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Businesses share stories
in CEO Roundtable
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ailment for orchestras
Coffeehouse owner says
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Businesses tap into the pocketbooks of the masses
By Jamie McGee
[email protected] | 846-4276
H
eather Dowdy had been trying for years — unsuccessfully — to pay for more pages and premium matte paper
for her upstart pet magazine, Nashville Paw.
She finally landed the cash with help from pet powerhouse Mars
Petcare. Her venue to snag the global retailer’s attention: crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
Crowdfunding | 10
“
I thought, ‘I can try to
take out a loan or try
a creative way to fund
this.’ … It took everybody
coming together to make
this happen.”
HEATHER DOWDY | Nashville Paw magazine
Nashville Paw Publisher Heather
Dowdy, left, raised money for the
pet magazine through crowdfunding website Kickstarter. “It’s really
an amazing tool,” said Dowdy,
pictured with her dogs, Molly, left,
and Briley. Michael McPherson II,
right, is co-owner and designer of
Windsor Neckware. He is raising
money for the 2008 startup through
crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
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Nashville Business Journal | March 22, 2013
BIZ BITS
TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
Franklin billionaire’s firm buys
Lonely Planet for $77.3 million
Franklin-based NC2 Media has
reached a deal to buy the Lonely
Planet travel media company from
BBC Worldwide for about $77 million,
the commercial arm of the British
broadcaster announced this
week.
The primary
shareholder for
NC2 Media is Brad
Kelley, the founder of
the Commonwealth Brands
tobacco company and one of
the richest Tennesseans, with a
net worth of $1.9 billion, according to Forbes. Daniel Houghton,
executive director of NC2 media,
will now become chief operating
officer of Lonely Planet.
According to the BBC, Lonely
Planet is the No. 1 brand of travel
books in th U.S., Australia and U.K.
According to The New York Times,
the BBC is taking heat for the sale, as
it paid more than twice as much for
the Lonely Planet brand in 2007.
— Eric Snyder
Tennessee gets an F for health
care price transparency
Tennessee is one of 29 states that received an F in a new report on health
care pricing transparency.
The report by Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute and
Catalyst for Payment Reform evaluated state laws to determine how
much price information is reported by
providers to states and how easy it is
for consumers to get that information.
Only two states, Massachusetts and New Hampshire,
received A’s.
The report evaluated state laws regarding price transparency on a number of criteria,
such as what charges and
prices must be reported, whether data must be reported for all
or some medical procedures and
which health care providers fall
under the rules.
The report also evaluated where
price data is reported and its accessibility to consumers. For example,
whether data is reported only to
the state, available by formal public
request or online or compiled in an
annual report.
The report’s authors said that as
more employers begin to offer highdeductible health insurance plans it
is important to make sure information about quality and cost is readily
available to consumers, who will be
responsible for a greater portion of
their health care costs.
— E.J. Boyer
Labor Department Commissioner
Karla Davis resigns from post
Karla Davis is resigning from her
post as commissioner of the Tennessee
Department of Labor and
Workforce Development.
According to a news
release this week from
Gov. Bill Haslam’s office,
Davis is resigning due to
family reasons.
Burns Phillips, a manPhillips
aging director in the
Tennessee Department
of Finance and Administration, has
been named acting commissioner.
“Over the past two years, the
department has implemented several
key initiatives including a comprehensive online jobs database to better connect job seekers to Tennessee
employers and is playing a vital role
in our effort to update Tennessee’s
worker’s compensation laws,” Haslam
said in the release. “I am grateful to
Karla for her service and wish her the
best.”
— Eric Snyder
Belmont wins March Madness
bracket for academics
InsideHigherEd.com predicts Belmont University to win the NCAA Tour-
nament — if the tournament were based
on academics, that is.
The higher education website annually completes an NCAA bracket based
on each team’s academic progress rate,
a measure of eligibility and retention
for student-athletes that was developed
by the NCAA.
Belmont’s
men’s basketball team
boasts a perfect 1,000-point
APR score,
as well as a
100 percent
graduation
rate, according to a news release from the school.
As Belmont progressed through InsideHigherEd.coms bracket it ran into a
tough competitor in Notre Dame, who
matched those results in the Sweet 16.
Belmont, however, “pulled through”
with a tiebreaker based on federal graduation rates.
In addition to Notre Dame, Belmont
bested the academic performance of
teams from Arizona, Harvard, Mississippi and Kansas before “defeating”
Butler in the final round.
For the past two years, InsideHigherEd.com’s academic bracket winner
has played in the actual championship
game.
— Eric Snyder
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Biz Nation
People Index
Top National Business stories of the week
Drug company AstraZeneca
slashing 1,200 jobs in Delaware
AstraZeneca said Monday it is
eliminating 1,200 positions at its
Wilmington, Del., offices, which
will remain as its North
American headquarters.
The changes are part
of a global restructuring
for the pharmaceutical
company.
AstraZeneca will continue
to have about 2,000 positions in
Wilmington.
The jobs cuts in Delaware are
the result of the exit of the global
medicines development group and
the relocation of global marketing
and U.S. specialty care commercial roles, all of which will now be
based in Gaithersburg, Md.
The changes announced Monday by AstraZeneca will lead to
an estimated overall reduction of
about 650 positions in the United
States, according to the company.
— Philadelphia Business
Journal
Marriott International to cut
‘hundreds’ of HQ jobs
Marriott International Inc.
will cut “hundreds” of jobs in its
corporate information technology
department in Bethesda, a company executive confirmed late last
week.
The Bethesda, Md.-based hotel
giant announced the cuts to Marriott employees in presentations
by senior IT management on the
company’s plans to restructure its
IT operations.
Layoff notices will start as early
as next month, with terminations
expected to take several months to
complete.
The company said it will
outsource the jobs to “companies whose core competency is IT services.”
The company began the
process of restructuring
the department about three
years ago, when it created global
operating units.
— Washington Business Journal
David Crowe. “During the Great
Recession, the industry lost homebuilding firms, building material
production capacity, workers who
retreated to other sectors and the
pipeline of developed lots.”
— The Business Journals’
Washington Bureau
U.S. homebuilders hit ‘growth
pains’ as market rebounds
BuzzFeed to tackle business
The housing market’s comeback
has hit a speed bump — an index of
home builders’ confidence slipped
again in March.
The index, compiled by the
National Association of Home
Builders and Wells Fargo, is on
a three-month slide after eight
months of gains.
Demand isn’t the problem; supply
is. There are “frustrating bottlenecks in the supply
chain for developed
lots, along with rising
costs for building materials and labor,” said
association Chairman
Rick Judson.
“Home building is
beginning to suffer growth pains
as the infrastructure that supports it tries to re-establish itself,”
said association Chief Economist
By announcing it will create
a business vertical, BuzzFeed is
unabashedly taking direct aim
at traditional publishers and
business-oriented social networks,
according to a report by The Wall
Street Journal.
Among the newer players in
online news media, BuzzFeed has
drawn perhaps the most derision,
largely because the site began as,
and still is home to, a
trove of posts designed
specifically to be
shared as curiosities
and quick laughs. However, the site’s focus
on social strategy is
essential to its news
operations, which it plans to extend
to the world of business news, the
report said.
— New York Business Journal
SCORECARD
UPDATING OUR HEADLINES FROM march 2012
Scorecard checks in with the companies
and people who made headlines in the
NBJ a year ago. We revisit those stories,
catch you up on the progress (or lack
thereof) and take a look at what’s ahead.
Downtown retailers plan for
convention crowd
Then: A handful of new boutiques
and specialty stores had recently set up
shop downtown, hoping to prove that
you can sell more than cowboy boots in
Nashville’s entertainment district. Among
them was Muse Inspired Fashion, a
clothing boutique based in Memphis,
that opened on Second Avenue.
Now: So far business has been slow,
said owner Steve Doss, who invested
“a couple hundred thousand dollars”
to open the store. The store isn’t yet
profitable and hasn’t been able create a
following with locals.
Next: Doss expects a major boost in
sales when the new Music City Center
opens in May. He said his decision
to open the store in Nashville was
predicated on traffic from conventions.
— Nevin Batiwalla
Site certification launches for
rural sites
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Then: State leaders were touting
a your paper
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new site certification program called
Select Tennessee to spur corporate
relocations and expansions in rural
areas. Economic development
officials said certification, which was
in the early planning stages, would
New shops take aim
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jobs to Middle Tennessee, though
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announcing the initial round of
certified sites later this spring, Brewer
Congratulations
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year.
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Kupperman recalled showing
forced the community to ensure
a “cercer- tified site” to a client
only to learn
tain plots of land were “shovel
ready,” there was a functioning
oil well on the
which allows companies to move
quick- property.
who won the
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Journal’s Women
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Bernstein, Bob...............................20
Borda, Jamy.......................................7
Brewer, Clint......................................3
Click, Laura.....................................20
Cole, Chris...................................... 10
Crowe, David.....................................3
Davis, Karla........................................2
DeCuyper, Allen.............................22
Doss, Steve........................................3
Dowdy, Heather................................1
Eddmenson, Carrie.........................8
Edwards, Bryan.............................22
Edwards, Elizabeth.......................22
Edwards, Hillary.............................22
Edwards, Sharon..........................22
Francois, A.E.................................. 11
Francois, Mignon........................... 11
Galin, Tomi..........................................5
Gantt, Zach........................................5
Ghertner, Scott........................11, 14
Ghertner, Steve............................. 14
Gibson, Tom.......................................8
Guerrero, Giancarlo........................7
Harris, Mark..................................... 14
Haslam, Bill........................................2
Houghton, Daniel........................2, 8
Judson, Rick.......................................3
Kelley, Brad........................................2
Korn, Mitchell.....................................7
Lipman, Trey....................................22
Lowe, Rob..........................................7
Machover, Eitan................................5
McCabe, Robert..............................7
McCollom, Kyle.............................. 10
McCrary, Whit...................................7
McPherson II, Michael.............1, 10
Neal, Mace...................................... 10
Phillips, Burns....................................2
Pierce, Tim.......................................22
Revelette, Curt.........................11, 12
Revelette, Mason.......................... 12
Robins, Bruce..........................11, 12
Robins, Van...............................11, 12
Schneider, Justin..............................5
Seigenthaler Pierce, Amy...........22
Shayne, Karen................................25
Shmerling, Phil............................... 10
Shuff, Will...........................................7
Sirls, Steve......................................22
Sloan, Bill...................................11, 12
Sloan, Chris.................................... 10
Spradley, Jimmy.......................11, 14
Stansell, David.........................11, 14
Stansell, Jake.................................. 14
Stiff, Angie....................................... 11
Stiff, Jimmy....................................... 11
Summitt, Pat...................................25
Torres, Alex.........................................7
Wenzler, Ronnie................................8
Werthan, Joni..................................22
Company Index
12 South Taproom.........................................................................................................7
Alana Healthcare............................................................................................................5
American Federation of Teachers.............................................................................5
Anthropologie..................................................................................................................8
AstraZeneca....................................................................................................................3
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz..............................................10
Bank of America.............................................................................................................7
BBC Worldwide............................................................................................................2
Belmont University.........................................................................................................2
Blue Kite Marketing.................................................................................................... 20
BuzzFeed..........................................................................................................................3
Capella Healthcare........................................................................................................5
Cassidy Turley.............................................................................................................7, 8
Comdata.........................................................................................................................12
Commonwealth Brands...............................................................................................2
Community Health Systems.......................................................................................5
Dismas House...............................................................................................................10
Evergreen Real Estate..................................................................................................8
Everly................................................................................................................................10
Fido.................................................................................................................................. 20
Ghertner & Co. .....................................................................................................11, 14
Griffin Technology..........................................................................................................8
Holladay Properties.......................................................................................................8
Imogene + Willie............................................................................................................8
InCrowd Capital...........................................................................................................10
Indiegogo..........................................................................................................................1
Jonathan’s Grille....................................................................................................11, 12
Jumpstart Foundry.......................................................................................................10
Kickstarter.........................................................................................................................1
Lonely Planet..............................................................................................................2, 8
M and M Medical, LLC...............................................................................................11
Maristone Living.....................................................................................................11, 12
Marriott International Inc. ............................................................................................3
Mars Petcare...................................................................................................................1
Marsh & McLennan Cos............................................................................................12
MediTech Advisors........................................................................................................5
Muse Inspired Fashion.................................................................................................3
Nashville Paw........................................................................................................... 1, 10
Nashville Symphony......................................................................................................7
National Association of Home Builders..................................................................3
National Federations of Nurses.................................................................................5
NC2 Media.................................................................................................................2, 8
NextGxDx....................................................................................................................... 24
Omni Nashville Hotel................................................................................................. 20
Philladelphia Orchestra................................................................................................7
Pinnacle Financial Partners.........................................................................................7
Pub5...................................................................................................................................7
Regions Bank..................................................................................................................7
Robins Insurance Agency..................................................................................11, 12
RocketHub.....................................................................................................................10
Sloan’s Motorcycle & ATV.........................................................................................11
Standard Candy Co...................................................................................................11
Stansell Electric Co.............................................................................................11, 14
The Black Abbey Brewing Co. .................................................................................8
The Cupcake Collection............................................................................................11
The Frist Foundation...................................................................................................10
Triple Thread..................................................................................................................10
Vanderbilt University .............................................................................................. 7, 10
Wellsense.........................................................................................................................5
Windsor Neckware................................................................................................. 1, 10
Women Survivors Alliance....................................................................................... 25
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he Nashville Business Journal
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➤ On the move
Eitan Machover has
been named CEO and a
director of Nashville-based
Wellsense. Machover currently serves as a founding and general partner
at MediTech Advisors, a
Chicago-based medical
device venture capital firm
with two funds with more
than $70 million under
management. Founded in
2009, Wellsense provides a
bedside monitoring system
that detects and depicts
variations in pressure across
a patient’s body to aid in
the prevention of hospitalacquired pressure ulcers.
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Twitter this week to urge
the public to support the
expansion of TennCare, the
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Community Health Systems first
target of expanded nurses union
A newly combined
union of nurses and
teachers launched a
media campaign this
week aimed at Franklinbased Community Health
Systems.
The move comes on the
heels of last week’s affiliation between the 1.5 million-member American
Federation of Teachers
and the 34,000-member
National Federation of
Nurses.
The campaign, which
criticizes CHS as focusing
on growth rather than
patient care, kicked off
this week by unveiling
a website and running
print ads in the Nashville
market. The campaign
include TV and print ads
in CHS markets, beginning in Youngstown,
Ohio, where CHS owns
and operates Northside
Medical Center.
The union groups held
informational pickets
outside of targeted CHS
hospitals on Tuesday. In
Youngstown, the Ohio
Nurses Association,
under the nurses federation umbrella, led the
picket. The association
represents about 400
Northside nurses.
CHS spokeswoman
Tomi Galin said Northside has been in collective
bargaining talks with
the Ohio nurses union for
several months.
“The campaign by the
National Federation of
Nurses is a contrived and
desperate attempt to place
pressure on collective
bargaining taking place,”
Galin said in an email
last week.
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Nashville-based Alana HealthCare pivots into health management
I
n the past three years, Nashvillebased Alana HealthCare has
more than doubled its number of
employees, nearing 90 today. Most of
that growth has come on the clinical
side, where the company has gone
from employing three clinicians in
2010 to close to 30 today.
The clinical growth is both an
intentional strategy and direct result
of the company’s shift from a durable
medical equipment company to a
health management company. The
company’s first health management
program, Chronic Respiratory Outcome Management (CROM), launched
in 2012 and has seen 73 percent reduction in hospital admissions among
patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
The strategic shift for Alana began
in 2010, when new President and Chief
Financial Officer Justin Schneider
came on board and realized that Medicare competitive bidding programs
would make it hard for Alana to compete with bigger players in the dura-
ble medical equipment sphere. The
company began to diversify, moving
into noninvasive ventilation therapy
equipment in 2010.
“We basically tore apart the company and rebuilt it,” Schneider said. “We
wanted to be a health management
company.”
The shift accelerated in 2011, when
Alana hired Zach Gantt, a registered
respiratory therapist well known in
the field, to develop a patient-centered
program.
Gantt came on board in October
2011, and within three months developed and launched CROM with about
30 patients. By the end of 2012, the
program had more than 300 patients
in its home care program.
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Symphony woes not unique to Nashville
as expenses weigh on the arts
➤ By the numbers
$8.9 million
Nashville Symphony’s endowment
as of July 2009
$526,635
Nashville Symphony’s endowment
as of July 2011
$453,552
Base compensation for Music
Director Giancarlo Guerrero for
the year ending July 31, 2011
➤ Quotable
“The symphony will always
continue playing great music
and performing great concerts.
... That’s what our duty is.”
— Nashville Symphony Music
Director Giancarlo Guerrero
on the future of the symphony
T
he Nashville Symphony is not
alone in its financial struggles
in the orchestra arena.
“Financial problems are not unique
to any orchestra,” said Mitchell
Korn, who teaches at Vanderbilt
University’s Blair School of Music
and has developed music education
programs for symphony halls, including Nashville’s, across the nation.
“Every orchestra is struggling to find
new ways to increase their earnings,
increase their fundraising.”
The Nashville Symphony is negotiating with lenders on a 2004 agreement
concerning $102 million in construction debt after the symphony decided
to not renew a letter of credit with a
bank group led by Bank of America.
The owners of the bonds are required to
tender their bonds on April 1, according
to a notice of mandatory repurchase
issued last week by Regions Bank, the
trustee of the bonds.
The costly nature of running a symphony amid an economic decline has
plagued orchestras across the country,
including the Philadelphia Orchestra,
which emerged from bankruptcy last
year. Louisville, Ky., Syracuse, N.Y.,
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Giancarlo Guerrero, maestro of the
Nashville Symphony, leads a rehearsal.
Albuquerque, N.M., and Honolulu also
have sought court protection, according
to Bloomberg News.
Robert McCabe, chairman at Pinnacle Financial Partners, is a former
board member at the Nashville Symphony and said the group was spending
more than it was bringing in.
“What I’ve been concerned about for
a period of time is expenses were outstripping revenue at an unsustainable
pace,” he said.
➤ On the move
12 South Taproom owners open Pub5
to snag ‘piece of the downtown action’
The owners of 12 South Taproom
opened a new downtown bar Pub5 last
week, capitalizing on the crowds drawn
by the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament
and the growth of downtown development.
Alex Torres, Jamy Borda and Will Shuff
have partnered with Rob Lowe and Whit
McCrary, both of Cassidy Turley, to open
the three-story bar and restaurant, which
includes a rooftop patio, at 104 Fifth Ave.
S. Pub5 will be “a sophisticated dining
experience with gastro pub-esque fare,”
Torres said — which means everything
from gourmet, grass-fed cheeseburgers to
mussels to panzanella.
“With the introduction of the Music
City Center and hotels and the national
attention that Nashville has been earning
over the past three years, we felt it was
smart to try get some sort of storefront
or some sort of piece of the downtown
action,” Torres said.
The building dates back to 1810, Torres
said, citing the Metropolitan Historical
Commission, and it has been used as a
hotel, a home, a bar and an art gallery over
the past two centuries. The owners bought
the building in March 2012 and have spent
the past year renovating the space.
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ON THE REAL ESTATE BEAT
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Nevin Batiwalla covers real estate, manufacturing and regional economic development.
➤ By the numbers
$9.5 million
Price Evergreen Real
Estate paid for the 248-unit
Valley Brook Townhomes
$300,000
The construction cost for
The Black Abbey Brewing
Co. to rehab a building at
2952 Sidco Drive, near
100 Oaks Mall
➤ Quotable
“I’m fortunate to have
maybe been in the right
place at the right time,
and I have worked hard to
get there. ... I’m certainly
going to continue to work
hard. It’s certainly an
honor to be a part of such
an historic company.”
— Daniel Houghton,
executive director of
billionaire Brad Kelley’s
NC2 Media, which this
week announced plans to
buy Lonely Planet
Imogene + Willie on its new office,
growth and Anthropologie
N
ashville fashion darling
Imogene + Willie is opening an office in Marathon
Village.
The new office and warehouse
gives the Nashville-based denim
outfitter some room to breathe and
its founders some privacy.
For the past couple of years,
eight to 10 employees have been
working out of co-founders Carrie
and Matt Eddmenson’s home.
“It was worth every minute of it,
but it’s just time to grow up,” Carrie Eddmenson said.
