Triangle Business Journal
By Zac Ezzone
August 14, 2026
A nonprofit health care provider is relocating its headquarters from Chapel Hill to Durham.
Piedmont Health Services has signed a nearly 11-year lease for roughly 24,000 square feet at Meridian Business Park on Meridian Parkway near Highway 55. The organization will move more than 100 employees into the new space.
The organization will occupy 18,283 square feet at 2525 Meridian for administrative operations and 5,407 square feet at 2810 Meridian for warehouse space supporting its clinic network. Piedmont expects to complete the move in late September or early October.
Meridian Business Park spans more than 1 million square feet across 10 office buildings on roughly 270 acres along Meridian Parkway. The campus is owned by Florida-based commercial real estate firm Accesso, which recently secured a loan modification that includes a capital reserve to fund renovations, property improvements and speculative suite development at Meridian Business Park.
Piedmont, a nonprofit federally qualified health center, operates 11 locations across Orange, Alamance, Lee and Chatham counties and serves about 50,000 patients annually. The organization had nearly $95 million in revenue in 2024 and more than $62 million in assets, according to Triangle Business Journal research. Its expenses that year totaled $89 million.
The organization has long been based in Chapel Hill but began exploring its options as its lease approached renewal, CEO Daniella Jaimes-Colina said. Piedmont worked with a consultant to analyze employee commuting patterns and drive times while evaluating potential locations.
Piedmont also weighed collaboration space, employee amenities and room for future growth as it evaluated locations, Jaimes-Colina said.
“It was multifactorial, a very complex decision, especially because Piedmont has been historically associated with a presence in Chapel Hill,” she said.
While the move is significant for employees and community partners, Jaimes-Colina said she does not expect it to affect patients. Piedmont will continue operating its network of clinics and maintain a significant clinical presence in Orange County.
In addition to primary care, the organization offers prenatal, pediatric, behavioral health and dental services, among others. Piedmont serves patients from birth through older adulthood, including some more than 100 years old.
“We started (56 years ago) very modestly with a group of physicians really concerned about the level of access to health services in the region,” Jaimes-Colina said. “That evolved to what is Piedmont Health Services now.”
Piedmont opened two locations last year, including a pediatric dental office in Chapel Hill and a primary care site within a UNC Health specialty care facility in Sanford.
As Piedmont evaluates future expansion, the new Durham office provides room for growth. The space can accommodate about 130 workstations, compared with roughly 110 employees at its current headquarters.
Jaimes-Colina said the organization is studying provider capacity, patient demand and service utilization across its network as it weighs whether and where to add clinical services.
“That is the type of conversation that is happening right now,” Jaimes-Colina said. “How we can consolidate, how we can better serve, and once we understand that, definitely there is openness for expansion.”