Kensley

Kensley at a glance

Kensley is a proposed 82-home community on the south side of Long Hollow Pike in Gallatin, immediately west of GreenLea Boulevard and directly next door to Kensington Downs. The honest headline comes first: as of July 2026, Kensley is pre-construction. No homes exist, no model is open, nothing is listed, and no pricing has been published — the master plan is still moving through Gallatin City Council. But the public record on this community is unusually rich, and it contains a detail the builder itself has not announced yet: the revised master development plan filed with the city names the developer as Schell Brothers Nashville, L.L.C. This page is built from those filings — the planning staff reports, the pattern book, the lot tables, and the council minutes — so you can see what is actually planned before a single sign goes up on Long Hollow Pike.

The basics from the plan set: 82 homesites — 33 single-family detached homes and 49 townhomes — on the 21.94-acre developed portion of a 33.05-acre parcel addressed as 1375 Long Hollow Pike. The city's own planning documents place the site near the intersection of Vietnam Veterans Boulevard and Long Hollow Pike, approximately three miles from downtown Gallatin, with Gallatin itself roughly 20 miles northeast of Nashville. The plan is organized around a landscaped boulevard extension of Grandstand Boulevard, a central park the pattern book calls The Green at Kensley, and a dog park, with sidewalks on both sides of every new street.

The master plan, and how this land got here

The zoning story is older than the project. This land was annexed into Gallatin on April 1, 2008 as part of the Long Hollow Pike (SR-174) / SR-386 corridor annexation, and rezoned from R40 low-density residential to MRO — Multiple Residential and Office — on November 1, 2010. So the development entitlement here predates Kensley by about 15 years; what changed in 2026 is that someone finally filed a plan for it. And the plan asks for far less than the zoning allows: MRO permits 14.52 units per acre on this ground — up to roughly 131 units — while Kensley proposes 82 homes at 3.74 units per acre, a density city planning staff described as substantially less than what is permitted. Gallatin's comprehensive plan designates this area General Urban, recommending 5 to 15 units per acre; Kensley comes in under the bottom of that range.

One boundary detail worth understanding before you look at a map: only the southern 21.94 acres of the 33.05-acre parcel — the MRO-zoned portion — is in the plan. The northern 11.11 acres along Long Hollow Pike are zoned agricultural, are expressly excluded, and remain farmland for now. The surroundings today are Kensington Downs (a Goodall Homes community) to the east, and large estate lots and farmland to the north, south, and west, with a pocket of agricultural land encompassing Long Hollow Golf Course nearby, per the pattern book's own context pages.

The approval timeline, from the city's records: the Preliminary Master Development Plan was submitted April 14, 2026, went to a Planning Commission work session May 4, and on May 18 the Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend approval, with amended road-connection language. On June 9, the City Council Committee took up the ordinance and voted 7-0 to defer it — the discussion centered on whether the townhome section had enough parking, with Gallatin's police chief citing ongoing parking complaints in existing communities. The applicant resubmitted a revised plan with additional parking, dated June 17, and the ordinance returned to committee on June 23. As of early July 2026, final City Council adoption was still pending. Even after adoption, dirt does not move until the final master development plan, engineering construction plans, a land-disturbance permit, and a recorded final plat are all approved. The plan's own preliminary schedule anticipates three phases, the first beginning in 2026 and one phase per year after — treat every one of those dates as preliminary.

The developer: Schell Brothers, documented but not yet announced

Here is the part of the public record most buyers will not have seen. The revised plan set in the June 23, 2026 council packet names the developer as Schell Brothers Nashville, L.L.C., with a Hendersonville contact address on Saundersville Road. Schell Brothers has not published Kensley on its website — there is no sales office, no VIP list, no pricing, and no MLS listing under the Kensley name as of July 2026 — so we treat the builder as documented but unannounced. The plan set corroborates itself, though: the architectural elevation sheets carry the names Camella, Hadley, and Jasmine, which match current Schell Brothers Nashville floor-plan names.