The new office will house the
company’s creative and administrative offices. The company’s
store in a converted gas station in
12 South is staying put.
Since the husband-and-wife
team launched the company in
2009, it has grown from four to
about 22 employees
“We are not wanting to have a
big department store presence,”
Eddmenson said. “It takes time.
It’s trial and error to find retail
partners who treat the product
like we treat it and treat the cus-
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK TUCKER
An employee works on a pair of
Imogene + Willie jeans.
tomers like we hope to treat the
customer.”
Part of that trial and error was a
partnership struck last year with
retailer Anthropologie. Eddmenson said they have no plans to reorder with Anthropologie.
“Overall it was a larger audience
than we were ready or wanting to
speak to,” she said. “They brought
people to us. They read about the
company through Anthropologie.
Then they chose to buy it directly
through us, which is the greatest
gift a big corporation could ever
give a little guy like us.”
➤ News ticker
Holladay Properties plans offices in place of metal
sheds for Charlotte Avenue redevelopment project
Holladay Properties and
Cassidy Turley principal
Ronnie Wenzler have revealed
their plans to transform a row
of abandoned metal sheds on
Charlotte Avenue into creative
office space.
The project at 2200
Charlotte Ave., dubbed The
Sheds, will turn a row of
abandoned sheds “into a
light-filled office/retail complex
threaded with courtyards
and blessed with plenty of
free parking,” according to a
news release. The developers
bought the property from
the state for $1.05 million in
August.
The three-building project
will total 42,750 square feet of
space. No tenants have been
announced.
Construction is planned
to start later this year. The
former Tennessee Department
of Transportation building
on the east end of the site is
structurally unsound and will
be demolished. A new building
will take its place as part of a
second phase of the project.
The team of Wenzler, Tom
Gibson and Allen Arender
have a track record of finding
creative reuses for obsolete
warehouses and buildings. The
team redeveloped Nashville’s
Sawtooth Building, a 100-yearold industrial warehouse that
is now the headquarters for
Griffin Technology.
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Lifesaver Breakfast
Storytellers: Real Stories, Real People.
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Crowdfunding | Startups use online campaigns to build brand awareness
Through websites like Kickstarter,
Indiegogo and RocketHub, a growing
number of small businesses are turning to crowdfunding to raise cash and
build their brand.
Crowdfunding — long used as an
avenue to fund charitable projects or
artistic endeavors such as albums and
films — is gaining traction with new
and existing companies that are seeking not only investment dollars but
also awareness with consumers. It’s a
tool that raises money online, generally
small amounts from several people, and
sometimes rewards contributors with
gifts according to their donation level.
“We are starting to see more and
more for-profit entities use it as a
mechanism for raising some level of
funding,” said Chris Sloan, an intellectual property lawyer at Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz
who represents startups and also mentors at Nashville’s Jumpstart Foundry.
“When Kickstarter and Indiegogo and
those similar platforms first started,
they were mainly for sort of artsy, creative-type projects. There has definitely been a trend over the last few years
of people using that as a mechanism to
raise money to develop a product that
is going to be commercialized.”
‘Donations’ fund projects
Dowdy launched a $ 20,000 Kickstarter campaign in January and
raised more than $25,000 in about a
month, including $10,000 from Mars
Petcare, whose U.S. division is based
in Franklin, in exchange for additional advertising in the magazine.
Mars already was an advertiser, but
Dowdy said — and Mars agreed — that
the online campaign was an opportunity to do more than spend money
with the magazine: It allowed Mars to
join in the community support for the
project. The company’s donation then
spurred others to donate and push the
campaign beyond its goal, Dowdy said.
“We’ve been trying to do this for
years,” she said. “I thought, ‘I can try
to take out a loan or try a creative way
to fund this.’ … It took everybody coming together to make this happen.”
Kickstarter and Indiegogo are
among the leading crowdfunding sites,
having entered the market in 2009 and
2008, respectively. Kickstarter, which
requires that campaigns reach their
goal amount to keep any contributions,
has funded more than 90,000 projects
and helped raise $443 million.
Indiegogo allows campaigns to keep
any money raised, even if the funding goal is not met. Both models often
encourage donations by offering a
product or service in exchange.
In the case of Nashville Paw, those
contributing $25 got custom-designed
tote bags and those giving $35 received
a year’s subscription to the magazine.
For $10,000, Mars got a full-page ad
per issue for a year, which essentially
extended the company’s existing contract for a year with a discount.
When the initial $20,000 goal was
met with 15 days to spare, Dowdy set
a new goal of $22,000, which would
JOBS Act lets
investors buy
equity through
crowdfunding
By Jamie McGee
Photos by Nathan Morgan | Nashville Business Journal
Nashville Paw magazine, which publishes six times a year, launched in 2006 to
support Middle Tennessee animal rescue and welfare groups.
allow her to put up sidewalk boxes
for more distribution. And when that
goal was met, she asked for $25,000
so the company could buy additional
magazine racks for area stores. Dowdy
said with the improved paper quality,
she is getting increased interest from
advertisers.
Building buzz
Beyond raising money, a crowdfunding campaign can energize a fan
base and illicit feedback on a process,
said Michael McPherson, co-founder
of Windsor Neckwear, who recently
launched a $ 30,000 Indiegogo campaign. The funds will be used to launch
new products, including dress socks,
dress shoes and cufflinks. He and his
business partner, Mace Neal, founded
the tie company in 2008 and will be
rewarding contributors with gift cards
for their products, as well as with
socks, ties and shoes.
“The great thing about crowdfunding is when people begin to spread
the word about your campaign and
what you are doing,” McPherson said.
“That’s been great exposure. Even
just through social media buzz, [the
number of] followers has gone up tremendously.”
That buzz also has led to interest
from larger investors, McPherson said.
“Doing the campaign can add credibility to your brand,” he said.
Kyle McCollom described a successful
crowdfunding project as
validation. He launched his
first Kickstarter campaign
when he founded Triple
Thread, an apparel company that employs residents
of the Dismas House for
former prisoners.
McCollom
After raising $11,000
through a $10,000 campaign in 2010 while a student at
Vanderbilt University, McCollom was
able to tout the community’s interest
in his product to investors. The Frist
Foundation reacted with a $ 30,000
contribution.
Windsor Neckwear designs and sells
its own line of neckties, in addition to
dress socks and other accessories.
“We had a great story, and we were
really good at telling that story, but we
didn’t have any traction yet,” McCollom said, explaining his interest in
crowdfunding. “It’s an incredible platform to just test and see if something
you have is of interest to consumers. If
it’s something people believe in, then
it’s a great validator.”
McCollom is launching his next
Kickstarter project at the end of March
for his new venture, Everly, a natural
drink mix product. He and co-founder
Chris Cole plan to market the campaign with a cross-country road trip
to raise money and awareness. While
the product won’t be ready until May,
McCollom wants to build interest in
his new company, which plans to match
sales with donations of rehydration
products to children suffering from
water-borne diseases.
“We want to be able to prove that
people are out there buying the product,” he said. “It creates an urgency,
a period of time where people have to
share this because we have to reach
this goal.”
As it stands, crowdfunding
platforms allow individuals to
contribute to a project or company as a donation or payment
for a product or service. In
April, President Obama signed
the Jumpstart Our
Business Startups
Act, known as the
JOBS Act, which
a l lows investors
to buy equity in a
company through
Shmerling crowdfunding. The
securities law was
meant to help companies more
easily raise capital, but the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission still is finalizing rules
to protect investors.
The legislation is particul a rly me a ni ng f u l to loc a l
entrepreneur Phil Shmerling,
whose startup InCrowd Capital hinges on the SEC taking
action. InCrowd is a software
platform connecting entrepreneurs to investors and allowing
investors to buy equity through
the platform, as well as helping entrepreneurs manage the
raise process and promote their
businesses.
The SEC was given a deadline of establishing regulation by January of this year, a
month that has come and gone
with little progress. Shmerling said he is optimistic regulations could be in place in
the third quarter of this year,
though realistically it could
be year end or early 2014. In
the meantime, he is exploring other projects related to
crowdfunding and supporting
entrepreneurs and incubator
programs — and building relationships with both groups.
“It’s a bit of frustration,” he
said.
Despite the setbacks, he said
he is still confident the demand
is there, pointing to the success
of the existing crowdfunding
models.
“These people [funding projects] in most cases have gotten
a product or something very
small,” he said. “There is a
very large demand from people
who want to be able to say, ‘I
have ownership. I have stock in
this company.’ I think it’s the
future of investing.”
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all in the family
Separating
work, home key
challenge for
family businesses
CEO
Roundtable
on FaMIlY buSIneSS
Sponsored by
By Jamie McGee
W
hen husband and wife Jimmy
and Angie Stiff, who together
run Spring Hill-based medical
equipment company M and M Medical
LLC, took a weekend trip to Huntsville,
Ala., Jimmy said he specifically mandated there would be no business talk on
the trip.
“Let’s shop, let’s do whatever you
want to do, but no business,” he said.
“On Saturday, we were eating lunch.
That’s when she started asking about
some new accounts. I said, ‘No, we are
not discussing new accounts.’ ”
Work-life balance is a challenge most
people in business face, but when your
business partners and co-workers also
are your spouse, sibling or parent, separating work and family life can be an
entirely different challenge — particularly when both incomes depend on the
success of the business.
“When you are a family business, the
stress level is quite higher because you
are not paying bills unless your business is doing well,” Stiff said, adding
that he and his wife have become much
better over the years at determining
when to have business conversations
outside of the work day.
Mignon Francois, who owns The
Cupcake Collection, works side-by-side
with her husband, six children, cousins,
mother and others tied to the family. She
struggles with not letting work bleed
into her home life. Her husband, A.E.,
reminds her on the way home from the
bakery that work discussions are over.
“It’s hard for me to turn it off,” she
said. “I live and breathe and drink this
place.”
Pressure is felt more acutely for a family business, especially if there are no
other income streams.
About this series
The Nashville Business Journal is
hosting a series of CEO Roundtables
this year, bringing together leaders
in various industries to discuss their
challenges and opportunities. From
these conversations, the NBJ reporting
team will present special reports
featuring each industry.
This week’s CEO Roundtable was with
family business owners. The panelists
were:
Photos by NathaN MorgaN | Nashville busiNess JourNal
Husband and wife team A.E. and Mignon Francois are owners of The Cupcake
Collection, a bakery in Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood.
“There is no one to pick up the pieces
on the other side,” Francois said. “All of
our eggs are in this basket. If you drop
the ball then you ruin the basket for
everybody.”
Francois said she also tries to make
time in the morning to be “their mom
first” and talk about personal issues in
her family members’ lives. While she
enjoys being able to spend time with
children, overseeing them has its challenges, especially when they are not
meeting expectations.
“You have to watch how you reprimand them,” A.E. said. “At the end of the
day you are family first.”
Bruce Robins, owner of Robins
Insurance Agency, works with his son,
Van Robins, who joined the firm three
years ago after working in other cities
for other insurers. When Van decided
to join the family business, he and his
father knew they needed to be proactive
to support a strong relationship outside
of work.
They have lunch once a week to make
■ Mignon Francois, president and
owner, The Cupcake Collection
■ Scott Ghertner, co-president,
Ghertner & Co.
■ Curt Revelette, CEO, Maristone
Living, and partner, Jonathan’s Grille
■ Bruce Robins, president, Robins
Insurance Agency
■ Bill Sloan, CEO, Sloan’s Motorcycle
& ATV
■ Jimmy Spradley, president/CEO,
Standard Functional Foods Group
■ David Stansell, president, Stansell
Electric Co.
■ Jimmy Stiff, partner, M and M
Medical LLC
Up next: The CFO Roundtable is set
for May 31.
time for conversations that are often not
tied to business. They also plan family
dinners or attend hockey games.
“We decided early on that we had to
have both relationships working well,”
Bruce said. “If half wasn’t working, it
would be a problem for the other half.”
“Your spouse has to
be your best friend if
she is your business
partner. You are
going to get madder
than hell. You are.
… You can’t take it
personally. You have
to separate that.”
Jimmy Stiff |
M and M Medical LLC
Scott Ghertner, Ghertner & Co.
Jimmy Spradley, Standard Functional Foods
Jimmy Stiﬀ, M and M Medical
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Grooming the next generation
Passing on the business to a son or a daughter is a shared dream for many family business owners, but preparing the
next generation to take over requires a strategy unique to the business. Three Nashville-area family businesses in three
different lines of work shared their strategies for training the next generation.
Stories By E.J. Boyer | [email protected] | 846-4258
Father readies son
to lead charge
In 1976, at the age of 30, Bruce Robins
founded Robins Insurance Agency. He
knew very little about the insurance
industry when he first started, but
he threw himself into learning all he
could through additional education
and strong relationships with mentors.
He’s grown the agency into a
20-employee operation, today housed
in the Burton Hills office park. At age
66, Bruce goes into the office six days
a week, but his son, 36-year-old Van,
returned home to Nashville three
years ago to someday take over —
someday being the key word.
The succession plan isn’t formal,
and a retirement date isn’t on the calendar, which Bruce sees as an integral
part in grooming Van to take over the
family business. Van’s title is account
executive, he has two employees who
report to him and he hasn’t been given
any additional authority or privileges.
“If you can’t get people to follow you,
then being a manager probably won’t
work too well,” Bruce said.
He considered the gradual shift
in leadership a success when, after
about a year, other employees started
approaching Van naturally for advice.
Van moved home to Nashville from
New York City, where he worked for
Marsh & McLennan Cos., the country’s
largest insurance broker. Bruce said
it wouldn’t have worked if Van joined
Robins Insurance right after college.
Van agrees. “I didn’t want to come in
here as the heir-apparent,” he said.
Curt Revelette, Maristone and
Jonathan’s Grille
Brothers take
reins after finding
success elsewhere
Photos by Nathan Morgan | Nashville Business Journal
Bruce Robins is preparing his son, Van Robins, to take the helm at Robins
Insurance Agency in Burton Hills.
His strategy, when first joining
the agency, was to produce a lot of
new business and prove his worth in
dollars and cents. He calls his father
“Bruce,” not “dad” at the office.
Over time, Van has taken more liberties with his position, capitalizing
on what he learned at Marsh. He led
the company through an update of its
information technology and has helped
form a new management structure.
Three years later, neither gives a
firm response when asked when Van
might have the title of president on his
business card. Bruce jokes that when
it does happen, he’s putting in a clause
that Van can’t fire him.
Bruce Robins is pictured here with
his grandson, Dexter, whose father is
Van Robins.
Playing their part: Three generations share control
Bill Sloan’s motorcycle and ATV
supercenter in Murfreesboro has
three generations on the team.
Sloan’s son, daughter, son-in-law
and grandson work at the store, stepping in to fill different roles as they
take over the day-to-day operations.
For Sloan’s son and daughter, it’s the
only job they’ve ever known, working
in the store after school and on the
weekends growing up.
“They obviously knew everything,
from putting up stock to cleaning the
toilet. They knew what it took,” Sloan
said of his children.
Sloan still goes into the store every
day for at least half the day, but control clearly lies with the next genera-
tion. His son serves as general manager of the day-to-day operations; his
daughter handles human resources
and billing; his son-in-law runs an inhouse suspension and gear shop; and
his grandson is sales manager.
“It’s not been difficult at all. I just
want to make sure it’s right,” Sloan
said of letting the next generation
take over. “I try to run everything by
them.”
Sloan said his strategy would have
been different had he not had children to take over the family business,
which has about 40 employees.
“I would obviously be looking for a
buyer if they hadn’t been coming on,”
he said.
Bill Sloan, Sloan’s Motorcycle & ATV
Mason Revelette was living in Indiana, earning his living as a graduate
assistant basketball coach, when his
parents called him home to take over
the family business in 2010.
His parents had been involved in Jonathan’s Grille restaurants, a local chain,
for nearly 15 years, but in 2010, they
upped their interest and took over the
entire operation. Only they didn’t want
to run the show. They wanted their
sons, Mason and older brother Curt, to
take over the restaurants.
Curt had joined the other family
business (development and building) a
few years earlier, when he came on to
help launch Maristone, which operates
senior living communities, in 2007. He
had worked in sales at Brentwood-based
Comdata after graduating from University of Mississippi in 2003, a job he
quickly learned he didn’t enjoy.
“I learned a whole lot,” he said, “and
I learned that I didn’t want to work for
someone else.”
When Curt and Mason joined as
business partners to run operations at
Maristone and Jonathan’s in 2010, their
parents stepped back. There was no
transition period. One day, it was theirs.
But that’s not to say the brothers don’t
call on their dad. The two have learned
to play to each other’s strengths and
weaknesses: Curt handles development
and land deals, while Mason handles
operations. Curt has more of a hand in
Maristone, while Mason has more of a
hand in Jonathan’s.
By letting their sons lead, the Revelettes have let Curt and Mason put
their own stamp on Jonathan’s and
Maristone. Both sons agree that while
Mom and Dad always will be mentors,
bringing in their own ideas and finding mentors outside of the family has
allowed them to be successful.
They’ve opened two more Jonathan’s
locations in the past nine months, and
Maristone is near full capacity.
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Decisions must balance
relationships, business needs
By Nevin Batiwalla
M
aking business decisions takes
on a new level of challenges
when working with family.
Disagreements over strategy, hiring,
governance and compensation can be
difficult enough between business partners. The family dynamic brings extra
baggage.
“In a family business it’s obviously
more emotional,” said Scott Ghertner,
who with his brother Steve runs Ghertner & Co., one of the largest community
association management firms in Tennessee. “This isn’t a relationship you’re
going to walk away from. Where if it’s
just a business and you are in a partnership, you have that option.”
Keeping that baggage at bay means
taking a diplomatic approach rather than
a take-charge style.
“You can’t just buy another company
or sell an asset; you’ve got to make a case
to your partner,” Ghertner said.
Working with a sibling or a parent has
its benefits. Generally, family members
can share a level of trust and have similar values that can be difficult to find in a
business parter, said David Stansell, who
runs Stansell Electric Company Inc. with
his brother Jake.
“Having shared experiences and common values can sometimes make it easier
running a business,” Stansell said.
Keeping family matters out of the
picture can be impossible, especially
at Standard Functional Foods Group,
where more than 20 relatives are on the
board.
“We just work hard to minimize it,”
said CEO Jimmy Spradley. “We have
family counsels and spend a lot of time
trying to work with each other and communicating to each other.”
Family members who want a job at
Standard have to start at the bottom or
have to work somewhere else for five
years and receive a promotion.
“You don’t want to promote someone
who isn’t capable of running the business
just because they are family,” Spradley
said. “Everybody loses in that situation.”
At the end of the day, the family business needs to be treated like the golden
goose, Stansell said.
“You have to do what is right for the
business, period,” he said. “Or you don’t
get to keep playing the game.”
How to fire your family
Having to fire a relative can be one
of the toughest decisions a family
business owner has to make.
But sometimes it has to be done. So
how do you fire a family member?
“There is no right answer,” said
David Stansell, president of Stansell
Electric Company Inc., a family-owned
company.
Stansell knows the situation all too
well. When the time came where there
was no question a family member
had to be terminated at the electric
company, Stansell decided, “It should
be handled as a family matter at home
as opposed to just being terminated by
a supervisor.”
“The rational was, we didn’t want a
family member to be terminated, so it
was sort of like, ‘You need to resign.
You don’t have a choice.’ ”
Doing what’s best for the company
and the family can be a difficult
balance, but business consultants and
owners offer several tips for dismissing
a family member.
• Review the planned termination with
board members. If there’s no board,
consult an independent adviser, such
as an accountant or attorney, and other
family members who will be impacted,
to ensure your decision is fair.
• The person set to be terminated
should also be given a chance to
correct performance. By
the time of termination,
it should have been
made clear that their
performance hasn’t been
up to par in specific
areas. It also helps to be
as generous as possible
Stansell
with severance pay.
• Having a written employment
agreement and a family code of
conduct in place from the start can
circumvent later problems by outlining
performance standards and processes
for hiring, training, promotion,
compensation, evaluation and firing
procedures.
• The family member should be
given the option to resign, and there
should be a stated desire to preserve
relationships.
After a family member is terminated,
there’s no set time frame for making
follow-up contact.
The person may need time to cool
down or may be the sort to appreciate
a note, email or call soon afterward.
The relative should also be assured
that the decision is entirely businessrelated, not personal.
— Nevin Batiwalla
The Birmingham Business Journal
contributed to this report.
