NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Antioch’s Century Farm development has transformed South Nashville and brought new life to the community.
The original idea goes back nearly a decade when developers Bill Oldacre and Mark McDonald bought the property. Both are partners at Oldacre McDonald LLC. Their goal is to continue growing the property into a major Nashville development.
Antioch looked a lot different when they purchased the property. Many businesses closed their doors including the area’s biggest economic driver: Hickory Hollow Mall.
“The demise of the mall in Antioch wasn’t a condemnation of Antioch — retail just changed,” Oldacre said. “…We’re moving the heart of Antioch, or the heart of South Nashville, across from Hickory Hollow to Century Farms.”
In 2025, the area that had been a food and retail desert is a vibrant, growing community. Tanger Outlets Nashville, apartment complexes and more have helped pull Antioch out of that economic slump.
“We think we’ve laid a good foundation and listened to what the neighbors wanted,” McDonald said. “I think we’ve tried to deliver what they wanted.”
The property houses a mall with dozens of retail and restaurant sites, an operations center, an HCA Healthcare emergency room and medical plaza and more. Some of the most recently-announced additions to the property include PopStroke, Cava and First Watch.
“[The site] is forty percent built out right now and I think over the next four to five years we will be 100 percent built out,” McDonald said.
Century Farms is meant to not only improve access to food and retail, but make life in Antioch better for residents. McDonald spoke about how much effort toward that end had been put in the property.
“Look around and you’ll see quality signage [and] quality landscaping. All of that doesn’t happen by accident,” McDonald said. “That’s because we focused on all of those components to create a great place to live [and a] great place to work [and a] great place to shop.”
As one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Nashville, both Oldacre and McDonald said they are far from done with developing the project.
