Written By CNBC

Amazon announced Tuesday it has hired 1,000 employees at its Nashville, Tennessee, office.

The milestone means Amazon is “ahead of schedule” in its efforts to bring 5,000 jobs to the area, said Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of retail operations, in a release. Amazon hasn’t provided a time frame for when it expects to fulfill all of its promised 5,000 jobs in Nashville.

Amazon’s Nashville office, located just north of the city’s The Gulch neighborhood, serves as its East Coast operations hub, overseeing the tech and management functions of its retail operations. The company tapped Nashville as its new logistics hub nearly two years ago when it chose Northern Virginia as the site of its second headquarters, known as HQ2.

Written By Inc.

While Nashville’s renowned music scene makes a $10 billion economic impact on the city every year, it’s not the only industry that’s thriving there. Here’s why entrepreneurs working in fashion to health care are setting up shop in the Tennessee capital.

Nashville may be known as the country music capital, but a slew of ethical fashion brands, Pinewood Social, and an $84 billion health care economy are transforming its reputation as an emerging tech hub.