The Community Development Department has modified certain procedures to enable active residential and commercial construction projects to continue despite the closing of city offices. Meetings are being held via video conferencing unless in-person meetings are deemed necessary. Permits and applications can be dropped off and picked up from 8 am …
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Incubator, Chamber, City Go Viral with Programs
There are no shortage of opportunities to participate in a TIGER workshop, chamber program or city council meeting during the COVID-19 outbreak. Innovate New Albany, the city’s incubator for technology and small businesses, is live-streaming its popular TIGER Talks, Tales and Workshops as well as its Expert Office Hours. …
Support Your Local Businesses during Pandemic
New Albany’s growing roster of restaurants, auto services, builders and health care services are finding ways to safely serve customers. Need a good reason to get out of the kitchen? Area restaurants, ranging from Freshii and Mellow Mushroom to Blue Agave and Rusty Bucket, are open for takeout, curbside pick-up …
Red Roof Inns Offer Day Rates for Remote Workers
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 …
Tech Giants Praise New Albany’ Fast, Efficient, Collaborative Approach
When it comes to landing major IT players, New Albany is much more than a triple threat. Its robust, high-speed fiber optics, triple feed electric capabilities in excess of 500 MW capacity and strong talent pipeline are coveted assets for data centers. Yet, what really sets the city apart is …
Beauty Campus Companies Ramp Up to Fight COVID-19
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 …
Facebook Offers Small Business Relief Grants
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 …
New Albany Foundation Provides COVID-19 Relief
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 …
Local Nonprofit Steps Up to Make Face Shields
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, …
Deli, Brewpub, Pizzeria and Hotel Coming Soon
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 …
Facebook Opens First Data Center, Announces More
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 …
Digital Health Company, Hims & Hers, to Locate Here
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 …
Incubator’s Events Attract Thousands to Its Offices
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 …
New Albany Ranks 25th in USA Today’s Best Cities
Stating that New Albany is one of the fastest growing cities in Ohio, USA Today recently ranked the city 25th 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 …
Companies Praise Beauty Campus’ Speed, Agility and Innovation
New Albany’s Personal Care and Beauty Campus, one of the City’s fastest growing sectors, offers a unique, vertically integrated supply chain that has attracted 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 …
Why the Beauty Campus Attracts and Grows Business
The Personal Care and Beauty Campus has attracted 12 industry-leading companies seeking to benefit from common supply chain demands, workforce needs, energy capabilities and logistical considerations. Close proximity to other suppliers drives collaboration and fuels innovation. The campus is a model of agile manufacturing – products travel only 1.9 miles …
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. …
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 …
Heit Center Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary
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 5th 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 …