Author: Cheryl Pentella

Video Recaps Intel Groundbreaking on $20 Billion Factories

Intel officially broke ground for its $20 billion+ state-of-the-art chip manufacturing factories, joining Mayor Sloan Spalding, City Council members, county, state and national officials in commencing the largest single private sector company investment in Ohio’s history. The project is expected to create more than 3,000 direct Intel jobs earning an

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Takeya Distribution Center Supports Fast-Growing Business 

Takeya USA, the Southern California-based global hydration brand, has opened a new 120,000-square-foot distribution center in the New Albany International Business Park to support operations and continued company growth. The New Albany distribution center demonstrates both a strategic and sizable investment by the hydration solutions brand to reduce lead

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Lower and Its HR Leader Earn Local, National Recognition 

New Albany-based financial technology business, Lower, ranks No. 1,534 in Inc. magazine’s 2022 Inc. 5000 list of companies demonstrating American ingenuity and resilience. Founded in 2014, Inc. notes the multi-channel technology company that helps consumers build wealth through homeownership by providing mortgages, banking and insurance has grown by

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New Albany Executives Rank Among Power 100

Multiple New Albany executives rank among Columbus Business First’s Power 100 for 2022. This year’s ranking features “influential” executives and officials who play a role in residential and commercial development, construction and workforce education and training. New Albany local leaders include Sandy Doyle-Ahern, president of EMH&T; Bill Ebbing, president

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New Albany Resident Launches Eco-Friendly Brand

A veteran product and brand developer and New Albany resident, Carol Mehas, has announced the debut of Arbour Products, a new collection of commercial grade cleaning products formulated with safe, plant-based, non-toxic ingredients. Already used by pro-sports teams, hospitals, restaurants, schools, and other corporate, civic and commercial institutions, the

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Chamber Accepts Nominations for Delta Awards

New Albany Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for its annual Delta Awards honoring businesses, business and community leaders, young professionals, students and programs that demonstrate community engagement, economic growth and excellence. The popular annual event recognizes organizations and individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in our community. Delta Award

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Applications Open for Meta Data Center Grants Program

Local nonprofit organizations and schools are eligible to apply for the Meta Data Center Community Action Grant program. The grants are available to projects that address critical community needs by putting the power of technology to use for community benefit, connecting people online or off and improving local science, technology,

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New Vision Dance Co. Performs Boogieman’s Ball  

The New Albany-based New Vision Dance Company, a contemporary jazz ensemble, will perform “Boogieman’s Ball – A Dance Spooktacular” that celebrates the haunting nature of Halloween with dazzling multimedia imagery and effects, eerie costumes and choreography intermixed to tell a whimsical story. Suitable for children and adults, guests are

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Planning Builds Capacity to Achieve Our Vision

New Albany Community Development Director Jennifer Chrysler explains the critical role that strategic planning has played in the city’s successful economic development strategy in This Week New Albany.

The intrinsic relationship between strategic planning and economic development is essential to New Albany’s recent success in attracting industry leaders in information

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Biden to Visit New Albany for Intel Groundbreaking

Following the signing of the CHIPS Act, President Joe Biden announced plans to attend the upcoming Intelgroundbreaking ceremony, according to a recently released White House memo. No date has been set, but road construction and land preparation has already begun on the first two state-of-the-art chip manufacturing factories at

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CHIPS Passage Bolsters Intel’s Plans

The historic CHIPS Act — Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors — will not only help New Albany, the Columbus Region and Ohio, it will help to create “a new epicenter for advanced chipmaking in the U.S. that will bolster Intel’s domestic lab-to-fab pipeline and strengthen Ohio’s leadership in research

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Local Leaders Rank Among CBF’s Most Admired

Red Roof President George Limbert and Lower CTO Bill Kaper were recently recognized among Columbus Business First’s 2022 list of most admired executives in central Ohio. The C-Suite Awards were determined by a vote of the publication’s peers. Columbus Business First accepted nominations for top CEOs, president/COOs, CFOs, CIO/CTOs, CMOs

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Mount Carmel New Albany Adds Mammography Unit

Mammograms are now available at the Mount Carmel New Albany Women’s Health Center, 7333 Smith’s Mill Road. Its state-of-the-art digital mammogram units provide the capabilities to manipulate films for better focus, zoom in and out and adjust contrast for clearer viewing. The results are read and interpreted by fellowship-trained radiologists.

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City Receives Funding for Opioid Addiction Programs

New Albany will receive $71,709 as part of the OneOhio Opioid Settlement fund. In March, the city signed the OneOhio memorandum of understanding to jointly approach settlement negotiations with opioid drug manufacturers and distributors. The city has received the first installation of $3,077 and will continue to receive funding for

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