Southern Land Company

Southern Land Company is a Franklin, Tennessee developer founded in 1986, known for master-planned communities and, more recently, luxury high-rise rental towers in major U.S. cities. The firm develops, designs and manages its own projects, a vertically integrated approach that gives it control over everything from land planning to interiors. In Houston, Southern Land broke ground in 2026 on Lily River Oaks, a 38-story, 331-unit tower near the River Oaks neighborhood. The company’s portfolio spans residential, mixed-use and commercial work across the South, Texas and beyond, with a focus on design-led projects in high-demand urban submarkets.

Southern Land Company is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, at 3990 Hillsboro Pike. The company runs its projects through in-house divisions spanning development, infrastructure, an architecture and design studio, construction, property management, garden services, and lifestyle programming, and it builds single-family homes through SLC Homes in addition to multifamily and mixed-use communities.

Its Tennessee portfolio includes Westhaven, the flagship master-planned community in Franklin now past its twentieth year of homeowners; the nearly 600-acre LaurelBrooke and Carronbridge, both in Franklin; and Fairington in Nolensville. The firm emphasizes environmental sustainability across its communities, managed through its dedicated Garden Services group.