Qualifacts Moves Into Downtown

While Nashville is drawing companies from other states to relocate to the area, downtown is enticing local businesses to move from the suburban areas of Davidson County.

Qualifacts Systems, a local information technology company, said yesterday that it’s moving from the West Meade area to downtown. The company was started by Governor Phil Bredesen in 2000, and former TennCare commissioner J-D Hickey announced earlier this month that he’s going to be Qualifacts’ new CEO.

Tom Turner is executive director of the Nashville Downtown Partnership. Turner says in an era of high gas prices, it makes more sense for companies to be downtown.

“If you do a weighted average of every citizen in the metropolitan area, and the center point of that weighted average is just about a half mile from, east of downtown. So that means that everyone has the ability to live where they want and be driving an equal distance and still arrive at downtown as the center of the community.”

Turner says two other companies have made the move recently, E. Roberts Alley and Associates, and LandDesign, both civil engineering firms. Qualifacts will be moving its 100 employees to second and Demonbreun.