Companies Continue to Relocate to 10-County Area
Published May 23, 2008
Between July 1, 2006, and June 30, 2007, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce successfully aided 43 relocations and 34 expansion projects that absorbed 4 million square feet of new space, added $900 million in new capital investment to the area and contributed to the Nashville area’s net gain of 19,386 jobs.
Back Yard Burgers is now located here, and so are Wilson Sporting Goods and The Little Clinic. Oreck calls the Nashville area home, as does Sanderson Pipe and ZOI Interactive Technologies. And the list continues to grow.
“We moved here because Nashville is in a centralized United States location, plus it has a moderate cost of living,” says Dr. Gregory Mutsch, executive director of business administration for Accelerated Christian Education.
Accelerated Christian Education was headquartered in Tampa, Fla., prior to its move to Nashville in 2007. The company writes, designs and produces elementary through high school curriculum for private Christian schools and home schools throughout the world. The group’s published teaching materials are now in 7,000 K-12 Christian schools in 139 countries, and are studied by approximately 1 million students.
“We are currently housed in temporary facilities just outside of Nashville [Madison], but are looking for property so that we can move our other distribution center in Dallas to Nashville – plus eventually construct a four-year college here,” Mutsch says.
“We want property in metropolitan Nashville that will be within 30 minutes of the Nashville International Airport. The airport is ideal for our shipping purposes, and it allows our staff to easily visit schools across the country and internationally.”
Mutsch says A.C.E. does not teach students how to make a living but rather how to live.
“Being in Nashville with its conservative values and its welcoming spirit is an ideal place for us to be headquartered,” he adds.
Story by Kevin Litwin
Photo by Brian McCord
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