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Ranked by average daily membership
Phone
Website
Average daily
membership* |
Grades served |
No. of schools
Graduates**:
Regular |
Special ed. |
Certifications
Gateway test
scores***:
Algebra I |
Biology I |
English II
Expenditures:
Total | Per student
(ADA*)
Contacts
* indicates a new top executive
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Metropolitan Nashville - Davidson County Public
Schools
2601 Bransford Ave., Nashville 37204
615-259-4636
mnps.org
76,130 | 143
3,963 | 111 | 6
48.4 | 36.7 | 47.9
$784.4M | $11,012
Top executive: Jesse Register, Director of schools
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4
5
6
7
8
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Rutherford County Schools
2240 Southpark Blvd., Murfreesboro 37128
615-893-5812
rcs.k12.tn.us
38,645 | 46
2,880 | 22 | 3
72.3 | 64.6 | 72
$292.3M | $8,098
Top executive*: Don Odom, Director of schools, odomd@
rcschools.net
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Williamson County School District
1320 W. Main, Suite 202, Franklin 37064
615-472-4000
wcs.edu
31,949 | 41
2,341 | 15 | 0
84.9 | 87.4 | 84.9
$255.7M | $8,436
Top executive: Mike Looney, Superintendent of schools, mike.
[email protected]
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Clarksville - Montgomery County School System
621 Gracey Ave., Clarksville 37040
931-648-5600
cmcss.net
29,728 | 36
1,892 | 19 | 1
61.9 | 61 | 64.4
$242.1M | $8,639
Top executive*: B.J. Worthington, Director of schools,
[email protected]
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Sumner County Schools
695 E. Main St., Gallatin 37066
615-451-5200
sumnerschools.org
27,612 | 46
1,823 | 23 | 0
67.2 | 62.2 | 70.6
$206.9M | $7,947
Top executive: Del Phillips III, Director of schools, del.phillips@
sumnerschools.org
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Wilson County Schools
351 Stumpy Lane, Lebanon 37090
615-444-3282
wcschools.com
15,637 | 21
1,307 | 14 | 0
68.5 | 63.8 | 70.1
$114.2M | $7,803
Top executive: James Davis, Director of schools, davism@
wcschools.com
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Maury County School District
501 W. Eighth St., Columbia 38401
931-388-8403
mauryk12.org
11,418 | 20
683 | 16 | 0
50.6 | 49.3 | 56.8
$92.1M | $8,612
Top executive: Edward Hickman, Director of schools, hickmane@
mauryk12.org
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Robertson County Public Schools
2121 Woodland St., Springfield 37172
615-384-5588
rcstn.net
11,050 | 19
700 | 4 | 0
60.3 | 60.8 | 62.2
$82.3M | $8,157
Top executive: Daniel Whitlow, Director of schools, dan.whitlow@
rcstn.net
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Putnam County School District
1400 E. Spring St., Cookeville 38506
931-526-9777
putnamcountyschools.
com
10,511 | 21
668 | 8 | 0
65.8 | 67.1 | 68.3
$84M | $8,332
Top executive*: Jerry Boyd, Director of schools, superintendent@
pcsstn.com
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Dickson County School District
817 N. Charlotte St., Dickson 37055
615-446-7571
dicksoncountyschools.org
8,299 | 15
589 | 2 | 0
68.9 | 61.3 | 66.3
$64.6M | $8,260
Top executive*: Danny Weeks, Director of schools, dweeks@
dcbe.org
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Bedford County School District
500 Madison St., Shelbyville 37160
931-684-3284
bedfordk12tn.com
7,964 | 14
531 | 11 | 0
54.2 | 50.7 | 57.6
$59M | $7,858
Top executive*: Mike Bone, Interim Superintendent of schools
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Murfreesboro City School District
2552 S. Church St., Murfreesboro 37127
615-893-2313
cityschools.net
7,069 | 11
N/A
N/A
$61.5M | $9,191
Top executive: Linda Gilbert, Director of schools, linda.gilbert@
cityschools.net
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Cheatham County School District
102 Elizabeth St., Ashland City 37015
615-792-5664
cheathamcountyschools.
net
6,649 | 13
520 | 1 | 0
54.5 | 65.6 | 63.8
$47.9M | $7,774
Top executive*: Stan Curtis, Director of schools, stan.curtis@
ccstn.org
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Lawrence County School District
700 Mahr Ave., Lawrenceburg 38464
931-762-3581
lcss.us
6,603 | 13
492 | 0 | 0
68.2 | 59.1 | 63.5
$50.9M | $8,152
Top executive: Bill Heath, Director of schools, [email protected]
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Warren County School District
2548 Morrison St., McMinnville 37110
931-668-4022
warrenschools.com
6,450 | 11
441 | 2 | 1
60.7 | 57.1 | 59.1
$50.6M | $8,348
Top executive*: Bobby Cox, Director of schools, [email protected]
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Franklin County School District
215 S. College St., Winchester 37398
931-967-0626
5,585 | 11
351 | 1 | 0
franklincountyschools.
k12tn.net
Largest year-over-year decrease, -3.5%
51.8 | 53.5 | 57.3
$45.1M | $8,700
Top executive: Rebecca Sharber, Director of schools, rebecca.
[email protected]
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Marshall County School District
700 Jones Circle, Lewisburg 37091
931-359-1581
mcs.marshall.k12tn.net
5,211 | 9
374 | 1 | 0
66.3 | 62.7 | 62.3
$41M | $8,432
Top executive*: Jackie Abernathy, Director of schools, [email protected]
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Coffee County School District
1343 McArthur St., Manchester 37355
931-723-5150
coffeecountyschools.com
4,351 | 9
387 | 1 | 0
61 | 71.8 | 67.5
$36.5M | $8,969
Top executive*: LaDonna McFall, Director of schools, mcfalll@
k12coffee.net
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White County School District
136 Baker St., Sparta 38583
931-836-2229
whitecountyschools.org
3,969 | 9
252 | 4 | 0
66.5 | 60.4 | 61.7
$29M | $7,736
Top executive: Sandra Crouch, Director of schools, sandra.
[email protected]
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Giles County School District
270 Richland Drive, Pulaski 38478
931-363-4558
giles-lea.giles.k12.tn.us
3,956 | 8
261 | 1 | 0
48 | 52.2 | 52.5
$35.6M | $9,517
Top executive*: Debbie Braden, Interim Director of schools,
[email protected]
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Lincoln County School District
206 E. Davidson Drive, Fayetteville 37334
931-433-3565
lcdoe.org
3,921 | 8
332 | 5 | 0
64.9 | 62.1 | 69.9
$29.2M | $7,936
Top executive: Wanda Shelton, Director of schools, wshelton@
lcdoe.org
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Franklin Special School District
507 New Highway 96 W., Franklin 37064
615-794-6624
fssd.org
3,671 | 8
N/A
N/A
$44M | $12,466
Top executive: David Snowden, Director of schools, dsnowden@
fssd.org
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Macon County School District
501 College St., Lafayette 37083
615-666-2125
maconcountyschools.com
3,664 | 8
231 | 0 | 0
48.2 | 52.4 | 55.6
Hickman County School District
115 Murphree Ave., Centerville 37033
931-729-3391
hickman.k12tn.net
3,615 | 8
258 | 2 | 0
Lebanon Special School District
701 Coles Ferry Pike, Lebanon 37087
615-449-6060
lssd.org
3,381 | 6
N/A
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Highest composite of all three scores, 257.2
K-6 | Largest year-over-year increase, 3.4%
K-8
K-8
Higest expenditure per student
$27.3M | $8,029
Top executive: Margaret Oldham, Director of schools, moldham@
k12tn.net
50 | 54.5 | 55.7
$30.2M | $8,941
Top executive: Jerry Nash, Superintendent of schools, jerry.
[email protected]
N/A
$26.8M | $8,399
Top executive: Scott Benson, Director of schools, bensons1@
k12tn.net
Largest increase in year-over-year composite, 35.2
Source: State of Tennessee Department of Education, 2012 annual report. At press time, the latest information available was for the 2011-2012 school year. N/A=not available or not applicable. *Average daily membership is the average of daily attendance counts of students enrolled. **High school graduates with regular diplomas, special education diplomas or certificates of attendance. ***Proficient or advanced.
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[email protected]
615-846-4255
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Case study
Bob Bernstein has expanded his Bongo Java coffee company to five stores and a
roasting brand.
When opportunity knocks,
coffee king takes action
B
ob Bernstein came to Nashville
from Chicago in 1988 to begin a
career as a reporter that would
take him to bigger cities. He fell out of
love with the newspaper business, but
decided he wanted Nashville to be his
home.
His means to stay: coffee.
“I started feeling comfortable here and
seeing there was so much opportunity
here. This town was about to burst,” he
said. “I loved coffeehouses and loved
hanging out in them, and there wasn’t
such a thing here. The entrepreneurial
part of me kicked in, so I developed a coffeehouse.”
With $12,000 of his own money — all
he had — and another $78,000 from local
investors, he opened Bongo Java on Belmont Boulevard in 1993. Twenty years
later, he owns five stores throughout the
city and a roasting brand, generating
more than $6 million in annual revenue.
“It was being in the right thing, at the
right time, at the right place,” he said.
“We put up a burlap sack sign that said,
‘Open Sunday 4 p.m.’ and at 4 p.m. on
Sunday we had a line out the door.”
Bernstein said while part of his success has been timing, it also goes back to
taking opportunities as they came along.
He had never thought beyond his one
shop, but when space opened in Hillsboro
Village, where he runs Fido, he decided
to expand. At that point, he had a track
record with Bongo Java and was able to
negotiate for 36,000 square feet rather
than the 12,000 square feet advertised.
“When opportunity came, I took it,”
he said. “Was I lucky or smart? It was a
combination of both.”
With a growing customer base, finding opportunities became more of a
necessity. Bernstein began roasting his
own coffee brand at Fido, but decided
to move the roasting operation to East
Nashville’s Five Points neighborhood,
foreseeing it as the next growth area.
Now that the Café East has developed its
own customer base, Bernstein said he
plans to move the roasting operation to
the Gulch and will transform Café East
into more of a restaurant.
Bongo Java also will be growing its
brand at the new Omni Nashville Hotel,
which sought out the coffee company to
include a local presence. The hotel has a
licensing agreement with Bongo Java to
use its name and coffee.
Bernstein said he has been asked by
Belmont students whether he is lucky
or smart to have been on the forefront of
Nashville’s coffeehouse industry.
“I was bright enough to know when
luck was there, and I pounced on it,” he
said. “Some people see the opportunity
but don’t act.”
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Nathan Morgan | Nashville Business Journal
By Jamie McGee
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Measuring results on social media
One of the biggest problems I
see with social media is businesses
expect it to solve all of their marketing problems.
Social media is not a silver bullet. It
needs to be integrated into your
overall marketing efforts and
a l i g ne d wit h
company goals
to be effective.
T he outcomes
you measu re
guest
really depend on
column
what you want to
accomplish.
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For social media to be most effective
at this stage of the sales funnel, you
should focus on driving people to content that helps them develop a deeper
connection with you.
Here are some ways you can measure social media’s impact on sales:
n Downloads or views of premium
content
n Number of email subscribers
n Amount of new customers from
social media traffic
n Conversions from social media
leads to buyers
n Sales cycle for social media leads
Build awareness
For companies that want to drive
repeat business and referrals, social
media can help create loyalty with
your customers and encourage them
to recommend your business to others.
Here are some ways to measure
loyalty:
n The number of repeat customers
who are socially engaged with you
n Recommendations on social channels and review sites
n Sales from customers who’ve
engaged with you on social media
n New customers that came from
social media referrals
n Reduced customer attrition
n Improved customer service
response times and reviews
Yes, it’s important to measure your
social media efforts. But you must first
understand how social media fits into
your overall business goals. That way,
you’ll be measuring the right metrics
instead of just tracking numbers.
Perhaps the most common way to
use social media is as an awareness
tool. Social media can help businesses
introduce themselves to people who
may be interested in their offerings.
By engaging with your target audience on social channels and sharing
your content, such as blog posts, videos
and whitepapers, you’re spreading
the word about your company and
generating buzz about your products
or services.
Here are some ways to measure
improvements in awareness:
n Followers, likes and shares
n Traffic to your website and blog
from social channels
n Brand mentions on social sites
n Increased traffic from brand website searches
Drive leads and sales
What many companies are really
after with social media is the ability to
generate leads and, ultimately, sales.
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Laura Click is the founder and CEO
of Blue Kite Marketing in Nashville. She
can be found on Twitter at @lauraclick.
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Strengthen customer loyalty
reasons to offer career assistance
With federal budget cuts
prompting companies to lay off
workers, employers can significantly
increase the job search skills of laidoff workers by providing them with
outplacement career counseling
assistance, according to a new
survey.
Workers who were laid off
by their employers and received
outplacement career counseling
improved their job search skills by
more than six times, according to
the survey by XMi Human Resource
Solutions-OI Partners in Nashville.
More than six times as many
displaced employees reported
having excellent or very good job
search skills after completing
outplacement counseling than they
did before starting their programs,
according to the survey.
Here are 10 benefits for
organizations that provide
outplacement assistance to laid-off
workers:
4. Decreases legal liability.
5. Improves community relations.
6. Reduces workplace violence.
7. Cuts severance pay.
8. Results in quicker decisions to
terminate.
9. Enables more realistic employee
evaluations with outplacement
option.
1. Strengthens morale and
productivity of remaining employees. 10. Supports organization’s brand as
an employer of choice.
2. Maintains morale of displaced
workers.
3. Reduces anxiety during
— Bob McKown, XMi Human Resource
terminations.
Solutions-OI Partners, Nashville
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Strengthening Our Communities
date
organization
event
location
date
organization
event
location
03/28/13
Nashville PRIDE
4th Annual 2 Chefs/ 2 Visions benefiting Nashville
Pride at NFM
Nashville
04/10/13
3rd and Lindsley Bar
and Grill
Songs & Stories for St. Jude
Nashville
03/28/13
The Community
Foundation of Middle
Tennessee
Speakeasy Pop Up Dinner benefitting
Nashville Fashion Week
Nashville
04/11/13
Vanderbilt Dayani Center
Vanderbilt Dayani Center Golf Scramble
Nashville
03/28/133/29/13
Nashville Inner City
Ministry
Nashville Inner City Fish Fry Fundraiser
Nashville
04/12/13
Avalon Center
Fifth Annual Parade of Beauties
Crossville
03/30/13
Benefit for Otis and Lisa
Bowman
Benefit for Otis and Lisa Bowman
Rickman
04/12/13
American Heart
Association
2013 Go Red For Women Luncheon
Nashville
03/30/13
Real Women Of Color
L.O.L. Kid's 4 U Fashion Show
Nashville
Nashville
03/30/13
Oasis Center
Cirque de Nash - A Masked Costume Ball
Nashville
Nashville’s Top 30 Under 30, presented by the
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s
Middle Tennessee chapter
04/01/13
Hope Clinic for Women
Hope for the Future Gala
04/02/13
Make-A-Wish Foundation
of Middle Tennessee
Kevin Carter’s 12th Annual “Waiting for Wishes”
Celebrity Waiter’s Dinner
Nashville
04/03/13
Nashville GLBT Chamber of
Commerce
NGLBTCC Excellence in Business Awards
presented by CURB Records
Nashville
04/04/13
FiftyForward
FiftyForward 24th Crown Affair
Nashville
04/04/13
DUI Court Foundation
Take The Cake
Franklin
Cookeville Rescue Mission Benefit
Concert & Auction
Cookeville
04/04/13 Cookeville Rescue Mission
04/12/13 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
04/12/13
Brentwood Library
Foundation
Ann Patchett - An Evening at the Brentwood Library
Brentwood
04/12/13
Friends of Monroe Carell
Jr. Children's Hospital at
Vanderbilt
An Evening with Friends
Nashville
04/13/13
CASA of Nashville
13th Annual Red Shoe Party
Nashville
04/13/13
Art Link
7 Deadly Sins Fashion and Art Show
Pleasant
View
04/13/13
NAMI Nashville
NAMI Davidson Community Walk & 5K Run & Village
Nashville
04/14/13
Vanderbilt
Sundaes with Friends
Franklin
Power of the Purse Luncheon featuring Keynote
Speaker Kathy Ireland
Nashville
Friends & Fashion: Runway Show and Luncheon
Franklin
We're All for the Hall: A Benefit Concert for the
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Nashville
Nashville
04/04/13
Hospital Hospitality House
Rock the House 2013
Nashville
04/05/13
Happy Haven Children's
Home
Celebration Banquet and 48th Anniversary
Cookeville
04/05/134/6/2013
Tennessee Wildlife
Resources Foundation
Tennessee Governor's One-Shot Turkey
Hunt and Concert
Franklin
04/15/13
04/15/13
04/16/13
04/06/13 Junior League of Nashville
04/06/13
Teen Challenge of the
Upper Cumberland
04/06/13
UMDF Energy for Life
Walkathon
The Music City Masquerade
Hope for Life Golf Tournament
04/17/13
Dismas House of the Upper
Sen. Tommy Burks Memorial Forgiveness Breakfast
Cumberland
Cookeville
04/18/13
Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Middle Tennessee
Men's High Heel Race benefiting
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Nashville
04/18/13
Nashville Predators
Nashville Predators Foundation
Wine Festival & Tasting
Nashville
04/18/13
Scarritt-Bennett Center
Sarah And The Jazz Cats
Nashville
04/19/13
ALS Association of
Tennessee
Seventh Annual Drive for the Cure
Franklin
Cookeville
Energy for Life Walkathon
Nashville
Sertoma Club of Nashville
Celebrate Sound: Don't Walk in Silence
Nashville
04/06/13
The Community
Tennessee
The 14th Annual Cumberland Ball
Nashville
The Community
Tennessee
Nashville Fashion Week
Nashville
4th Annual Dogapalooza
Cookeville
04/06/13 Cookeville Leisure Services
Bridgestone Arena
Nashville
04/06/13
04/02/134/6/2013
The Community
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
04/09/13
Gus Mayer
Monique Lhuillier Fall 2013 Designs at Nashville
Symphony Spring Fashion Show
Nashville
04/09/13
Ryman Auditorium
Jammin' to Beat the Blues featuring
Vince Gill & Friends
Nashville
04/09/13
The Franklin Theatre
Williamson County Community Band
Franklin
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Face to Face
Upcoming
Events
MARCH 27
1
The Value, Impact and Myths of
Angel Investing
Host: Nashville Capital Network
When: 7:30-9:30 a.m.
Where: 211 Commerce St., first
floor event center, Nashville 37201
Cost: Free for NCN partners; $25
for guests
Contact: Abby Robinson at
[email protected]
Speaker: John May
MARCH 28
Surety Bonds with Charles
Sueing
Host: Nashville Business Incubation
Center
When: 1-3 p.m.
Where: 315 10th Ave. N., Nashville,
37203
Cost: Free
Contact: [email protected]
Topic: Surety bonds
APRIL 2
2
3
2013 Governor’s Address
Host: Nashville Area Chamber of
Commerce
When: 7:30-9 a.m.
Where: Sheraton Nashville
Downtown
Cost: $30/members, $60/
nonmembers
Contact: Register online,
nashvillechamber.com; Paige
Anderson, 743-3063
Topic: State’s economy and
business environment
APRIL 19
Chamber University – “We’re Not
in Kansas Anymore: Innovative
Ways to Improve Your Team”
Host: Rutherford County Chamber
of Commerce
When: 7:45-10 a.m.
Where: Rutherford County Chamber
of Commerce, 3050 Medical Center
Parkway, Murfreesboro 37128
nonmembers
rutherfordchamber.org
Speakers: Mary Fink, Scarlett
Leadership Institute; Keith Sanders,
Keith Sanders International
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The Nashville Business Journal celebrates the 2013 Women of Influence
The Nashville Business Journal recently
recognized the 2013 Women of Influence
winners during a luncheon at the Loews
Vanderbilt Hotel. Winners were recognized
in nine categories.
1) Allen DeCuyper, Joni Werthan, Trey
Lipman and Steve Sirls.
2) Bryan Edwards and Sharon Edwards
with daughters Elizabeth and Hillary.
3) Tim Pierce with Amy Seigenthaler Pierce.
Ask the Expert: Live!
Host: Nashville Area Chamber of
Commerce
When: 8:30-10 a.m.
Where: Goodwill Industries of
Middle Tennessee, 937 Herman St.,
Nashville 37208
nonmembers
nashvillechamber.com; Paige
Anderson, 743-3063
Speakers: Mo Syed, Syed Law
Firm; Lisa McIntyer, Benefits Inc.;
Matt Cheuvront, Proof Branding;
Karla Peppas, South Central Media
4) The 2013 class of Women of Influence.
