DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE YOUR BUSINESS ADDRESS THRIVING BUSINESS CENTER THE NASHVILLE ADVANTAGE Downtown Nashville ... dynamic mix of government and Hottest U.S. Cities for 2016 – Nashville is on business leaders ... over 57,000 employees ... center of Nashville’s Business Insider’s list of the hottest American cities due to job growth, population growth, affordability, legal, financial and creative businesses livability, and the health and well-being of the city’s residents. Also considered was each city’s “coolness” (December 2015) • Downtown Nashville offers over 7.9 million square feet of competitively priced office space – with a variety of LEED Strong Economic Growth City – Business Certified, Energy Star and other sustainable indicators Facilities’ 11th annual rankings report shows • 1201 Demonbreun will add 275,000 SF of Class A office in MEETING Nashville taking the lead in economic growth late 2016 potential. The listing cites Nashville’s geographical • Downtown businesses have convenient access to city, state advantages, low cost of doing business and the and federal agencies, services and courts. Twenty-nine of EXPECTATIONS strength of the health care industry. (July 2015) Nashville’s 35 largest law firms are located downtown • A hot spot for entrepreneurial, tech and creative businesses, • Music City Center, a new downtown state-of-the-art 1.2 million square America’s Fastest Growing Cities – Nashville is ServiceSource, Asurion, Creative Artists Agency, and Emma foot convention center, opened in May 2013. This $635 million on Forbes.com’s list of the fastest-growing cities have recently chosen downtown locations investment offers 60 meeting rooms with over 90,000 square feet in America. The ranking is based on estimated • UBS Nashville Business Solutions Center continues to and the largest Grand Ballroom in the state and a 350,000 square population growth for 2014 and 2015, year-over- expand 1,200 new jobs downtown foot exhibit hall year job growth for 2014, and gross metro product • HCA is moving Parallon and Sarah Cannon headquarters • A variety of meeting space is available at over 30 downtown facilities growth, federal unemployment data and median annual pay for college-educated workers for downtown bringing 2,000 jobs by 2016 • Currently 4,685 hotel rooms downtown. Planned hotel develop- America’s 100 most populous MSAs. (January 2015) • A magnet for music industry leaders, downtown is the home ments will add 3,000 rooms over the next 3 years of major players including CMT, Universal Music Group and • The Hermitage Hotel is Tennessee’s only Forbes Five Star and Top City for Tech Grads – Nashville is listed fifth on Sony/ATV Music Publishing AAA Five Diamond Hotel a new ranking of the best cities for recent tech grads • 95% of employees say downtown Nashville has a positive • Hilton Nashville Downtown, Renaissance Nashville Hotel and Union to find a job after graduating. DataFox – a business and energetic atmosphere Station Hotel are AAA 4-diamond rated hotels. Nashville’s Union research company – compiled data on mentorship • 94% agree that downtown is a fun place to work according Station is among 2015 Condé Naste Reader’s Choise List and networking opportunities, affordability and to the 2015 Downtown Employee Survey! • Omni Nashville Hotel, also AAA 4-diamond hotel, opened its doors growth potential to produce the ranking. “ in September 2013. Across from the new Music City Center, this (January 2016) 800-room luxury hotel offers over 60,000 square feet of meeting and event space and is fully integrated with an expansion of the Country Hot Startup City – Entrepreneur magazine placed ServiceSource moved to downtown Music Hall of Fame and Museum on three levels and is LEED Silver Nashville on its list of hot startup cities “where Certified NC startup dreams come easier and cheaper, but can • Prime new event spaces at the Country Music Hall of Fame and still pay off big.” (August 2015) Nashville to be an active part of this Museum include a 10,000 SF Event Hall with skyline views from 40-foot glass windows as well as an outdoor terrace and the Best Place to Start a Business – An article area’s exciting growth; a great draw 800-seat state-of-the-art CMA Theater published by Inc.com, showed Tennessee can in seventh and Nashville was ranked sixth among the best places in the U.S. to start a business. for new potential employees and our (August 2015) customers who visit from the world’s SUSTAINABILITY Top Small Business Friendly City – In a national “ survey, Nashville received an A+ rating for small • 97% of downtown Class A office space is LEED Certified, Energy business friendliness from Thumbtack.com. largest technology companies to engage Star Rated or engages in building-wide sustainable practices. (August 2015) All planned Class A office buildings expect LEED certification • Downtown’s compact, walkable community offers an exceptional Top 10 Cities for Creatives – SmartAssett.com, a with our now over 800 employees. quality of life for its employees. The Walkscore in downtown is in financial research website, looked at the top 10 U.S. the 90’s, considered a ‘walkers paradise.’ (www.walkscore.com) cities for creative workers. Nashville ranked fifth. • Alternate transportation options are available to downtown — Keith Leimbach, Executive Vice President, Operations employees (B-cycle Bike Share Program and Enterprise Car Share) The rankings were determined by comparing cost • The Partnership partners with a local company to offer free of living in major U.S. cities to the concentration of downtown electronics recycling creative workers in those cities. (July 2015) WHEN EASY ACCESS IS A PRIORITY Business travel from and to downtown Nashville is convenient Nashville Economic Market Approximate Flight Times Nashville International Airport (BNA) WASHINGTON WASHINGTON • 11 minutes from downtown Nashville MAINE MONTANA NORTH DAKOTA MICHIGAN • Easily accessible by shared-ride shuttles, taxis, or direct MAINE OREGON MONTANA NORTH DAKOTA MICHIGAN Bostonn airport route buses SOUTH DAKOTA IDAHO Milwaukeelwaauu OREGON Detetroit BufBBfufuffalffa o Neww YoY rk • Connected by 10 airlines with 70 markets via direct or WYOMING Bostonn ChicagoC ClevelandC same plane service and 50 markets via non-stop service, NEBRASKA SOUTHPhiladelphiP DAKOTa A NEVADA IDAHO IndianapolisIndiandianaap Baltimoree Milwaukeelwaauu Detetroit BufBBfufuffalffa o Neww YoY rk with more than 10 million passengers annually UTAH WYOMINGCincinattiCiC i Washingtonngtgton COLORADO KansasK City NorfolkNorfolk • $70 million terminal renovation recently completedCALIFORNIA KANSAS St.S Louis LouisvilleLouisvillele ChicagoC ClevelandC NEBRASKA PhiladelphiP a NASHVILLNNAS E RaleigRaee h • Ranked #8 for America’s Best Airport (Travel & Leisure) OKLAHOMANEVADA IndianapolisIndiandianaap Baltimoree PHOTO Memphisphiis CharlotteCharlot • Listed as one of the “Seven Most Entertaining Airports ARIZONA NEW MEXICO UTAH Birminghammingh AtlantA a CincinattiCiC i Washingtonngtgton in the World” (CNN) LittleLitLii tle Rock COLORADO KansasK City CALIFORNIA KANSAS St.S Louis LouisvilleLouisvillele NorfolkNorfolk DallasD MontgomerMononnttg y • One of 12 airports in the country participating in the TEXAS FAA’s Sustainable Master Plan program, making JacksonvilleJ NASHVILLNNAS E RaleigRaee h NewN Orleans OKLAHOMA sustainability a core objective in airport planning HoustonH Tampm a Memphisphiis CharlotteCharlot ARIZONA NEW MEXICO Birminghammingh AtlantA a John C. Tune Airport (JWN) LittleLitLii tle Rock DallasD • Caters to corporate and personal aircraft users MontgomerMononnttg y TEXAS • Operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week JacksonvilleJ NewN Orleans HoustonH Tampm a COMMUTER DRIVING More than 50% TIME TO DOWNTOWN of the United State’s FLIGHT TIME Up to One Hour NASHVILLE FROM: population is located within 650 miles Up to Two Hours Brentwood 14 minutes of Nashville Up to Three Hours Up to Four Hours Goodlettsville 18 minutes Up to Five Hours Bellevue 18 minutes Franklin 26 minutes Lebanon 34 minutes Murfreesboro 38 minutes FLIGHT TIME • Three major interstate highways (I-40, I-65 and I-24) converge near Up to One Hour downtown Nashville, and many Up to Two Hours regional cities are within a day’s The population driving distance Up to Three Hours centerpoint of the 10-county Nashville • Downtown Nashville is the Up to Four Hours Economic Market geographic and population Up to Five Hours is adjacent to center point of a 10-county Downtown Nashville metropolitan trade area, with a total population of more than 1.8 million DOWNTOWN HAS A VARIETY OF TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING OPTIONS A park and ride program managed by the Nashville Downtown Partnership offers free weekday parking at LP Field and a convenient low-cost shuttle service that stops near all major downtown office buildings (www.parkitdowntown.com) • Nashville Downtown Partnership staff consults with companies considering a downtown office location to address their specific parking and shuttle requirements • There are over 52,000 public and private parking spaces in downtown Nashville • Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency has plans underway to build a public parking garage at 5th & Church that will provide over 1,100 parking spaces for employees and visitors • Music City Star, operated by The Metropolitan Transit Authority, provides weekday commuter rail service between Lebanon and downtown Nashville (www.musiccitystar.org) • Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has 43 bus routes, serves over 10.2 million