Kensley also fits a visible pattern: it is quietly the third leg of Schell Brothers' push into Gallatin. Fox Creek, on the north side of Long Hollow Pike, is publicly listed as coming soon — 130 homesites on lots up to a quarter acre, with a planned community pool and a sales center at 1788 Long Hollow Pike — and it is advertising launch incentives that are Fox Creek-specific, so do not assume anything similar at Kensley. MacGregory Downs is listed as coming in 2026 with rare 2-plus-acre homesites. And The Landing at Branham, Schell's first Gallatin community, is sold out. Kensley, still in entitlements, is the unannounced one — which is exactly why watching the filings matters.

On pricing, the only honest thing we can give you is context, clearly labeled as context. Schell Brothers' published from-pricing across its active Nashville-area communities as of July 2026 ran from $664,900 (Oak Hall IV, Mt. Juliet) and $694,900 (Millstone, Hendersonville) up to $1,108,900 (Norman Ridge, Hendersonville). But those are larger-lot, detached-only communities — Kensley's 50-foot detached lots and 49 townhomes are a different, smaller-lot product mix than anything on that list, so those numbers should not be projected onto Kensley. No Kensley pricing exists, and we can't predict what it will be. When the builder publishes numbers, that is the moment to look.

The homes: what the plan set actually shows

Kensley is planned as two products, and the split matters: of the 82 homesites, 49 are single-family attached townhomes and 33 are single-family detached homes. The detached lots have a 6,000-square-foot minimum and a 50-foot minimum width — an approved exception from the MRO district's 60-foot standard — with 20-foot front yards (porches may encroach 5 feet) and 6-foot side yards. Per the plan's lot table, detached lots run roughly 0.09 to 0.20 acre. The townhome lots have a 2,000-square-foot minimum at roughly 24-foot-4-inch minimum width with 25-foot front yards, and the rows include both 30-foot-wide and 24-foot-wide units, on lots of roughly 0.07 to 0.08 acre. The plan also includes two private alleys serving alley-loaded homes, which puts garages behind some homes rather than dominating the streetscape.

The elevation sheets show detached designs labeled Blue Bell Farm House, Camella (Style B), Hadley Modern Farm House, Heather (Style B), and Jasmine Modern Farm House, plus townhome elevations labeled The Pinehurst and Tidewater. Every rendering is marked as an artist's conception, subject to change, and — worth repeating — no square footages or prices have been published for any Kensley plan. If you want to know what a Hadley or Jasmine actually lives like, the practical move today is to look at Schell's published plan library for its other Nashville-area communities, with the caveat that the Kensley versions may differ.

Architecture is governed by a detailed pattern book covering materials — brick, stone, fiber cement siding, and stucco with brick or stone watertable minimums — plus dimensional shingle or standing-seam metal roofs, fences, landscaping, massing, porches, windows, garages, and special focus lots at prominent corners. It was approved as an Alternative Architecture Plan in lieu of the MRO district's 70 percent brick-and-stone requirement; at the work session, city staff described a certain percentage of homes at 60 percent masonry, and noted the design scheme is similar to the pattern book approved for Kensington Downs next door. In plain terms: the two communities are being designed to read as neighbors, not strangers.

Planned amenities, open space, and the HOA question

Set expectations correctly here: no pool or clubhouse appears anywhere in the plan at this stage. What the pattern book documents instead is a central community park — The Green at Kensley — with a large open event and play lawn, a natural playground with slides and sculpted berms, an open-air pavilion with seating, and a fire pit the pattern book says extends usability into the evening. There is also a dog park area with a centrally located mail kiosk, parallel parking, and landscaped pocket lawns; an entry boulevard with decorative columns and continuous community fencing; and sidewalks on both sides of every new public street, with pedestrian connections into Kensington Downs and toward future neighboring developments. Amenity finals get set at the final development plan stage, so every item above is properly labeled planned, not promised.

