March 30, 2012 The Tennessean by Kevin Walters FRANKLIN – Brentwood-based Video Gaming Technologies, Inc. is opening a technology center in Cool Springs later this year. VGT, which makes gaming machines found in casinos, is consolidating its operation in Williamson County to help support “VGT’s future growth strategy”, the company said in a statement. The… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: March 2012
Where the Hiring Is Strongest
March, 29, 2012 New York Times By MOTOKO RICH Hiring started to pick up toward the end of last year, but you might be surprised to learn which cities were strongest in job creation. A survey released by Gallup on Thursday showed that Oklahoma City led the 50 largest United States metropolitan areas last year in the pollster’s… Read more »
New Cool Springs office space targets expansions, relocations
March 26, 2012 The Tennessean by Josh Adams FRANKLIN — One of the statistics that flatter the economy in Williamson County also has the potential to result in missed opportunities. A stunningly low volume of office space — approximately 5 percent — is all that sits dormant here, which speaks to how desirable a location… Read more »
NBJ: Where have paychecks grown fastest in Tennessee?
March 20, 2012 Nashville Business Journal by Eric Snyder Much has changed in Tennessee since 1980. At the time, the state’s population stood at just under 4.6 million. Today, that number is over 6 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 1980, several Tennessee counties had average annual wages in the $10,000 range. Such was… Read more »
Jackson National Life Insurance expanding Cool Springs operations
March 20, 2012 Nashville Business Journal by Chris Silva READ PRESS RELEASE Jackson National Life Insurance Co. is opening an information technology center at its regional headquarters in Franklin. The company is looking to fill 20 programming positions to get the center off the ground, and also plans to move about 30 IT employees here from… Read more »
More researchers converge at Cool Springs Life Sciences Center
March 20, 2012 The Tennessean by Getahn Ward Genetics diagnostics firm is latest to move into center Genetic diagnostics firm NextGxDx has subleased 2,000 square feet of space at the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center, filling up part of the space left vacant after a corporate downsizing by BioMimetic Therapeutics Inc. earlier this year. The… Read more »
Crescent Resources Starts Design of Two Greenway Centre
March 19, 2012 by Crescent Resources Given the positive market dynamics and the low vacancy rates in Cool Springs, Crescent Resources has started design of Two Greenway Centre, a Class A office building in Franklin, Tenn. One Greenway Centre was completed last year, and Jackson National Life leased 100 percent of that building. “We own 60 acres in Cool… Read more »
Battle Ground Academy eighth-graders dream up auto recharging system
March 13, 2012 The Tennessean by Maria Giordano BGA duo will compete for $10,000 scholarship FRANKLIN – In the future, people who need to charge their electric vehicles quickly may be relying on a device conceptualized by Battle Ground Academy students Xavier Vilar-Brasser and Will Crawford. The eighth-graders’ big idea won them first place, in their region,… Read more »
Boyle aims to expand Synergy Business Park
Commercial real estate professionals will tell you there’s no better example of mixed-used suburban development in Middle Tennessee than Boyle Investment Co.’s Meridian Cool Springs. The office park has 800,000 square feet of top-tier Class A office space, upscale retail stores, a variety of restaurants and two hotels. Now, Memphis-based Boyle wants to recreate that… Read more »
Vanderbilt University expanding research enterprise into Williamson County
With the addition of a new 18,000-square-foot laboratory to be located within the Cool Springs Life Sciences Center, Vanderbilt University is expanding its research enterprise into Williamson County. The new $7.6 million laboratory will house growth necessary to the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD). Currently operating in Medical Research Building IV and Light… Read more »