Forty-four percent of the people who took a poll by the Nashville Business Journal think their city’s medical trade center project is key for economic development so it should get state tax credits to draw tenants.

For Bill Winsor, building a successful medical mart is all about attracting a “critical mass” of healthcare products sellers. In Winsor’s view, his Nashville project has what it takes to create that critical mass, and Cleveland’s competing medical mart doesn’t.

Developers of Nashville’s medical mart project are in the final stages of negotiating leases with 15 new tenants.

ambridge, Mass., biotech firm Genzyme Corp. is selling its genetic testing business to Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings for $925 million so it can focus on its core growth areas.

The property developers behind Cleveland’s medical mart have signed letters of intent with 32 prospective showroom tenants and 16 conferences and trade shows. But who are they?

It is not a secret that large sums of money have passed from the pharmaceutical and device manufacturers into physicians’ hands. What has been less clear over the years is whether small, almost inconsequential gifts, might also be influential in changing practices, writes Dr. Marya Zilberberg in the KevinMD.com blog.

Score the latest round for Nashville in the race to open the nation’s first medical mart.The Nashville Medical Trade Center has landed the first anchor tenant for its $300 million, 1.5 million square-foot project: health information technology group HIMSS, the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. In February, the Nashville project’s developers announced an agreement with [...]

The Nashville Medical Trade Center has its first tenant, though it’s not a health products or technology company.It’s Lipscomb University, a Christian liberal arts college that was once known as Nashville Bible School. Lipscomb has signed a memorandum of understanding with the medical mart’s developer to create the National Center for Health Care Education and [...]

Backing off a bit from previous statements about the significance of being first, the chief of the company that’s developing Nashville’s medical mart said attracting a “critical mass” of health-industry tenants would be the decisive factor in securing victory in the three-city medical mart competition.

Numerous industry experts say the first of the nation’s three competing medical mart projects to establish itself will enjoy a considerable advantage over the other two. It may be too early to tell who has a leg up, but here we present a breakdown of each project as it stands today … until plans change again.