Building places that hold their value in East Tennessee.

Legends Development Partners is a Knoxville-based land development and investment company. We find ground across East Tennessee, take it from raw to ready to build, and either build and hold it ourselves or place it with a capital partner.

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Smoky Mountain Flats, Sevierville

What we do

Three things, done all the way through.

We are the developer, the owner and the accountant in one company, which means the decisions made early are made by the people who live with them later.

Land and Entitlement

Acquisition, zoning, engineering and site work. We take raw ground through approvals and infrastructure to a site that is ready to build.

Multifamily Development

Ground-up rental communities from site assembly through entitlement, financing and delivery, including workforce and affordable housing.

Ownership and Partnership

We hold and operate part of what we develop, and we place the rest with capital partners. Either way the reporting and the accounting are handled by the people who underwrote the deal.

Featured project

Smoky Mountain Flats

A riverfront rental community in Sevierville, developed, built and held by Legends.

LocationSevierville, TN

TypeMultifamily

StatusDelivering

Balcony overlooking the river at Smoky Mountain Flats

Kitchen with island and stainless appliances

How it goes

Raw ground to a performing asset.

The same company carries a site the whole way, from the first title search to the monthly operating statement, so nothing gets lost in a handoff.

Aerial view of a development site before construction

First

The ground

Acquisition and entitlement. We buy for what a site can actually carry, not what a pro forma wishes it would.

Then

The work

Engineering, site work and vertical construction, run against a budget the accounting team sees every week.

Completed interior at Smoky Mountain Flats

Finally

The asset

Delivered, leased and reported on every month, long after the last certificate of occupancy.

Selling land in East Tennessee?

We buy ground directly and we can move without a financing contingency. Tell us where it is and what you are looking for.

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