The Nashville Technology Council and Nashville Entrepreneur Center tightened their relationship this week when the two Chamber of Commerce affiliates became office mates.

The Tech Council on Monday officially moved its four-person staff into the Entrepreneur Center’s new 7,500-square-foot location at 105 Broadway. Tech Council President and CEO J. Tod Fetherling said the move is part of the organizations’ long-term vision to create a single front door for technology and entrepreneurship in Nashville.

"Three-fourths of the space is incubation, Entrepreneur Center-type things," Fetherling said of the downtown office. "But a lot of the [incubator] companies we expect to be tech companies, so that’s why we wanted to cohabitate with them and, you know, start more start-ups."

The NEC is a joint project of the Tech Council and Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce designed to help entrepreneurs start successful businesses. Launched about a year ago, the NEC in May named Michael Burcham its first president and CEO, and earlier this month Burcham secured the organization’s first brick-and-mortar home with the Broadway lease.

At the time, Burcham told NashvillePost.com the Entrepreneur Center is working on a deal to move into one of the six trolley barns clustered at the base of Rolling Mill Hill. Fetherling said today the two organizations plan to move into the 21,000-square-foot building together.

Of course, the organizations must still secure required city approvals to secure the space, as well as raise the money necessary to renovate the roughly 90-year-old building. Burcham pegged the price tag of the project at $2.4 million to $2.6 million. Fetherling said the NTC will participate in the fund-raising.

The Tech Council previously shared office space with the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce at its Third Avenue and Commerce Street location.