Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, TN’s, centerpiece city, is anchored by
a restored and fully functioning antebellum courthouse, one of six
statewide surrounded by a bustling downtown district full
of restaurants, shops and offices.

Rutherford County, Tennessee offers a low cost of living with a great quality of life that is attracting companies from Silicon Valley and other major metropolitans.

“The very best thing about Rutherford County from a business perspective is that the quality of the work force is here at all levels.” Strong words from Byron Smith, executive vice president at Asurion, a major telecommunications employer that got its start in Silicon Valley and now has 5,000 employees worldwide.

Asurion established significant operations in Rutherford County in 2002 and ultimately moved its corporate headquarters to middle Tennessee from San Francisco. “The workforce here is easy to recruit and easy to retain,” adds Smith, “and the fact that we have a high quality large university makes a big difference. It’s an anchor for quality of life.”

Come see for yourself, because Rutherford County, Tennessee, is ready. Industrial, commercial and land offerings are available throughout Rutherford’s landscape of 200,000-plus, just 13 miles southeast of Nashville. It’s largely about location, and Rutherford County is blessed with it in abundance. The county lies just outside Nashville on a direct route from Chicago to Atlanta and within a day’s drive of 75 percent of the U.S. population. You can be up the road in 20 minutes to an NFL Titans game, a NHL Predators clash or Nashville Superspeedway race on the area’s expansive interstate system. Tennessee’s road system is ranked in the top five in the U.S.

Rutherford County is the fifth largest and fastest growing county in a state long considered one of the South’s friendliest to business. Kiplinger Magazine and Travel & Leisure recently dubbed the area one of the country’s “coolest” and “friendliest.” Why? One big reason is the $2B music industry. Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) is known internationally for its recording industry major, one of a handful of such programs in the nation. Daily, more than 35,000 highly skilled workers stream to jobs in Nashville -- but they’d rather work nearer their homes, according to officials.

“Rutherford County has a ready-made work force for employers,” says Holly Sears, Economic Development Director, Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce. “Our citizens are highly skilled and highly educated.”

Murfreesboro: “Most Livable Town in Tennessee”

The Murfreesboro Gateway is the region’s hottest new master planned development, offering Class A office, corporate headquarters, residential and retail. Gateway construction is booming on a new Middle Tennessee Medical Center and nearly 300,000 square feet of Class A office space. Under construction there is a 1 million-square-foot lifestyle retail development, The Avenue Murfreesboro, heralded as one-of-a-kind in the Southeast. Next door to the lifestyle mall, a new 80,000-square-foot conference center and 283-room all-suites Embassy Suites hotel is going up.

Smyrna’s experiencing a retail “explosion”

The Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport is one of the busiest general aviation facilities in the Southeast, and its recent business park is attracting tenants with choice corporate headquarters sites for office development and aviation-related companies. The city also is experiencing a retail explosion of nearly 1.5 million square feet along key route Sam Ridley Parkway.

La Vergne: home of state’s largest industrial park

La Vergne, the county’s closest city to Nashville, is a mecca of distribution centers and industrial space, with available space in Centre Pointe, home to Hot Topic and more than 500,000 square feet of opportunity in warehouse distribution, retail space and Class A spec office space.

Eagleville: Pastoral setting still exists

In Eagleville, the smallest of cities in Rutherford County, that small-town country feel is still maintained within easy distance to the amenities of urban life…the best of all worlds with affordable housing, a green landscape with rolling hills and its hometown school for kindergarten through 12th grade.

For more information call Holly Sears, Director of Economic Development, Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce,
1-800-716-7560 or hsears@rutherfordchamber.org or www.rutherfordchamber.org/ed.