It Gave Up Its Offices Entirely in 2025. Its Next Headquarters Is Here.
<p>Building permits are a quiet kind of news. They get pulled, they get filed, and most of them describe a bathroom remodel. But a permit application surfaced downtown this month for something considerably larger: a $5.4 million interior build-out at Nashville Yards for a company that, at the moment, does not have a headquarters anywhere in the United States.</p>
<p>Radiology Partners is the largest radiology practice in the country. Its physicians read imaging studies — X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, mammograms — for hospitals and clinics across dozens of states, which is a business that increasingly happens on a screen rather than in a room down the hall from the patient. The practice and its technology services arm have signed on at Nashville Yards, with move-in expected in February 2027.</p>
<h2>A company that let go of its address</h2>
<p>What makes the choice interesting is what came before it. The group gave up its longtime California offices in El Segundo in July 2025 and has operated since then as a distributed organization, with no single building to call its own. Plenty of companies talked about doing that in the early 2020s. Far fewer actually surrendered the lease.</p>
<p>So this is not a relocation in the usual sense — nobody is packing a moving truck in Los Angeles County and pointing it east. It is a company that spent roughly a year and a half without a center of gravity deciding, deliberately, where the new one should be. It picked Nashville.</p>
<h2>Why here is not really a mystery</h2>
<p>Nashville has spent more than half a century assembling the answer. In 1968, Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., his son Thomas Frist Jr., and the businessman Jack Massey founded Hospital Corporation of America here, and in doing so more or less invented the modern for-profit hospital management industry. What followed was one of the strangest and most durable economic clusters in the South: hundreds of health care companies, spin-offs, vendors, staffing firms and billing operations, most of them founded by people who had once worked for somebody else on the same list.</p>
<p>A city does not become an industry capital because of its weather. It becomes one because the people who know how to run that industry all live within twenty minutes of each other. For a company whose product is specialized physician labor delivered at national scale, that talent pool is the whole argument.</p>
<h2>The block itself has a history</h2>
<p>Nashville Yards sits on ground that used to belong to LifeWay Christian Resources, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, which announced in 2015 that it would sell its downtown campus. A San Diego firm, Southwest Value Partners, paid $125 million for it, and the roughly nineteen-acre site has been under more or less continuous construction ever since.</p>
<p>By last year the development had delivered something on the order of 4.2 million square feet — an Amazon operations center of more than a million square feet, the 591-room Grand Hyatt, the 35-story Pinnacle Tower, a creative office building, a 4,500-seat music venue, two residential towers and thousands of parking spaces. A hymnal warehouse became a skyline.</p>
<p>And the radiology group will not be the only medical tenant. Ascension Saint Thomas is moving the headquarters that oversees its regional hospitals and care sites into the same development, with that move expected before the end of this year.</p>
<h2>What it actually changes</h2>
<p>A single office lease does not remake a downtown. But the thing downtown Nashville has been short of is not visitors — it is weekday people who work here, eat lunch here on a Tuesday in February, and keep the lights on when the tour buses are gone. Every headquarters that lands on that side of the tracks adds a few hundred of them.</p>
<p>Elsewhere downtown, another out-of-state institution is settling in: <a href=”https://nashvegas.com/gibsons-bar-steakhouse-nashville-414-union-street-2028/”>Chicago's Gibsons is leaving Illinois for the first time in 37 years</a>, headed for a tower a few blocks away. And at the other end of the ledger, <a href=”https://nashvegas.com/levys-clothier-nashville-closing-171-years-green-hills-2026/”>Levy's Clothier is closing after 171 years</a>. The city keeps trading its old furniture for new.</p>
