Knoxville Gets Its Own ‘Music Row’

Knoxville Habitat for Humanity and the Charlie and Moll Anderson Family Foundation are teaming up with country artists to build a “Music Row” in Knoxville. Only this Music Row provides local families with simple, decent and affordable housing. Yesterday, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn participated in the dedication of the “Brooks & Dunn” house, the first of the Music Row houses made possible by the Charlie and Moll Anderson Family Foundation. The home is located on LeFlore Ave. in the Lonsdale community. Each year over the next 10 years, Habitat plans to build a home on that road with the help of the Charlie and Moll Anderson Foundation and benefit concerts from various artists. The next home will be dedicated to Martina McBride, who performed a benefit concert last year. In lieu of a down payment, all Habitat homeowners are required to complete 500 hours of sweat equity, mostly in the form of budgeting and homeowner classes. In addition, the family pays a mortgage on the home that is at zero-percent over 25 to 30 years.