Three Hundred Seventeen Acres Off Benders Ferry, and a Five-Year Clock
Benders Ferry Road has spent most of its life as the quiet way to the lake. That is changing on a specific, published schedule.
John Wieland Homes, a PulteGroup brand, has announced the grand opening of Treymor — a planned community of 349 single-family homes spread across 317 acres off Benders Ferry, out toward the Mays Chapel and Liberty Chapel Road area. It is one of the largest residential plans Mt. Juliet has taken on in one piece.
The numbers, plainly
The Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners approved the planned unit development in May 2023. The build-out is structured in six phases across roughly five years, which is the detail most worth holding onto: this is not a neighborhood that appears, it is a neighborhood that arrives in installments, with construction traffic and a moving finish line.
Three floor plans are published — the Mystique at 2,747 square feet, the Palmary at 2,691, and the Prestige at 2,649 — with pricing starting in the neighborhood of $650,000. The amenity package is the current standard for a community this size: a resort-style pool with cabanas, an outdoor grilling area and fire pit, a pocket park and playground, a dog park, a pickleball court, and walking and jogging trails.
Anyone shopping should confirm current availability and pricing directly with the builder. On a six-phase plan, the lot list and the price sheet both move.
Why here, and why now
The location explains most of it. Treymor sits within a short drive of Providence Marketplace on one side and Old Hickory Lake on the other — retail and water, which is roughly the whole Mt. Juliet value proposition compressed into one sentence.
The timing is the more interesting half. Wilson County has been absorbing Nashville's outward pressure for two decades, and the infrastructure has been catching up in visible chunks. The city signed off on the Central Pike interchange just last week. Road capacity and rooftops tend to arrive in the same conversation, and lately they have been arriving in the same month.
What 349 households actually means
It is worth doing the arithmetic rather than just reading the number. Three hundred forty-nine homes is, very roughly, somewhere near a thousand more people on this side of town once the last phase closes — a meaningful share of a city whose population sits in the mid-forty-thousands.
That lands on schools, on the Benders Ferry corridor, and on every intersection between there and I-40. It also lands on the tax base, on the case for the next grocery anchor, and on whether the restaurants that have been filling in centers like Everette Downs keep finding the demand to justify it.
Five years is a long clock. But the first phase is the one that sets the tone, and it starts now.
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