided into 100 identical lots and each gets a grass yard and a McMansion.

I want to build mixed development in, experiment with old school architecture styles and engineering, and use narrower slower roads to make it pedestrian friendly.

So there are a couple ideals here. It should be in a growing area with new people who would be interested. The less regulations the better. And the friendlier local government is the better.

If local govt isn't friendly, they can just immediately kill and bankrupt this project using their power in, zoning, building permits, subdivision approvals, fire marshall complaints about the roads, and so on, to either simply stop me from doing it or impose overly costly requirements.

Any thoughts on where a good county to do this would be?

My personal preference would be a county outside of Knoxville just cause I like that area the most. But it doesn't seem to grow as much as Nashville. Maybe that is because local government discourages it.

Memphis and Western Tennessee is vetoed. Around Nashville, Murfreesboro, or Cookeville also seem like good possibilities.

Thank you for any personal experience or thoughts you can share on this.

[Serious Conversation]

Your best option is metro Nashville. It might work somewhere on the western side of the Knoxville metro

[MTFan]

Woodbury, TN in Cannon County. It's in the Nashville metro area. It has very little codes, zoning and regulations. It is adjacent to fast growing Rutherford county. Land is still somewhat affordable. They are happy for any development they can get.