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Business Activity
July 2015 - June 2016
Announcement
Date Company Name City of Location County of Location Expansion or Relocation Number of New Jobs FootageSquare Description of Operation P2020 Target Sector Country Origin
7/10/2015 Vanderbilt University Nashville Davidson Expansion 45,000
Vanderbilt University has more than double the space it occupies in one of Midtown's larger office buildings. Vanderbilt now leases 89,000 square feet, or 70 percent, of the Loews Vanderbilt Plaza. The office building, connected to a 340 room hotel, is across the street from the edge of
Vandy's campus. USA
7/14/2015 DE-STA-CO Mt. Juliet Wilson Relocation 245
DE-STA-CO officials announced today the company will consolidate several of its U.S. manufacturing operations by locating a new facility in Mount Juliet in an effort to better serve its North American and global customers. The Middle Tennessee facility, located at 210 Mundy Memorial Drive, will integrate product offerings and improve the company’s supply chain.
Advanced
Manufacturing USA
7/17/2015 HCA Nashville Davidson Expansion 200 120,000
HCA has leased 120,000 square feet of space at computer maker Dell's campus at Murfreesboro and Donelson pikes, where it plans to relocate 400 technology and back-office employees and add 200 jobs. Overall, HCA plans to bring roughly 700 new jobs to Davidson County in the next five
years. Health Care USA
7/24/2015 Amedisys Nashville Davidson Relocation 120
Amedisys officials announced today the company will open a new executive office in Nashville. Amedisys, a leading health care at home company, will invest $2.5 million and create approximately 120 new jobs in Davidson County over the next five years. The majority of Amedisys' executive team will be based in the Nashville office, which will be located in
Cummins Station. Health Care USA
7/30/2015 DayNine Nashville Davidson Relocation 200 30,000
San Francisco Bay area-based DayNine Consulting plans to open a Nashville office in October. The human resources and consulting firm has leased 30,000 square feet in dontown's Bank of America Plaza and bring 200 jobs here by the end of
2016. Corporate Operations USA
7/31/2014 TriWest Healthcare Alliance Nashville Davidson Relocation 300 40,000
TriWest Healthcare Alliance, a Phoenix-based company that arranges outsourced care for veterans has leased 40,000 square feet of space at an office building off Murfreesboro Pike where it plans to employ roughly 250 people. TriWest Healthcare Alliance plans to occupy the space at the 301
Center at 301 Plus Park Blvd. by mid-October. Health Care USA
8/4/2015 LPS Integration Brentwood Williamson Expansion 22,000
Nashville-based LPS Integration is moving its headquarters south to accommodate its rapid growth. The IT engineering firm has bought the nearly 22,000-square-foot building at 5300 Virginia Way in Brentwood for $4.1 million. LPS is currently based in about 14,000 square feet in Davidson County's MetroCenter. It now has 80 employees, and about
8/5/2015 Servpro Industries, Inc. Gallatin Sumner Expansion 204
Servpro Industries, Inc. officials announced today the company will expand its current operations in Gallatin. The cleaning and restoration services company will invest $738,000 and create 204 new jobs in Sumner County.
Corporate
Operations USA
8/11/2015 Ryder Supply Chain Solutions Spring Hill Maury Expansion 606 300,000
Ryder Supply Chain Solutions officials announced today the company will expand its warehousing, transportation, kitting and assembly operations in Spring Hill. The announcement represents an investment of $16.5 million and the creation of 606 new jobs in Maury County. Ryder will double its Spring Hill warehousing operations from 300,000 square feet to 600,000 square feet and increase its workforce from approximately 200 to more than 800 over the next five
years. Supply Chain USA
8/13/2015 Industrial Strength Marketing Nashville Davidson Expansion
Industrial Strength Marketing, which Wednesday was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies, is relocating its headquarters to Germantown, according to a news release. ISM will co-anchor The Warehouse Renovation at Fifth and Taylor, tripling the footprint of its current Brentwood facility. The agency has signed a seven-year lease for the space, which begins construction in October.
