Warhorse Venture Partners will host neighborhood meeting Aug. 6
A Franklin-based development and investment company is starting a push to bring a new sports complex to Franklin.
Justin Bradford of Penalty Box Radio on Friday shared information on Twitter from Warhorse Venture Partners about a new project called the Franklin Sports Complex, which would be built across from the Williamson County Ag Expo Park on Long Lane. The developers say it will include "a hockey complex and a multi-sport facility providing indoor uses for volleyball, basketball, soccer, and cheerleading along with complimentary retail shops and restaurants."
"This would be huge for Williamson Co.," Bradford wrote in his tweet.
Warhorse is run by Eric Kaehr, a Franklin financial advisor whose real estate projects search for "asset types and markets where others might not and act swiftly to capture opportunity and unlock hidden value." Warhorse's website claims Kaehr and other members of the venture's investment committee have invested and developed a combined $500 million in commercial real estate for clients.
The City of Franklin will hold a neighborhood meeting on Zoom to discuss the proposed development, otherwise called the "Long Lane Sports Complex," on Aug. 6 at 6 p.m. Franklin's Gamble Design Collaborative drew up plans for the proposed space and Principal Greg Gamble is listed as the applicant for the amendment in the message to neighbors.
"This is an application for an Envision Franklin Amendment to revise the design concept from ‘Single-Family Residential’ to ‘Recreation with Special Considerations,’” a letter from the city to residents in the neighborhood reads. "Special Considerations would allow secondary supporting local commercial uses in a master planned setting."
The meeting will allow those from the neighborhood to meet with those involved in the project early in the review process and ask questions of the developers. If a formal application is indeed filed for the project, the letter says the applicant will present it for review to the Franklin Municipal Planning Commission on Sept. 24. Citizens will have a chance to speak on the project at Public Hearing sessions, per the letter.
Williamson County has its share of multi-use sports complexes but it does not house a major hockey complex. The Hockey Lab, a hockey training facility in downtown Franklin, houses a 3-on-3-sized sheet of ice.
In 2018, Nashville Predators President and CEO Sean Henry mentioned Williamson County as another possible spot for a team-affiliated hockey complex.
“The more rinks we build, no matter where they are, will be good for the kids and adults that play,” Henry said at the time. “We need to build in Williamson County as well. And when I say build, that’s a plural word. This is not ‘How many more can you do?’ It’s ‘Let’s just keep building them.’”
When it was called the A-Game Sportsplex, the TOA Sports Performance Center in Cool Springs housed two hockey rinks that closed in 2016.
“We’ve been working with Williamson County for a while,” Henry said in 2018. “When you have someone as forward-thinking as (county Mayor) Rogers Anderson, something is going to happen. And when it does, it’s going to be spectacular.”
Bellevue and Antioch have newer hockey complexes that are sponsored by the Predators and Ford Motor Co. This new project does not appear to have an affiliation with the Predators, at least not yet.
The area in question for the new complex sits near the booming Berry Farms development and the Ladd Park neighborhood up the road from the Ag Expo. Construction work on a bridge that will connect Long Lane to Old Peytonsville Road will begin in 2022 and a new fire station on the grounds of the Ag Expo will be completed in September, per the Franklin Fire Department. The building will include an ambulance wing for Williamson Medical's EMS team.
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