The open-space numbers are better than the minimum: eight tracts totaling about 9.6 acres against a 6.14-acre requirement. The largest is a 6.97-acre corridor along a natural stream that runs through the center of the site, roughly parallel to the planned boulevard. That stream carries TWRA water-quality protections — a 35-foot no-disturb buffer and a 60-foot average construction buffer — which is why the corridor stays green. Per the FEMA flood map cited in the filings (FIRM 471650295G), no portion of the development area sits in a special flood hazard area; you should still pull the lot-specific flood determination when you buy, because that is a per-address question. One honest footnote: all of the open space doubles as public utility and drainage easement, which is standard practice but means the green space works for the infrastructure, too.

On the HOA: no Kensley homeowners association has been established or published, because the community does not exist yet — dues and inclusions are entirely TBD by the developer. For adjacent context only: Kensington Downs, immediately east and sharing the same street grid, runs $96 to $102 per month for single-family homes and $298 per month for townhomes as of mid-2026, with the townhome fee covering exterior building maintenance, grounds, insurance, and pool access. Kensley's structure may look nothing like that — it has no pool in the plan, for one — so treat those numbers as a sense of the neighborhood, not a forecast. When Schell publishes Kensley's dues, we'll compare them line by line for you.

The street network is the most distinctive thing on the plan

Kensley's spine is the westward extension of Grandstand Boulevard from GreenLea Boulevard through the site. This is not an ordinary subdivision street: it is a designated collector on Gallatin's General Development and Transportation Plan, designed in a roughly 70-foot right-of-way with travel lanes, bike lanes on both sides, a landscaped median, and a central roundabout to calm traffic. The city's long-term intent is for this corridor to eventually link Big Station Camp Boulevard to GreenLea Boulevard as a through-route, and staff described the network as eventually connecting toward the Twin Ponds development at Station Camp and toward Bison Trail. Beyond the boulevard, the plan includes three new public streets and two private alleys.

Read that two ways, because both are true. The boulevard is a genuine amenity — bike lanes, a median, a roundabout, and street trees are a nicer front door than most 82-home communities get. It is also a future through-street: as the corridor builds out, Grandstand Boulevard is designed to carry city traffic, not just Kensley's. Buyers who want a home on the boulevard for the streetscape should weigh the traffic that a completed collector eventually brings. The plan anticipates more growth around it, too — an amended condition of approval requires a road (labeled Road A on the plans) to extend north to Long Hollow Pike as a collector if the agricultural portion of the parcel is ever platted, plus an eastward stub-out toward the neighboring parcel. Translation: the farmland next door is not guaranteed to stay farmland forever, and the street plan already knows it.

Location and commute

Gallatin is the Sumner County seat, on the northeastern side of the Nashville metro along the eastern reach of Old Hickory Lake. Kensley's position — south of Long Hollow Pike at the GreenLea Boulevard corridor — puts it near the intersection of Vietnam Veterans Boulevard (Highway 386) and Long Hollow Pike, approximately three miles from downtown Gallatin, per the plan's own context pages. Gallatin sits roughly 20 miles northeast of Nashville, and marketing for the adjacent community pegs the downtown Nashville commute at approximately 35 minutes, with driving directions of I-65 North to TN-386 North for about 14 miles, then exiting toward GreenLea Boulevard and Grandstand Boulevard. The nearest everyday retail anchors are the Big Station Camp Boulevard corridor (the Publix corridor) and Indian Lake Village in Hendersonville.

The standing advice for any address this far north in Sumner County: drive your real route at your real commute time, not midday. Long Hollow Pike and the GreenLea corridor carry a lot of the local traffic, and Highway 386 and Highway 31E do the heavier lifting toward Hendersonville and Davidson County. That one habit — testing the drive at 7:15 on a Tuesday — tells you more than any marketing map, and it is doubly worth doing here because the Grandstand Boulevard extension will change local traffic patterns as it connects through.

