FINDLEY SPENT DECADE AT BOTH DISNEY AND ST. JOE

Published August 31, 2011 by J.R. Lind, Nashville Post
Developer Southern Land has named C. Kent Findley its new senior vice president of design and construction. Findley will oversee the company’s projects for all mixed-use development in Tennessee, Texas and North Carolina.

Findley comes to Southern Land from his own firm, Findley Design and Architecture, where he designed a master-planned community in Mexico and led design and construction on the St. Joe Company’s corporate headquarters in Florida.

His career dates to 1987 and he spent 10 years in Disney’s development arm. He has planned, designed and overseen construction on several large multi-family projects throughout the South and from 1998 to 2008 was vice president of planning and design for St. Joe.

Southern Land broke ground Tuesday on its first major Nashville multifamily mixed-use development, 2300 Elliston, on the former site of Father Ryan High School.

Nashville ranks Third on Kiplinger’s 10 Best Value Cities for 2011

Population (metro): 1,520,649
Unemployment rate: 8.5%
Cost-of-living index: 90.7
Median household income: $51,352

The Music City is making a strong comeback from the recession and is expected to add more than 151,000 jobs by 2019 — an annual rate that’s higher than the national average. The majority of the new openings will be in the education and health-services fields. Top employers include Vanderbilt University, Hospital Corporation of America and Nissan North America.

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