Big home sales: Tanya Tucker sells spread

Email | Print By Richard Lawson

Country singer Tanya Tucker has sold her 500 acres of farmland in Arrington for nearly $11.5 million.

Eagle Ridge Investments, which includes investors from Murfreesboro along with Ohio developer D.J. Keehan, borrowed $10 million for its transaction. The buyer plans to build a golf-course community on the land comparable to Grey Hawk Golf Club at Durham Ridge in the Village LaGrange, Ohio. Keehan is a partner in the project there.

The property has been under contract for several months. Keehan couldn't be immediately reached for comment. This development would be one of several along State Route 840.

Tucker's sale comes within weeks of another $11.5 million sale in Williamson County. This one involved healthcare entrepreneur Preston Ingram, a founder of AIM Healthcare Services, and Scott Sohr, a private investor, selling their 207-acre tract along Hillsboro Road to an entity based in Palm Harbor, Fla.-named Remington PH Trust. According to property records, they bought the propery in 2004 for $2.3 million.
 

Could their sale mean a billionaire is coming to the area? The trust has been linked to billionaire Todd Wagner, who is a minority partner with Mark Cuban in the Dallas Mavericks. They sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo at the height of the Internet bubble for more than $5 billion. Wagner has been building an entertainment empire since the sale.

Tax records show three houses on the property, one built in 1926 and two in 1936. The property sits between two residential subdivisions, and perhaps the 207 acres will meet the same fate.
 

Tanya Tucker's home to become golf subdivision

By NAOMI SNYDER
Staff Writer

 

Country music star Tanya Tucker's home in Williamson County has been sold to make way for a 495-home golf subdivision, according to the developer.

Eagle Ridge Investments recently bought the 500-acre property off State Route 840 in Arrington plus an adjoining 160 acres for $13.5 million, according to one of the investors, D.J. Keehan.

"There's just beautiful terrain over there,'' Keehan said. "It's a gorgeous piece of land for a golf course."

Tucker's home, which is home to horses and bison, will be turned into the clubhouse, Keehan said.

The 22,620-square-foot main house has five bedrooms, six full and three half-bathrooms and a grand staircase.

The house was featured along with Tucker and her family in the 2005 TLC reality series Tuckerville.

Keehan also manages the Grey Hawk Golf Club outside of Cleveland, Ohio.

Like Grey Hawk, the new golf subdivision will be an 18-hole public course surrounded by homes. Homeowners won't have to buy club memberships to play there.

He said the property also would feature a public restaurant.

Construction is expected to begin this summer, with the first homes to be sold next year starting around $550,000, Keehan said.

"People are looking to move back to the rural areas,'' he said. "They're looking for something quieter. It's unbelievably tranquil and peaceful out there."