Four new businesses have signed leases to enter Westhaven Town Center, the growing commercial village of Southern Land Co.'s Westhaven community.

Artistry Salon & Day Spa, Jimmy's Custom Cleaners & Alterations, Town Center Chiropractic and Healthclick will open in the town center. Each of these businesses is owned and operated by a Westhaven residents who say they were lured to the community because of the town center.

Doug Wright will have something on his résumé that most of his college-age peers most likely can't match.

The 20-year-old civil engineering student designed the 13th hole at Westhaven Golf Club, which is under construction in the Franklin mixed-use development. He did so after winning an amateur golf-design contest presented by Links magazine.

Nashville-based Southern Land Co. has entered the world of corporate blogging in a different way.

The company has hired a reporter to write about the real estate market and housing trends on a separate Web site from its own. The site address is www.whatsforreal.com.

FRANKLIN —A Clarksville man won a $650,000 home in Westhaven on Sunday, helping Southern Land Co. and media partners WZTV-Channel 17 and WSIX-FM raise $1.6 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a new fundraising record.

This is the fourth year that St. Jude has operated a campaign in Middle Tennessee and the fourth year that a Westhaven home has been the grand prize. According to a press release from the Memphis hospital, the volunteers' and community sponsors' participation and amount of money raised are unprecedented on a national scale.

In their 30 years of marriage, Julie Tarrents has always had more of a knack for winning tickets than husband David.

But that changed Sunday when David's $100 ticket purchased online was drawn as the winner of the Nashville St. Jude Dream Home contest. 

The Clarksville couple won a new home valued at $650,000 in the Westhaven community of Franklin.

The Westhaven Realty sales team moved into their new offices in the Westhaven Town Center on June 18th. Located at 1001 Westhaven Blvd., Suite 100, just a few steps from the Vanderbilt Medical Group Offices and The Spectacle Shoppe, the new office is up and operational! Be sure to stop by on your next visit to Westhaven!

Tickets are still available for a chance at winning the St. Jude’s Dream House constructed in honor of Murfreesboro resident Ally Cameron.

The goal of the 2008 St. Jude Dream Home campaign is to raise $1.6 million for the internationally known research hospital dedicated to finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.

There is still time to purchase a ticket for a chance to win the St. Jude Dream Home, which will be given away Sunday. The four-bedroom home is in Westhaven and is valued at approximately $650,000.

Fewer than 2,000 tickets remain for the Middle Tennessee Dream Home — one of 34 in the country — to raise $1.6 million for the children's hospital, making it the nation's largest Dream Home campaign to date.

A new retirement community aimed at the music industry is planned for Westhaven Town Center in Franklin to provide a community for musicians and entertainers in their senior years.

Blakeford Development Services Inc. will build and manage the community, which will have independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing beds.

Time is winding down and tickets are running out for your chance to win a more than half-million dollar home in Franklin.

It's the final full-weekend before the 2008 Saint Jude Dream Home Giveaway.

Tickets still remain - they are 100-dollars each.