<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2YhKW2_1Cphz3nn00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2YhKW2_1Cphz3nn00" width="1200" height="600" >FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WSMV) - Developers pitched their plans to build a new mixed-use development centered around a youth sports complex in Franklin to the public for the first time at a special meeting of the Williamson County Commission and Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen Monday night.The project, proposed by developer BLVD Capital, would transform Brownland Farm, a 233-acre property on Hillsboro Road just outside downtown Franklin, into “The Banks at Brownland.”The development would be anchored by a 100,000-square-foot ice rink facility owned by the city and county and operated by the Nashville Predators.The property would also include several privately funded, owned and operated facilities including 11 multipurpose fields for football, soccer, field hockey and lacrosse, a golf practice facility with a nine-hole course, and retail and dining spaces.It would also give a permanent home to Williamson County nonprofit GraceWorks.<h2>Public-private partnership</h2>The Nashville Predators are eyeing the spot for an expansion of their youth hockey program.The organization currently operates every sheet of ice in Middle Tennessee at their Ford Ice Center facilities in Antioch, Bellevue, Clarksville and the Centennial Sportsplex in Nashville.The facilities are all run through public-private partnerships, a model they’re pitching for the planned facility in Franklin.In their proposal, the city of Franklin and Williamson County would invest around $40 million to build the facility and would then lease it to the Nashville Predators who would run the facility and pay for the operating expenses.Developers argued that the revenue generated by sales taxes and added visitors in the area would more than cover the investment of taxpayer dollars.Some families have raised concerns about the organization’s effective monopoly on ice rinks in Middle Tennessee.<h2>Flooding and traffic concerns</h2>Several residents and local leaders raised concerns about potential traffic impacts of the development, arguing it would bring more people down Hillsboro Road.But others argue the traffic is already there, just going the other way. The Nashville Predators say Williamson County residents made more than 60,000 trips to their rinks in Antioch and Bellevue in 2025 alone.Residents also raised concerns about flooding as a majority of the property sits in a 100-year floodplain.But developers say they settled on a sports complex because of that and designed the project so that the fields and golf course would fill up first in the case of a flood.Plus, they say they have plans to divert the floodway and widen culverts underneath Hillsboro Road to lower the flood risk both for their development and surrounding areas.Developers said they wanted to present their plans to the public and elected officials to gauge interest in the project before officially submitting plans for approval.They’re also still working on traffic and flooding studies for the project.</div></body>

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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WSMV) - Developers pitched their plans to build a new mixed-use development centered around a youth sports complex in Franklin to the public for the first time at a special meeting of the Williamson County Commission and Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen Monday night. The project, proposed...

Developer addresses community concerns around Franklin youth sports complex project

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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WSMV) - Developers pitched their plans to build a new mixed-use development centered around a youth sports complex in Franklin to the publ

Developer addresses community concerns around Franklin youth sports complex project

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