What's Being Built at June Lake Right Now

For years, June Lake was mostly grading, roadbeds, and artist renderings. This fall, you can see the change from Buckner Lane: finished houses, townhome shells going up, and the first commercial buildings rising at the corner of Buckner and June Lake Boulevard.

That corner is where the story starts. Around it, the rest of the development is sorting into three layers — places that are already open, places with walls going up right now, and places that are approved on paper but still waiting on sewer capacity before anyone can turn on the lights. For the longer living history of roads, trails, and older milestones, see What's actually getting built at June Lake.

Aerial view of June Lake near Buckner Lane June Lake looking toward Buckner Lane. Photo: Southeast Venture / June Lake, March 2026

At Buckner and June Lake Boulevard

The first commercial district sits on the northeast side of that intersection — the same stretch of June Lake Boulevard that will someday face the planned Hy-Vee site across the street. Site work for the district is finished. The buildings themselves are the new part.

Liberty Federal Credit Union is building a standalone branch on the Buckner frontage. The city issued a building permit in late August, and the credit union is aiming for summer 2027. It is the first bank branch inside June Lake.

District rendering used with the Liberty Federal announcement Rendering: Southeast Venture / June Lake

A short walk east along June Lake Boulevard, Heartland Dental is under construction at 3030 June Lake Boulevard — about 5,000 square feet with more than a dozen exam rooms. Its building permit came in mid-August. When it opens, it will be the first healthcare office in the development (developer announcement).

Heartland Dental conceptual rendering Rendering: Southeast Venture / June Lake

Next door, the June Lake Collective has permits for two single-story buildings totaling about 16,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. The developer is pre-leasing for a summer 2027 opening, but has not named tenants yet. Restaurant space in the project is capped at about 9,000 square feet under the city's sewer rules (developer announcement).

June Lake Collective corner rendering Rendering: Southeast Venture / June Lake

Farther east still, Image Studios is fitting out a salon-suite building of roughly 7,700 square feet. Plumbing and mechanical work shows up in the city's July records; the franchise site still lists the location as coming soon.

Image Studios site rendering Rendering: Southeast Venture / June Lake

One announced piece at the same corner has not started. The Goddard School, a planned childcare building of about 13,800 square feet, was pitched for a summer 2025 groundbreaking. As of early November 2026, it does not appear in the city's June through August building reports, and Goddard's school finder still has no Spring Hill listing. The developer's August update groups it with projects "moving toward breaking ground" — announced, not under construction.

Goddard School elevation rendering Rendering: Southeast Venture / June Lake

If you live nearby, this stretch is where construction traffic and delivery trucks will concentrate for the next year. If you are waiting for a place to grab dinner or get a haircut without leaving June Lake, Collective and Image Studios are the ones to watch — once tenants and opening dates firm up.

North of the boulevard: houses and townhomes

Cross June Lake Boulevard and you are in Saddlewalk, Signature Homes' first neighborhood — roughly 400 single-family homes and townhomes, plus an amenity center, on the north side of the development.

That is where most of the new houses are going up. The builder's August update said one section was sold out with closings through late summer, move-ins had started in another, and the first townhome buildings were framing — with about ten more scheduled to start through the fall. Three model openings were planned for October.

City records back that up. In the August 2026 building report, Spring Hill issued about two dozen new residential permits labeled Saddlewalk or June Lake, on streets including Marston Avenue, Saint Clair Avenue, Sage Street, Lotus Lane, and Buckner Lane. Construction valuations on those permits ran from the high $380,000s on the smaller townhome lots into the $900,000s on larger singles. July's report shows more of the same on Marston and Saint Clair.

Signature advertises Saddlewalk from roughly the upper $500,000s for smaller cottage plans into the $690,000–$1.38 million range for the main single-family series. A local market write-up of recent closings put the median around $857,000 (Matt Bogosian, Aug. 2026; Signature Homes). Those numbers move with lot premiums and options — useful as a range, not a quote.

In the records we checked, Signature is the production builder doing the volume here. Tudor Homes handles the smaller Preserve pocket nearby; the big national production names do not show up on June Lake residential permits.

The townhomes deserve a closer look, because that is also where sewer capacity starts to bite. Framing is underway in the eastern townhome section of Saddlewalk. One later phase of that same area has 75 lots on the books, but city staff told the Board of Mayor and Aldermen that wastewater capacity is allocated for only 14 of them — 61 lots have none yet. On Nov. 2, the board let Signature finish underground infrastructure and pursue final platting of all 75 at its own risk, with no promise those 61 can connect until the city allocates capacity later (staff memo; Tennessee Record).

If you are shopping a Saddlewalk lot, that distinction matters: a platted lot is not the same as a lot that can get a sewer connection.

Already open, and still waiting

Along Buckner Lane north of the commercial corner, Solstice at June Lake is already finished — 227 apartments, open and leasing. The summer update put the complex on the Street Food Finder food-truck rotation. It is rental housing, not the for-sale townhomes going up a few streets over.

Southwest of the boulevard, near Buckner and Twin Lakes, The Preserve is a quieter pocket: 28 custom single-family homes of about 3,000 to 3,500 square feet, built by Tudor Homes. Framing there started years ago; city records still show work on streets such as Mitford Lane. It is not the high-volume push — that remains Saddlewalk.

South of June Lake Boulevard, toward Summit High School and Spring Station Middle, Signature's next neighborhood is Windfall — about 400 homes on roughly 120 acres, with a collector road that will eventually tie into Spring Station Drive. Homes are not in the August permit surge the way Saddlewalk is. The same Nov. 2 board discussion that covered the townhome lots also covered an at-risk agreement so Signature can build Windfall's underground utilities and roads without a sewer-capacity guarantee (meeting recap).

Lifestyle Communities, which announced 509 rental units for June Lake in 2025, remains on the books but paused for sewer capacity, per the summer update.

Sewer is the quiet through-line. Spring Hill is under a moratorium while it builds a new treatment plant. Builders can still dig and pave at their own risk. They cannot promise a connection — or a move-in date that depends on one — until the city allocates capacity.

What that adds up to this fall

This fall, June Lake looks like a place under construction — not only a place on a brochure. The commercial corner at Buckner and June Lake Boulevard has real buildings going vertical. Saddlewalk is still the active homebuilder neighborhood. Solstice is open. Goddard, Hy-Vee, Collective's restaurant tenants, and Windfall's first houses are the ones still waiting on a permit, a lease, or a sewer allocation.

I'll keep the June Lake development tracker current as those records change.