FOR DISTRIBUTION Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Partnership 2020 Business Activity July 2015 - June 2016 Announcement Date Company Name City of Location County of Location Expansion or Relocation Number of New Jobs Square Footage Description of Operation P2020 Target Sector 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 7/10/2015 Vanderbilt University Nashville Davidson Expansion 45,000 Vandy's campus. Country Origin 7/14/2015 DE-STA-CO Mt. Juliet Wilson Relocation 245 7/17/2015 HCA Nashville Davidson Expansion 200 120,000 7/24/2015 Amedisys Nashville Davidson Relocation 120 7/30/2015 DayNine Nashville Davidson Relocation 200 30,000 7/31/2014 TriWest Healthcare Alliance Nashville Davidson Relocation 300 40,000 8/4/2015 LPS Integration Brentwood Williamson Expansion 22,000 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 25 contract workers.
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. 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 8/13/2015 Industrial Strength Marketing Nashville Davidson Expansion 8/17/2015 FirstBank Nashville Davidson Expansion 8/17/2015 Shareable Ink 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. 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. 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 8/25/2015 Insight Global Inc. Nashville Davidson Expansion 8/25/2015 Nicol Investment Nashville Davidson Expansion 5,000 8/25/2015 Thompson Research Group Nashville Davidson Expansion 2,500 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. 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. 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 Gulch Crossing.
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. 8/27/2015 Lockton Companies Nashville Davidson Relocation 9/2/2015 Stroudwater Associates Franklin Williamson 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. 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 Center Drive in Franklin. 9/3/2015 F3 Nashville Davidson Expansion 20 60,000 9/3/2015 ServisFirst Nashville Davidson Relocation 20 10,000 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. 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. 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 building right down the street on One Music Circle South. Music and Entertainment
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. 9/9/2015 STR Hendersonville Sumner Expansion 125 35,000 9/11/2015 Quorum Health Corp Brentwood Williamson Expansion 40,000 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. 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 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 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 statement.
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. Japan 9/22/2015 IronHorse Capital Management Nashville Davidson Relocation 9/28/2015 Lyft Nashville Davidson Relocation 380 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. 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. 9/28/2015 Industrious Nashville Davidson Relocation 18,000 9/30/2015 Vanderbilt University #2 Nashville Davidson Expansion 21,000 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. 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. 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 Vergne reflects Conn s continued growth and expansion Supply Chain
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. 10/1/2015 Franklin Synergy Franklin Williamson Expansion 16,800 10/14/2015 Lampo Group Franklin Williamson Expansion 398 650,000 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
10/22/2015 CarePayment Nashville Davidson Relocation 5 10/22/2015 Intermedix Nashville Davidson Relocation 116 37,000 Portland, Ore.-based CarePayment is opening a Nashville office. The company provides financing tools to patients and health care providers. CarePayment will base its revenuegenerating functions in the Nashville office. In addition to Caldwell, the office will open with about five employees. Health Care 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. 10/26/2015 Tennessee Baptist Convention Franklin Williamson Expansion 32,000 10/27/2015 Triangle Tire Group Franklin Williamson Relocation 3,150 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. 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. 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. 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-squarefoot operation is expected to open in June at the renovated former Whirlpool site on Hennessy Drive on the Davidson County side of La Vergne. Hong Kong
11/16/2015 Akebono Brake Corp. Clarksville Montgomery Expansion 80 11/15/2015 Esquire Wire Inc. Clarksville Montgomery Expansion 60 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. 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. Japan 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 11/18/2015 Microsoft Nashville Davidson Expansion 13,300 11/18/2015 Google Fiber Nashville Davidson Expansion 17,000 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. 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. TOTAL 49 3,997 3,031,250