Category: Business Park Updates

Looking for some peace and quiet, a desk, hot coffee and more while you work remotely? While the coronavirus takes a bite out of the hotel industry, New Albany-based Red Roof Inns has found a win-win solution by offering $29 per day rates to entice home-bound workers to rent hotel …

Multiple manufacturers in The New Albany International Business Park are demonstrating how the Personal Care and Beauty Campus’s vertically-integrated supply chain is uniquely positioned to quickly respond to needs presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. “From a production standpoint, the campus is unlike any other in its ability to align global …

One of the city’s newest data center operators, Facebook, is stepping in to offer financial support for small businesses that have experienced disruptions due to COVID-19. The social media and technology giant created the Small Business Grants Program to offer $100 million in cash grants and ad credits to distressed …

The New Albany Foundation is responding to the COVID-19 crisis by granting $40,000 to New Albany and central Ohio organizations. The foundation made a $10,000 grant to the New Albany Food Pantry to support immediate efforts to respond to families in need. New Albany-Plain Local Schools received a $10,000 grant …

A graduate of the Innovate New Albany incubator and New Albany Chamber Delta Award Winner, Form5, a nonprofit, has pivoted from making eco-friendly prosthetics for people in poverty with limb differences to producing face shields to donate to health care and emergency medical staff. Founder and CEO, Aaron Westbrook, …

New Albany has attracted three of central Ohio’s favorite dining and drinking establishments to Village Center as well as a new hotel for business and leisure travel. Harvest Pizzeria will join Three Tigers Brewing Co. of Granville in a new venture called Harvest X Three Tigers, an 8,000 square foot …

New Albany’s growing reputation as an ideal location for multinational data center operations just got another boost when Facebook recently announced plans to build its fourth and fifth data centers in the city, bringing its total investment to $1 billion. One of the world’s leading enterprise data operations, Facebook touted …

Citing its central location that provides direct access to customers, Hims & Hers, a direct-to-consumer digital health and wellness company, recently announced that it has chosen a 302,880 square-foot facility in New Albany for a new mail-order pharmacy and fulfillment center. The fast-growing digital enterprise leased an entire building at …

Not only did Innovate New Albany have a 97% occupancy rate last year, but the city’s incubator for tech startups and small businesses also attracted thousands of people throughout central Ohio to its workshops and programs. In 2019, more than 1,300 people attended TIGER Talks, TIGER Workshops and TIGER Tales …

Stating that New Albany is one of the fastest growing cities in Ohio, USA Today recently ranked the city 25^th among “America’s 50 Best Cities to Live.” The national publication also notes that the city is “less than 20 minutes from downtown Columbus and in easy commuting distance to …

The Heit Center for Healthy New Albany, a multidisciplinary health and fitness facility designed to make New Albany the healthiest community in the country, celebrated its 5^th anniversary earlier this month. The one-of-a-kind center provides health services from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University as well as …

The New Albany Chamber of Commerce recently recognized local businesses as well as a business leader, program and student for excellence and innovation in business and contributions to the community. The 2019 Delta Awards winners include Outstanding Large Business, Wesley Woods at New Albany; Outstanding Medium Business, Alene Candles; Outstanding …

While the New Albany International Business Park receives national attention for attracting name brand businesses like Google and Discover Financial, one of the city’s greatest successes is its ability to retain businesses and promote expansion. Expansion accounts for 34% of the $4.8 billion in total investment in the park since …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its presence with the purchased of its third site in the city where it plans to invest $400 million in a 170,000-square-foot data center on 100 acres. The latest project brings AWS’s total investment to $1.3 billion. The Information Technology cluster’s newest neighbor, Google, …

Two local businesses ranked among the Columbus Business First top Places to Work in central Ohio. Civil engineering consulting firm, EMH&T, among the first companies to move into the park, ranked second in central Ohio for companies with 250+ employees. Lower.com, an online mortgage and refinancing company, was ranked second …

Roosevelt Coffeehouse, a coffee shop and social enterprise that donates a percentage of proceeds to address unclean water, hunger and human trafficking, has opened its fourth central Ohio coffee house inside 31 Gifts’ new corporate headquarters, 8131 Smith’s Mill Road, where the public is welcome to caffeinate. Sbarro, which has …

New Albany’s Personal Care and Beauty Campus, a vertically integrated supply chain, has drawn the country’s leading solutions providers in product development, design manufacturing, packaging and distribution. Coined the “Silicon Valley of health and beauty manufacturing,” the one-of-a-kind hub has brought $358 million in investment to the park since 2012. …

SmartRide New Albany, the city’s express bus service between downtown and the business park, is getting greener thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation that will allow the city to replace one of its current 15-passenger shuttles with an electric bus. The Low- or No-Emission Grant funds …