Submit an event: You can submit
your events at http://bizj.us/b1go9
Music City
Achievers
Pam Matthews has been named executive director at International Entertainment
Buyers Association.
Associations & Nonprofits
Hong
Huddle
Kristin Paine has been named deputy
director of external affairs at Cheekwood.
Lauren Hong has been named development associate at Cheekwood.
Julieanna Huddle has been named
CASA volunteer coordinator at CASA Inc.
Nashville. Previously, Huddle was schoolbased case manager at Centerstone.
Freedman
Merville
Bailey
Young
Hogan
Kepley
Turner
Donner
Ozgener
Business Services
Moore
Thorne
Jackson
Ansley
McAllister
Richard McAllister has been named
design principal at Lyman Davidson
Dooley Inc.
Stanley
Krause
Roth
Stephanie Roth has been named associate at Bass Berry & Sims.
Brittain
Sexton has
been named
associate at
Bass Berry &
Sims.
Sexton
Education &
Government
Hampton
Ryan Hampton has been
promoted to campus
director at University of
Phoenix Nashville campus.
Previously, Hampton was
campus director, Cincinnati
campus.
Brent Moody, medical
director of Skin Cancer &
Surgery Center, has been
reappointed as chairman
of the American College
of Mohs Surgery’s Public
Policy Committee.
Jedlowski
Thomas Jedlowski has
been promoted to marketing
manager at MEIKO USA Inc.
Previously, Jedlowski was
marketing coordinator.
Media & Marketing
Snyder
Betsy Snyder has been
promoted to associate
creative director at Sullivan
Branding. Previously, Snyder
was senior writer.
Residential
Real Estate
Geiger
Mike Geiger has been
named Realtor at The
Wilson Group Real Estate
Services.
Retailing &
Restaurants
Human Resources
Mike Page has been
named account executive at
Frontline Source Group.
Page
Marcia
Topiwala
has been named associate
at Bass Berry & Sims.
Topiwala
Manufacturing
Health Care
Moore
David Forshee has been named senior
Michael Creath has been promoted to
e-discovery project manager at Waller.
Previously, Creath was litigation support
specialist.
Scott Brooks has been named senior
designer at Ragan-Smith Associates.
Kristen Mitchell has been named staff
accountant at Lattimore Black Morgan
& Cain. Previously, Mitchell was staff
accountant at Carter Lankford CPAs.
Aron
Brooks
Todd Cruse has been promoted to vice
president of government relations at
DentaQuest. Previously, Cruse was senior
adviser.
Forshee
Joseph McKinney, associate of
Dickinson Wright, has been elected president of the Napier-Looby Bar Foundation.
Caleb Thorne has been named project
manager at Ragan-Smith Associates.
Hanback
Mitchell
Steve Rosenblatt, attorney of Butler
Snow, will be inducted into the American
College of Bankruptcy as a fellow of the
college.
Sarah Krause has been named associate
at Bass Berry & Sims.
Chandler Means has been
promoted to executive director at AGAPE. Previously,
Means was director of
development.
Terrell
Creath
Amanda Elliott Stanley has been promoted to of counsel at Bass Berry & Sims.
Previously, Stanley was associate.
Moody
Malham
McKinney
Andrew Moore has been
named project manager at
Crain Construction Inc.
Construction
Banking & Financial Services
Jacobs
Nikki Hudsmith has been
named vice president of
consulting operations at
Performance pH.
Rosenblatt
Commercial
Real Estate
Gordon
Entrepreneurs’ Organization
Nashville has named a
new board of directors:
president, Joe Freedman,
Music City Tents; past
president, Andy Bailey,
Petra Coach; incoming
president, Dan Hogan,
May
Medalogix; forum chair,
Bryan Merville, Beacon Technologies;
forum co-chair, Alan Young, Armor
Concepts; membership chair, John
Kepley, Teknetex Inc.; membership cochair, Jackson Miller, Bizen Inc.; forum
health/retention chair, Jeff Turner, Turner
Machine Co. Inc; sponsorship chair,
Ben Hanback, The Hanback Group;
sponsorship co-chair, Bob Jacobs,
Equity Express; learning chair, Arnie
Malham, CJ Advertising; social chair,
JT Terrell, Music City Tents; finance
chair, John Aron, The Pasta Shoppe;
communications chair, Eric Jackson,
Keystone Business Solutions; catalyst
chair, Bryan Ansley, FNB Merchants;
catalyst co-chair, Alex Tolbert, Bernard
Health; member benefits/integration,
Chris Kincade, The Kincade Group Inc.;
spousal forum, Rebecca Donner, Inner
Design Studio; at-large/forum olympics,
David Box, Trinisys; at-large/community,
Tim Ozgener, Ozgener Ventures; atlarge/membership, Debbie Gordon, S3
Surplus Management; atlarge/mentorship, Charles
May, Bytes of Knowledge.
Means
Miller
Kincade
Hudsmith
Box
Paine
To submit your Achievers entries online
visit bit.ly/nbjachievers.
Photos can be attached directly to
the submission form. Photos must be
attached as .jpg or .tif files.
Kaitlin Moore has been
named customer service
representative at First
Freedom Bank.
Tolbert
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vice president, commercial banking at
Franklin Synergy Bank.
Arts & Entertainment
Jill Robinson, director of executive
learning and marketing for the Center for
Executive Education at Belmont University,
has been named to the board of directors
of Young Leaders Council as chairwoman.
Robilio
Steven Robilio has been
named executive chef at
Amerigo. Previously, Robilio
was at Andrew Michael
Italian Kitchen and Hog &
Hominy.
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NASHVILLE LEADERS UNDER 40
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Forty
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Do you know someone who is making a big impact in
Wilson County?
The Nashville Business Journal is pleased to announce the return of our Impact Awards Series!
The Impact Awards honor the leaders, community supporters, business owners and developers
who are leading the charge for improvements and economic development in Wilson county.
The Wilson County Impact Awards will feature an awards luncheon in July where we will
recognize a group of finalists and announce the Impact Awards top five winners. On July 19, the
Nashville Business Journal will publish the Wilson County Impact Awards special publication,
which will highlight all of the award finalists and winners.
NOW TAKING NOMINATIONS
go to nashvillebusinessjournal.com/nomination before March 28, 2013.
Wilson County
Community Partner:
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Forty
under
THROUGHOUT 2013, the Nashville Business Journal will profile the
winners in our annual Forty Under 40 award program. The honorees
were chosen by a panel of Forty Under 40 alumni and were selected for
professional achievement and community involvement.
UPCOMING WINNERS’ PROFILES
April Britt, Avenue Bank ................................................................................ March 29
Matt Simpson, Vaco LLC ..................................................................................... April 5
Dr. Carmen April, The Foot and Ankle Healthcare Center .......................... April 12
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MARK HARRIS
NextGxDx
Mark Harris loves science. He also
loves to find ways to build a better mousetrap. He combined those two passions two
years ago when he founded NextGxDx,
which he describes as the “Amazon.com
of genetic testing.” The startup wants
to make the process of genetic testing
simpler, offering doctors and health care
providers an online catalog to research,
compare and order tests.
WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO GET WHERE YOU
ARE TODAY? My academic career was
launched by a love of science and the
pursuit of truth. Biological systems
are beautiful in their complexity, and I
wanted to understand them in extreme
detail. More than that, I wanted to
probe for answers which no one had
ever found before. This led me to spend
eight years in the laboratory, learning
the ins and outs of molecular biology.
Along this road, I realized that I cannot stand to find things that don’t work
efficiently. It spurs me to fix those
processes. I transitioned to an MBA
to learn the skills to apply this drive
toward improving health care in a
commercial setting.
WHAT IS THE BEST PIECE OF BUSINESS ADVICE
YOU HAVE EVER RECEIVED? You can’t strive
for a perfect product before you get out
there and obtain market feedback. So
if you’re not embarrassed by your first
software release, you waited too long
to launch it.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU ARE
CURRENTLY FACING? Continuing to build
NextGxDx into the premier genetic
test-ordering resource available.
OF WHAT PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT ARE
YOU MOST PROUD? Running all the way
across the Grand Canyon and back
in one day, from the south rim to the
north rim and back to the south rim,
covering 52 miles.
About Harris
Title: Founder and CEO
Age: 31
Address: 389 Nichol Mill Lane, Franklin
37067
Phone: (615) 260-8991
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @nextgxdxinc
Web: www.nextgxdx.com
Education: Vanderbilt University
WHAT WOULD YOU TELL OTHER YOUNG BUSINESS LEADERS TO DO TO FIND SUCCESS? Follow your passions, and allow your
enthusiasm to shine. People respond
to genuine excitement and that is what
allows you to build support around
your ideas and projects. If what you’re
working on doesn’t inspire you, it’s
time to look for something else.
WHAT KIND OF HOBBIES DO YOU ENJOY? I’m
an avid endurance athlete, and enjoy
trail running, cycling and anything
that gets me out in the woods.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NETWORKING SPOT
FOR BUSINESS? The Entrepreneur Center’s events. They always have a great
mix of entrepreneurs, technologists
and investors — all who are high
energy and are working hard to make
Nashville great.
WHEN YOU WERE 10 YEARS OLD, WHAT DID
YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GREW UP? An
aeronautical engineer. I’m still blamed
for thinking like an engineer from
time to time.
WHERE WOULD WE FIND YOU ON A SATURDAY? At the gym or outdoors enjoying
nature with my family.
WHAT IS YOUR NEXT PROFESSIONAL GOAL TO
ACCOMPLISH? Making NextGxDx the No.
1 resource for genetic testing information among medical professionals.
Executive
karen shayne
Profile
On launching a nonprofit, helping cancer survivors move forward,
her talents on the banjo and her passion for cooking.
After nearly two decade s as an
administrator in the long-term care and
senior living industry, Karen Shayne
founded the Women Survivors Alliance in
2011, a Nashville-based nonprofit aimed
at supporting cancer
survivors and their
families. The alliance is
hosting its first National
Wom e n’s S ur viv ors
Convention in August at Gaylord
Opryland Resort and Convention Center,
an event expected to draw thousands of
women survivors and their caretakers.
Shayne is a two-time cancer survivor.
Karen Shayne
Age: 45
Title: Founder
Company: Women Survivors
Alliance/National Women’s Survivors
Convention
Web: www.survivorsconvention.com
Employees: Total volunteer
organization
Most recently read book: “Great By
Choice” by Jim Collins
Favorite music artist: Journey, Bon
Jovi and Daughtry
Education: P.A., psychology; M.A.,
education.
Community involvement:
Leadership Middle Tennessee,
American Cancer Society Action
Cancer Network state lead
ambassador, Tennessee Cancer
Coalition survivorship co-chairwoman
Q&A
What is the most outside-the-box idea
you have ever had in your professional
career? It would have to be hosting thousands of women cancer survivors at an
event no one has ever done before in history, all while trying to create a magical
platform to take the survivorship mood
and transform it into a movement.
say Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
One woman took a promise, and with
an amazing and dedicated group that
stood with her, created a movement to
end breast cancer. Through research
efforts Komen has saved lives of so
many women worldwide. Not many
companies can say they have done
that.
What was the result? I’ll let you know on
Aug. 25.
What single thing makes your organization stand out? That an event of this
magnitude has never been done. Also,
this alliance was created by women
cancer survivors for women cancer
survivors, and the efforts we are putting
forth will help others to take note of the
issues women survivors face far after
they are “unplugged” from chemo.
Can you name a person who has had a
tremendous impact on you as a leader?
Pat Summitt. She’s fearless. She’s
successful. She’s effective. She’s
respected. Now she is facing the most
challenging time of her life, and she’s
doing it with grace and dignity — all
while giving back and making a difference. Without a doubt that makes
her my hero.
What does your organization have in the
works for 2013? Forming great partnerships while planning more awareness
and educational opportunities for
women survivors.
How did you wind up in your current position? I founded the organization after
about two years of research.
Nathan Morgan | Nashville Business Journal
What makes an effective business leader?
Those who surround them with people
far smarter than they are.
Karen Shayne, executive director and founder of National Women’s Survivors
Convention, says she enjoys providing “the resource to help women find their
best new normal. I’ve been there. I’m there now,” says Shayne, a cancer survivor
herself for the past 25 years.
What word best describes your leadership style? Very democratic. I believe
an effective leader encompasses discussion, debate and sharing of ideas and
encouragement of people to feel good
about their involvement.
Pets? I have one furry child. Her name
is Marley Jo, and she is 6 years old. She
is an 8-pound Maltese-Shih Tzu mix
and a Titans fan. Her favorite thing is to
stand straight up on her hind legs when
we shout, “Touchdown Titans!”
What keeps you up at night? How to continue to attract the best and brightest
people while making effective partnerships to help grow this movement.
Professional pet peeve? Emails expected to be returned as soon as they are
delivered.
Favorite hobbies? I love to cook. I have
become totally addicted to the Food
Network and HGTV. I collect kitchen
gadgets now. Lots and lots of them.
You’ve just been given $100,000 to donate
to charity. Where would you give it, and
why? I would certainly use it to scholarship women cancer survivors to attend
this event.
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Most prized possession? My grandpa’s
banjo and my grandmother’s last taken
picture.
When faced with two equally qualified
candidates, how do you determine whom
to hire? I would have to say I would
go with my gut and choose the person
that had the most passion for the position. I have learned there is a huge
difference between passion and excitement. Passion grows, excitement fades.
What would you like to cross off your
“bucket list” next? I would love to go to
Paris and take a cooking class from a
professional chef.
What is there about you that people
would be surprised to learn? I am a
banjo player. I learned how to play
at age 15 in the back storage room of
a Singer sewing store in a tiny little
town in North Georgia.
If you had to choose one, what is (or
would be) your go-to karaoke song?
Without a doubt, it would be “Me and
Bobby McGee.”
What is the one behavior or trait that
most often derails leaders’ careers?
Difficulty in changing or adapting.
When someone lacks the ability to be
flexible and/or adjust to a new culture, it’s usually is a sign trouble is
ahead.
What is the simplest thing you never
learned to do? I never learned how to
stop biting my nails.
What line of work would you pursue if
you couldn’t work in your present one? I
love what I do and would not want to go
anywhere else.
They’re making a movie of your life. Is it
a drama or comedy and who plays you? I
think it depends upon the day. I would
hope it would be a comedy. I am a huge
fan of Kate Hudson.
Person outside of your family you would
most like to spend time with on an island?
My best friend, Vicki.
Organization or company other than
your own that you most admire? Even
with the past controversies, I have to
If you could live a double life, the other
would be: A fashion designer or a professional baker — maybe both.
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New Corporations . . . . . . . . 31
Real Estate Transactions
Commercial . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
State Tax Liens . . . . . . . . . . . 27
State Tax Liens Released . . . . 27
BANKRUPTCIES
Middle District of
Tennessee
Nashville Division
Chapter 7
R-Squared Investments
LLC, 11692 Stewarts Ferry Pike,
Lebanon 37090; Assets, $2,569;
Debts, $161,642; Major Creditor, Lansing Building Products,
$42,551; Attorney, Joseph P. Rusnak; case #13-02077, 03/07/13.
Chapter 11
The Vinson Group LLC, 412
Maple Ave., Nashville 37210;
Assets, $753,956; Debts,
$606,799; Major Creditor, Internal Revenue Service, $175,000;
Attorney, Steven L. Lefkovitz; case
#13-01993, 03/06/13.
LAWSUITS FILED
Davidson County
Circuit Court
Leitner Williams Dooley &
Napolitan PLLC vs. International Yang Family Tai
Chi Chuan Association/
International Tai Chi
Chuan Symposium LLC,
contract/debt, case #13C902,
03/04/13.
Pamela Tidwell vs. Neighbors of Sylvan Park LLC
dba Neighbors Bar/Jody
Myers, slander, case #13C929,
03/05/13.
Fleet One LLC vs. M. Goodman & Co. USA Inc./
Michael Frederick Goodman, gsa contract/debt, case
#13C959, 03/06/13.
Kirk Fonte vs. Hazco
LLC, gsa contract/debt, case
#13C961, 03/06/13.
Pellissippi State Community College vs. Enzo Cangelosi dba Expeditions
Travel, contract/debt, case
#13C1001, 03/08/13.
Nathan Staab vs. Lucy Blu
LLC, wrongful termination, case
Mae L. Parman vs. Saint
Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgical Center LLC/
Howell Allen Clinic A
Professional Corp., health
care/medical malpractice, case
#13C1005, 03/08/13.
Michael E. Morgan/Candous Morgan vs. Chizek
Transport Inc./David
Bristol, damage/auto, case
#13C1008, 03/08/13.
Terrie Lynn Foster vs. American Red Cross Blood
Services aka American
Red Cross Biomedical
Services, health care/medical
malpractice, case #13C1009,
03/08/13.
Candace Simmons vs.
Riverbike of Tennessee/
Jennie Garrett, damage/
negligence, case #13C1010,
03/08/13.
Williamson County
Circuit Court
Anna Maria Andriani vs.
Publix Super Markets Inc.,
damages & torts, case #2013 CV
73, 02/14/13.
Larry Grass/John Grass vs.
Senior Living Property
Co. LLC/Sovran Management Co./Southern Land
Assisted Living Facility,
74, 02/14/13.
Nicole Digesare vs. Old
Dominion Freight Line
Inc./Bsyardo Elias Rios,
77, 02/15/13.
Charles V. Depriest/Kyong
Suk Depriest vs. Southern
Land Co. LLC/John Kole &
Co. PC, damages & torts, case
#2013 CV 105, 03/06/13.
FEDERAL TAX LIENS
Davidson County
TB Reynolds Janitorial Services Inc., 5616 Highland Way,
Nashville 37211, $23,890, (941),
instrument #021643, 03/04/13.
Southern Maintenance
Group Inc., 2603 Fessey Park
Road, Nashville 37204, $25,186,
(941), instrument #023495,
03/08/13.
Milburn L. Martin Estate/
Michael L. Martin, 8703
Diane St., Murfreesboro 37129,
$307,134, (706), instrument
#023505, 03/08/13.
Kimberly Olson an LLC, 1435
14th Ave. S., Nashville 37212,
$16,280, (940/941), instrument
#023506, 03/08/13.
Rutherford County
Norene M. Fritts, 2356 Saint
Andrews Drive, Murfreesboro
37128, $32,980, (CIVP), Volume/
Page 1197/2732, 02/25/13
Sumner County
Kidz Kastle Child Care Center Inc., 104 Cherokee Road,
Hendersonville 37075, $11,801,
(941), Book/Page 3729/673,
03/01/13
Williamson County
Rising Stars Academy LLC,
1215 Lakeview Drive, Franklin
37067, $13,893, (940/941),
Book/Page 5852/509, 03/04/13.
Danielle D. Thomas, 1215
Lakeview Drive, Franklin 37067,
$18,157, (940/941), Book/Page
5853/855, 03/05/13.
Verble Estate Preservation & Advisors LLC, 205
Powell Place, Brentwood 37027,
$27,653, (941), Book/Page
5853/860, 03/05/13.
STATE TAX LIENS
Davidson County
Advanced Customer Services Inc., 1931 Airlane Drive
Suite B, Nashville 37210, (Unemployment), instrument #021688,
03/05/13.
Chancel Hospitality Residential, 8206 Forest Lake Drive,
Conway, S.C. 29526, (Revenue),
instrument #021124, 03/04/13.
Meridian Consulting Group
LLC, 1207 Fourth St. Suite 300,
Santa Monica, Calif. 90401,
(Revenue), instrument #021125,
03/04/13.
Public Partnerships LLC, 148
State St. Floor 10, Boston, Mass.
02109, (Revenue), instrument
#021126, 03/04/13.
Advancement Strategies
LLC, 328 Compass Point Suite
100, Hermitage 37076, (Revenue),
instrument #021127, 03/04/13.
IGM LLC, 12966 Old Hickory
Blvd., Antioch 37013, (Revenue),
instrument #021128, 03/04/13.
ARTC Acquisitions Inc., 3352
N. Futrall Drive, Fayetteville, Ark.
#021129, 03/04/13.
Danfoss Holding Inc., 1775-G
MacLeod Drive, Lawrenceville,
Ga. 30043, (Revenue), instrument
#021130, 03/04/13.
Coding Source Holdings
Inc., 4 Embarcadero Center Suite
3610, San Francisco, Calif. 94111,
03/06/13.
Aaron E. Carlos dba Aaron
Edward Carlos, 1134 Skyland
Drive Suite B, Sylva, N.C. 28779,
03/06/13.