Corporate
Operations USA
8/17/2015 FirstBank Nashville Davidson Expansion
According to the FDIC’s website, FirstBank shifted it headquarters from Lexington to Nashville during the second quarter. Chris Holmes, FirstBank’s president and CEO, confirmed the decision. Nashville’s become the geographic center of our footprint,” Holmes said. “We have some form of operations in Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina. … We’ve positioned the company to thrive over the next several years and be a leading bank throughout the Southeast.” First Bank is looking for more officespace downtown.
Corporate
Operations USA
8/17/2015 Shareable Ink Nashville Davidson Expansion
Shareable Ink, which digitizes health care records (including handwritten notes from doctors), is moving to the OneCity development located just inside Interstate 440. Shareable Ink, which has 25 employees, will be moving out of its present location at Cummins Station in SoBro. Shareable Ink executives are trying to pin down the exact square footage the company needs in the coming months
Corporate
Operations USA
8/25/2015 Insight Global Inc. Nashville Davidson Expansion
Atlanta-based staffing services company Insight Global will nearly double its space in the move to Gulch Crossing from
the Maryland Farms office park area of Brentwood. Corporate Operations USA
8/25/2015 Nicol Investment Nashville Davidson Expansion 5,000
Nicol Investment will move into 5,000 square feet at Gulch Crossing. The real estate investment companiy currently occupies an executive suite at downtown's Fifth Third Center.
Corporate
Operations USA
8/25/2015 Thompson Research Group Nashville Davidson Expansion 2,500
Equity research firm Thompson Research Group will relocate from a small office where it has six employees working at the 2525 West End building to 2,500 square feet of space at
8/26/2015 East Nashville Beer Works Nashville Davidson Relocation 4,000 Anthony Davis will open East Nashville Beer Works in spring 2016 in a 4,000-square-foot space at 320 E. Trinity Lane. Advanced Manufacturing USA
8/27/2015 Lockton Companies Nashville Davidson Relocation
Lockton’s Nashville location in the Burton Hills development will be expansive, enabling Lockton to increase its personnel by 100 percent in its first year at Green Hills. The Burton Hills space also provides Lockton the capability to grow its workforce by an additional 75 percent in the years ahead. Lockton previously serviced clients from Regus Executive
Suites in Franklin, Tenn. since January 2015. Corporate Operations USA
9/2/2015 Stroudwater Associates Franklin Williamson Relocation
Stroudwater Associates is opening a Nashville-area office in Cool Springs this month. In a news release announcing the new location, the firm touts Nashville's rich health care ecosystem. The office is located at 1000 Corporate Center
Drive in Franklin. Corporate Operations USA
9/3/2015 F3 Nashville Davidson Expansion 20 60,000
Curt Christian, owner of F3, paid $1.85 million for five acres at 3634 Central Pike previously occupied by Hearthstone Cabinetry and other tenants. By early next year, the company — whose name stands for Function First Furniture — plans to create about 20 new jobs here by moving a warehouse operation from Los Angeles to several of the four buildings on the Hermitage property. Those buildings total 60,000 square feet of space. F3's headquarters previously occupied 2,500 square feet at downtown's CitySpace office building (formerly Tower at Renaissance) that's attached to the Renaissance Nashville Hotel on Commerce Street. In addition to 24 current corporate employees in Nashville, F3 employs roughly 22 people at a pair of warehouses in
Thomasville, N.C., that will remain in that city. Advanced Manufacturing USA
9/3/2015 ServisFirst Nashville Davidson Relocation 20 10,000
Birmingham's ServisFirst Bancshares (NASDAQ: SFBS) is expanding in Nashville. The commercial bank is converting its loan production office in Palmer Plaza to a traditional bank. Once open, it'll house more than 20 bankers. ServisFirst opened the office at 1801 West End Ave. in 2013. As of June 30, the Nashville office reached more than $200
million in loans. Corporate Operations USA
9/4/2015 CMA Nashville Davidson Expansion 27,000
The Country Music Association will have a new home in 2016. But it won’t be moving far. CMA announced Friday it plans to sign a decade-long lease for 27,000 square feet on the first and second floors at 35 Music Square East, a $31 million office building being constructed by Panattoni Development Co. The value of the lease was not disclosed, but as part of the deal, Panattoni will acquire CMA's current
9/9/2015 Arlington Family Offices Franklin Williamson Relocation
Alington Family Offices, a comprehensive investment and wealth management firm for high net worth families, has announced an expansion into the Nashville market with an office in Franklin, TN. The expansion comes as the result of a partnership with ETC Capital Management, LLC as of September 1, 2015. Arlington Family Offices, founded in 1998, has 38 employees dedicated to representing approximately 40 families with collective net worths in excess of $10 billion.