Lake and golf: the honest answer

Kensley has no Old Hickory Lake frontage and no dedicated lake access. The only water feature on site is the small natural stream corridor and its protected buffers. Old Hickory Lake, Lock 4 Park, and the Gallatin marinas are real area amenities, but they are drive-to amenities, the same as for most of Gallatin. Similarly, Long Hollow Golf Course sits nearby — the pattern book notes the pocket of agricultural land encompassing it — but Kensley is not a golf community and has no affiliation with the course. If a true lake or golf community is the actual goal, we'd point you at different options and tell you what the trade-offs are.

Schools

Official school zoning for Kensley will be set by Sumner County Schools once addresses exist, and it has not been set yet. The factual context: the adjacent Kensington Downs community — same quadrant, south of Long Hollow Pike at GreenLea Boulevard — is published by its builder as served by Station Camp Elementary School, Station Camp Middle School, and Station Camp High School, and Station Camp High sits on Bison Trail, the street Kensley's network is planned to eventually connect toward. But note the wrinkle: Schell's own Fox Creek community on the north side of Long Hollow Pike is marketed under Liberty Creek Elementary, Middle, and High — the zone lines split this corridor. So do not assume; verify the assignment for the specific address with Sumner County Schools before you buy. We don't rate or rank schools ourselves. For performance data, the Tennessee State Report Card at tn.gov/education and GreatSchools.org are the right independent places to look.

Market context: what actually sells next door

Kensley has zero sales — it is pre-construction, so there is no Kensley market data, and anyone who quotes you a Kensley price today is guessing. The nearest directly adjacent comparison set is Kensington Downs, which shares the Grandstand and GreenLea street grid. In the trailing 12 months as of July 2026, Kensington Downs recorded 37 closed sales with a $545,000 overall median: single-family closings ranged from $481,539 to $616,969 (median $552,394), and townhomes ranged from $372,000 to $390,000 (median $390,000). For citywide context, Zillow showed roughly 221 new-construction homes for sale in Gallatin at about a $440,000 median list price in July 2026.

How to use those numbers: they bracket what this specific corner of Gallatin has actually transacted at recently, across both of the product types Kensley plans to build. They are a dated snapshot, not a forecast — we can't predict prices, and Kensley's eventual pricing will depend on decisions Schell Brothers has not announced. When Kensley pricing publishes, the useful exercise will be setting it against these comps and the builder's other communities, and we'll do that math with you on live numbers.

The honest buyer's read

Kensley fits a buyer who is planning ahead rather than shopping this month — someone who wants new construction on the Long Hollow Pike corridor, is watching for a lower-maintenance townhome or a compact detached home rather than acreage, and would rather track a community from the entitlement stage than pay whatever the last phase of a built-out neighborhood costs. If your move is a year or more out, Kensley is exactly the kind of name worth having on a watch list. If you need a home in the next six months, it is not your community — and we'd rather tell you that plainly than string you along.

The trade-offs, as specifically as the record allows:

• The mix is majority-townhome: 49 of 82 homesites are attached product. If you want a detached home here, there are only 33 lots spread across three planned phases, so the detached inventory will be genuinely limited.
• Lots are compact by design — roughly 0.09 to 0.20 acre detached and 0.07 to 0.08 acre townhome. Buyers who want a big yard should be looking at a different product, and we'll say so.
• No pool or clubhouse is in the plan at this stage. The planned amenities are a central park, a dog park, and the trail-and-sidewalk network. Some nearby communities include pools; if that is a must-have, weigh it now, not after.
• Timing risk is real. The ordinance had not passed as of early July 2026, and several approval steps remain after it does. The preliminary schedule says construction starts in 2026 with one phase per year, but preliminary schedules slip.
• Early buyers in a three-phase community live with active construction nearby for years. That is the standard early-buyer trade everywhere, and it applies here.
• Grandstand Boulevard is designed as a future city through-route. The boulevard streetscape is an amenity today; the through-traffic arrives as the corridor connects to Big Station Camp Boulevard over time.
• The 11.11 acres of farmland between Kensley and Long Hollow Pike is outside this plan and could be developed later — the conditions of approval already reserve a road connection for that scenario.
• Two engineering notes from the filings: lots 32 through 38 and lot 56 require a geotechnical analysis before building permits because of hydric soils, and an emergency-services note requires fire sprinklers in homes built after the first 30 until a secondary emergency access exists. Neither is a defect — both are exactly the kind of plan-set detail your agent should know before you pick a lot.