Shared Technologies Cellular Inc., 100 Great Meadow
Road Suite 1043, Wethersfield,
Conn. 06109, (Revenue), instru-
Building Permits are collected from the
codes departments in Davidson County and
surrounding counties. Data includes contractor and or owner, job site address, descripment #022228, 03/06/13.
Iwash Two LLC, 4429 Warner
Place, Nashville 37205, (Revenue), instrument #022229,
03/06/13.
Karen L. Roe, 7516 Rigby Court,
Lakewood Ranch, Fla. 34202,
03/06/13.
LTF Club Management Co.
LLC, P.O. Box 7340, Garden
City, N.Y. 11530, (Unemployment),
instrument #023133, 03/08/13.
RX Medco LLC, P.O. Box 1151,
Deerfield Beach, Fla. 33443,
(Unemployment), instrument
#023134, 03/08/13.
Telecommunications Systems Inc., 275 West St., Annapolis, Md. 21401, (Unemployment),
instrument #023135, 03/08/13.
Fletcher/CSI, P.O. Box 1061,
Williston, Vt. 05495, (Unemployment), instrument #023136,
03/08/13.
Associates in Health Care
LLC, 7986 Tanners Gate Lane,
Florence, Ky. 41042, (Unemployment), instrument #023137,
03/08/13.
Olympus Building Services
Inc., 24 Arnett Ave. Suite 11,
Lambertville, N.J. 08530, (Unemployment), instrument #023138,
03/08/13.
Triad Inc. America, 7242 Arco
Iris Lane, Castle Pines, Colo.
80108, (Unemployment), instrument #023139, 03/08/13.
OneRateDeals.com LLC, 166
W. Kell St., Metuchen, N.J. 08840,
(Unemployment), instrument
#023140, 03/08/13.
Time Domain Corp., 4955
Corporate Drive N.W. Suite 101,
Huntsville, Ala. 35805, (Unemployment), instrument #023141,
03/08/13.
American Truck and Trailer
Repair, 1312 Lebanon Pike,
Nashville 37210, (Revenue),
instrument #023114, 03/08/13.
Transfirst Holdings Inc., 371
Centennial Parkway, Louisville,
Colo. 80027, (Revenue), instrument #023115, 03/08/13.
Arkansas Masco Inc., 835
Central Ave. Suite 510, Hot
Springs, Ark. 71901, (Revenue),
instrument #023116, 03/08/13.
Tang’s Inc., 1415 Knox Valley Drive, Brentwood 37027,
03/08/13.
Granite Direct Store Inc.,
2958 Sidco Drive, Nashville
#023118, 03/08/13.
Alexander Alignment Inc.,
1107 Straightway Ave., Nashville
#023119, 03/08/13.
Ryks Petro Inc., 803 Dickerson
Pike, Nashville 37207, (Revenue),
instrument #023120, 03/08/13.
Larry D. and Debra K. Chapman, 231 Gifford Place, Joelton
tion, estimated value.
New Business Licenses are compiled from
applications filed with the County Clerk’s office.
The data includes business name, address, zip
code, type of business (if available).
New Corporations are registered with the
State of Tennessee.
Liquor Licenses include new and closed
liquor establishments filed with the Tennessee
Alcoholic Beverage Commission. The data
includes licensee name and dba, address,
effective date.
#023121, 03/08/13.
Rutherford County
Leath Contracting LLC, 3027
Barretts Ridge Drive, Murfreesboro 37130, (Revenue), Volume/
Page 1198/2018, 02/27/13.
Williamson County
Stephan Bridges, 200 Heather
Circle, Brentwood 37027, (Revenue), Book/Page 5852/304,
03/04/13.
Lista International Corp.,
2187 Hillsboro Road Suite 404,
Franklin 37069, (Revenue), Book/
Page 5852/305, 03/04/13.
Sweet Cece’s Franchising
LLC, 103 Jamison Station Lane,
Page 5852/306, 03/04/13.
Tool Box, 2014 Fairview Blvd.,
Fairview 37062, (Revenue), Book/
Page 5856/127, 03/07/13.
SC at Hillsboro Village LLC,
103 Jamison Station Lane, Franklin
37064, (Revenue), Book/Page
5856/128, 03/07/13.
Biscuit Love Truck Inc., 300
Fourth St. S. Apt. 6, Franklin
5856/129, 03/07/13.
Franklin Films LLC, 317 Main
St. Suite 212, Franklin 37064,
(Revenue), Book/Page 5856/130,
03/07/13.
Advanced Kitchen Concepts
Inc., 1908 Columbia Ave., Franklin 37064, (Revenue), Book/Page
5857/413, 03/08/13.
Performance Home Products LLC, 354 Downs Blvd.
Suite 101, Franklin 37064, (Revenue), Book/Page 5857/414,
03/08/13.
Wilson County
Southern Rose Antique,
70 Riadon Road, Hartsville
1532/2013, 03/11/13.
N’Town 615 LLC, 4604 Franklin
Pike, Nashville 37220, (Revenue),
Book/Page 1532/2009, 03/11/13.
Chris A. Lackey, 671 McCreary
Road, Lebanon 37090, (Revenue),
Book/Page 1532/2012, 03/11/13.
Khalsa Inc., 1137 N. Castle
Heights Ave., Lebanon 37087,
(Revenue), Book/Page
1532/2011, 03/11/13.
Reliance Technology Solutions LLC, 25 Maple Grove
Drive Suite 101, Crossville
1532/2010, 03/11/13.
03/04/13.
William J. Wilson/Nashville Truck Wash Inc., 502
Interstate Blvd., Nashville 37210,
03/04/13.
Roberts Hotels Memphis
Inc., 1408 N. Kings Highway
Blvd. Suite 300, Saint Louis, Mo.
#021637, 03/04/13.
Vista Investments LLC, 5141
Virginia Way Suite 460, Brentwood 37027, (Revenue), instrument #021638, 03/04/13.
Sara E. Gillett, 1561 E. 49th
Place, Tulsa, Okla. 74105, (Revenue), instrument #022705,
03/07/13.
Gett Communications Inc.,
1207 Forrest Ave., Nashville
#022706, 03/07/13.
John Vaughn dba Place of
Bargains, 241 Hearthstone
Manor Lane, Brentwood 37027,
03/07/13.
Hal T. Farmer, 511 Rivergate
Parkway, Goodlettsville 37072,
03/08/13.
William F. Howard, 615 Belle
Meade Blvd. Apt. 105, Nashville
#023113, 03/08/13.
Sumner County
Scapes LLC, P.O. Box 908,
Hendersonville 37075, (Unemployment), Book/Page 3729/652,
03/01/13.
Lawn Creations Inc., 131
Tamaras Way, Hendersonville
37075, (Unemployment), Book/
Page 3729/663, 03/01/13.
H2O Hydrowraps Inc., 234
Molly Walton Drive, Hendersonville
Page 3729/672, 03/01/13.
Lamar Gribble individually
and dba G&B Carpentry,
P.O. Box 8945, Gallatin 37066,
(Unemployment), Book/Page
3729/681, 03/01/13.
Boyd Mechanical Co., P.O.
Box 965, Gallatin 37066, (Unemployment), Book/Page 3729/688,
03/01/13.
Williamson County
Vista Investments LLC, 5141
Virginia Way Suite 460, Brentwood 37027, (Revenue), Book/
Page 5853/722, 03/05/13.
Elmer Davis, P.O. Box 1538,
Page 5863/723, 03/05/13.
RELEASES OF
STATE TAX LIENS
Camelot Care Centers Inc.,
Davidson County
Hair Shoppe/Salon Legacy,
Vides Carpentry Inc., 5028
Madeline Drive, Nashville 37211,
10304 Spotsylvania Ave. Floor
3, Fredericksburg, Va. 22408,
5853/779, 03/05/13.
330 Mayfield Drive Suite A-2,
Franklin 37067, (Unemployment),
Book/Page 5853/780, 03/05/13.
28
Granite Place, 1124 Harpeth
Industrial Court Suite A, Franklin
Page 5853/781, 03/05/13.
Barnes Tax Advisory Group,
8509 Trelady Court, Plano 75024,
5853/782, 03/05/13.
Clean Earth Sanitation Inc.,
320 Century Court, Franklin
5854/875, 03/06/13.
Place of Bargains, 241 Hearthstone Manor Lane, Brentwood
5856/131, 03/07/13.
Wilson County
Allison Systems, 153 Faulkner
Lane, Mount Juliet 37122, (Revenue), Book/Page 1531/1810,
03/04/13.
BTL Construction LLC, 109
N. Castle Heights Ave., Lebanon
1531/1588, 03/04/13.
Graves Fitness Center Inc.,
121 Adams Lane, Mount Juliet
1532/470, 03/06/13.
REAL ESTATE
TRANSACTIONS COMMERCIAL
Davidson County
Procacci Nashville LLC
to Nashville GSA LLC,
2000 Town Center Suite 2360,
Southfield, Mich. 48075, Lot 13
Brick Church Business Park,
$9,850,000.
Margery D. Bell and Richard
E. Cohen Trustee to LandDevelopment.com Inc., 798
Old Hickory Blvd., Brentwood
37027; 3721 Woodmont Blvd.,
Nashville 37215, $1,182,098.
Sylvia B. Zager to Tyne
Boulevard Partners GP,
9425 Weatherly Drive, Brentwood
37027; 1917 Tyne Blvd., Nashville
37215, Map 144/Parcels 44/115,
$831,000.
D. Price Investments Inc. to
Steven P. and Sherry G.
Anderson, 916 Myatt Industrial
Drive, Madison 37115, Lot 7 Rivergate Industrial Park, $750,000.
William F. and Maxine E.
Majors to LandDevelopment.com Inc., 6238 Hillsboro
Pike, Nashville 37215, Tax Information 158-02-0 011/00, $525,000.
H&K Investments to Grand
Golden Dragon Enterprises Inc., 613 Angela Circle,
Goodlettsville 37072; 3421-A
33rd Ave. S., Nashville 37212,
Unit G Avenue South Townhomes,
$445,000.
H&K Investments to Grand
Golden Dragon Enterprise
Inc., 613 Angela Circle, Good-
lettsville 37072; 3431-B 33rd Ave.
S., Nashville 37212, Unit H Avenue
South Townhomes, $440,000.
VTH 5th and Main LLC to
East End LLC, 501 Main St.,
Nashville 37206, Unit 1 5th and
Main Condominium, $396,900.
906 Bradford Ave. LLC to
Garafola Properties LLC,
3800 Robbins Nest Court,
Thompsons Station 37179; 906
Bradford Ave., Nashville 37204,
Map-Parcel 105-13-326.00,
$355,000.
Marvin R. Hunley to Bonnabrook LLC, 1019 Jones
Parkway, Brentwood 37027;
100 Bonnabrook Drive, Hermitage 37076, Map 086-01 Parcel
069.00, $350,000.
Margery D. Bell to LandDevelopment.com Inc., 798
Old Hickory Blvd., Brentwood
37027; 3731 Woodmont Blvd.,
Nashville 37215, Map-Parcel 116
080 18500, $350,000.
Katherine R. Watson/
Jeanne E. Graham/
Melinda Fleming/Rhonda
Schremmer to Screaming Eagles LLC, 1448 Neelys
Bend Road, Madison 37115;
602-A/604-A/606-A S. 13th St.,
Nashville 37206, Map-Parcel 094
01008400/09401008300/09401
008200, $260,000.
Deutsche Bank National
Trust Co. Trustee to Greenway Investors LLC, 229
Cherokee Road, Nashville 37205,
Lot 27 Cherokee Park, $246,000.
Austin M. Scott to LBP LLC,
108-A Pembroke Ave., Nashville
37205; 2097 Graybar Lane No.
B-1, Nashville 37215, Unit B-1
Graybar Manor, $207,000.
NW Burkitt LLC to Regent
Homes LLC, 6901 Lennox
Village Drive Suite 107, Nashville
37211; 473/479/480 Burkitt
Place, Nolensville 37135, Lots
473/479/480 Burkitt Place,
$196,723.
Jacqueline J. Davis/Shirley
Davis Brooks/George M.
Davis Jr. et al. to American
Homes 4 Rent Properties
One LLC, 23815 Stuart Ranch
Road Suite 302, Malibu, Calif.
90265; 7339 Smokey Hill Road,
Antioch 37013, Lot 271 Apple Valley, $187,000.
Lake Forest Homes Inc. to
American Homes 4 Rent
Properties Three LLC,
23815 Stuart Ranch Road Suite
302, Malibu, Calif. 90265; 8028
Mandan Drive, Brentwood 37027,
Lot 116 Indian Creek, $183,500.
William C. Mockmore to
WLA Velocity Investors VI
GP, 990 N. Michigan Ave. Suite
1900 c/o Walton Street Capital
LLC Attn.: Angela Lang Esq.
and Douglas Welker, Chicago,
Ill. 60611; 320 11th Ave. S. Unit
570, Nashville 37203, Unit 570
Velocity Residential Condominium,
$167,000.
Sumner County
Jennifer Brassell Champion
and Justin Champion to
Properties Three LLC,
22917 Pacific Coast Highway
Suite 300, Malibu, Calif. 90265;
128 Huntington Place, Hendersonville 37075, Lot 194 Wyncrest,
$225,000.
Michael J. and Jennifer
S. Mitchell to American
Homes 4 Rent Properties
One LLC, 22917 Pacific Coast
Highway Suite 300, Malibu, Calif.
90265; 239 Osprey Drive, Gallatin 37066, Lot 180 Twin Eagles,
$186,000.
Jeb and Kelly Vantrease to
LP, 22917 Pacific Coast Highway
135 E. Harbor, Hendersonville
37075, Lot 14 Harbortowne,
$184,000.
Amber N. Cornell and Richard E. Cornell Jr. to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Three LLC, 22917 Pacific
Coast Highway Suite 300, Malibu,
Calif. 90265; 664 Weathervane
Drive, Gallatin 37066, Lot 26 Twin
Eagles, $162,500.
Teena Vincent Administrator to American Homes 4
Rent Properties One LLC,
22917 Pacific Coast Highway
439 Buckingham Blvd., Gallatin
37066, Lot 185 Cambridge Farms,
$152,500.
Wilson County
Paddocks Development LP
to White Castle System
Inc., 555 W. Goodale St., Columbus, Ohio 43215, Lot 3 Paddocks
at Mount Juliet, $640,000.
Mattie Austelle Smartt and
Myra Wilson Simms to
Green Trails LLC, 2925 Berry
Hill Drive, Nashville 37204; 1307
S. Rutland Road, Mount Juliet
37122, Providence Landing at
Ellenwood Farms, $635,000.
Megan E. Ewers to American Homes 4 Rent Properties One LLC, 22917 Pacific
Calif. 90265; 1621 W. Wilson
Blvd., Mount Juliet 37122, Park at
Mount Vernon, $210,000.
James C. Smith to American
Homes 4 Rent Properties One LLC, 22917 Pacific
Calif. 90265; 3167 Aidan Lane,
Mount Juliet 37122, Providence,
$167,000.
Christopher M. Thorson to
Properties One LLC, 22917
Pacific Coast Highway Suite
300, Malibu, Calif. 90265; 2707
Meadow Park, Mount Juliet 37122,
Park Glen, $160,500.
REAL ESTATE
TRANSACTIONS RESIDENTIAL
D-4 Glencourt Condominiums,
$550,000.
Maxine Barnes Successor
Trustee to Jennifer Oakley,
P.O. Box 90295, Nashville 37209,
Map 100 Parcel 11.00, $530,000.
George E. and Diane
Townsend to Donald E.
Carrillo, 1516 Sweetbriar Ave.,
Nashville 37212, Map-Parcel 11704-0-035.00, $515,000.
Rollins Associates LP to
Jerry and Kim Presley/
David and Marcy Towson,
4324 Lindawood Drive, Nashville
37215, Lot 5 Sneed Estates,
$490,000.
Jason Bockman to Benjamin M. and Mary K. Bentley, 1104 Clifton Lane, Nashville
37024, Map-Parcel 11909001700,
$482,500.
Doug and Cynthia Eckert to
Christopher and Jill Karcher, 4311 Wyoming Ave., Nashville
37209, Sylvan Park, $463,000.
fer Goodman Sohr to Cory
Short, 1410 Gale Lane, Nashville
37212, Map-Parcel 117-8-199,
$340,000.
Syndey E. McCann to Mangus J. Gorrie, 3021 Seventh
Ave. S., Birmingham, Ala. 35233;
900 20th Ave. S., Nashville 37212,
Unit 1612 The Adelicia, $330,000.
Twin Team LLC to Jeremy
M. Rathfon and Sarah E.
Hicks, 1303 Shelby Ave., Nashville 37206, Lot 194 East Edgefield, $323,000.
David M. and Connie S.
Herrell to Kelley and Sean
Newman, 1228 Banbury Row,
Brentwood 37027, Lot 174 Banbury Crossing, $322,000.
Hugh P. IV and Angela L.
Hobbs to Reyna L. Gordon
and Cyrille L. Magne, 1807
Kensington Drive, Murfreesboro
37127; 6641 Christiansted Lane,
Nashville 37211, Lot 11 Christiansted Valley, $320,000.
The following information is
taken from residential real
estate transactions of more
than $300,000 recorded at
various county court houses in
Middle Tennessee. Information
is listed in the following order:
seller, buyer, property address,
property/subdivision description and sale price. This information is available on disk or
via e-mail. The e-mail version
arrives one week earlier than
the published version. For cost
and more information, call 877593-4157.
Brett A. Doyle to Aretha
M. Blevins and David M.
Friedlander, 1007 Paris Ave.,
Lauren E. and Matthew A.
Cost to Kurt A. and Leah
E. Nussle, 700 Cloverbrook
Kaz C. and Kimberly F.
Kikkawa to Melanie V.
Walton, 2610 Westwood Ave.,
Eric Filipovitz and Sara Putnam Filipovitz to Gregory
D. Tomlinson and Sarah
Hale Tomlinson, 5428 Cot-
Davidson County
Nashville 37209, Sylvan Park,
$439,900.
John T. Bourland and Ann
Munday Bourland to Brent
A. and Lacey N. Keally,
3507 Foxhall Road, Nashville
37215, Map-Parcel 117-5-116,
$965,000.
Toby and Tricia Covel to
John T. and Ann M. Bourland, 3637 West End Ave., Nashville 37205, Unit 1 Craighead,
$905,000.
Matthew and Charee Balm
to Eric S. Palmer, 1800 Blair
Blvd., Nashville 37212, Lot 50 Belmont Heights, $839,900.
Timothy and Andrew Flynn
to Mark E. Nicol Trustee,
600 12th Ave. S. Unit 2011, Nashville 37203, Unit 2011 ICON in
The Gulch Tower Condominium,
$820,000.
William R. Harwell and Amy
Stuart Harwell to Keith D.
Hodges and Beth Donaghey, 3512 Byron Ave., Nashville
37205, Tax Information 104-10-0031.00, $683,000.
Jeremy H. Lyons and Nathan
Lyons to Philip S. and
Laura K. Kuo, 2604 Essex
Place, Nashville 37212, Tax
Information 104-11-0-238.00,
$657,000.
Nashville 37204, Lot 87 Idlewild,
$450,000.
Nashville 37212, Lot 36 Belair,
$450,000.
Melissa L. and Justin T.
Scalise to Benjamin P.
and Amy E. Brown, 1600
Fatherland St., Nashville 37206,
Map-Parcel 083-13-0-426.00,
$443,000.
L&H Building Group LLC to
Sean Spencer, 146 45th St.,
Jamie L. Amaral to Barbara
S. Taylor, 3905-A Trimble Road,
Nashville 37215, Lot 20 Harding
Place, $435,000.
LandDevelopment.com
Inc. to Ken Hinman, 2812-
A Vaulx Lane, Nashville 37204,
Unit A Townhomes on Vaulx Lane,
$420,000.
Patrick G. and Lynn H.
Moore to Clint and Linda
Fehr, 411 Windward Passage,
Clearwater Beach, Fla. 33767;
5915 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville
37215, Lot 2 Bancroft, $410,000.
Pantheon Development
Partners LLC to Brittany
and Nicholas Durham, 316
Rosebank Ave., Nashville 37206,
Lot 2 Brownsville, $399,000.
Landmark Homes of Tennessee Inc. to Allie K.
Henderson, 1442 Bridgecross
Parkway, Hermitage 37076; 821
Cleveland Hall Court, Old Hickory 37138, Lot 9 Cleveland Hall,
$392,265.
