Category: Development News

City’s Support Is Part of Campus’ Formula for Success

New Albany receives high marks from Personal Care and Beauty Campus executives and site selection consultants for its responsive, collaborative, pro-business approach and commitment to seeing businesses and employees thrive. Close working relationships between the development staff, planning commission, council, businesses and developers provide a predictable, cohesive path to development. …

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NEW ALBANY GETS BUSINESS AND GROWS IT.

Corporate expansion demonstrates how New Albany anticipates what businesses need to succeed and delivers.

  • Hands-On Approach 

When it comes to economic development, a commitment to ongoing relationships with businesses long after the deals close has resulted in strong retention and robust expansion across the New Albany International Business Park. While …

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Corporate Cluster Attracts Global Players, Game Changers and Innovators

From its pedestrian-friendly Market Square with restaurants, cafes and shops to its large expanses of technology-ready, shovel-ready sites and 50+ miles of leisure trails, it’s easy to see why New Albany is a popular choice for corporate headquarters. Now, a new video about the New Albany International Business Park’s Corporate …

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Google Plans $600 Million Data Center in New Albany

New Albany is gearing up to welcome another multinational technology company to its fast-growing Information Technology cluster. Google, one of the industry’s leading innovators, has acquired a 447-acre site in the New Albany International Business Park where it plans to invest $600 million to build a state-of-the-art data center. The …

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How New Albany “Gets” Business

Among the many attributes that set New Albany apart in its business attraction efforts is a commitment to collaboration and public/private partnerships that fuels continuous improvement in its service delivery.

The city offers efficient customer service, 25% faster permitting than competing communities, technology- and shovel-ready sites pre-zoned for business and …

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Park’s IT Cluster Among City’s Fastest Growing

With data centers and mission-critical facilities, ranging from Facebook, Nationwide, Motorists Insurance and Discover Financial to TJX, AEP and, soon, Google, the Information and Technology cluster accounts for $2.8 billion in private investment in the New Albany International Business Park. As data centers continue to play a central role as …

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20th Anniversary Video Captures Park’s Momentum

A recent commemorative video of The New Albany International Business Park provides a historical chronology of the park’s progress from its initial days as a cornfield to its meteoric success as one of the region’s fastest growing and largest master-planned business parks. Learn why the park is “uniquely positioned among

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Park Offers New Amenity In the Heart of New Albany

New Albany recently broke ground at Rose Run Park, a new civic amenity in the heart of the community, designed to foster connections among people and with the environment.

When completed in late 2019, the new “central park” will link Market Square, the Heit Center for Healthy New Albany and

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New Albany Ranks Among Ohio’s Best Hometowns

In its annual Best Hometown’s issue, Ohio Magazine recently recognized New Albany as one of the five best hometowns in  the state. Among the reasons cited in New Albany’s selection was the community’s commitment to “lifelong learning and healthy living, as well as its thriving sense of arts and culture.”

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Celebrating 20 years of Collaboration, Innovation and Commerce

Now in its 20th year, the New Albany International Business Park is realizing the return on investment in a proactive master plan that taps the city’s entrepreneurial DNA, public private partnerships that inspire innovation and an expedited planning process that accommodates businesses’ need for speed.

NEWS: Field of Dreams

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Adding up Facebook’s Contribution to New Albany and Region

When New Albany announced last year that technology behemoth Facebook would build its most energy efficient data center to date in New Albany, officials noted the company’s investment of $750 million to build the 970,000-square-foot facility and the 100 new jobs that would be created. A recent comparative analysis prepared

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Personal Care and Beauty Campus Grows by 72%

The New Albany International Business Park’s Personal Care and Beauty Campus has attracted global industry leaders as a result of its ability to seamlessly turnkey product design, manufacturing, labeling, packaging and distribution in one location and promote collaboration among campus partners. Since 2011, investment at the campus grew by 72%, …

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2018 Follows Year of Record Growth for New Albany

2017 was a busy and productive year for the city of New Albany and the New Albany International Business Park. The city announced construction of nearly 1.9 million square feet of commercial space throughout the park resulting in a total investment of $830 million and the addition of 2,089 employees

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Park’s Clusters Continue to Attract Industry Leaders

New Albany’s focused investment in five distinct 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

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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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Why New Albany is One of the Best Suburbs in the U.S.

Despite its growth, New Albany’s commitment to lifelong learning, environmental and economic sustainability, healthy living and arts and culture remains at the heart of everything it does. A recent Columbus Monthly Special Edition sheds light on New Albany’s extraordinary evolution and why it is “One of the Best Suburbs in

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New Housing Options Appeal to Millennials and Empty Nesters

While the majority of New Albany’s residential development is comprised of single family homes on tree-lined streets, with sidewalks, parks and ample green space, New Albany is creating more versatile housing options in convenient and pedestrian-friendly areas like the Village Center.

Urban townhomes across from the Village Center have attracted

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Retail and Restaurants Offer More Options for Employees

In just a few years, Market & Main, a walkable, mixed-use development that anchors the southeast corner of the Village Center, has doubled in size, bringing more restaurants, shops and offices to the city’s center to meet the needs of employees and residents.

Anchored by the Philip Heit Center for

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New Albany’s Vision for Village Center Comes to Life

As a master-planned community, New Albany’s unwavering commitment to improving the quality of life for residents and employees continues to drive its community development efforts. Planning principles adopted as part of the Village Center Strategy have guided public and private investment creating a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban center and an informal

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