For 46 years, children with life-threatening illnesses have arrived at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, hoping for a cure. The hospital does its work quietly, day in and day out, not only finding new ways to treat diseases, such as leukemia, but also finding new methods to fund the treatments that insurance won't cover.

One of the most popular fundraisers for the hospital takes place this year in the Westhaven community of Franklin, where a $700,000 home will be raffled with virtually all proceeds going to fund lifesaving research at St. Jude.

Take a tour of seven private gardens in the Westhaven neighborhood Friday through May 18 with the third annual Courtyard Garden Tour.

And while you're in the neighborhood, stop in this year's St. Jude Dream Home, where tours open to the public that weekend as well.

Tickets for the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway are on sale now. Almost 5,000 tickets have already been sold to win the St. Jude Dream Home¨ house built by Southern Land Company in the Westhaven Community!

Tickets are available at Nashville area Regions Bank locations, American Signature Furniture and the Westhaven Residents’ Club. For more information about the St. Jude Dream Home giveaway or to reserve a ticket with a major credit card, call 1-800-746-6713 or visit www.stjudedreamhome.org.

This campaign is about doing something good. It's about looking cancer and other horrible diseases in the eye and staring them down. It's about sacrifice and the enlightenment that accompanies helping someone that you may never even know.

With less than three weeks to go, time to purchase early bird tickets is running out to win the St. Jude Dream Home house built by Southern Land Company in the Westhaven community.

Almost 5,000 tickets have already been sold and those who reserve their ticket before April 15 will be entered to win the early bird prize of $2,500 worth of groceries courtesy of Stites & Harbison.

In this edition of the NAI Nashville Market Report podcast, I spoke with Timothy Downey the President and CEO of the Southern Land Company about their new mixed-use development in the Cool Springs area called McEwen.

Radio Interview with Vince and Amy about the 2008 St. Jude Dream Home campaign.

As often happens, Vince Gill and Amy Grant's day jobs merged with their passion for charity on Friday night as they marked their second year as co-chairs of the 2008 St. Jude Dream Home giveaway.

FRANKLIN — The St. Jude Dream Home campaign will kick off ticket sales for a $650,000 Westhaven home with a free launch party next week, featuring three Nashville musicians as special guests.

Melinda Doolittle – a former American Idol finalist and Belmont alumnus – will perform at the event at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22 at the Factory at Franklin. Vince Gill and Amy Grant, the campaign's co-chairs for the second consecutive year, are also expected to sing a song or two.

On February 4, Southern Exposure Magazine and Franklinis.com held a banquet for all of the 2007 Sizzle Award finalists. Southern Land Company was voted Best Builder/Developer in Williamson County for the second year in a row. With the amount of growth and development in this county, it is a huge honor to be named the best.