Stacey J. Carter/Jeffrey P.
Johnson/Lori J. Kelley to
Montgomery G. Turner
Sr., P.O. Box 150326, Nashville
37215, Lot 2 Dollar General Lenox
Creekside Drive, $390,000.
General Bates LLC to Rhonda T. Keckley and Paul H.
Keckley Jr., 1115-B Biltmore
Shanleigh Corner Smith to
Christopher K. Roney, 2712
The Cottages of Green Hills
LLC to Suzanne S. Manning, 1623 Glen Echo Road,
Emily A. Ramer and Samuel T. Ramer to Robert E.
Jones and Deborah Leppink Jones, 260 Forest Trails,
Drive Unit B, Nashville 37204,
Unit B Biltmore IV Townhomes,
$649,900.
Nashville 37215, Unit 1 Glen Echo
Cottages, $579,330.
Clara W. Womack and
William M. Womack Jr.
Trustees to Christopher
J. and Ellen A. Black, 418
Lynnwood Blvd., Nashville 37205,
Tax Information 116-15-0-089.00,
$575,000.
Jason Bockman to Travis
and Jessica Rojakovick,
4709 Wyoming Ave., Nashville 37209, Lot 5 Sylvan Park,
$574,000.
SunTrust Bank to Gillian
D. Lebrun, 6998 S.E. Mourn-
ing Dove Way, Hobe Sound, Fla.
33455; 615 Belle Meade Blvd.
No. 105, Nashville 37205, Unit
Woodlawn Drive, Nashville 37212,
Lot 8 Belair, $387,500.
Brentwood 37027; 2818 Belcourt
Ave., Nashville 37212, Lots 11/12
Fairfax Place, $386,000.
Benjamin and Cheyanne
Kinghorn to Suzanne K.
Roberts, 909 Woodmont Blvd.,
Nashville 37204, Lot 2-N Marengo
Park, $370,000.
JGLAC LLC to Randall J.
Suarez, 1707 Sevier St., Nash-
ville 37206, Lot 79 United Electric
Railway, $350,000.
Jonathan Roniger and
Deidre Roniger Co-Trustees to Jay S. and F. Marie
Crosswon, 300 Hollybrook
Crescent, Nashville 37221, Lot
195 Traceside Estates, $341,000.
Benjamin Sohr and Genni-
Court, Brentwood 37027, Lot 59
Cloverland Acres, $306,250.
tonport Drive, Brentwood 37027,
Lot 13 Cottonport Plantation,
$301,000.
Albert Woodard III and
Nancy Washington Woodard to Davar and Farahnaz
Vafaee, 716 Palmetto Court,
Brentwood 37027, Lot 38 Breland
Park at Saddlewood, $300,000.
James E. and Jennifer Justus to Linda and David R.
Noonkesser, 1111 Calvin Ave.,
Nashville 37206, Lot 6 East Nashville, $300,000.
Fannie Mae to Mark E. Turcotte and Lauren Wright
Turccotte, 1200 Parkview
Circle, Nashville 37204, Lot 2 College Park, $300,000.
Rutherford County
Carey and Martha M. Davis
to Amy E. and Craig M.
Frey, 314 Laconte Court, Mur-
R. Peters to Emily M.
and Duane H. Butler, 110
Riverchase Drive, Hendersonville 37075, Lot 6 Riverchase,
$577,450.
Chukwuemeka and Olunwa
C. Ikpeazu to Jason and
Latdavone Word, 1022 Heri-
tage Woods Drive, Hendersonville
37075, Lot 26 Heritage Woods,
$470,000.
Phillips Builders LLC to
Robert C. Jr. and Alberta
K. Mercer, 1256 Overton
Circle, Gallatin 37066, Lot 918
Fairvue Plantation, $419,000.
Creekside Homes LLC to
Brian and Amy Covington, 2163 Gorden Crossing,
Gallatin 37066, Lot 251 Savannah,
$395,000.
Martin T. and Laura L. Williams to Gerald L. and
Phyllis L. Roberts, 358
Douglas Lane, Gallatin 37066,
Map-Parcel 103-068.00,
$350,000.
Norfolk Homes of Nashville
Inc. to Cambric R. and
Dana Brown, 1005 Bratton
Court, Hendersonville 37075, Lot
116 Island Brook, $336,623.
William and Sharon McGarry to Seth M. and Kirsten
G. Butler, 407 Private Drive,
Hendersonville 37075, Lot 26
Cherokee Woods, $325,000.
Joe R. and Reba W. Armstrong to Teah I. Woudenberg, 470 Branham Mill Road,
Gallatin 37066, Map 106 Parcel
10.00 p/o, $313,500.
Williamson County
Grove Park Construction
LLC to William E. and
Cotrina Norris, 9279 Exton
Lane, Brentwood 37027, Lot 120
Annandale, $1,401,288.
John D. and Denise N. Prewitt to Sanat Dixit, 1939
Bristol Court, Brentwood 37027,
Lot 10 Lenox Park, $1,375,000.
John O’Connell to John
D. and Jean McCarthy,
118 Chatfield Way, Franklin
37067, Enclave of Carronbridge,
$875,000.
freesboro 37128, Lot 26 Valley
View, $440,000.
Charles O. and Marilyn J.
Wilkinson to Robert B.
and Scottye C. Lee, 1112
Blackman Road, Murfreesboro
37129, Map-Parcel 71 39.19,
$385,000.
Carole C.F. Foster to Douglas S. Kirkland and Hitroko S. Walker, 207 Bellegrove
The Secretary of Veterans
Affairs to Kevin Killets
and Jennifer Killets, 3327
Elizabeth Windrow to
Michael S. and Angela
Hoover, 2718 Morton Lane,
Smyrna 37167; 8717 Paw
Paw Springs Road, Arlington
37014, Map 054 Parcel 06400,
$380,000.
Pigskin Court, Franklin 37064, Lot
214 Addition to McLemore Farms,
$745,000.
Court, Franklin 37069, Lot 2460
Laurelbrooke, $703,680.
JW Homes LLC to Lori L.
and Michael G. Spears,
620 Calverton Lane, Brentwood
37027, Lot 35 Wetherbrooke,
$680,847.
Billy L. and Nancy M. Bailey
to Charles R. and Karen
J. Hillman, 1138 Bayard Ave.,
Dennis W. and Suzanne R.
Lindsey to Deepak Kumar
and Shivani Mathur, 9195
Jackson Construction LLC
to George R. Ingram and
Theresa A. Franco, 2118
Turnberry Homes LLC to
William C. and Allison S.
Zotti, 1008 Cake Bread Court,
Murfreesboro 37130, Lot 184 The
Hamptons, $380,000.
Higgins Lane, Murfreesboro
37130, Lot 250 Garrison Cove,
$335,000.
Gary A. and Deborah Trueheart to Jun Da and Qing
Wei, 2628 Dorset St., Murfreesboro 37130; 1407 Buckingham
Drive, Murfreesboro 37129, Lots
180/181/186/187 Breckenridge,
$330,000.
Madelon J. Harrison to
Aubrey H. and Alice E.
Moseley, 1415 Veranda Circle,
Murfreesboro 37130, Lot 68 Stratford Hall, $313,800.
Robert J. Jr. and Elizabeth
A. Germick to Jonathan
and Kelly Johnstone, 106
Apricot Lane, Murfreesboro
37129, Lot 27 Harvest Grove,
$305,000.
Sumner County
William A. and Angela
Weston Drive, Brentwood 37027,
Lot 14 Lansdowne, $650,000.
Franklin 37067, Lot 403 Chardonnay, $638,031.
Turnberry Homes LLC to
Austin G. and Brenda A.
Bonn, 1012 Cake Bread Court,
Franklin 37067, Lot 404 Chardonnay, $627,852.
Caroline W. McCaleb to
John B. and Rebecca
Burns, 1136 Carnton Lane,
Franklin 37064, Lot 3 Willow
Plunge, $610,000.
Willis E. III and Kimberly L.
Jones to Joseph W. and
Lacey A. Fuson, 9230 Brush-
boro Drive, Brentwood 37027, Lot
99 Foxboro Estates, $575,000.
Charles E. and Cheryl D.
Gallagher to Todd D. and
Cynthia F. Adamson, 114
Fitzgerald St., Franklin 37064, Lot
974 Westhaven, $565,000.
Gary W. Clark to Dileep S.
and Cheryl Sachan, 9115
Concord Hunt Circle, Brentwood
37027, Lot 57 Concord Hunt,
$565,000.
Terrence M. and Hollis W.
Leve to Samuel A. IV and
Lalla Cox, 9454 Waterfall
Road, Brentwood 37027, Lot 164
Raintree Forest South, $505,000.
Susan H. and Willard J.
Reagan to Mark W. Dickens, 221 Winburn Lane, Franklin
37069, Lot 111 River Landing,
$500,900.
Randall C. and Sarah P.
Reynolds to Ryan A.
Rafoth, 504 Dahlia Drive,
Brentwood 37027, Lot 12 Murray
Estates, $499,000.
Carl D. and Melonee E.
Walker to John A. and
Mary Anthony, 1215 Choctaw
Trail, Brentwood 37027, Lot 208
Indian Point, $495,000.
Drees Premier Homes Inc.
to David and Jennifer
Shields, 405 Malcolm Drive,
Franklin 37067, Lot 25 Hurstbourne Park, $492,244.
BV Ventures to David and
Carolyn Turk, 2801 Wilder
Village Court, Thompson Station
37179, Lot 2057 Bridgemore Village, $490,000.
Christopher J. and Juliana
K. Bastin to Mark K. and
Yvonne D. Malan, 2056 Catalina Way, Nolensville 37135, Lot
52 Catalina Residential Development, $485,000.
Steven D. and Kathryn H.
Blanton to Gary Haber
Trustee, 1920 Adelicia St. No.
300, Nashville 37212; 1495 Red
Oak Drive, Brentwood 37027, Lot
427 Courtside at Southern Woods
West, $479,900.
Robert J. Regan to John M.
and Amy G. Walters, 6333
Panorama Drive, Brentwood
37027, Lot 47 Wildwood Estates,
$478,500.
NSH Corp. to Russell K. and
Tiffani B. Doyle, 3412 Stagecoach Drive, Franklin 37067, Lot
339 Watkins Creek, $476,608.
Lesli A.M. and Hanna H.
Ashy to Chris B. and
Stephanie Jarboe, 745 Har-
row Lane, Franklin 37064, Lot 138
Chestnut Bend, $455,000.
Scott D. and Julie C. Wells
to William P. and Kimberly
K. Franca, 336 Lakemont
Circle, Franklin 37067, Lot 118 Ivy
Glen, $450,000.
Scott A. Maybee to Kelly
and Jason D. Tucker, 1120
Meadow Bridge Lane, Arrington
37014, Lot 144 Kings Chapel,
$439,000.
Jason and Lauren McCarroll
to John Baumgarther, 1045
Sunset Road, Brentwood 37027,
Lot 412 Courtside at Southern
Woods West, $430,000.
Guy W. and Mary K. Williams to Michael G. Jr. and
Donna S. Brasher, 271 Keswick Grove Lane, Franklin 37067,
Lot 123 Ashton Park, $430,000.
Martin E. and Kathy A. Horn
to Mary L. and Christopher
B. Woodruff, 1101 Sneed Glen
Drive, Franklin 37069, Lot 1 Sneed
Glen, $425,000.
Alvin B. and Suzanne G.
Reed to Robin S. and
Angela E. Wikes, 200 Cornerstone Lane, Franklin 37064,
Lot 39 Cornerstone, $420,000.
Christopher L. and Tammy
V. Sanders to David B.
Porter and Stephanie M.
Christian, 1605 Knox Drive,
Brentwood 37027, Lot 427 Brenthaven, $415,000.
S and B Management Inc.
to Steven B. and Valerie
L. Wade, 1405 Round Hill Lane,
Spring Hill 37174, Lot 240 Spring
Hill Place, $394,976.
Harold D. and Lisa W.
Dukes/Marjorie G. Williams to Umesh and Parul
Patel, 1000 Sprue Ridge Lane,
Spring Hill 37174, Lot 62 Autumn
Ridge, $389,900.
Mike Ford Custom Builders
LLC to Lorraine M. Arnold
and David A. Kuester,
1015 Rural Plains Circle, Franklin
37064, Lot 49 Berry Farms Town
Center, $378,900.
Drees Premier Homes Inc.
to Evan A. McCutchen,
2305 Carouth Court, Nolensville
37135, Lot 525 Winterset Woods,
$374,900.
NVR Inc./Ryan Homes to
Robin P. and Robert G.
Moreo, 837 Shade Tree Lane,
Franklin 37064, Lot 80 Stream
Valley, $367,600.
Patterson Co. LLC to Dale
and Rebecca Bonamie,
5993 Fishing Creek Road, Nolensville 37135, Lot 4102 Bent Creek,
$360,406.
Lisa and John Miller to Daniel and Michele Ceppaluni,
2194 Loudenslager Drive, Spring
Hill 37179, Lot 262 Campbell Station, $360,000.
David B. Jr. and Gina M. Pittman to Robert A. and Juli
K. Lamont, 109 Grove Lane,
Franklin 37064, Lot 70 Polk Place,
$349,900.
Jones Co. of Tennessee LLC
to Matthew and Meagan
Gonzales, 306 Fanchers Court,
Franklin 37064, Lot 18 Barclay
Place, $334,659.
Crockett Woods Homes
LLC to Drew Boslet and
Linda Chambliss, 3433 Colebrook Drive, Thompson Station
37179, Lot 141 Tollgate Village,
$333,526.
J. Scott and Paige Bradshaw to David S. and
Anne M. Meriwether, 2055
Harvington Drive, Franklin 37069,
Lot 1545 Fieldstone Farms,
$330,000.
Gregory A. and Rebekah
S. Michel to Chad A. and
Jeana R. Butler, 1024 Dunrobin Drive, Franklin 37067, Lot
709 McKay Mill, $319,000.
Robert and Lori Lynn Wiley
to Travis and Nicolette
Southergill, 323 Sheffield
Place, Franklin 37067, Lot 136
Royal Oaks, $308,000.
Rajesh Jethwani and Priya
Vasandani to Shanshan
Wang, 1275 Bridgeton Park
Drive, Brentwood 37027, Lot 116
Bridgeton Park, $308,000.
Wilson County
Wright Farms LLC to Mark
S. and Brantley O. Treville,
1205 Abernathy Way, Mount Juliet
37122, Wright Farm, $469,900.
Jones Co. of Tennessee
LLC to Desiree Abbassi
and Brian W. Graham, 510
Wyndham Hill Court, Mount Juliet
37122, Providence, $411,322.
Pulte Homes Tennessee
LP/Radnor Homes Inc. GP
to Philip E. and Mary Jane
L. Hillstrom, 126 March Place,
Mount Juliet 37122, Lake Providence, $364,743.
Cindy Miner Trustee of the
William M. Rogers Trust
and Estate to Tony Pelamati, 392 Gilley Road, Mount
Juliet 37122; 684/684-B Davis
Corner Road, Mount Juliet 37122,
(no subd. shown), $360,000.
Larry Powell Builders Inc.
to Clay P. and Amber M.
Jackson, 424 Eastwood Place,
Mount Juliet 37122, Oakwood
Acres, $359,250.
Fifth Third Bank to Lauren
M. Spritz, 485 N. Mount Juliet
Road, Mount Juliet 37122, (no
subd. shown), $355,000.
Robert M. Pennekamp and
Carolyn King Pennekamp
to Jodi and Todd Johnson,
501 Cottonwood Creek, Mount
Juliet 37122, Sunset Harbour,
$343,000.
Cynthia Hinton to Stephen
M. and Shannon M. Stayshich, 2013 Stone Edge Drive,
Lebanon 37087, Stone Ridge
Estates, $340,000.
Pulte Homes Tennessee
LP/Radnor Homes Inc. GP
to Dorothy Taylor and L.B.
Holland, 537 Calibre Lane,
650 square feet.
Petroleum Equipment Co.,
commercial building at 596 21st
Ave. N., Kimbro Oil (underground
fuel storage), $90,000.
4,587 square feet.
Jones Co. of Tennessee LLC,
single-family residence at 305
Caysens Square Lane, Lot 75
Barclay Place, $357,516, 3,391
square feet.
Mount Juliet 37122, Lake Providence, $317,000.
Dyer & Boger Construction
LLC, commercial alteration at 397
Mike Ford Custom Builders,
Lebanon 37087, Farmington
Woods, $309,900.
Shaub Construction Co.
Inc., commercial alteration at 265
Mike Ford Custom Builders, single-family residence at
Eastland Construction Inc.
to James E. and Susan H.
Dean, 716 Farmington Drive,
Wells Fargo Bank Trustee to
Jimmy Comer and Bobby
Beadle, 6012 Bluewater Drive,
Lebanon 37087; 617 Ridgecrest
Lane, Lebanon 37087, Five Oaks,
$305,000.
BUILDING PERMITS COMMERCIAL
City of Franklin
Duke Construction Co. LP,
commercial alteration at 119 Seaboard Lane, $190,000, 21,064
square feet.
Larry Dale, commercial alteration at 200 Eddy Lane, $150,000,
26,344 square feet.
Harris Building Group Inc.,
Wallace Road Suite 410, Southern
Hills/Dr. Larsen (medical office
space), $84,689.
White Bridge Pike Suite B, U.S.
Healthworks, $79,000, 1,200
square feet.
Concordia Development
Inc., commercial addition at 1431
Dickerson Pike, Uptown Grill,
$75,000.
TW Frierson Contractor Inc.,
commercial alteration at 11 Main
St., (re-roof), $72,000.
Don Kennedy Roofing Co.
Inc., commercial alteration at
1006 Elm Hill Pike, Gospel Advocate Bookstore (re-roof), $53,000.
BUILDING PERMITS RESIDENTIAL
City of Franklin
commercial alteration at 1203
Murfreesboro Road, $100,000,
5,541 square feet.
Majors Construction, single-
commercial alteration at 1010 Murfreesboro Road, $91,723.
Covenant Construction,
Tandem Construction LLC,
Shaub Construction Co.
2000 Mallory Lane, $80,000,
7,580 square feet.
Davidson County
Turner Universal Construction Co., commercial altera-
tion at 4220 Harding Pike, Saint
Thomas Hospital (intensive care
units/floor 2), $9,850,000, 30,185
square feet.
Tomlin Construction Co.
family residence at 306 Berry Circle, (no subd. shown), $900,000,
5,424 square feet.
Stewart St., (no subd. shown),
$520,000, 4,760 square feet.
Gregg & Raines Building
Co., single-family residence at
4216 Westcap Road, MTA Distribution Center, $553,400, 10,000
square feet.
Tasco Builders dba Terry
Bork, commercial alteration at
1719 W. End Ave., Aloft Nashville
West End (lobby), $300,000.
Harvest Construction Co.
LLC, commercial alteration at
1704 21st Ave. S., Babe Beauty
Bar, $241,199, 1,657 square feet.
Southland Constructors
1122 Westhaven Blvd., Lot 1345
Westhaven, $327,598, 2,389
square feet.
Westhaven, $326,364, 3,287
square feet.
Westhaven, $325,672, 3,257
square feet.
Westhaven, $320,196, 3,244
square feet.
Westhaven, $318,425, 3,099
square feet.
644 Band Drive, Lot 86 Henley,
$472,000, 4,600 square feet.
Trace Construction Inc.,
Patricia Lee Court, Lot 4 Carolina
Close, $460,000, 4,507 square
feet.
Ryan Homes, single-family residence at 121 Stream Valley Blvd.,
Lot 15 Stream Valley, $414,980,
Westhaven, $316,799, 2,946
square feet.
Westhaven, $312,719, 3,204
square feet.
Westhaven, $310,789, 3,315
square feet.
Pulte Homes, single-family residence at 213 Creekstone Blvd.,
Lot 73 Creekstone, $306,640,
3,833 square feet.
Westhaven, $304,929, 3,262
square feet.
Davidson County
JE Dunn Construction Co.,
multi-family residence at 1200
Laurel St., Laurel Apartments,
$3,188,605.
Larry W. Powell Builders
Inc., single-family residence
at 317 Bournemouth Lane,
$416,050, 3,800 square feet.
Rigid Development Inc.,
Stokes Lane, $382,710, 3,745
square feet.
Drees Premier Homes Inc.,
Whitman Court, $360,000, 3,254
square feet.
Province Builders LLC, singlefamily residence at 520 Cherry
Grove Lane, $347,368, 3,305
square feet.