What to verify before you buy

Because Kensley is pre-construction, the checklist is about whether and when it becomes real, and then about the specifics as they publish:

• Approval status — confirm final City Council adoption and the follow-on approvals (final development plan, construction plans, recorded plat) on the City of Gallatin development tracker and agenda center before treating any date as firm.
• The builder's official announcement — Schell Brothers had not published Kensley as of July 2026. When it appears on the builder's site with a sales contact and VIP list, the real clock starts.
• The final recorded plat — the 82-lot layout, lot dimensions, and open-space tracts can still change between the preliminary and final plan stages. Anchor on the recorded version, not the concept.
• Pricing and square footages when they publish — nothing exists yet; treat any early number you hear as unofficial until it is builder-published, and check what is included versus optional.
• HOA dues and inclusions — not yet established; get the actual budget, covenants, and what the townhome fee covers versus the detached fee before you compare payments.
• School zoning for the actual address — the corridor's zone lines split nearby communities between different school groupings; confirm with Sumner County Schools directly once addresses exist.
• Lot-specific conditions — ask whether your lot is among those requiring geotechnical analysis (lots 32-38 and 56 on the preliminary plan) and whether the fire-sprinkler condition applies to your build slot.
• Amenity finals — The Green at Kensley and the dog park are pattern-book plans; confirm what is committed, and in which phase, at the final development plan stage.
• Your real commute — drive Long Hollow Pike, GreenLea, 386, and 31E at your actual commute times before committing to this part of Gallatin.

Kensley FAQ

Who is building Kensley in Gallatin?

The revised master development plan filed with the City of Gallatin (June 2026) names the developer as Schell Brothers Nashville, L.L.C., and the plan's elevation sheets carry current Schell floor-plan names like Hadley and Jasmine. Schell Brothers has not publicly announced Kensley — it does not appear on the builder's website as of July 2026 — so the accurate framing is documented in the public record, not yet announced.

When will homes at Kensley be for sale?

No date exists. As of July 2026 the community was still in entitlements — the Planning Commission recommended approval 5-0 in May 2026, City Council deferred the ordinance in June over townhome parking, and a revised plan was back before the council committee in late June. The plan's preliminary schedule anticipates three construction phases starting in 2026, one per year, but sales cannot begin until approvals finish and the builder launches the community. We track the agendas so our clients hear specifics the day they become real.

How many homes will Kensley have, and what types?

The plan calls for 82 homesites: 33 single-family detached homes on 50-foot-wide lots of roughly 0.09 to 0.20 acre, and 49 single-family attached townhomes (in 30-foot and 24-foot widths) on lots of roughly 0.07 to 0.08 acre, with some alley-loaded homes served by two private alleys.

What amenities are planned at Kensley?

The pattern book documents a central community park called The Green at Kensley — an open event and play lawn, a natural playground, an open-air pavilion, and a fire pit — plus a dog park with a mail kiosk, an entry boulevard, sidewalks on both sides of every street, and pedestrian connections to Kensington Downs. No pool or clubhouse appears in the plan at this stage. About 9.6 acres of open space are planned, including a 6.97-acre protected stream corridor. All amenities are finalized at a later approval stage, so treat them as planned.

How much will homes at Kensley cost?

