2305 Booker St, Nashville, TN 37208

Nashville's urban core is expanding, and 2305 Booker Street sits directly in its path.

This 0.87-acre corner site on Booker Street in Nashville's City Heights corridor represents one of the more compelling infill development opportunities to hit the market in this submarket in recent memory. Priced at $1,750,000 — against a 2025 tax-appraised land value of $2,217,000 — the numbers speak for themselves before a shovel ever hits the ground.

The site is effectively vacant. The existing demo-condition metal building carries zero contributory value and is included in the land price. What a buyer is acquiring is 37,897 square feet of flat, usable, corner-positioned urban land with dual IR and RS5 zoning, an Urban Zoning Overlay designation, railroad adjacency that eliminates the rear setback requirement under Metro Code, and a professionally rendered concept plan already in hand from Archilance LLC — showing a 14,640 SF building footprint with loading dock and a 60-foot open landscape buffer. That's not a napkin sketch. That's a head start.

The Zoning Story

IR (Industrial Restrictive) zoning in Nashville is purpose-built for light industrial uses at small to moderate scale within enclosed structures — and the permitted-by-right use list here is genuinely attractive for today's market. Light manufacturing, artisan production, microbrewery and craft distillery, research and development, and R&D service facilities are all on the table without a rezoning conversation. Warehouse and storage, medium manufacturing, and tank farm are available with conditions. Under Metro Code 17.16, accessory residential use of up to two units is also permissible with Zoning Administrator approval — opening the door to live/work or creative adaptive reuse scenarios.

The Urban Zoning Overlay (UZO), established in 2000 to protect and reinforce Nashville's pre-1950s urban development patterns, works in this site's favor. For IR-zoned properties, the UZO's primary effect is on street setback calculation — potentially reducing required setbacks along Booker Street based on the established development pattern of the corridor, effectively maximizing buildable area closer to the street. The RS5 component applies to a portion of the parcel and warrants a pre-contract conversation with Metro Planning to confirm how it interacts with the IR development scenario — but it does not preclude a viable industrial or mixed-use play on this site.

Perhaps most notably for a buyer running the numbers on site coverage and massing: the eastern boundary's direct adjacency to an operative railroad corridor eliminates the rear setback requirement on that side entirely under Metro Code. In an urban infill context where every foot of buildable depth matters, that's a meaningful advantage.

The Location Story

City Heights is no longer an emerging neighborhood — it's arrived. Bounded by Charlotte Pike, Herman Street, 16th Avenue North, and Interstate 440, this corridor sits at the geographic intersection of some of Nashville's most desirable urban destinations: The Gulch to the south, Midtown to the east, and downtown less than two miles away. Young professionals, creative businesses, boutique industrial tenants, and residential developers have all taken notice. New townhomes, infill single-family construction, and mixed-use projects are actively underway on adjacent and nearby parcels — visible in the drone photography accompanying this listing.

2305 Booker Street sits on the eastern edge of this momentum, with direct frontage on Booker Street, unobstructed Nashville skyline views to the north and east, and rail corridor buffer to the east that provides both a natural boundary and a development advantage. FEMA Flood Zone X designation confirms minimal flood hazard — no flood insurance requirement, no elevation certificate headache.

The Bottom Line

This is a shovel-ready IR land play with concept drawings in hand, favorable setback conditions on two boundaries, by-right use flexibility that suits today's most active development categories, and a location that is being actively transformed by private capital. The hard work of early-stage due diligence has been started. A serious buyer can move quickly.

Offered at $1,750,000.