NASHVILLE – Chicago-based real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle will not handle facilities management services at Tennessee lawmakers’ new home in the just-renovated Cordell Hull State Office Building, a top legislative official said.
While JLL now manages operations at the existing Legislative Plaza and War Memorial Building, home since 1973 for lawmakers’ offices and committee hearing rooms, officials are using Siemens Corp. for Cordell Hull, where lawmakers and staffers will start relocating to beginning next week.
“They will provide services to manage it,” said Connie Ridley, the General Assembly’s director of Legislative Services, of Siemens.”
Ridley said the move made sense given that Siemens, a subsidiary of Germany-based Siemens AG, was intimately involved in the extensive overhaul of Cordell Hull, installing a number of internal operating systems ranging from lighting to heating and air conditioning in the historic building.
Noting that the new systems are under warranty, the plan calls for Siemens to provide services for two years with officials planning to follow through with an eventual full request for proposals bid process before the two-year initial period expires.