No Kensley pricing exists, and we can't predict it. For dated context only: adjacent Kensington Downs recorded a $545,000 overall median across 37 closed sales in the trailing 12 months as of July 2026 (single-family median $552,394; townhome median $390,000), and Gallatin's citywide new-construction median list price was about $440,000 in July 2026. Schell's other Nashville-area communities start in the mid-$600,000s and up, but those are larger-lot products that should not be projected onto Kensley's smaller-lot mix.

What schools serve Kensley?

Zoning has not been set — Kensley has no addresses yet. Adjacent Kensington Downs is published by its builder as served by Station Camp Elementary, Station Camp Middle, and Station Camp High, while communities on the north side of Long Hollow Pike are marketed under the Liberty Creek schools — the zone lines split this corridor. Verify the assignment with Sumner County Schools once addresses exist, and use the Tennessee State Report Card (tn.gov/education) and GreatSchools.org for independent school data.

Does Kensley have lake access?

No. Kensley has no Old Hickory Lake frontage or dedicated lake access; the only on-site water is a small natural stream corridor with protected buffers. Old Hickory Lake, Lock 4 Park, and the Gallatin marinas are drive-to amenities from this location, as they are for most of Gallatin.

Last updated: July 2026. Sourced from City of Gallatin planning staff reports, council agenda packets, and the filed Preliminary Master Development Plan and pattern book, plus builder-published community pages and dated market snapshots. Kensley's approvals, plan details, amenities, pricing, HOA terms, and school zoning are all subject to change until finalized — confirm current status before making decisions. Prepared by The Will Johnson Team, Gallatin, Sumner County, and Middle Tennessee new-construction specialists.

The pipeline around Kensley: what else the city is tracking on this corridor

Kensley is not the only project moving through Gallatin's approval process along the Long Hollow Pike / GreenLea Boulevard corridor. Per the City of Gallatin's own "Developments in Gallatin" tracker (accessed July 2026), the immediate area also carries Argento Three86, a 286-unit apartment complex south of Long Hollow Pike and east of GreenLea Boulevard that is under construction; Commons at Greenlea, a residential development on roughly 43.25 acres north of Saint Blaise Road and west of GreenLea Boulevard, also under construction; and Atlas Townhomes, a 161-unit townhome project on Long Hollow Pike carrying preliminary approval. None of these are Kensley, and none of their details apply to Kensley's own plan — they are listed here only so you can see the fuller pipeline the city is managing on this stretch of road, since it will shape traffic and construction activity in the same window Kensley may break ground.

Zooming out further, a dated snapshot of Gallatin's citywide pipeline — reported October 2, 2025 by Main Street Media of Tennessee — counted six projects still on planning-commission agendas, eleven holding preliminary approval, 49 approved but not yet under construction, and roughly 35 or more actively under construction citywide, spanning subdivisions, townhome projects, and commercial development. That count is nearly a year old and will have shifted by the time you read this, but it establishes the pattern Kensley fits into: Gallatin is processing a large volume of residential entitlements at once, and a project can sit in "pending approval" for many months before a builder is ready to break ground. That is useful context for setting expectations on how long Kensley's own remaining steps might take — not a prediction of Kensley's specific timeline.

How to get on our early-interest list for Kensley

Because nothing about Kensley is for sale yet, there is no waitlist to join with Schell Brothers or the city — the only thing to do right now is track the filings. Our team checks the Gallatin City Council and Planning Commission agenda center weekly for any item touching 1375 Long Hollow Pike, the GreenLea Boulevard corridor, or a Schell Brothers filing under the Kensley name, and we watch schellbrothers.com's Nashville-area community list for the day Kensley is formally announced with a sales center or interest-list signup of its own. If you want to be one of the first calls when that happens, tell us now — call or text 615-265-1000 — and we will reach out the week Kensley's status changes, whether that is a final council vote, a builder announcement, or a published price list, rather than waiting for you to stumble across it.