Williamson County
Doug Cook, single-family resi-
dence at 601 Beech Creek Road
S., (no subd. shown), $500,000,
4,454 square feet.
Preservation Construction,
Columbia Pike, (no subd. shown),
$500,000, 4,125 square feet.
Michael Barnes Custom
Homes, single-family residence
at 7201 Prairie Falcon Drive, Lot
201 Black Hawk, $336,000,
4,234 square feet.
2013 Excellence in
Business Awards
Azimtech Design Build,
Charles R. Curtis Construction, commercial addition at
Westhaven, $337,004, 3,352
square feet.
Goodall Builders, single-family
residence at 396 Irvine Lane, Lot
299 Highlands at Ladd Park,
$333,900, 4,095 square feet.
Mike Frod Custom Builders, single-family residence at
7200 Centennial Blvd., Carlex
Plant (above ground nitrogen/
hydrogen storage tanks/cooling
tower), $1,800,000.
Kellogg & Kimsey Inc., commercial building at 1800 W. End
Ave., Spring Hill Suites (foundation), $1,763,725.
commercial building at 12330
Old Hickory Blvd., SRI Saibaba
Temple, $1,045,660, 4,800
square feet.
Orion Building Corp., commercial alteration at 2119 W. End
Ave., Vanderbilt University/Benson Hall (mechanical upgrades),
$950,000.
Eliot Road, Lot 1372 Westhaven,
$340,272, 3,859 square feet.
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West Meade Dental (medical
office), $178,000, 1,928 square
feet.
Gold Sponsors
Turner Universal Construction Co., commercial alteration
at 4220 Harding Pike, Saint Thomas Hospital/RAF Room C (x-ray
equipment), $172,000.
RC Mathews Contractor
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd.,
Meharry Hospital, $150,000.
Roberts S. Biscan & Co.,
commercial alteration at 782 Old
Hickory Blvd. Space 113, Shoppes of Brentwood Hills/Elements
Therapeutic Massage, $103,075.
Flow Construction Co. Inc.,
commercial alteration at 54 Music
Square E. Suite 190, City National
Bank (office space), $100,000,
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Drees Premier Homes, singlefamily residence at 409 Secret
Mountain Pass, Lot 126 Arrington
Retreat, $329,000, 3,352 square
feet.
Arnold Homes, single-family
residence at 4611 Wilhoite Road,
(no subd. shown), $320,000,
2,875 square feet.
Gregg & Raines Building
Co., single-family residence at
4317 Gallant Ridge Drive, Lot 105
Gallant Ridge, $300,000, 3,700
square feet.
NEW BUSINESS
LICENSES
The following information is
taken from new business filings made in various filing
jurisdictions in Middle Tennessee. This information is
available on disk or via e-mail
including phone numbers.
The e-mail version arrives
one week earlier than the
published version. For cost
and more information, call 877593-4157.
Rutherford County
Ignite, 810 N.W. Broad St., Mur-
freesboro 37130, alcohol and
food.
Simply Vintage, 118 W. Vine
St., Murfreesboro 37130, antique/
vintage furniture & accessories.
Simply Essential Me, 405
Ridgetop Drive, Smyrna 37167,
aromatherapy essential oils.
Farflung Creations, 106 Brickle Court, Murfreesboro 37128,
assembly of parts.
TK Sports, 223 Rosecran Circle,
La Vergne 37086, athletic tournaments.
Poppy’s Automotive Service
LLC, 239 S. Lowry St., Smyrna
37167, auto repair & services.
Elite Motorcars Division of
Reffner Inc., 204 Sam Hager
St., Smyrna 37167, auto sales.
Autoworld of Smyrna Sales
& Repair, 14907 S. Lowry St.,
Smyrna 37167, auto used retail.
Dolittle’s Barbershop, 1115 N.
Maple St., Murfreesboro 37130,
barbershop.
Integrity Accounting, 3709
Old South Road, Murfreesboro
37128, bookkeeping/accounting.
Zena Masonry, 540 Johnstown
Drive, Smyrna 37167, brick &
stone masonry.
James Jones Construction,
10701 Manchester Highway,
Christiana 37037, brick/blocks/
foundation of homes.
Alliance Building Group
LLC, 2603 Crump Drive, Nashville 37214, commercial tenant
buildout.
Sturdy Creations Construcion LLC, 1842 Shelley St., Murfreesboro 37129, construction.
cock St., Murfreesboro 37130,
construction.
Integricraft Construction
LLC, 610 May Lane, Murfrees-
Process Improvement Co.
LLC, 5412 Cavendish Drive, Mur-
5621 Almaville Road, Smyrna
37167, building materials.
Robinson Bushhogging,
7415 Gum Puckett Road, Murfreesboro 37127, bushhogging.
Thai Cafe’, 5094-D Murfreesboro
Road, La Vergne 37086, cafe.
Wireless Linx, 1720 Old Fort
Parkway, Murfreesboro 37129,
cell phone accessories/cell phone
repairs/cell phone sales.
You Ring We Clean, 1335
Bradyville Pike Apt. D-201, Murfreesboro 37130, clean houses.
Five Star Services, 1704 Chris
Drive, La Vergne 37086, clean up
and lawn care.
Osha Janitorial, 6011 Sagi
Circle, La Vergne 37086, cleaning
clients office.
Diamond Shine, 205 Apricot
Lane, Murfreesboro 37129, cleaning service.
Gordon & Webster Cleaning
Serivce, 1427 Old Lascassas
Road, Murfreesboro 37130, cleaning service.
Saturdays Girls, 630 N.W.
Broad St. Suite C, Murfreesboro
37129, clothing sales.
In Bloom, 104 Condor Court, La
Vergne 37086, clothing/jewelry/
gifts.
D South Cleaning LLC, 4866
Beryl Drive, Murfreesboro 37128,
commercial cleaning.
J and D Cleaning Services,
freesboro 37128, constructionresidential.
Becs, 1820 Cason Trail, Murfreesboro 37128, consulting.
Vral Services, 1406 Rte Johnson
Drive, Murfreesboro 37129, consulting/management services.
The Neighborhood Store,
1121 Bradyville Pike, Murfreesboro 37130, convenience store.
Speedway, 8281 Tridon Drive,
Smyrna 37167, convenience store
w/gas station.
Vettenuts, 2880 Johnson Lane,
Christiana 37037, corvette products.
Mrs. Ashley’s Daycare, 3404
Hardwood Drive, Murfreesboro
37129, daycare.
Jan Hampton Disability
Advocate, 610 W. College St.
Suite 183, Murfreesboro 37130,
disability advocacy.
Up All Night Electric, 5019
Mary Ellen Circle, Smryna 37167,
electrical contractor.
Encompass Electric LLC,
1722 Berkeley St., Murfreesboro
37129, electrical services.
Synergy Events, 105 Fourth
Ave. Unit 206, Murfreesboro
37130, event planning and staffing.
Rudowski Eyecare PLLC,
1618 Lee Victory Parkway, Smryna
37167, eyeglasses frames &
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Audience Development director
Tamara Hudson | [email protected]
events Coordinator
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WHITNEY SHAW, PRESIDENT & CEO
Ray Shaw, Chairman (1989-2009)
No. 300, Smyrna 37167, hair
salon.
Nichole Egerton/Studio T,
900 Grammer Lane Suite 300,
Smyrna 37167, hair salon.
N. Lowry St., Smyrna 37167, hair
stylist.
Kim’s Kreations, 1323 D’Ann
Drive, Murfreesboro 37129, handmade craft-painting.
I Fix It Handyman Services,
Distribution Support Solutions, 483 Dick Buchanan St.,
Tennessee Sheet Metal Inc.,
research director
Carol Smith | [email protected]
Audience Development
Studio T Hair & Color/Misty
Morgan, 900 Grammer Kane
103 Radio Tower Lane, Readyville
37149, house painting/tile & flooring.
Nevin Batiwalla | [email protected]
E.J. Boyer | [email protected]
Jamie McGee | [email protected]
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Drive, Murfreesboro 37128, general contractor.
Price Less IGA No. 008, 3060
S. Church St., Murfreesboro
37127, grocery store.
Murfreesboro Remodeling,
reporters
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William H. Towe Jr. dba
Horizon, 1213 Sweetspire
Court, Murfreesboro 37129, horse
racing.
Clean Corners, 2550 Thompson
Road, Murfreesboro 37128, house
cleaning.
Social engagement manager
and Photographer
Nathan Morgan | [email protected]
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1694 Old Hillsboro Road, Franklin
37069, general contractor.
First Corp Thoroughbreds
LLC No. 2012, 1719 Ironwood
Design Editor
business Manager
Dena Burrell | [email protected]
Costello Construction LLC,
La Vergne 37086, home appliance
delivery/installation.
J&D Home Inspection, 7459
Antietam Lane, Murfreesboro
37130, home inspections.
Handyman Services, 3709 Old
South Road, Murfreesboro 37128,
home maintenance.
Meg Wrather | [email protected]
Advertising and Marketing
Coordinator
Amanda Cummings | [email protected]
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Editor in chief
Lori Becker | [email protected]
Cindy Guier | [email protected]
advertising Consultant
Chris Woodruff | [email protected]
freesboro 37129, fresh seafood
& meats.
Willow BP, 1607 Middle Tennessee Blvd., Murfreesboro 37130,
gas station and convenience store.
Bill Boner, 3466 Cripple Creek
Road, Readyville 37149, general
construction.
Rowlett Inc., 5311 Old Hixson
Pike, Hixson 37343, general construction.
Smyrna 37167, handyman/small
construction.
associate print Editor
senior advertising Consultants
Michele Friedenberg | [email protected]
Travis Jones | [email protected]
Louisana Seafood Co. II
LLC, 402 Uptown Square, Mur-
Home Pros Building Solutions LLC, 3477 Morton Lane,
Managing Editor
Eric Snyder | [email protected]
Amy Harris | [email protected]
Suite H, Murfreesboro 37128, florist and gift shop.
Dwyer Companies Inc., 1800
Eastland Ave., Nashville 37206,
foundation repair.
2414 Mimosa St., Murfreesboro
37127, handy man services.
Parker Construction, 8000
Spire St., Murfreesboro 37129,
handy man/dry wall.
Squared Off, 205 Gill Court,
Murfreesboro 37129, handyman.
1800 Church St., Suite 300, Nashville, TN 37203 | (615) 248-2222 | Fax (615) 248-6246
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N. Walnut St. Suite C, Murfreesboro 37130, film production.
GT Floor Covering, 243 Capps
Lane, Erin 37061, floor covering.
Floor to Floor, 200 Ashmont
Lane, Smyrna 37167, floor installation.
Karla S. Anderson dba
Beauty Beach Salon, 138
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accessories.
HK Entertainment LLC, 628
A Sister Act Florist and
Gifts, 2805 Old Fort Parkway
JD Construction, 323 S. Han-
boro 37130, construction services
new/remodel.
Circle C Building Co. LLC,
416 Farrar St. Apt. B, Murfrees-
boro 37129, commercial cleaning
services.
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40 Fant Industrial Drive, Madison
37115, industrial & commercial
sheet metal & hvac.
JH Flooring, 213 Branch Trail,
Smyrna 37167, install floor covering.
B&B Tile, 3410 April Lane, Murfreesboro 37130, install tile.
RD Construction LLC, 1924
Main St., Pikeville 37367, installation & maintenance of guardrail &
cable on highways.
Arango Insulation Inc., 149 N.
85 Parkway Suite B, Fayetteville,
Ga. 30214, installation of insulation/construction.
Grenrise Technologies LLC,
7822 Manchester Highway, Murfreesboro 37127, installation of
mulches/soils/greenroofs.
Lendos Interior Trim &
Remodel, 124 Sky Harbor Drive,
Murfreesboro 37129, interior trim.
Red Dixie Cup, 1206 Delmar
Ave., Murfreesboro 37130, internet
and other legal business.
A&L Ventures, 500 Sam Davis
Road Lot B-12, Smyrna 37167,
internet marketing.
Rugpad.com, 802 Swan Drive,
Smyrna 37167, internet sales of
rugpads.
Bi-Star Building Solutions,
604 Hounds Run, La Vergne
37086, janitorial.
Morning Glory Janitorial Service LLC, 800 Park Ave. Suite
C, Murfreesboro 37129, janitorial
services.
Waycool Aquatics, 115 Jade
Court, Rockvale 37153, koi pond
plants & supplies.
Sound Construction and
Management Inc., 2906 Lind-
sey Loop, Birmingham, Ala. 35022,
landscape.
Mid Tenn Property Maintenance, 10164 King Road, Milton
37118, lawn care.
Matthews Lawncare, 1327
Davy Crockett Drive, Murfreesboro
37129, lawn care/landscaping.
Matthew’s Lawncare, 664
Crescent Road, Murfreesboro
37128, lawn cutting/weed eating/
light landscaping.
Rocky Top Lawn Maintenance, 4124 Florence Road,
Murfreesboro 37129, lawn maintenance.
Greencuts, 113 Taborwood Trail,
Murfreesboro 37127, lawncare.
Four G’s Lawncare, 790 E. Jefferson Pike, Murfreesboro 37130,
lawncare.
Eagle Reclaimed Lumber,
215 S. Cannon Ave., Murfreesboro
37129, lumber sales.
Local Home Mag, 528 W.
Burton St., Murfreesboro 37130,
magazine.
B&B Masonry, 2407 Shacklett
Road, Murfreesboro 37129,
masonry.
Doles Masonry, 643 Alsup
Mill Road, Murfreesboro 37130,
masonry.
Clark Masonry, 3770 Snell Road,
Murfreesboro 37130, masonry.
Chad Young Masonry, 5762
Morgan Road, Rockvale 37153,
masonry.
Taylor & Sons Auto Repair,
5238 Murfreesboro Road, La
Vergne 37086, mechanic.
El Burrito Express, 518 Waldron
Road, La Vergne 37086, mexican
food.
D’s & J B-B-Q and Catering,
1626 Windy Meadow Drive, Christiana 37037, mobile catering to
people and businesses.
Ledgemore Contracting, 2250
E. Southgate Blvd., Murfreesboro
37128, mold and radon testing/
removal.
Mowin’ N More, 12229 S. Windrow Road, Rockvale 37153, mowing/landscaping.
Little Feet LLC dba M’Boro
Mulch Yard & Karma Care,
1825 Lascassas Pike, Murfreesboro 37130, mulch yard & landscaping services.
Care At Home Healthcare,
905 Hamlet Drive, Murfreesboro
37128, nursing/cna/non-medical
personal care services.
Ruffles & Tumble, 2009 Victory
Gallop Lane, Murfreesboro 37128,
online clothing business.
Middle Tennessee Music,
1134 Newberry Drive, Murfreesboro
37130, online music marketing.
Brooke Hilderbrand, 4005
Claude Drive, Smyrna 37167, online
sale of lesson plans and teaching
materials.
Dog Gone Holdings LLC
dba Doody Calls of Middle
Tennessee, 570 N. University,
Murfreesboro 37130, pet waste
removal company.
Mike Saliba, 1182 Ben Hill Blvd.,
Nolensville 37135, photography.
S. McKee Photography, 3115
Lamura Lane, Smyrna 37167, photography.
Oh So Sheek Boutique, 138
Sara Dilton Road, Murfreesboro
37127, photography and clothing
items.
Pawzitively Purrfect, 70029
Grindstone Way, Murfreesboro
37129, photography services.
Randy Clark, 205 Tarrytown Drive,
Smyrna 37167, picture frames.
JLS Products, 3700 Gazebo Park
Drive, Murfreesboro 37129, plastic
nameplate engraving.
Eason Plumbing Mechanics,
1510 Huddersfield Drive, Smyrna
37167, plumbing repair/drain
cleaning.
BAM Customs, 524 Old Salem
Road, Murfreesboro 37129, powdercoat/cerakote & hydrographics.
Alley Cat Tea, 2607 Loyd St.,
Murfreesboro 37129, procuring fruit
tea beverage for wholesale.
Prestige Properties, 2230
Southgate Blvd. Suite C, Murfreesboro 37128, property management
and residential sales.
Glitter to Diamonds Events
& Desserts, 106 Lance Court,
Smyrna 37167, provide baked desserts/handmade decorations for
parties and events/go to event location and decorate.
Talabs Records, 2707 S. Rutherford Blvd., Murfreesboro 37130,
record label.
Recycled Again, 1123 Mahogany
Trail, Murfreesboro 37130, recycling junk to keep out of landfill.
Anita Findlay dba Next Level
Construction, 6886 Williams
Road, Christiana 37037, remodeling of homes etc.
Fox Brothers Electric Motor
Service, 861 W. College St.,
Murfreesboro 37129, repair and
sale of electric motors.
Elite Building Group Inc., 122
Spence Creek Lane, Murfreesboro
37128, residential construction.
S&D Liquidation, 98 N. Lowry
St. No. 101, Smyrna 37167, retail
liquidation/general merchandise.
Woven Wonderland, 720 Lou
Gehrig Circle, La Vergne 37086,
retail sales of gift baskets.
Roof Roof Nashville LLC, 548
Middle Tennessee Blvd., Murfreesboro 37129, roofing.
D&I Roofing, 1119 Pyburns Place,
La Vergne 37086, roofing construction.
Total Building Maintenance
Inc., 1908 Cowart St., Chattanooga 37408, roofing contractor.
Franklin Group Travel Inc.,
608 Nearlake Court, La Vergne
37086, school tours.
Wonder Thunder, 4377 Windrow
Road, Rockvale 37153, screenprint
textiles/wholesale & retail.
Bricker Seismic Services
LLC, 4738 Garcia Blvd., Murfreesboro 37128, seismic services.
Stones River Medical Group
PC, 726 S. Church St., Murfreesboro 37130, selling protein bars/
drinks & supplemental meals.
Best Choice Home Services,
407 Peacock Ave., Murfreesboro
37129, service.
Brothers Exteriors Construction, 1410 Dollar Drive, La Vergne
37086, siding.
GR Properties LLC dba GR
Exteriors LLC, 5690 Stitcher
Court, Douglasville, Ga. 30134, siding installation.
Just Useless, 2714 Windwalk
Court, Murfreesboro 37128, sign
decals/banners.
Life Management Services,
2250 Southgate Blvd. Suite C, Murfreesboro 37128, social work services/case management services/
social security rep payee services.
Onin Staffing LLC, 215 S. Lowry
St. Suite 100, Smryna 37167, staffing services.
Daniel Pope Racing, 1445-C
S. Lowry St., Smyrna 37167, stock
car racing.
Persons and Associates,
11692 Independent Hill Road,
Arrington 37014, sub-contractor.
JF Consulting, 1330 Haynes
Drive, Murfreesboro 37129, subcontractor.
Chrome Halo LLC, 517 W.
Main St. Suites A/D, Murfreesboro
37129, tattoo and body piercing.
AM/PM Taxi, 103 One Mile Lane,
Smyrna 37167, taxi service.
Site Communications Inc.,
171 W. Factory St. Suite E, Gallatin
37066, telecommunications construction.
Northridge Defense, 2715 Windemere Drive, Murfreesboro 37129,
training center.
Gladish Services LLC, 1619
Beaconcrest Circle, Murfreesboro
37128, training company.
Free Bird Transport Inc., 747
Hogan Drive, Murfreesboro 37128,
transport.
Victory Disposal LLC, 122
Mill Lane, Smyrna 37167, trash
disposal.
Jeremy McKenna Trim, 2824
Dilton Mankin Road, Murfreesboro
37127, trim.
Murfreesboro Truck Wash,
2441-A S. Church St., Murfreesboro 37127, truck & trailer wash.
All 4 Us & Etc., 403 Jefferson
Pike, Smyrna 37167, vacation giveaways/selling advertising.
Five O Enterprises, 1000 Stewart Valley Drive, Smyrna 37167, vaccuum parts sales.
Propak Logistics Inc., 1900
Midway Land, Smyrna 37167, warehousing.
Scott Findlay dba Ryteck
Nashville, 6885 Williams Road,
Christiana 37037, water mitigation/applied structure drying/mold
remediation.
Beckman Wellness & Weight
Loss PLLC, 520 Highland Terrace Suite E, Murfreesboro 37130,
weight loss bars & shakes.
Essex Technology Group
Inc., 455 Industrial Blvd. Suite C,
La Vergne 37086, wholesale.
Keystone Automotive Industries Inc., 501 Mason Road Suite
260, La Vergne 37086, wholesale
auto parts & supplies.
Uni-Select USA Inc. WHS
No. 18066, 2375 Midway Lane,
Smyrna 37167, wholesale auto
parts & supplies.
