$304,900

226 Dry Creek Commons Dr in Goodlettsville is a new-construction three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath townhome where the primary suite has the front of the upstairs to itself, so a five o'clock alarm and a midnight movie can live under one roof and never meet. A hallway and the second full bath sit between them. At eleven the movie is still running in a back bedroom and the primary door at the front of the house is already shut, the whole hallway between, and the alarm will go off at five on the far side of all of it. Downstairs is one open room from the front door to the kitchen, and the island has no sink in it, so at seven on a weeknight it is the table: the back door open to the private fenced patio, elbows on cool white quartz, the smell of dinner climbing the stairs before anyone has to be called. On Saturday the patio is the second room: fenced in and private, the chairs and the cooler pulled from the exterior storage room, the evening running long because nobody is walking through it. The community's fenced dog park and fenced playground come with the address, and so does what is happening a few minutes up the road, where the former RiverGate Mall is being cleared for about $450 million in announced plans: more than 100,000 square feet of retail and dining, a hotel and a central green and plaza. Downtown Nashville is about 20 minutes, and new townhomes in this part of Goodlettsville list at roughly half the price per square foot of new townhomes inside the loop. Upstairs, three doors and three different clocks. Downstairs, one island, and by nine o'clock nobody is anywhere else.