OLD FOURTH WARD — A New England-based health technology company plans to bring 500 jobs to the Ponce City Market development, Gov. Nathan Deal's office said Monday.
Athenahealth Inc., based in Watertown, Mass., will take 75,000 square feet in the development in the former City Hall East building at 675 Ponce de Leon Ave.
It becomes the first major office tenant in Ponce City Market, Jamestown Properties' $180 million redevelopment project of the 16-acre site that was the former City Hall East.
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The project calls for mixed-use development of retail, office and residential components.
“Athenahealth is one of the fastest-growing companies in HIT, an exploding industry in which the largest sector is already thriving in Georgia thanks to our robust telecommunications infrastructure and healthcare system, talented workforce and pro-business environment,” Deal said in a statement.
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“Athenahealth’s strategic decision to locate here moves us closer to becoming the No. 1 place in the nation to do business.”
Athenahealth, founded in 1997, offers cloud-based services for EHR, practice management and care coordination to more than 40,000 providers nationwide.
The company acquired Alpharetta-based Anodyne Health in 2009.
As part of its Southeast expansion strategy, the company will consolidate its Alpharetta workforce of approximately 100 people to its new location at Ponce City Market, and will add 500 additional jobs over the next five years.
“Ponce City Market offers Athenahealth everything we could ask for in an office space as we deepen our roots in Atlanta and presents us with the opportunity to provide a daily environment that lives up to the work-life aspirations of our company,” Jonathan Bush, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
“We are building a national health information backbone that will have a revolutionary impact on the cost and quality of healthcare and are increasingly focused on ensuring our teams work in environments that encourage innovation and collaboration and support the important work we do.
"With hundreds more future Athenistas to hire, we believe Ponce City Market will help us attract the best talent metro Atlanta has to offer.”
The company also has operations in Rome, Ga., as well as in Alabama, California, Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, and in India.
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