Myalinc, 915 Grand Oak Drive,
Smyrna 37167, wholesaler.
NEW CORPORATIONS
Davidson County
PKS Electric LLC, 5700 Murphy-
wood Crossing, Antioch 370132300.
Meds Direct RX Inc., 605 Bakertown Road, Antioch 37013-2657.
Panache Jewelers LLC, 5252
Hickory Hollow Parkway No. 251,
Antioch 37013-3005.
O-Kaye Productions LLC, 500
Cedarhill Court, Antioch 370134434.
Light Up Nashville LLC, 2067
Graceland Drive, Goodlettsville
37072-4252.
Lofts At The Reserve LLC, 150
Third Ave. S. Suite 1600, Nashville
37201-2011.
301 Eighth Avenue LLC, 150
Third Ave. S. Suite 1600, Nashville
37201-2011.
Acklen Park Drive Brownstones LLC, 3015 Poston Ave.,
Nashville 37203-1745.
Mpower Products LLC, 2021
Church St. Suite 200, Nashville
37203-2087.
Corello LLC, 216 19th Ave. N.,
Dead Deer LLC, 216 19th Ave. N.,
Asset Managers Inc., 1803
Broadway Apt. 620, Nashville
37203-2768.
Prophetik LLC, 1600 Division St.
Suite 225, Nashville 37203-2775.
Prima LLC, 700 12th Ave. S. Unit
1101, Nashville 37203-3431.
Capsaiciv Consulting LLC,
600 12th Ave. S. Apt. 625, Nashville 37203-6620.
K2forma Inc., 700 Church St. Apt.
508, Nashville 37203-9602.
4 Music LLC, 940 Gale Lane Apt.
125, Nashville 37204-3097.
Nashburnham Inc., 510 E. Iris
Drive Suite A, Nashville 372043110.
1703 Porter Road Townhouse
Corp., 421 E. Iris Drive Suite 300,
817 Benton Avenue Townhouse Corp., 421 E. Iris Drive
Suite 300, Nashville 37204-3140.
Armored Insurance Agency
PLLC, 73 White Bridge Road
Suite 103-119, Nashville 372051444.
Oakpoint Advisors LLC, 4322
Harding Pike Suite 417, Nashville
37205-2664.
Data Centric Inc., 5133 Harding
Pike No. 10-294, Nashville 372052823.
Hitsquad Promotions LLC,
615 Park Hill Drive, Nashville
37205-3322.
LBP LLC, 108-A Pembroke Ave.,
Toptenn Baseball LLC, 11
Vaughns Gap Road, Nashville
37205-4303.
Wilt Design LLC, 4420 Warner
Place, Nashville 37205-4535.
Sparrow Acupuncture LLC,
808 Washington Ave., Nashville
37206-1410.
Clear Plastic Masks LLC, 935
Riverside Drive, Nashville 372061458.
Fast Wireless 1 Co., 3056-B
Dickerson Pike, Nashville 37207.
Victim 2 Victory (V2V), 1715
Edgewood Ave., Nashville 372074970.
Ferf & Co. LLC, 1631 Sixth Ave.
N., Nashville 37208-2215.
The Ready Range LLC, 1032
Ninth Ave. N., Nashville 372083104.
HRG Property Management
LLC, 1418 Lady Nashville Court,
Center House Nashville Inc.,
The Living Room, 532 Scotts
Contagious The Band Inc.,
Hermitage 37076-1626.
Creek Trail, Hermitage 370762363.
The Power Of Knowledge
Inc., 215 Misty Cape Cove, Hermitage 37076-3165.
Gold Club Electric Tattoo
LLC, 808 Old Due West Ave.,
Madison 37115-4334.
Total Maintenance & Renovations LLC, 1204 Colonial
Court, Madison 37115-5909.
SCIK Corp., 1020 Shawnee Trce,
Madison 37115-6503.
Maintenance Free Living
LLC, 3906 Old Hickory Blvd., Old
Hickory 37138-2241.
Big Family Productions LLC,
8161 Old Pond Creek Road,
Pegram 37143-9446.
Sandy And Darrell Real
Estate Investments LLC,
2299 Ingram Road, Whites Creek
37189-9154.
Doc Holliday’s Of Nashville
LLC, 112 Second Ave. N., Nashville 37201-1909.
EHI Partners LLC, 127 Third Ave.
S., Nashville 37201-2001.
6457 Thunderbird Drive, Nashville
37209-2840.
457 Wilclay Drive, Nashville 372092918.
Fat Nanny’s LLC, 114 Sloan
Road, Nashville 37209-4636.
Nashville Pedicab LLC, 163
37th Ave. N., Nashville 372094803.
Eighty Five Supply Inc., 631
Second Ave. S. Suite 300, Nashville 37210-2096.
Molinar Construction Tennessee Inc., 820 Fesslers
Parkway Suite 135, Nashville
37210-2938.
Advanced Spine & Wellness
PLLC, 176 Thompson Lane Suite
201, Nashville 37211-2468.
The Drop LLC, 3312 Mimosa
Drive, Nashville 37211-3231.
Preston Leatherman LLC, 254
Blackman Road, Nashville 372115140.
Central Market LLC, 4722
Nolensville Pike, Nashville 372115408.
JMNC Co. Inc., 5527 Edmondson
Pike, Nashville 37211-5808.
Trout Creek Digital LLC, 472
Huntington Ridge Drive, Nashville
37211-5983.
Rise Lacrosse LLC, 324 Brent-
wood Oaks Drive, Nashville 372116508.
Callis & Collins Management
LLC, 4720 Brighton Village Drive
37043-7852.
JSS Enterprises LLC, 1354 Tannahill Way, Clarksville 37043-7977.
CK Outfitters LLC, 2890 Woodlawn Road, Woodlawn 371919075.
No. A-2, Nashville 37211-6672.
Stance Ventures Inc., 6937
Stone Run Drive, Nashville 372116987.
Andy Skib Music LLC, 1421
15th Ave. S., Nashville 37212-3012.
Crutcher Trucking & Excavating LLC, 889 Allisona Road,
2514 Ashwood Ave., Nashville
37212-4810.
Rollova Inc., 2945 Primrose
Circle, Nashville 37212-6015.
Vergne 37086-2710.
J And L LLC, 2840 S. Church St.
Apt. D-406, Murfreesboro 371278352.
Freestate Mercantile LLC,
Sopp Global Ventures Inc.,
2945 Steamboat Drive, Nashville
37214-1139.
BBA Inc., 2828 Elm Hill Pike Suite
108, Nashville 37214-3772.
Communication Handled
LLC, 317 Timberway Circle, Nash-
Rutherford County
Eagleville 37060-4254.
B&H Enterprises Tennessee
LLC, 5486 Murfreesboro Road, La
Bricker Seismic Services
LLC, 4738 Garcia Blvd., Murfreesboro 37128-3852.
Wun Way Expedite LLC, 296
Highfield Drive, Murfreesboro
37128-6206.
ville 37214-4268.
Zen Outlet Entertainment
LLC, 1242 Melvin Drive, Murfrees-
New Natchez Trace, Nashville
37215-1113.
Gladish Services LLC, 1619
Style House Salon LLC, 3013
Rock Visions South LLC,
2108 Woodmont Blvd., Nashville
37215-1415.
Dietrich Medical LLC, 3510
Hillsboro Pike Apt. 72, Nashville
37215-1441.
Nashville Diamond
Exchange LLC, 4205 Hillsboro
Pike Suite 222, Nashville 372153336.
Saliba Dance, 5025 Hillsboro
Pike Apt. 8-B, Nashville 372153711.
H&E Development LLC, 4613
General Lowrey Drive, Nashville
37215-4313.
Asdione Inc., 18 Annandale,
SPM Real Estate Holdings
LLC, 40 Burton Hills Blvd. Suite
100, Nashville 37215-6291.
This Is Schematic LLC, 1233-A
McGavock Pike, Nashville 372163117.
Urban Properties LLC, 1017
Burchwood Ave., Nashville 372163607.
East Keep Security LLC, 1724
Welcome Lane, Nashville 372164116.
Tennessee Somali Diaspora
(TSD), 325 Plus Park Blvd. Suite
105, Nashville 37217-1075.
Jmnv Co. Inc., 2280 Murfreesboro
Pike, Nashville 37217-3313.
Handymac’s LLC, 4000 Anderson Road Apt. 60, Nashville 372174727.
Moxie Flock LLC, 533 Church
St. No. 181, Nashville 37219-2312.
Peg Leg Porker Spirits LLC,
1011 Tyne Blvd., Nashville 372201026.
Pfamily Music LLC, 935 Van
Leer Drive, Nashville 37220-1147.
3fold Music LLC, 935 Van Leer
Drive, Nashville 37220-1147.
Car Recon Inc., 925 Morton Mill
Road, Nashville 37221-2431.
Hidden Springs Of Clarksville Homeowners Association Inc., 50 Vantage Way Suite
boro 37128-7528.
Beaconcrest Circle, Murfreesboro
37128-7673.
Friendly Bacteria Records
LLC, 309 Chamberlain Drive, Murfreesboro 37129-2146.
Global PC Cure LLC, 4858
Chelanie Circle, Murfreesboro
37129-2892.
Cl Harris Consulting LLC,
208 Eclipse Drive, Murfreesboro
37129-2966.
BTL Inc., 218 Gill Court, Murfreesboro 37129-4557.
JB Rose Family Investments
LLC, 3932 Lakebrook Drive, Murfreesboro 37130-1033.
HK Entertainment LLC, 628
N. Walnut St. Apt. C, Murfreesboro
37130-2865.
Industrial Hygiene Services
LLC, 1021 E. McCoury Lane, Murfreesboro 37130-8867.
Chicken Chicken Chicken
LLC, 408 Mill Circle, Smyrna
37167-4650.
The Gates Group LLC, 408 Mill
Circle, Smyrna 37167-4650.
Empire LLC dba The Petno
Team, 811 Industrial Blvd. Suite
600, Smyrna 37167-6872.
New Covenant Baptist
Church Of Murfreesboro,
4107 Oakstone Drive, Smyrna
37167-8406.
Sumner County
Declaration Music Group
Inc., 1003 Nature Trail, Castalian
Springs 37031-4771.
Sumner County Drug Court
Inc., 117 W. Smith St., Gallatin
37066-3248.
Montgomery County
Drive, Clarksville 37040-1610.
Waterdogs Scuba And
Safety LLC, 681 N. Spring St.,
Clarksville 37040-3141.
Perfectfab Inc., 2911 Chapel Hill
Road, Clarksville 37040-8312.
Upsightinvesting LLC, 1711
Saint Ives Way, Clarksville 370421544.
Cornerstone Masonry LLC,
359 Grassland Drive, Clarksville
37043-1706.
Able Resources Solutions
LLC, 4930 Saint Andrew Court,
Clarksville 37043-7229.
Ark Construction LLC, 2969
Surrey Ridge Road, Clarksville
Direct Point Logistics Inc.,
8118 Wikle Road E., Brentwood
37027-7110.
Brennan Properties LLC,
1308 Arrowhead Drive, Brentwood
37027-7436.
Alpha Omicron Pi New Colonization Corp. Inc., 5390 Vir-
ginia Way, Brentwood 37027-7529.
Arguello Agency Inc., 5111
Peter Taylor Park Drive No. S-200,
Brentwood 37027-7539.
Buffalo Valley Ventures LLC,
1616 Westgate Circle, Brentwood
37027-8019.
Subway Of Elliston Place
Inc., 9170 Concord Road, Brent-
wood 37027-8502.
LC Admin Inc., 1646 Westgate
Circle Suite 101, Brentwood
37027-8560.
Easyenergy LLC, 1708 Stillwater
Circle, Brentwood 37027-8688.
Addison Clinical Consulting
LLC, 6744 Autumn Oaks Drive,
Britton Enterprises LLC, 1113
Murfreesboro Road Suite 412,
Franklin 37064-1316.
Digital Media Tank LLC, 100
Granger View Court, Franklin
37064-2974.
Franklin Composite Cylinder
LLC, 139 S.E. Parkway Court,
Ecodefense Of Tennessee
LLC, 654 Watson Branch Drive,
Mission Media & Resource
Group LLC, 715 Shadycrest
Lane, Franklin 37064-5134.
Landvenues LLC, 206 Stillcreek
Drive, Franklin 37064-6764.
Rhino Aerial Photography
LLC, 1731 Championship Blvd.,
Huson Leasing & Development, 1120 Lakeview Drive,
Exterra Land Group LLC, 256
Seaboard Lane Suite H-101, Franklin 37067-4803.
Calvary One LLC, 313 Pennystone Circle, Franklin 37067-5778.
Get On The Ball Nutrition
LLC, 332 Pennystone Circle,
Wealthnav Financial Solutions LLC, 3000 Meridian Blvd.
Suite 250, Franklin 37067-6396.
Fowl Mouth LLC, 136 Carphilly
Circle, Franklin 37069-4358.
Young Women’s Leadership
Academy Of Nashville, 604
242 Osprey Drive, Gallatin 370667578.
Margdon Music LLC, 1269
Louisville Highway, Goodlettsville
37072-3623.
100, Nashville 37228-1553.
Rimtech LLC, 2867 Teakwood
Tri-Imaging Solutions LLC,
37066-3963.
New Hope Family Care &
Medspa LLC, 242 W. Main St.
Music City Indoor Karting
Inc., 1350 Jasmin Park Drive,
Marine Brokerage Services
LLC, 301 Sterling Park Terrace,
Paper Handling Solutions
Inc., 112 Fairways Drive, Hender-
Integrated Health Cooperative LLC, 275 Cumberland Bend,
Suite 354, Brentwood 37027-5282.
Murray Machine & Tool Co.
LLC, 1290 S. Water Ave., Gallatin
100, Nashville 37228-1553.
Eldo’s Trace Owners Association Inc., 50 Vantage Way Suite
Artists For Community
Transformation International, 7003 Chadwick Drive
sonville 37075-2611.
No. 116, Hendersonville 370753318.
Nape’s Tools LLC, 105 W. Harbor Court, Hendersonville 370753576.
Bear Cove Falls LLC, 204 Bahia
Mar Point, Hendersonville 370755203.
Preferred Assets LLC, 1024
Flint Drive, Hendersonville 370759405.
Commercial Cleaning Solutions Inc., 106 Larry Joe Place,
Portland 37148-7700.
Williamson County
New Directions LLC, 7024
Church St. E. Suite B, Brentwood
37027-3203.
American Homepatient
Consumer Inc., 5200 Maryland
Way Suite 400, Brentwood 370275059.
Cheshire Circle, Franklin 370697191.
Redemption City Church, 537
Franklin Road, Franklin 370698209.
Men Of Valor Enterprises
LLC, 753 Cowan Drive, Nolensville
37135-7409.
Crossroads Natural Horsemanship LLC, 1875 Burke Hol-
low Road, Nolensville 37135-9406.
Don Arturo’s Inc., 2977 Buckner
Lane, Spring Hill 37174-2838.
Four Star Home Services
LLC, 3009 Pipkin Hills Drive,
Spring Hill 37174-7193.
Full Circle Transitions LLC,
2698 Pantall Road, Thompsons
Station 37179-5263.
Acres Realty Inc., 1906 Bunbury
Court, Thompsons Station 371799703.
Carriage House Custom
Homes And Interiors Inc.,
811 Blackberry, Nashville 372214347.
Wilson County
Tridon Enterprises LLC, 101
Waverly Place, Lebanon 370871379.
James’s Auto Care Inc., 333
31
W. High St., Lebanon 37087-2233.
Tridon Farms LLC, 5875 S.E.
Tater Peeler Road, Lebanon 370900685.
The Wine & Spirits Shop LLC,
111 Devan Kishan Way, Mount Juliet
37122-1348.
The Beaded Ladies LLC, 405
Lakeview Drive, Mount Juliet 371222215.
The Jordan Turner Foundation Inc., 1483 N. Mount Juliet
Road No. 113, Mount Juliet 371223315.
Jenkins Nursery & Landscaping LLC, 2565 Harkreader Road,
Mount Juliet 37122-4000.
Village Wine And Spirits LLC,
737 Fellowship Road, Mount Juliet
37122-4605.
Wagswerx Inc., 3712 Nonaville
Road, Mount Juliet 37122-5069.
Curt Cook Construction LLC,
149 Cooks Road Extended, Mount
Juliet 37122-5711.
Astercor Group LLC, 401 S.
Mount Juliet Road No. 235-153,
Mount Juliet 37122-6359.
6015 Highway 100 LLC, 389
Green Harbor Road, Old Hickory
37138-1033.
Accent Properties LLC, 305
Anchor Drive, Old Hickory 371381117.
LIQUOR LICENSES
New Files
Roosters Lone Star BBQ
Steakhouse LLC, 223 W. Main
St., Murfreesboro 37130; effective
03/01/13.
Somewhere Cool Springs
LLC/Somewhere Cool, 1109
Davenport Blvd. No. 400, Franklin
37069; effective 03/04/13.
Bonefish Grill LLC/Bonefish
Grill No. 0802, 3010-A Mallory
Lane, Franklin 37067; effective
03/05/13.
Carrabba’s Italian Grill LLC/
Carrabba’s Italian Grill No.
9303, 553 Cool Springs Blvd.,
Franklin 37067; effective 03/05/13.
Cumberland Pub Inc., 3745
Annex Ave., Nashville 37209; effective 03/06/13.
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Buckeye Brothers LLC/3
Brothers Deli & Brewhouse, 223 W. Main St.,
Murfreesboro 37130; effective
03/01/13.
Carrabba’s Cool Springs LP/
Carrabba’s Italian Grill, 553
Cool Springs Blvd., Franklin 37067;
effective 03/05/13.
Bonefish/Southern LP/
Bonefish Grill No. 0802,
3010 Mallory Lane, Franklin 37067;
effective 03/05/13.
Southern Hills Inc./The Magnolia Room, 4948 Ben Jared
Road, Baxter 38544; effective
03/06/13.
Las Cebollas Inc./Las Cebollas Mexican Grill, 277 Gleaves
St., Madison 37115; effective
03/07/13.
Steve’s Inc./Steve’s, 604 Gallatin Ave., Nashville 37206; effective
03/07/13.
Cincher Enterprises Inc./
Houligans, 5228 Main St. No.
A-2, Spring Hill 37174; effective
03/07/13.
El Arroyo Mexican Restaurant Inc./El Arroyo Mexican
Restaurant, 13012 Old Hickory
Blvd., Antioch 37013; effective
03/07/13.
D/B/A Change
From: JNV Entertainment
Group Inc./Rozay; To: JNV
Entertainment Group Inc./
Club Miami, 295 E. Thompson
Lane, Nashville 37211; effective
03/07/13.
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Transitioning a Business through Generations
and Succession Planning.
Friday, April 26, 2013 | Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. | Registration
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast and Panel Discussion
Price: $40
The Nashville Business Journal is pleased to bring two Family Business panel
discussions to the Nashville business community.
Family businesses are an integral part of the local economy and are a unique blend of business management
and family dynamics. These panel discussions are designed to help family businesses through education and
networking with other family businesses. We will discuss issues pertinent to their growth such as succession
planning, role definition, competitive advantage and vision and intergenerational conflicts.
Panelists:
Vic Alexander
Mark Hommrich
In 1993 Vic Alexander became
chief manager of KraftCPAs. He has
been with the firm since beginning
his career in 1982. Vic has been
extensively involved in litigation
support and business valuation.
Mark Hommrich is second generation
owner of Volunteer Barge & Transport
which was founded by his father
in 1983. The company offers barge
transportation services on the
Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers.
Chief Manager, Kraft CPAs
(Sponsor)
President, Volunteer Barge
& Transport, Inc.
Bruce Sprintz
President, Sprintz Furniture
In 1996, Bruce Sprintz assumed
the role of President for the
family owned company. Sprintz
has become Nashville’s largest
quality furniture retailer.
Ashley Caldwell Levi, H.G.
Thomas Lasley
Ashley Levi is a fourth generation
owner of the H.G. Hill Company. A
former employee of the H.G Hill
Stores, Mrs. Levi has served the Hill
Company for over 12 years on the
H.G. Hill Company Board.
Tom Lasley specializes in providing
comprehensive financial planning
(retirement, cash flow, tax, risk
management, investments, and estate
planning¹) services to affluent individuals.
Hill Family Council
First Vice President, Regional
Financial Planner, SunTrust Bank (Sponsor)
Gold Sponsors

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