Corporate
Operations USA
9/9/2015 STR Hendersonville Sumner Expansion 125 35,000
An expansion at Hendersonville-based Smith Travel Research’s corporate headquarters means the global company is expected to add 125 new jobs, President Amanda Hite said on Wednesday. Hite joined STR, Inc. employees, Co-founder and Chairman Randy Smith, and local business and community leaders at a ground-breaking ceremony for a new 35,000-square-foot facility on the
company’s East Main Street campus. Corporate Operations USA
9/11/2015 Quorum Health Corp Brentwood Williamson Expansion 40,000
Quorum Health Corp., the publicly traded company spinning out of Community Health Systems, has chosen Williamson County for its headquarters. According to an internal email announcement obtained by the Nashville Business Journal:"The new company's corporate offices will be located in a building currently under construction in the Mallory Park development, which is in the city of Brentwood on the west side of I-65, just north of Moores Lane." Details forthcoming.
Health Care USA
9/15/2015 Creative Occasions Nashville Davidson Expansion 76
Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd along with Creative Occasions officials today announced the company will invest $4 million in new capital equipment at its Nashville location. Through this expansion, Creative Occasions, a division of Maplehurst Bakeries, LLC, will create up to 76 new full-time
jobs in Davidson County Advanced Manufacturing USA
9/17/2015 Uber Technologies, Inc. Nashville Davidson Expansion 2,000
Uber Technologies Inc. has signed a small office lease in a mixed-use redevelopment at 1318-1326 Sixth Ave. N. The developer of that project is Nashville-based Priam Ventures. Uber's space is said to be about 2,000 square feet. "We're excited about our new Partner Support Center in Germantown and think it'll be a valuable new resource for our driver partners, as well as great place to host events and engage more directly with the Nashville community," Luke Marklin, general manager of Uber Nashville, said in a
9/17/2015 Kyowa America Corporation Portland Robertson Expansion 35 75,000
Portland-based auto parts maker announced on Thursday it plans to double its facility and invest $8 million. Kyowa America Corporation is expanding its Portland facility by 75,000 square feet and will hire another 35 people for a total of 465 employees, company leaders said on Aug. 17. Kyowa’s current facility is 85,000 square feet and employs 430 people. The Portland site houses a factory and the
company’s U.S. headquarters. Advanced Manufacturing Japan
9/22/2015 IronHorse Capital Management Nashville Davidson Relocation
Memphis investment firm, IronHorse Capital Management, circles, is moving its corporate headquarters west to Nashville. IronHorse Capital Management has set up shop at 3102 West End Ave. after six years in Memphis, according to a news release. The firm manages around $35 million in assets, according to its website, and also launched a mutual
fund last year. Corporate Operations USA
9/28/2015 Lyft Nashville Davidson Relocation 380
Peer-to-peer ridesharing company Lyft announced today that it will locate a new regional headquarters in downtown Nashville at 150 2nd Avenue in the Sash and Door building. The San Francisco-based mobile app and transportation company will invest $5.1 million and create 380 new jobs in
Davidson County. Corporate Operations USA
9/28/2015 Industrious Nashville Davidson Relocation 18,000
Chicago-based coworking space, Industrious, is leasing about 18,000 square feet in Gulch Crossing. The office building is the city's first in the past six years, and it's setting records for office rent, commanding $37 or more per square foot. With the addition of Industrious, Gulch Crossing now is 86 percent leased.
