Category: Business Park Updates

Park’s Clusters Continue to Attract Industry Leaders

New Albany’s focused investment in business clusters – Personal Care and Beauty, Information Technology, High-Tech Manufacturing and Logistics, Health Care and Corporate Office & R&D – continues to attract industry leaders seeking an environment that keeps pace with their energy, technology and logistics needs while creating opportunities for collaboration among

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NAPL Schools Embrace Well-Being Initiative

Several years ago, the New Albany Community Foundation launched a community dialogue by hosting mental health advocate, Mariel Hemingway. Now the biggest impact is being felt in the New Albany Plain Local Schools where administrators, Healthy New Albany, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Mount Carmel Health System, the Ohio State University Wexner

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Myonexus Receives Funding for First-Ever Gene Therapy

Myonexus Therapeutics, a new tenant at Innovate New Albany, has just received financing from Rev1 Ventures, CincyTech, The Haim Foundation and GFB ONLUS for its next phase of clinical trials for the company’s gene therapy to treat limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), a group of progressive, debilitating musculoskeletal diseases. Headed by

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Surgical Hospital Receives 5-Star Consumer Rating

Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital was among only three central Ohio institutions that received the highest ratingfive stars—from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Hospital Compare website. The site, used by health care consumers to make informed decisions about health care providers, rates hospitals nationwide on

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Buckeye Interactive Earns Gold for Digital Displays

Buckeye Interactive, among the first companies to join Innovate New Albany, the city’s incubator for technology startups, received an American Marketing Association Gold Award in the Web, Mobile & Interactive Division at the 2017 Achievement in Marketing Awards program. The winning entry was a digital menu display for the New

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2018 Follows Record Year of Growth for New Albany

2017 was another record year of development and expansion for the city of New Albany and the New Albany International Business Park. Last year, the city announced construction of nearly 1.9 million square feet of commercial space throughout the park that will result in $830 million in private investment and

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Video Captures Scale of International Business Park

Strategically located along eight miles of freeway, the New Albany International Business Park is not only the largest master-planned business park in the region but also among the area’s fastest-growing business centers. Seeing is believing. And, now, a new video produced by the city provides a breathtaking, bird’s eye view

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Interchange and Road Extension Improve Park Access

The new Mink Street interchange at State Route 161 and the extension of Innovation Campus Way to Mink Street is improving traffic flow and access to the New Albany Personal Care and Beauty Campus for its 2,800 employees as well as the companies that transport products across North America. Located

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Beech Road Closed Until December 2018

Beech Road between Worthington and Morse roads closed in December and will remain closed for a year while infrastructure improvements are made. The improvements include widening the roadway, adding a median in areas, providing on-street bike lanes and leisure trails, and improving water, sewer and drainage. A posted detour allows

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Leadership New Albany Accepting Applications  

The New Albany Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership New Albany is accepting applications for its inaugural Class of 2018. The new leadership development program is designed to help existing and emerging leaders enhance leadership skills and acquire a better understanding of local business, economic, civic and government operations through presentations, panel

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Personal Care and Beauty Campus Continues Robust Growth

The New Albany Personal Care and Beauty Campus has landed one new company while two existing businesses have announced expansion plans. Packaging manufacturer Amcor Rigid Plastics will invest $3.8 million in a new 60,000-square-foot warehouse that will be built adjacent to its factory, enabling it to consolidate its manufacturing and

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New Albany Welcomes Staffing Firm and Mortgage Business

One of the strengths of the New Albany business community is both its clusters of specialized industries as well as its variety of smaller businesses, ranging professional services to banking and retail. Two new tenants to the New Albany International Business Park add to that diversity. Aerotek, one of

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Business Park Lands Hotel and Event Venue

Home2 Suites by Hilton, a mid-range extended-stay hotel, is under development in New Albany and scheduled to open late next year. The four-story, 63,000-square-foot hotel will be located at the corner of Forest Drive and Smith’s Mill Road, next to Mount Carmel New Albany. The rapidly growing concept has

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Delta Awards Recognize Leadership and Excellence

The New Albany Chamber of Commerce will honor local community leaders and businesses for their “inspirational leadership, excellence and community engagement” at its upcoming Delta Awards and Annual Meeting Luncheon. The celebration, marking the chamber’s 20th anniversary, will take place from 11:30 am to 1 pm on November 30

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Athletics, and More at NA Parks & Recreation

New Albany’s commitment to health and leisure is evident not only in its miles of leisure trails but also the many athletic and recreational opportunities available through New Albany Parks & Recreation. Among the many amenities New Albany employees and residents can enjoy are 38 baseball, football, soccer and lacrosse

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New Albany’s Loctote Gets Shark Tank Deal

New Albany startup, Loctote Industrial Bag Company, competed in ABC’s Shark Tank and walked away with a deal. Loctote makes the Flak Sack, an anti-theft bag that is lockable, slash resistant, water resistant and cut resistant. The soft, flexible drawstring backpack is essentially a portable safe with a locking

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Jefferson Series Promotes Life-Long Learning

Emmy award-winning news anchor and author, Charles Osgood will kick off The Jefferson Series on October 25 at the Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts. The series, launched by The New Albany Community Foundation, features authors, historians and Pulitzer Prize-winners. The new season also features General Michael Hayden,

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Market & Main to Offer More Retail and Restaurants

Master-planned as a pedestrian-friendly hub of activity in the heart of New Albany, the City’s village center continues to grow with more restaurants, shops and offices. In fact, The New Albany Company and Daimler Group have announced that eight new tenants will move into Market & Main II, a 47,000-square-foot

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Facebook Plans One of World’s Most Advanced Data Centers in New Albany

Facebook plans to invest $750 million to build one of the world’s most advanced data centers in the New Albany International Business Park. Powered by 100 percent renewable energy, the technology innovator’s tenth data center will encompass 970,000 square feet of space and will be situated on a 345-acre site.

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