Jacksonville-based iMethods, led by Clinton Drawdy and Chad Perce, is renovating the 17,244-square-foot Southpoint office building the company leaders bought in November.
The health care consulting and IT staffing company is remodeling the building at 4230 Southpoint Parkway S., a former credit union, at a construction job cost of $549,000.
The city issued a permit Feb. 18 for the renovation of 16,600 square feet of space. Jacksonville-based Interior Buildouts Inc. is the contractor. Connie Turner Interiors Inc. is the designer.
Chint Properties Inc. paid $2.065 million on Nov. 12 for the two-story building developed in 1998 on 5.65 acres for Seaboard Credit Union. Synovus Bank issued a $2.185 million mortgage.
Chint, led by Drawdy and Chad, bought the property from First Florida Credit Union, formerly Seaboard, which relocated the branch.
Drawdy and Perce formed Chint Properties LLC in October 2016.
The iMethods company will relocate from 8787 Perimeter Park Blvd. Chint bought the one-story, 6,600-square-foot building in December 2016 for $970,000. It was built in 2001 on 0.59 acres.
Foundry Commercial has been listing the Perimeter Park building for sale or lease. Principal Brad Chrischilles represents the property. The lease rate is listed at $18 per square foot. The purchase price is listed at $1.495 million.
IQ Fiber announced in December it will lease the former iMethods space for its Jacksonville headquarters.
IQ Fiber, which launched in September 2021, says it is a residential fiber-optic internet provider with a target of serving more than 60,000 homes across Northeast Florida in the first phase of its infrastructure deployment.
Its address now is cowork space Downtown at 25 N. Market St.
Chrischilles said with the IQ Fiber five-year lease in place, Chint still will consider offers to buy the property as an investment.
Chrischilles also represented iMethods in buying the Southpoint Parkway property. He said he expects iMethods to move about March 15.
The iMethods.com site said Perce and Drawdy co-founded Medical Methods in 2004 “in a small (often flood-prone) office near downtown Jacksonville, FL.”
“The business was built with an aim to create a company where people could be a part of faith-based corporate culture while performing meaningful, engaging work,” it said.
It said that Perce and Drawdy had spent years in the information technology recruiting industry.
“They found a real need for recruiting and staffing solutions within the healthcare industry,” the site says.
Medical Methods began as an allied health offering and soon transformed into a niche therapy recruiting service that provides physical, occupational and speech therapists to clients nationwide, the site says.
“Our founders were committed to having a positive impact on the community – for employees, clients, and the places where we would do business,” the site says.
Drawdy and Perce registered the iMethods name with the state in 2006.
The site says it formed the iMethods brand in 2007 after clients requested services for IT recruiting and staffing.
After three floods in 2008 along with adding employees, the company moved to offices in Southside.
In 2009, iMethods continued to increase market share and was named to the Inc. 500/5000 list of “Fastest Growing Small Companies in the United States” for the second consecutive year.
It landed on the list again in 2010. That fall, iMethods sold the Medical Methods portion of the business “to focus attention solely on building the iMethods brand.”
In 2012, it moved to another space and in 2013, iMethods saw a year of record growth that lead to the company’s sixth Inc. 500/5000 award.
iMethods then focused exclusively on delivering health care IT consulting solutions to clients nationwide.
The site says iMethods then bought and renovated the Perimeter Park building. Employees designed the space to be multifunctional for flexibility and collaboration among employees, consultants and clients.
“Our culture, core purpose, and core values permeate all that we do and how we serve our employees, clients, and community,” Drawdy, CEO, says on the site.
JAX Chamber named Perce, the iMethods founding partner, as its overall Small Business Leader of the year in 2012.