Corporate
Operations USA
9/30/2015 Vanderbilt University #2 Nashville Davidson Expansion 21,000
Vanderbilt will take up 21,000 additional square feet of space at the 2525 West End mixed-use building, expanding its overall footprint beyond 60 percent. With that move, Vanderbilt will have 231,295 square feet of overall office space in the Midtown building.
Corporate
Operations USA
9/30/2015 Conn's HomePlus La Vergne Rutherford Relocation 100 300,000
Conn’s, Inc., the Houston-based furniture and specialty home goods retailer, will build a new distribution center in La Vergne, Tenn., slated to open in summer 2016. The new facility will add an expected 100 jobs to the local economy and is an investment of an estimated $17 million. Conn’s officials made the announcement today with La Vergne Mayor Dennis Waldron. The new 300,000 square foot distribution center at CentrePointe Distribution Park in La
9/30/2015 LeanKit Nashville Davidson Expansion
Project management company LeanKit announced Wednesday it has acquired Firefly Logic, a local custom software development company. Through the deal, terms of which were not disclosed, Nashville-based LeanKit will use Firefly Logic's software services to scale its product development teams. LeanKit will add Firefly Logic's 11 employees to its team, bringing the company to about 100 employees. The company, which names companies such as IBM, Microsoft and Verizon as clients, recently landed $16 million in capital investment from New York-based Insight
Venture Partners. Corporate Operations USA
10/1/2015 Franklin Synergy Franklin Williamson Expansion 16,800
The leaders of Franklin Synergy Bank last week signed documents to expand their home office in downtown Franklin, marking the latest in a series of expansions at the headquarters that opened its doors in May 2010. Franklin Synergy has contracted with Century Skanska for the design and construction of the addition, which will measure nearly 16,800 square feet and cost $1.2 million. Nashville-based Crossroads Architecture has handled the project’s initial
design. Corporate Operations USA
10/14/2015 Lampo Group Franklin Williamson Expansion 398 650,000
Radio personality Dave Ramsey's company, Lampo Group, announced plans to invest $58 million to consolidate and expand its operations into a new 47-acre Berry Farms corporate campus. The city of Franklin voted to provide incentives for the company to create 398 new full-time jobs in Williamson County by 2020.
Corporate
Operations USA
10/14/2015 L-3 ForceX Nashville Davidson Expansion
A large prime contractor to the U.S. armed forces has acquired fast-growing local intelligence, security and reconnaissance software developer ForceX for an undisclosed sum. Executives with New York City-based L-3 Communications say ForceX will generate about $30 million to its top line in 2016 and immediately add to L-3’s profits. Through the first half of this year, L-3 posted a profit of $225
million on sales of $5.5 billion. Corporate Operations USA
10/14/2015 Lee Co. Franklin Williamson Expansion 100,000
Lee Co., a Franklin-based mechanical contractor, plans to have a 100,000-square-foot office building developed on land within Berry Farms. The company paid $3.16 million for the site, accordingly to a newly filed property deed. With a local headcount of 750, Lee Co. ranks as one of the 15
largest employers in Williamson County. Corporate Operations USA
10/19/2015 AMI Metals Brentwood Williamson Expansion
Brentwood metals company, AMI Metals, has won a large contract to suppy defense giant Lockheed Martin with aluminum parts for the F-35 aircraft. he Lockheed Martin deal is for five years and is worth an estimated $300 million.
Advanced
10/22/2015 CarePayment Nashville Davidson Relocation 5
Portland, Ore.-based CarePayment is opening a Nashville office. The company provides financing tools to patients and health care providers. CarePayment will base its revenue-generating functions in the Nashville office. In addition to
Caldwell, the office will open with about five employees. Health Care USA
10/22/2015 Intermedix Nashville Davidson Relocation 116 37,000
Intermedix Corporation officials announced the company will locate new operations in Nashville. Intermedix, a provider of analytics and technology-enabled solutions for global health and safety, will invest in an innovation lab and executive offices and create 116 new jobs in Davidson County.
