The Blonder Group, LLC was retained to perform a headquarters site search, which resulted in locating LP’s corp. headquarters in downtown Nashville, their R&D in Franklin, and their aircraft operations center in Smyrna. The LP® name represents quality, dependability and consistency. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, LP is a leading manufacturer and distributor of building products. Founded in 1973, today we operate 25 manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada, and Chile. LP strives to deliver innovative, high-quality building products to retail, wholesale, home building and industrial customers. That is how we like it: we thrive on our reputation for ethics and teamwork — both internally and with our customers.

The Blonder Group, LLC was retained to perform a facility valuation and sell PNG’s existing headquarters and operations center. In addition, we were charged with selecting a site for their new operations center. Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy Services Company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to one million residential, commercial and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 62,000 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and intrastate natural gas transportation.


The Sound Kitchen is the most prestigious and largest recording facility in the Southeast. Within our 19,000 square foot facility, we proudly accommodate many of the biggest names in all genres of music. Technical perfection and personal attention to our clinet's needs is our primary focus. At The Sound Kitchen, we make a concerted effort to provide our visitors with a comfortable atmosphere, privacy and security, and excellent personal service. Amenities include private lounges, wireless web access and cable digital televsion. The Sound Kitchen studios are located in the heart of Cool Springs, Franklin, Tennessee, just 15 minutes from Nashville’s Music Row and Nashville’s International Airport. We are surrounded by many hotels, fine dining, major health and fitness centers, theaters and retail outlets and just a few minutes from Historic Franklin, TN, known as one of the most charming downtown in the country.


SONY BMG Entertainment retained The Blonder Group, LLC (“TBG”) as its exclusive representative in the sale of its Nashville headquarters. Housed within their building is country music’s first recording and production studio, assembled by Owen and Harold Bradley, the “Quonset Hut.” The roster of artists who recorded at the Quonset Hut is legendary and included some of Nashville’s most prolific and successful song makers; Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Jim Reeves, Conway Twitty, Khris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Bobby Helms, Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells, Bob Dylan, George Jones, Buddy Holly, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton, & Merle Haggard to name just a few.

The Blonder group, LLC was engaged by Allen Sides and Gary Belz to privatly market the studio for sale. We successfully sold the facility to Belmont University for use as a first classs teaching facility for Belmont's Curb School of Music. Ocean Way Nashville, designed by award-winning recording engineer Allen Sides and purchased by Belmont in 2001, is a world-class teaching laboratory that also serves an impressive client roster including Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Bob Seger, Three Doors Down, Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks, matchbox twenty, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, Stevie Nicks and Gretchen Wilson, as well as successful Belmont alumni Trisha Yearwood, Lee Ann Womack and Brad Paisley.

With the largest discrete Neve console on the planet, and the amenities of a 5-star hotel, Ocean Way Nashville became an immediate success," recalls Sides.As much as I loved the studios, and as proud as I was of the design, I rarely had a chance to work there because I was too busy with my studio operations and album projects in LA. In 2003, when the possibility arose of Belmont University purchasing the studios it extended Belmont's campus into the heart of Music Row and provided Belmont with three exceptional music studios. The arrangement I worked out left our management team intact and allowed the studio to continue commercial operation as Nashville's premier studio, while providing internships and an incredible learning environment during the studio's off time.

Ira A. Blonder, CBC
The Blonder Group, LLC
112 Seaboard Lane, Franklin, TN 37067
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Email: iblonder@blondergroup.com


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