Corporate
Operations USA
10/26/2015 Tennessee Baptist Convention Franklin Williamson Expansion 32,000
Construction should begin in March on the executive board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention's new $8.5 million headquarters at Berry Farms. The 32,000-square-foot church support center will be built on 2.3 acres, which the organization that serves a network of 3,000 Baptist churches statewide just bought for roughly $1.15 million. Upon completion by spring 2017, the new space will house roughly 60 Tennessee Baptist Convention executive board employees who are working out of temporary space at LifePoint Health's Hospital Support Center in Brentwood. OVerall, the board has roughly 100 employees.
Corporate
Operations USA
10/27/2015 Triangle Tire Group Franklin Williamson Relocation 3,150
Triangle Tire Group, a major Chinese tiremaker, is planning to open its North American headquarters in Franklin. The executive team for Triangle Tire North America LLC will occupy a roughly 3,150-square-foot space at the Dover Centre office complex in Cool Springs. The handful of executive roles will include positions overseeing marketing, sales, engineering, finance and customer service.
Advanced
Manufacturing China
11/3/2015 Wonderful Group Lebanon Wilson Relocation 220 500,000
Wonderful Group officials announced today the company has selected Lebanon as the site of its first U.S. operations. In an effort to expand its presence in the world market, Wonderful Group will invest $150 million in the Lebanon
facility and create 220 new jobs in Wilson County. Advanced Manufacturing China
11/10/2015 Sinomax Group La Vergne Davidson Relocation 350 505,500
Foam products maker and distributor Sinomax Group plans to invest $28 million to open its first North American plant in La Vergne, which will create 350 jobs. The 505,500-square-foot operation is expected to open in June at the renovated former Whirlpool site on Hennessy Drive on the Davidson County side of La Vergne.
Advanced Manufacturing
Hong Kong
11/16/2015 Akebono Brake Corp. Clarksville Montgomery Expansion 80
Akebono Brake, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd., a global provider of advanced noise, vibration and harshness and braking solutions to the world’s automotive industry, will move forward on a $48.4 million expansion of its Clarksville location. In the company’s third expansion since acquiring the Robert Bosch LLC plant in 2010, Akebono will add65 to 80 jobs to the community over the next three to four years, bringing the manufacturer’s total workforce to 600-plus, said the local Economic
Development Council. Advanced Manufacturing Japan
11/15/2015 Esquire Wire Inc. Clarksville Montgomery Expansion 60
Esquire Wire, a Tennessee-based wire harness manufacturer that serves various industries, including lighting and appliances, recieved approval for a PILOT from the Clarksivlle- Montgomery County IDB. With a PILOT representing a 45 percent tax abatement savings, officials said, Esquire Wire will invest nearly $1.8 million in its 2624 Madison St.
location and create 60 jobs. Advanced Manufacturing USA
11/18/2015 Sleep Solutions and Services, LLC Columbia Maury Relocation 137
Sleep Solutions and Services, LLC (S3) officials announced today the company will locate new call center operations in Columbia. S3, a medical software and support company specializing in respiratory services, will invest $3.6 million
and create 137 new jobs in Maury County. Health Care USA
11/18/2015 Microsoft Nashville Davidson Expansion 13,300
Microsoft Corp announced that it will move its regional office from the Meridian development in Cool Springs to the new OneCity Development in Nashville. Microsoft is slated to occupy in summer 2016 13,300 square feet of space at 8
City Blvd., according to a release. Corporate Operations USA
11/18/2015 Google Fiber Nashville Davidson Expansion 17,000
Google Fiber has settled on leasing space above Kayne Prime restaurant in the Gulch for its main Nashville office. Interior demolition is underway on the 17,000 square foot second floor of the building at 1101 McGavock St. That space, previously occupied by marketing software company Raven, is expected to house a call center among other local operations for the high-speed Internet and TV service
division of technology giant Google. Corporate Operations USA
